Michael Laws accused of bullying children

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Post #40 onwards just sums up how a wanker like Laws ends up in a position of influence...

Probably all talkback junkies too judging by the intellect displayed through their contributions

[chef]

Post #40 onwards just sums up how a wanker like Laws ends up in a position of influence...

Probably all talkback junkies too judging by the intellect displayed through their contributions

laws isnt the wanker he didnt do anything wrong. he is a mayor.. what are you?

[SPman]

.most of it.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to short-circuit again.......

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laws isnt the wanker he didnt do anything wrong. he is a mayor.. what are you?

Aparrently I'm "politically correct" according to definition 1:

http://www.answers.com/topic/political-correctness

[SixPackBack]

laws isnt the wanker he didnt do anything wrong. he is a mayor.. what are you?

Laws is an emotive, self serving twat, he preys on collective community fears and brings out the very worst in folk. His presence in Wanganui has produced no discernible change in the community for the better, and he has done his level best to create division [Wanganui vs Whanganui] and now the insignia BS.
Laws cares about one thing only-himself.

[davereid]

Hmm.. even in my short experience, my grandkids have radically changed both the meaning, and pronounciation of common words.

I don't mean stealing words, like with "Gay" when you mean homosexual.

I dont really mean mean "choice bro" when you mean (actually I'm not sure what it means.)

Even Mr. Key say Nooseelund when he means New Zealand.

The point is, that the early recorded spellings of words, are in all likelyhood more accurate descriptions of how they were said, than the versions passed on orally and described as correct 150 years later.

There is NO evidence that Wanganui was said as Fonganui 150 ago. If that is how it was said, that is how it would have been written.

IMHO the word was recorded correctly, and our modern version is wrong.

So sayeth ye olde scribe thank ye.

[Grahameeboy]

Laws is an emotive, self serving twat, he preys on collective community fears and brings out the very worst in folk. His presence in Wanganui has produced no discernible change in the community for the better, and he has done his level best to create division [Wanganui vs Whanganui] and now the insignia BS.
Laws cares about one thing only-himself.

I have never heard of him but just sounds like he says things that some people don't like....that's life and you cannot accuse anyone of bringing the worst out of people...it's their choice.

[nothingflash]

About 98% european by the look of them..

Much like the many of the NZ Maori rugby players gone by...Tony Brown, Paul Tito...

[Skyryder]

Change the record - at least adopt a new cliché

He's a biggot and a pervert

Yep and on his talkback whenever someone who knows what they are talking about and has a different view from his own he cuts them off and derides their intellect with his sarcasm and rudeness. Laws is nothing more than a verbal bully with an over blown view of his intelligence and self importance.

This was evident with his attitude to Mark Sainsbury on ONE tonight.

Skyryder

[ManDownUnder]

This was evident with his attitude to Mark Sainsbury on ONE tonight.

Skyryder

During or after he ran rings around him? Laws was discussing concepts Sainsbury was even aware of and every time Sainsbury tried to paint him into a corner Laws quite rightly brought it back on topic.

[ManDownUnder]

He's a biggot and a pervert

Out of curiousity - why pervert? Where did that come from?

[SS90]

Up there with the likes of Christine Rankin and Paul Holmes

No, Michael Laws is a well qualified professional person who made his way to where he is with hard work and determination.

Sure, he is not perfect, but I would have him round for dinner with my family LONG before I would even stop to give directions to Paul Holmes (probably asking for directions to the Police station to pick bail out his greatest achievement "Milli, sucking cock for P" Elder (well done Paul, your a role model for Dad's everywhere)

Paul Holmes is simply a curly haird bludger (who became a millionair at the taxpayers expense), failed to raise his step daughter correctly and crashes light aircraft.

Nothing more

Christine Rankin, she is TWICE THE MAN Paul Holmes will ever be!

I am not saying I am a Michael Laws fan (he does seem a little Narsisic and perhaps a bit of a Manipulator), but hey, at least he works for his money and some things he achieves the community benefits from.

All this shit over "H" or no "H" has more than likely cost us MILLIONS.

WHY?

Even the news item was broadcast on PUBLIC TELEVISION....... that means it cost's for the production of the show (OK, Paul Holmes isn't presenting the show, so that's 6 Million per year we don't need to find)

We have a group of kids, LEARNING MOARI AT THE FUCKING TAXPAYERS EXPENSE.......

OK, cool.

"What did you do with your TAXPAYER FUNDED TE REO MOARI course today KIDDIES?"

"OH, WE WROTE A LETTER IN MOARI TO MICHAEL LAWS VOICING OUR OPINION OF THE OMMISSION OF A LETTER IN A PLACE NAME WE DON'T EVEN LIVE IN"

"But kids, Michael Laws can't read Maori,that means that a translator had to be found to translate from TEO REO MAORI into English.......that's quite expensive. Wouldn't it have been better to write in in English, which he understands, and saves on miscommunication and doesn't make you look like you are trying to be elitest?"

"The what the fuck are we going to do with our education?"

"Mai time presenter maybe?"

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Yep and on his talkback whenever someone who knows what they are talking about and has a different view from his own he cuts them off and derides their intellect with his sarcasm and rudeness. Laws is nothing more than a verbal bully with an over blown view of his intelligence and self importance.

This was evident with his attitude to Mark Sainsbury on ONE tonight.

Skyryder

Have you ever listened to Willie Jackson & his idiot brown mate on the other talk back show? sounds familiar.
Also, why is Whakatane pronounced Fucker Tarny? Yet a Whaka isint pronounced Fucker?

[MSTRS:Me]

Have you ever listened to Willie Jackson & his idiot brown mate on the other talk back show? sounds familiar.
Also, why is Whakatane pronounced Fucker Tarny? Yet a Whaka isint pronounced Fucker?

The canoe is Waka. That's why.
I, too, watched Close Up. Those kids wouldn't have an original idea between them, if it wasn't given to them by the equally ignorant adults that claim to be educating them. The cheek of the girl suggesting she sees it as her duty to correct people's use/pronunciation of Maori...all spoken in barely recognisable English. And that headmaster? "If Laws has a problem, he should come to Otaki to talk about it". FFS.
If they were truly being educated they would know that Taranaki Maori did not use the 'F' sound. The 'H' after 'W' for them is probably correct...but only insofaras it denotes a breathe-y 'HWA' sound. Not a 'FFIH' sound.
Besides, if the 'correct' pronunciation was so important, everybody's favourite white radical, Ken Mair (any relation to that hallowed KB clan?), would not refer to the brown citizens as 'Marree". Or is he right, and everyone else wrong?
Good on Laws for putting it right back where it belongs.

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The canoe is Waka. That's why.

W.I.B.F I musta not been paying attention in Mahori studies then.
Hey if its good enough for Waka not to have an H then its probably ok for Wanganui too!!!
Or maybe we should lobby for waka to be changed as well.
I mean, its our duty to teach Maori how to spell their own language seeing as they didnt seem to have a written language until european arrived.