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Tag Archives: crime
Nonsensical Sentencing Trust plays the Obi-Wan card
So, the Nonsensical Sentencing Trust wants to set up an anonymous website criticising the decisions of NZ judges, because any guilty verdict handed down to a poor brown person which doesn’t result in hanging is obviously too lenient. Naturally, this … Continue reading
Random recommended reading
A short post on rape prevention by Orlando at Hoyden About Town When people scoff at the message that we need to teach people not to rape they make the assumption that the lesson goes: “Rape is bad. Don’t do … Continue reading
Hypocrisy, now with bonus revictimisation
NRT reports that our Police, who definitely needed a sex-crime-related reputation pick-me-up, have decided to stop publicly reporting domestic violence statistics. A move which will, in a happy coincidence, make our crime statistics look better. Domestic violence is a significant … Continue reading
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Tagged crime, delicious hypocrisy, domestic violence, police rape culture, rightwing douchebags
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Sweet, sweet law&order smackdown from Kim Workman
David Fraser, author of newly released book, ‘Badlands NZ: A Land Fit for Criminals’, who describes himself as an ‘international law and order expert’, is unknown within the criminal justice community, says Kim Workman, Director of Rethinking Crime and Punishment. … Continue reading
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Tagged crime, delicious hypocrisy, faux morality, justice, nonsensical sentencing trust
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Everything is waffle
[This post, like its forerunner Everything is a lie, was originally posted at The Standard.] There isn’t just one hard truth to NZ politics at the moment. The second is equally unpopular with people, but if it doesn’t offer a … Continue reading
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Tagged annette king, beneficiary bashing, blogosphere, chairleg of truth, crime, election 2011, election year, goff, john key is an indefinite article, ken ring, labour, leftwing douchebags, paul henry is going to a special level of hell, Politics, powerthirst, race, sigh, They are The Standard they are many, waffle, we are so fucked, working for families doesn't
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Pay no attention to the “oversensitive” blogger with “obvious issues” behind the curtain
[TW: ableism and ableist language used with vicious sarcasm] Oh, who would’ve fucking guessed it: it’s actually complete and utter bullshit to assume that violent people are mentally ill or that people with mental illness are more likely to be … Continue reading
Psychic online psychiatry drinking game time
A challenge, dear readers (which you probably shouldn’t take up if you are in any way low on spoons or wanted a restful Sunday evening): read any post on the attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and take one (1) … Continue reading
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Tagged blogosphere, concern trolling, crime, FUCK, gabrielle giffords, language, pseudohealth, psychic diagnosis
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#Mooreandme: make a difference offline too
Preach it, Sady: No matter how much we can raise, it won’t be enough. But by donating, we demonstrate two things: First, that every rape survivor, every rape survivor, is exactly as important as this one WikiLeaks member (and keep … Continue reading
How could this possibly go wrong? Cops with guns / Greg O’Connor needs to fuck off edition
The horrendous attack on Senior Constable Bruce Mellor has conveniently been used as an excuse to call for wider arming of our police. And God forbid our media actually subject this idea to basic logical analysis (even when the Police … Continue reading
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Tagged crime, greg o'connor, how stupid ARE you?, judith collins, law, law&order, NZ, police state, we are so fucked
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A different, whiter, richer type of offender
Bruce Emery is to be released from prison after serving two years. Which seems totally reasonable seeing as all he did was get a knife, chase down a teenager evil Satan-worshipping vandal, and stab him to death. At least, the … Continue reading
