August 2010

Is Whaleoil Citizen A?

Citizen A

7pm Thursday Triangle & 8pm Sunday Sky 89 & Freeview 21

Tonight with Bomber (I think he is the host) and Selwyn Manning.

“It’s difficult to educate them [fleeing drivers] because, frankly, they’re … utter morons, and they leave this utter devastation in their wake.”

A-Frame for punishment in Malaysia

Judith Collins is right on the money. Of course there will be the hand-wringers out there saying that we should show compassion but frankly it is compassion in our society that has got us into the parlous law and order state we have.

We simply have had politicians and others in society too scared to call things as they are. At least with Judith Collins you get the unadulterated truth no matter how un-palatable that may seem to the listener, it is still the truth.

Leighton Smith was so angered by the state of affairs on Friday that he was making the case for a benevolent dictatorship, at least them he said, you could pass laws like making it mandatory 10 years in prison and 6 strokes of the rotan for fleeing police in a vehicle.

Frankly the time for social liberalism when it comes to crime is over, there has been plenty enough time to see that the experiment hasn’t worked. We need to go back to basics. Simple things like removing sentence concurrency and changing maximum sentences into minimum sentences and removing judicial leeway when when it comes to sentencing.

We should no longer have to read about a judge expressing his opinion that offending “was at the light end of the scale”. There isn’t a scale, there should be offending or not offending, then if guilty of offending a stipulated punishment.

The hand-wringers of course will say that is too brutal, but then i would point them to the strewn corpses of their victims and ask if that is not brutal too? Brutal crimes deserve brutal punishment.

Photo from Michele Hewitson interview, Photo / Paul Estcourt

Warning vanity post.

Today Michele Hewitson did one of her famous feature articles on me. Michele Hewitson Interview : Cameron Slater

I’ve seen a lot of hand-wringing about her articles and a great deal of angst, but I don’t think people get what Michele is about. Her articles aren’t meant to be deep meaningful, nitty-gritty issues discovery sessions that people think they should be. They are quirky and she sets out to reveal the people behind the mask, so to speak.

I found the the whole process enjoyable, well as enjoyable as it can be suffering hyper-vigilance in a cafe, and exhaustion from a week with an average of 3 hours sleep a night. Michele picked up my utter exhaustion, she described my eyes which give away my depression, my exhaustion and my state of being.

That said Michele can sniff fear and she also has an uncanny ability to disarm you, which is why people usually cop a flogging in her articles. Even Brian Edwards is afraid of her…I’m not and still am not, plus I have had a policy of not hiding anything. I reckon she did a great job with a poor subject.

Meanwhile online I was Question 3 in the online Stuff Daily Trivia Quiz.

The pinko lap-bloggers of Labour at The Standard are upset too, that is always good. I’m wondering when they will realise that being, in their own minds at least, the online anonymous versions of NZPA and Red Radio is boring, and no-one but their own echo chamber is listening. The point I make is that it is them talking about me and not the other way round.

The same goes for creepy little comedians on Red Radio. Hey dickhead, you are talking about me (is it just me is but isn’t this radio show just utter shite), apparently though I am the blogger who shall not be named, the Voldemort of the blogsphere. Even Lianne Dalziel thinks I’m The Blogger Who Shall Not Be Named, as she got all bent out of shape in a slect committee. Now this is hugely funny, because they both prove my point in that keeping a secret, telling everyone that there is a secret just makes people want to know what that secret is. I’ve never heard of Jeremy Elwood….but I just bet he is a mate of Jamie Linehan….which is why he will be upset about my stance on name suppression….and we know then what that makes him.

You have to wonder how much Labour MP David Shearer knows about his electorate. His press release said Mt Albert was still a safe place to shop and do business “despite the tragic death of an intruder when he broke into Garth Gilbert’s pharmacy”. Only half an hour later, the press release was re-issued with the pharmacist’s correct name – Grant Gillard. Shearer’s electorate office is 200m or so from Gillard’s shop. Shearer would know more about downtown Amman, Jordan than he would about the darker side of Mt Albert.

Meanwhile the left is turning on the not so left of labour.

The Labour funded lickspittle, lap-bloggers are not at all happy with Plughead Clayton Cosgrove: Note to Labour: show some spine

and Cosgrove’s response: “Perhaps The Standard should have checked.”

It’s really quite lovely watching pinkos scratch each others eyes out.

When you let pedo-friendly pinkos run law and order you get the debacle we had this week on alcohol reform by Pedobear Simon Power.

He should resign. And go back to defence.

“where Britain, the United States and Australia go, we go”

At least he understands we are on the blue team, not the red team, or the yellow team.

There has also be a poignant lesson from across the Tasman in the past week

Those who follow Australian politics know that Tony Abbott turfed out Malcolm Turnbull in a spill about 9 months from the election. Abbott won the leadership because Turnbull was getting a hiding from Rudd, and the coalition had real doubts about climate change. The graph below is pretty forthright. Abbott takes over a train wreck, and miraculously fixes it up and gets within a whisker of winning.

The difference between Abbott and Turnbull is Abbott understood that being in opposition means opposing. Not pandering to the doctors wives etc, but getting in and beating the crap out of your opponent, day in, day out, so they fear going into the house or fronting the media because you have put them under so much pressure they start making mistakes.

