socialism Vs realism: Japan and NZ.

PMofNZ  nails it:
‘..Japan: 10 days later, with tens of thousands dead and missing, under threat of being radiated. Japan just got on and did the job, no moans, complaints or looting. Same goes for burying the dead.

But here in New Zealand, a different story. 5 weeks later Christchurch still is cordoned off, under the thrall of power crazed politicians and civil defence dictators, paralysed by local government petty bureaucracy, holding talkfest after talkfest, still wallowing in self-pity. A cock-up of the highest order from day one…’

“celebrity justice” again?

Lucia Maria over at NZ Conservative wrote:
‘A well-known comedian/entertainer in NZ has pleaded guilty to performing an indecent act on a child – a 4 year old girl.
This man has had his name suppressed all the time he was waiting for his trial, and if he was found not guilty, then this name suppression would have protected him from an unjust allegation that was eventually proven false. For that reason, I will grudgingly allow for concept that temporary name suppression is a good thing. Such a vile crime should not smear the innocent.

However, the man now admits to his guilt, and it appears from the news items I’ve been reading that he’s not going to be jailed, and was offered a “non-custodial sentence” by the judge if he pleaded guilty to a lesser charge.

This is where I really have to question whether the NZ justice system really thinks that child sex abuse is a serious matter. Why not have a trial? Why not then imprison him on the more serious charge of unlawful sexual connection? At least other children would be safe from him while he was locked up. I don’t get it…’

To which Wabbit commented:
We have too much law and not enough justice. Give me his name and I will publish it.
and that’s a promise, consequences be damned.

UPDATE: does the name Jamie Line­han ring a bell for any Kiwis out there? hmm?

‘Call for detainees to have lawyers’

‘..REFUGEE supporters say lawyers must be sent to Christmas Island to ensure asylum seekers facing riot charges are not “railroaded” by Australian Federal Police (AFP) who now control the detention centre.
The concerns were raised as the AFP announced today that all detainees at the Northwest Point centre had been accounted for following mass break-outs and last week’s riots.
In the worst riot on Thursday night, accommodation tents and small buildings were burnt down as police battled rock-throwing rioters with tear gas and “bean-bag bullets”.
…But Refugee Action Coalition spokesman Ian Rintoul said refugee supporters and lawyers were extremely concerned that police were ignoring the legal rights of asylum seekers…
Mr Rintoul told AAP that an Iranian detainee had phoned from the centre to say detainees had determined they would not talk to police without a lawyer present…’                  source

A note for Ian Rintoul (formerly a spokesman for the International Socialist Organisation) and his slimy bleeding heart criminal enablers…if you want these barbarian illegal immigrants to have lawyers then keep your stinking little paws out of Australian taxpayer’s pockets and pay for them yourselves. Better still, Australia should deport the whole lot of them and their foul “refugee advocates” as well. Go to Iran and Afghanistan and anywhere else these invaders come from, Rintoul, and kiss their asses there. On your own dollar.


The true costs of the Green’s environmental scams:

‘This toxic lake poisons Chinese farmers, their children and their land. It is what’s left behind after making the magnets for Britain’s latest wind turbines… and, as a special Live investigation reveals, is merely one of a multitude of environmental sins committed in the name of our new green Jerusalem
The reality is that, as Britain flaunts its environmental credentials by speckling its coastlines and unspoiled moors and mountains with thousands of wind turbines, it is contributing to a vast man-made lake of poison in northern China. This is the deadly and sinister side of the massively profitable rare-earths industry that the ‘green’ companies profiting from the demand for wind turbines would prefer you knew nothing about.
Hidden out of sight behind smoke-shrouded factory complexes in the city of Baotou, and patrolled by platoons of security guards, lies a five-mile wide ‘tailing’ lake. It has killed farmland for miles around, made thousands of people ill and put one of China’s key waterways in jeopardy.
This vast, hissing cauldron of chemicals is the dumping ground for seven million tons a year of mined rare earth after it has been doused in acid and chemicals and processed through red-hot furnaces to extract its components….’                          source

‘The Left’s Economic Terrorism Plans for America’

‘What the Bolsheviks and communists did to their own people with violence, indiscriminate murder, starvation, torture, and concentration camps, union leaders in America want to accomplish via plans to destroy our financial system, undermine the stock market, disrupt capitalism, redistribute the wealth, and destabilize the country.

The Blaze has obtained a taped recording of the radical plans of Stephen Lerner, a former official of SEIU, on of the most powerful unions in the country.  In a meeting held on March 19, 2011, Lerner is heard talking to a group of community organizers, socialists, and union members in a discussion about tactics and strategies on how to disrupt and destabilize the American economy and create widespread uncertainty and fear….’                              American Thinker

‘The Plot to Destroy the US Military’

Daniel Greenfield.
Excerpt:
‘In two generations we have gone from General Patton telling his troops to grease their tanks with the enemy’s guts to an extensive purge of Navy command officers over a series of raunchy video skits. Slowly but surely we are turning the greatest armed forces into the world, into the most politically correct disarmed forces the world has ever seen.
The USS Enterprise crackdown, like the firing of General McChrystal and the push to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”, completely ignore military realities for political objectives. A political military is also a useless military. Stalin’s purges of the Russian Army’s commanders left the Soviet Union completely unprepared for the Nazi attack. And the US military is being shaped along the same lines into a political military overseen by men whose chief credential is that they share the same politics as the politicians whom they serve.

A congressional report now says that the US military has too many white males at the top. Women are being kept out of the highest ranks because they lack combat experience. The report calls on the military leadership to “better reflect the racial, ethnic and gender mix of American society”. Which is code for affirmative action. If we didn’t have enough incompetents at the top, we can look forward to an affirmative action military in which the generals will be there because of the color of their skin or their gender, not because they’re the best at what they do.
The mandate that every civic institution has to reflect the multicultural politics of the liberal elites reflects their determination to impose their vision on the country by hijacking its institutions. And every institution touched by their vision has become functionally useless, incapable of performing even their simplest tasks, but always needing more money. America’s great cities have become sinkholes. The Postal Service is on the verge of extinction. And now it’s the military’s turn.
…..For now the First World has the best soldiers and the worst leaders. And it would have almost be better if it were the other way around. The generals who are the interface between the two have become politicians. The armies rot, go unused or misused, and the enemy passes right around them. We can’t win if we don’t fight, and we aren’t fighting. Not for ourselves anyway. For the purity of our ideals, and for some notion that everyone is entitled to a voting booth, birth control and microfinance, but not for ourselves. And until we start fighting for ourselves, until we find leaders who want to defend a country, rather than a set of ideals, then we will go on spending the lives of our soldiers for nothing and the future of our civilization for a tin penny prize.

the latest Woodpile Report

is up. And full of meaty goodness, as usual.

‘It’s going down. This wholly illegitimate regime and the putrefying, corrupt and outright anti-Constitutional establishment it serves has its beneficiaries and protectors but no friends. Loyalty is being bought, not earned. One obvious tell: illegitimacy obviates accountability, our rulers feel quite free to display put their contempt for the citizenry. And they do. Notice how transparency is all one way. Notice how national elections have devolved from auctions on our future earnings to an elaborate hoax, and why not, we have government by prank where legislation is passed, published and debated, in that order. What they don’t need with no steenking electorate. It’s just one of the many ways they’ve plugged those annoying “avenues of redress”, and so the rage seethes and builds. Look around, it passed the crisis level some time ago. But, and it’s a huge but, efforts to contain it are faltering and visibly so. They’re losing control of the citizenry and they’re losing control of events. It’s end-game stuff, we know it and they know it…’