Waihopai terrorists get off

[MisterD]

...and the scariest bit:

Mr Leason, who works in a primary school, said he would "absolutely" be bringing the issue up in the classroom.
"It's not just teaching ABC and 1, 2, 3 ... it's about nurturing human beings and helping them develop attitudes of compassion."

We let idiots like this near the minds of our children?!

[Mully]

Mr Whale Oil thinks he has a new defense for his trial now;

http://whaleoil.gotcha.co.nz/2010/03...a-new-defense/

[MisterD]

Mr Whale Oil thinks he has a new defense for his trial now;

http://whaleoil.gotcha.co.nz/2010/03...a-new-defense/

He's only up in front of a mag though, not a jury...

[mashman]

Mr Leason, who works in a primary school, said he would "absolutely" be bringing the issue up in the classroom.
"It's not just teaching ABC and 1, 2, 3 ... it's about nurturing human beings and helping them develop attitudes of compassion."

I think he's right! maybe not the subject matter however... The vandals should have been prosecuted for something

Question: Do "defence" buildings have insurers? if not, that's the only way how I can see how the tax-payer would end up paying for the vandalism...

Pah! Iraq... to me it pales to Zimbabwe... but does anyone do anything about the "cleansing" going on over there? have they ever? wonder why...

[MisterD]

have they ever? wonder why...

Because the Arabs / Persians have shown an ability to actually organise a piss-up in a brewery, whereas in Zim you'd be wasting your time taking power from one lot of useless Africans and giving it to another?

[mashman]

Because the Arabs / Persians have shown an ability to actually organise a piss-up in a brewery, whereas in Zim you'd be wasting your time taking power from one lot of useless Africans and giving it to another?

I thought the whole idea was to stop dictators killing their people?

[MisterD]

I thought the whole idea was to stop dictators killing their people?

Yes but that requires giving the dictator's power to people capable of running a democracy...exhibit A: South Africa. I rest my case.

[mashman]

Yes but that requires giving the dictator's power to people capable of running a democracy...exhibit A: South Africa. I rest my case.

Fair enough... let them die then... must be their own fault...

[SPman]

They were aquitted, by a jury of their peers......

Great!

I'm glad!

[avgas]

Oi the lot of you!
Step back a bit an look at the broader perspective.
Found not guilty - they go home, we look bad.
Found guilty - given full punishment of law, which is a small fine and some PD.......we look bad
Our courts suck, we have always looked bad.
I mean in jail right now is a chinese guy that put his misses in the boot, dropped the daughter in aus and then moved to US........he was caught, brought back here and now had 3 meals and sky tv......
either way
We look bad

[rainman]

What a load of crap.
...those domes are not helping kill people...
...I assure you it's all a load of shit...

Ooh I feel much better now that you have assured me. Thanks for clearing that up for me. It's good to have someone here who even knows what happens with data gathered by a secret spy base.

Greens are a good vehicle for pushing Socialist ideals.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Going off on a tangent here, ...So who's genocidal now?

What he said.

Because the Arabs / Persians have shown an ability to actually organise a piss-up in a brewery, whereas in Zim you'd be wasting your time taking power from one lot of useless Africans and giving it to another?

Nice. Racist too, I see.

[MisterD]

Nice. Racist too, I see.

...and you can cite a example of even borderline efficient and effective government in sub-saharan Africa can you?

This is why people get so shitty about PC nonsense, you can't even state facts without some "ist" being thrown around...

[Ferkletastic]

Godwins law by page 3. Awesome.

Next somebody will claim that Saddam and Al qeada were buddies.

[Skyryder]

Bloody hell the way some are going on this issue defies belief. So some misguided cretins destroyed some expensive fabric and jury of our fellow countrymen let them off. Yep that's right a jury found them not guilty. Some of you need to be grateful that we still have jury's of our peers.

http://en.irangreenvoice.com/article/2010/mar/02/1351

There's worse places than here.


skyryder

[pete376403]

Pah! Iraq... to me it pales to Zimbabwe... but does anyone do anything about the "cleansing" going on over there? have they ever? wonder why...

because there is no oil under Zimbabwe? Thought that was pretty obvious. No oil under Somalia either, so the US had nothing to gain by stopping the slaughter there.