Unfortunately for Tony he opposed so well the ALP knifed Rudd and put in Gillard, and the dynamics of the race change having a woman prime minister. Regardless of this, Tony gave the Libs a chance by hammering away at the ALP, and now has a chance of being prime minister.

If readers think about what this means in New Zealand, at some stage National will go into opposition, and at some stage John Key will no longer be leader. National MPs then will have to choose who is going to lead them against Labour. If we follow the Australian experience, a wet or a member of the liberal elite is going to be useless. Someone tough who isn’t afraid of a scrap or taking a few hits will put you back in play far quicker than a wet.

This means that National MPs would be outright insane to have Bill English as leader, especially after his 20.93% in 2002. Aspiring presumptive leader (in his own mind), the pedo-friendly Simon Power is another wet in the Malcolm Turnbull mold and he will get a hiding too. The stand out contender when National goes into opposition or when the going gets tough in Government has to be Judith Collins because everyone knows she will oppose, not wring her hands in anguish when the nasty Labour Party do something monumentally stupid that is likely to fuck things up for us all.

John Banks:

“We’ve got to have a united Auckland singing from one song sheet.”

“I want to sing at Eden Park during the Rugby World Cup”

Len Brown wants to be Mayor so he can sing the national anthem at the Rugby World Cup

UPCOMING SATURDAY AUGUST 28, 1100; SUNDAY AUGUST 29, 0800 TV3

• Simon Power with Duncan Garner on his controversial proposals to streamline court proceedings and to place more emphasis on victims’ rights.
• Peter Dunne  with Sean Plunket on why he believes couples should be able to split their incomes for tax purposes.
• Former Herald editor, Gavin Ellis, following his University of Auckland Winter Lecture this week on the financial crisis facing serious print journalism.
• And a report on the 60th anniversary of Auckland University’s Elam Art School — some of the country’s best known visual artists look back at their time there.

And me as well.

This week I was in court debating the failings of name suppression with a judge and the crown. Interestingly at the same time I was in court charged with naming violent sex offenders, pedophiles, rapists and dirty doctors one of their pedo pals was appearing in court in Australia for sentencing.

In Australia there is no name suppression like pedos and criminals use to hide behind here in New Zealand. There is one of the pretense of “protecting the victims” because in Australia they know that no one will ever bring the victim into the case. So while Judge Harvey sneered at me and described some of my lawyers arguments as reprehensible regarding the alleged identification of victims we can watch how a real trial of a disgusting pedophile is conducted in Sydney.

The 14-month-old girl had an inkling of the imminent sexual attack on her.

She tried desperately to crawl away from the man, but was grabbed by the legs and dragged across the bed so that the vile assault could begin, a Sydney court has been told.

She screamed and struggled in vain as her nappy was ripped off.

The toddler was one of eight victims molested by David Shane Whitby, who in July was found guilty of 120 child sex offences.

He assaulted children over a 10-year period, photographing and filming the acts.

If this case was held in New Zealand I would bet you dollars to a knob of goat crap that some liberal know it all judge would be applying name suppression vigorously so that the pedo criminal could attempt to be rehabilitated. We sure has hell wouldn’t be allowed to know the name of a man convicted of 120 child sex offenses, after all one judge thought that having 300,000 pornographic images, many of children was on the light side of offending and since none of the children were from New Zealand (how could he have known that?) then the dirty doctor who had all the porno on his ACC supplied computer could remain anonymous.

As Judge Harvey reserves his judgement he should perhaps think very carefully about the wisdom of maintaining a law that actually protects criminals and certainly whilst it may provide slight shadow of protection to victims allows new victims to be created when these monsters are allowed to remain anonymous.

Pedobear Simon Power should also reflect on his refusal to allow an equivalent of Megan’s Law to be enacted because he and his staff are too busy trying to stop adults drinking, The liberal elite’s policies of hugging criminals have demonstrably failed, it is time to return to punishments that hurt.

At least in Australia people can choose to now whether or not they wish to live next door to a convicted pedophile, safe in the knowledge that when he gets out of jail he won’t be hiding behind name suppression.

Magpul are clever folks. This is a flashlight that really offers protection.

The so called lobby group “Save Our Farms” has been busted…their black ops have failed in a spectacular fashion. I feel slightly dirty using a “Farrar” of the NBR’s news but it  is news nonetheless.

Liam Baldwin | Friday August 27, 2010 – 01:47pm

One of the heavy hitters behind the Save the Farms group pushing to block sales of sensitive land to foreign interests spent a year wooing a Chinese company for billions.

Recently retired chairman of Australia-listed crop protection company Nufarm, Kerry Hoggard, led the company’s board during takeover negotiations with Chinese chemical company Sinochem, which offered $A2.8 billion.

Save the Farms this week launched a campaign calling for a moratorium on the sale of farms and sensitive land, including the controversial Crafar portfolio of farms, to foreigners to allow time for public debate on the issue.

For more, see today’s print edition of the National Business Review.

This is a classic case of lecturing about something that is good for thee but not for me. The hypocrisy is astonishing.