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    Does anyone else find it ironic that a bunch of idiots, who have obviously never done a constructive day's work in their lives, chose to call their organisation "ploughshare"?
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    Pretty obvious I thought

    "They shall beat their swords into ploughshares their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift sword against nation; and there shall be no more training for war. Isaiah 2/4"


    They're just following orders.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ixion View Post
    Pretty obvious I thought

    "They shall beat their swords into ploughshares their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift sword against nation; and there shall be no more training for war. Isaiah 2/4"


    They're just following orders.

    I got the reference, but I'm still amused by the irony...I doubt that lot would know one end of a plough from the other.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ixion View Post
    They're just following orders.
    No. They commit St Peter's error:

    Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ixion View Post
    Pretty obvious I thought

    "They shall beat their swords into ploughshares their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift sword against nation; and there shall be no more training for war. Isaiah 2/4"


    They're just following orders.

    Pff, when have that bunch of ding-bats ever made anything?? (other than a mess for others to clear up)

    Orders? THEIR interpretation of 'orders'.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MisterD View Post
    ...I doubt that lot would know one end of a plough from the other.
    Oh, I dunno, I'm sure at least some of them have seen a plough being used....somewhere.

    But as for THEM using it?
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    Or, then again, perhaps not.

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    Samuel Peter Frederick Land, 24, of Hokianga, Adrian James Leason, 42, a teacher from Otaki and Peter Reginald Leo Murnane, 67, a Dominican friar from Auckland, have all been charged with intentionally damaging a satellite, the property of the GCSB, and entering a building with the intention to commit a crime.
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    Might be two of them of course. Unlikely but

    Annoying little things, afcts, ain't they. 'N harder to squash than a huhu beetle even.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ixion View Post
    Might be two of them of course. Unlikely but

    Annoying little things, afcts, ain't they. 'N harder to squash than a huhu beetle even.
    Meh. I'll contribute to their organisation and send them a bar of soap.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jrandom View Post
    NZ Herald story link.

    Personally, I deplore the extreme naughtiness of vandalising Government property, but, well...

    Y'know...

    The protestors do make a good point vis-a-vis the our Government's potential secretive involvement with regimes that its electorate doesn't support.

    Anyway, quite frankly, this is hilarious. Even if the saboteurs had no justifiable political agenda, it'd be worth it for the lulz. Obviously little old NZ still takes a fairly relaxed approach in terms of 'lethal force authorised' protection around sensitive installations. God bless.

    (You wouldn't want to try a stunt like this on in the good ol' USA, would you!)
    I take a dim view of what they did because of the old adage ''freedom comes at a price'' NZ Government listening posts were able to feed transcripts of Argentinian naval traffic to Whitehall during the Falklands war. That was a justifiable conflict given that the British Government was liberating the farmers on that island from Argentinian aggression.
    The next global conflict may well be fought over food shortages and that will implicate us in terms of aggression from most probably the Indonesians. We will be glad of intelligence gathering but less glad that this crock of a Government got rid of our air strike force and supporting infrastructure

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    If the "protestors" really wanted to draw attention to the location, why not just paint red nipples on the tops of the domes?

    Ohh er!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ixion View Post
    a huhu beetle even.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Robert Taylor View Post
    ... Falklands war. That was a justifiable conflict given that the British Government was liberating the farmers on that island from Argentinian aggression.
    Nice of you to credit the British with such good motives.

    Unfortunately, it's all bollocks. The British Government had egg on their faces and wanted to win the next election; that war had nothing to do with the rights of the island inhabitants (said rights were merely a convenient bit of rhetoric for the unwashed Sun-reading masses to chew on).
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    Quote Originally Posted by jrandom View Post
    Nice of you to credit the British with such good motives.

    Unfortunately, it's all bollocks. The British Government had egg on their faces and wanted to win the next election; that war had nothing to do with the rights of the island inhabitants (said rights were merely a convenient bit of rhetoric for the unwashed Sun-reading masses to chew on).
    Strange how the Argie Junta were in much the same position - increasingly unpopular with the masses, the invasion was their attempt at that trick...unfortunately for them, they didn't have the Paras.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jrandom View Post
    Nice of you to credit the British with such good motives.

    Unfortunately, it's all bollocks. The British Government had egg on their faces and wanted to win the next election; that war had nothing to do with the rights of the island inhabitants (said rights were merely a convenient bit of rhetoric for the unwashed Sun-reading masses to chew on).
    Maybe so but it returned Margaret Thatcher and that was a good thing. Having lived there at the time I think I can safely offer my opinion.

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