tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post8991697679777351641..comments2024-03-26T10:03:51.827+13:00Comments on Karl du Fresne: Heaven protect us from self-righteous zealotsKarl du Fresnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05054853925940134404noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post-11197960704953217232013-04-18T09:54:34.292+12:002013-04-18T09:54:34.292+12:00RobertM
What a shame you stopped when you did. I w...RobertM<br />What a shame you stopped when you did. I was curious to see where your increasingly unhinged comment was going to lead next.Karl du Fresnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05054853925940134404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post-44239882518637208532013-04-17T14:51:47.980+12:002013-04-17T14:51:47.980+12:00This blog is the standard right wing bullshit. Whi...This blog is the standard right wing bullshit. While there is a need for the GCSB, it is mainly a military and naval surveillance operation which ultimate purpose is to monitor Russian, Chinese and Japanese naval traffic. I remain unconvinced we will have much luck in breaking Russian and Chinese codes ( they have usually outdone us) but more than likely Japan will be a massive military power in a denuclearised world in a quarter of a century and Whahopai might then prove useful.<br /> THe Ploughshares protest was a bit of joke and should have been taken as such. The minor inconvinience of the puntured dome should be compared with extravagant featherbedded staff of 500 on a budget of $100 million a year, which is absurd extravaganace for the small amount of work acutally done on matters relevant to NZ, the low local terrorist threat and the fact all the real target setting and analysis of Wahopai date is done in the US and Canada.<br /> The authorities have plenty in those who did major work for nuclear free NZ. I wrote a number of articles including the NZIIA- Jan/Feb 85 article on the Nuclear Visitors. I can say some of the major members of the RNZN introduced themselves to me and expressed their hostility, in person.Basically they said my career was over. Academically after I gained an A in stage 3 Cold War History, I was told to move away from defence studies at Honours level, or I would be marked down savagely by the Professor, and I was. MFAT dosen't encourage academic diversity or disagreement with Chairman Grosser. Or should I add in the night before my public law midsessional by flat door was smashed in twice and the glass smashed, ruining my performance in several midsessionals and at law. The individuals who did in where clean cut men of military bearing.<br /> In terms of the downs syndromes idiots and those who have them and justify their wasted lives by demanding subsidies to look after them- my view is that they should be automatically aborted and active euthanasia should be adopted against the disfigured Mongols and the serious alzheiemers cases as in Holland.<br />Reagan never resiled from closing all California mental hospitals, ( psychaitry is hard left social control and sexual repression) but Reagan said the actual mistake was to release the handicapped- which happened because Eunice Kennedy Shriver refused to accept Rosemary was just dylexic.<br /> Most of those who oppose aborting the handicapped are of low IQ themselves invairably, like Colin Meads and there probably isn't much difference.<br /> Most of those who oppose abortion , probably believe a sensible society would have aborted themselves- this is doubtlessly true of Muldoon.<br /> No one does more damage than those who climb up from the gutter like Muldoon, Liam Fox or George Fox. The people who refuse a commission or who no credible armed force would ever commission.<br /> RobertMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09756542835623143371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post-30738394238835084172013-04-13T16:43:04.088+12:002013-04-13T16:43:04.088+12:00Very unfair to Spectrum. The very basis of the pro...Very unfair to Spectrum. The very basis of the programme is that they encourage people to speak for themselves. That approach appears to be effective, as it allowed you a clear insight to the motives of those guys. <br /><br />Questioning the political views of all RNZ journalists on the basis of a Spectrum episode is like accusing a mirror of copying you. Completely daft.Freeheelpetehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987273342720926102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post-62364155653642479402013-04-12T16:44:43.011+12:002013-04-12T16:44:43.011+12:00Re the Waihopi Three.. well, they would say that w...Re the Waihopi Three.. well, they would say that wouldn't they? Pretty much their whole defence rests on convincing the legal system of the purity of their intentions.<br /><br />Except of course it isn't good enough.. they did significant damage to a network and I presume the Govt's latest proposal to more explicitly punish protestors who damage property and/or impede people going about their legal business is designed to catch this sort of "moral" behaviour.<br /><br />JCJChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00875768024598278750noreply@blogger.com