The crux of the matter is not free speech! The crux of the matter is that Don Brash was invited to speak but the university has succumbed to threats of violence and intimidation and have whipped out. Where are the principles? This is mob rule and by giving in the university has endorsed it! The VC must resign in ignominy!
JA, if you have a public life and the baby didnt chose one and you value her privacy then stop showing her off! No other politicians parade their kids so blatantly. Most of us arent interested but want the country run properly, something you are failing to do!
Carmen, the comments below and the votes clearly show you are out of step with the majority of NZers! For too long Political Correctness has stifled Free Speech and that is why we are in the mess were in. Sometimes listening to an opposing view can either reinforce your own opinion or change it! Now theres a radical thought!The recent stuff article about changes to the Maori since colonization was biased and one sided. The British could never have conducted the Maori Wars had they not been Maori fighting on their side voluntarily, they were known as â˜Queenies as they were loyal to Queen Victoria so the idea that Maori were a cohesive national group is plain wrong!The only way to stop a feeling of inferiority within the Maori is to break the idea of separateness and appreciate Maori as having the same rights and responsibilities AND OPPORTUNITIES as all other New Zealanders. There is no reason for this to impinge on their culture any more than it does of those NZers from a Scots, Irish, Dutch or Croatian background. Remember that Maori were boat people too!I have just exercised free speech. I said nothing hateful but Im sure youre offended because you have allowed a lack of open debate to close your mind! The problem is yours, not mine!
Everyone puts on extra clothing and extra blankets on the bed in winter! Thats just common sense! If you can afford to use the oven as heating you can afford to run a heater. For $29 you can buy a simple wall panel heater from Mitre 10 that costs the same as a 100 Watt bulb to run and will keep the humidity down reducing condensation and cold, but you will still need that jumper and blanket. Throwing money at these problems is not the answer, using your brain is!
Moral bankruptcy seems widespread, for the â˜negotiator, the perpetrator and even the victim who agrees to it! I would also ask Alison why she hasnt reported on this Ross case before as Barry Soper said on radio yesterday that Rosss affairs were well known amongst the Wellington media set! I suggest there is widespread moral bankruptcy and not a little hypocrisy too!
The illegal immigrants who were queue jumping created this mess. Im sure if they went home or somewhere that welcomes them there would be no mess. If nowhere wants them its a problem of their creation!
What a load of tosh! If 141 out of 142 Maori can stay out of prison then so can more. This preservation of the Maori / Pakeha divide just perpetuates the poor little me syndrome. Most Maori I come across are decent hard working individuals who want the same as most of us. I have Maori cousins. The bottom line is black, white or brindle if you continue to commit crime and are unrepentant then you cop a sentence. Talking and feeling sorry for yourself will not stop these criminal bullies, a good dose of wake up and personal responsibility will. Time for the bleeding hearts to move over. Make prison tougher and unattractive, then there will be a reluctance to go there and numbers will drop!
Chris Bond - too PC! You have got it wrong. Bullies only understand one language and that is the threat of dire consequences! I once threatened a 16 year old Id break his legs if he didnt stop hassling my 13 year old daughter. Never had any more trouble from him! With these people its not what you say but if you look like you mean it! Theyre usually cowards!
Anyone coming to live here must be proficient Im English before arriving. From the driving point of view how can you read the electronic warning signs if you cant read English? To assimilate how can you do it if you dont speak the lingo? How can you have an international job if you cant communicate in the international language? Get the interpreters out and dont do the test until you can communicate well!
Thats not 1. People who drive slowly inappropriately cause impatience and that is what causes accidents. For any road and road condition there is an optimal speed which is the one people should adhere to.
One would expect the truck driver to get a ticket too. We dont know the full story. As long as the insurance company or truck company paid up to fix the car the best policing would have been to issue a caution to both and leave it at that. Too much red tape in the Police in an attempt to stamp out favouritism!
With 12 to 14 weeks holiday a year is it beyond the wit of the educators to run upgrade courses for teachers to improve their qualifications during this period? True, it may take 5 years of 10 weeks a year to upgrade but they still end up with the same holidays as everyone else and they get to improve their lot! Any other industry you have to take time off or do it in your own time.
What a stupid couple you are! You mix values up with social fashion. Kiwi values are based on Anglo Saxon values which are an amalgam of British and European values. Why are they based on that? Because thats our heritage! These values have been developed over millennia. In NZ these values have been melded with Maori values and both values sit well together. The call to maintain these is a rejection of diluting these values, which do change with time, with wildly different values that do not sit well with us. Like it or not we are part of the English speaking peoples of the world and when you come here join us under our conditions or go where the fit is better. People like you two who try to be clever when youre patently not annoy me!
And why did they lose those WW1 millions? Because they supported Russia in its argument with Austria over Serbia! Sounds more like internationalism than nationalism to me!
Auckland's Powerstation owner apologises for booking controversial speakers
Gutless owner. Lack of free speech in NZ is a bad omen for the future!
Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio refused Brokeback Mountain - Gus Van Sant
Im sure many famous actors turn down roles they dont feel comfortable with. What wrong with that?This really is a non-story story!
Massey University bans Don Brash from speaking
The crux of the matter is not free speech! The crux of the matter is that Don Brash was invited to speak but the university has succumbed to threats of violence and intimidation and have whipped out. Where are the principles? This is mob rule and by giving in the university has endorsed it! The VC must resign in ignominy!
Jacinda Ardern is going to the UN, and she's taking baby Neve
JA, if you have a public life and the baby didnt chose one and you value her privacy then stop showing her off! No other politicians parade their kids so blatantly. Most of us arent interested but want the country run properly, something you are failing to do!
When a person with extreme views defends free speech someone gets hurt
Carmen, the comments below and the votes clearly show you are out of step with the majority of NZers! For too long Political Correctness has stifled Free Speech and that is why we are in the mess were in. Sometimes listening to an opposing view can either reinforce your own opinion or change it! Now theres a radical thought!The recent stuff article about changes to the Maori since colonization was biased and one sided. The British could never have conducted the Maori Wars had they not been Maori fighting on their side voluntarily, they were known as â˜Queenies as they were loyal to Queen Victoria so the idea that Maori were a cohesive national group is plain wrong!The only way to stop a feeling of inferiority within the Maori is to break the idea of separateness and appreciate Maori as having the same rights and responsibilities AND OPPORTUNITIES as all other New Zealanders. There is no reason for this to impinge on their culture any more than it does of those NZers from a Scots, Irish, Dutch or Croatian background. Remember that Maori were boat people too!I have just exercised free speech. I said nothing hateful but Im sure youre offended because you have allowed a lack of open debate to close your mind! The problem is yours, not mine!
New Zealanders hungry and cold in their own homes this winter
Everyone puts on extra clothing and extra blankets on the bed in winter! Thats just common sense! If you can afford to use the oven as heating you can afford to run a heater. For $29 you can buy a simple wall panel heater from Mitre 10 that costs the same as a 100 Watt bulb to run and will keep the humidity down reducing condensation and cold, but you will still need that jumper and blanket. Throwing money at these problems is not the answer, using your brain is!
Why National insists on calling Jacinda Ardern 'weak'
Winston is a lesson in subversion! He might take his party across the floor yet having killed Labour and the Greens for all time! We can only hope!
"Jami-Lee Ross saga shows Peter Goodfellow betrayed Kiwi women",
Moral bankruptcy seems widespread, for the â˜negotiator, the perpetrator and even the victim who agrees to it! I would also ask Alison why she hasnt reported on this Ross case before as Barry Soper said on radio yesterday that Rosss affairs were well known amongst the Wellington media set! I suggest there is widespread moral bankruptcy and not a little hypocrisy too!
Offshore oil ban will cost Crown billions with little climate impact, officials warn
I suggest Greenpeace is the enemy within! Government being run by unelected leftist NGOs! This is not democracy!
Calls for PM to bring Nauru refugee kids to NZ
The illegal immigrants who were queue jumping created this mess. Im sure if they went home or somewhere that welcomes them there would be no mess. If nowhere wants them its a problem of their creation!
Joel Maxwell: Before you judge, take a trip to your nearest courthouse
What a load of tosh! If 141 out of 142 Maori can stay out of prison then so can more. This preservation of the Maori / Pakeha divide just perpetuates the poor little me syndrome. Most Maori I come across are decent hard working individuals who want the same as most of us. I have Maori cousins. The bottom line is black, white or brindle if you continue to commit crime and are unrepentant then you cop a sentence. Talking and feeling sorry for yourself will not stop these criminal bullies, a good dose of wake up and personal responsibility will. Time for the bleeding hearts to move over. Make prison tougher and unattractive, then there will be a reluctance to go there and numbers will drop!
Taiwanese fishing boat investigated after being caught in NZ waters
Where is the outrage from the Greens?
Jacinda Ardern is going to the UN, and she's taking baby Neve
But theyre not saying so, guess youre just thinking wishfully!
More FM radio host Gary McCormick took on his daughter's bully
Chris Bond - too PC! You have got it wrong. Bullies only understand one language and that is the threat of dire consequences! I once threatened a 16 year old Id break his legs if he didnt stop hassling my 13 year old daughter. Never had any more trouble from him! With these people its not what you say but if you look like you mean it! Theyre usually cowards!
New Zealand is not vigilant enough about creeping corruption
Anyone coming to live here must be proficient Im English before arriving. From the driving point of view how can you read the electronic warning signs if you cant read English? To assimilate how can you do it if you dont speak the lingo? How can you have an international job if you cant communicate in the international language? Get the interpreters out and dont do the test until you can communicate well!
Pop up Globe: Artistic director apologises for using #metoo in all-male Shakespeare promotion
Dr James Wenley, lifes tough, get over it. Someone hand him a tissue!
Pop up Globe: Artistic director apologises for using #metoo in all-male Shakespeare promotion
There are already women only gyms!
Offshore oil ban will cost Crown billions with little climate impact, officials warn
There is more uses for oil than fuel! Try to look at the bigger picture! Where are you going to get the bitumen for your cycleways?
"Major study reveals new Kiwi values in action: ‘I like to smile at people, and listen’",
Just another Jacinda journalist! Try to be original, sigh!
New Zealand is not vigilant enough about creeping corruption
Thats not 1. People who drive slowly inappropriately cause impatience and that is what causes accidents. For any road and road condition there is an optimal speed which is the one people should adhere to.
Joel Maxwell: Before you judge, take a trip to your nearest courthouse
One would expect the truck driver to get a ticket too. We dont know the full story. As long as the insurance company or truck company paid up to fix the car the best policing would have been to issue a caution to both and leave it at that. Too much red tape in the Police in an attempt to stamp out favouritism!
Striking teachers have lost the war, even if they win a small pay battle
With 12 to 14 weeks holiday a year is it beyond the wit of the educators to run upgrade courses for teachers to improve their qualifications during this period? True, it may take 5 years of 10 weeks a year to upgrade but they still end up with the same holidays as everyone else and they get to improve their lot! Any other industry you have to take time off or do it in your own time.
Teacher asked child, 2, to bite another child's finger 'so he knew how it felt'
The teacher was RIGHT! The tribunal was wrong and should have supported the teacher - political correctness interfering again!
Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism: Macron lectures Trump
They have NATO!
Legalised dope is a licence for Big Marijuana to exploit young people
Bob is absolutely right! I suspect those who object already have addled brains!
Jeremy Elwood & Michele A'Court: Migrant values are Kiwi values
What a stupid couple you are! You mix values up with social fashion. Kiwi values are based on Anglo Saxon values which are an amalgam of British and European values. Why are they based on that? Because thats our heritage! These values have been developed over millennia. In NZ these values have been melded with Maori values and both values sit well together. The call to maintain these is a rejection of diluting these values, which do change with time, with wildly different values that do not sit well with us. Like it or not we are part of the English speaking peoples of the world and when you come here join us under our conditions or go where the fit is better. People like you two who try to be clever when youre patently not annoy me!
Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism: Macron lectures Trump
And why did they lose those WW1 millions? Because they supported Russia in its argument with Austria over Serbia! Sounds more like internationalism than nationalism to me!