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Dread Times: December 2010
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Watchman Ras Nandor Tanczos reports from Aotearoa / New Zealand. Monday, December 13, 2010. But there are those who bear as much emnity as acclaim. People who put themselves on the line in order to expose the truth and challenge power. The danger these people face is not from random natural events, from enemy soldiers or dangerous criminals. The danger they face is from their own governments and its allies, their armies, their police forces and their secret services. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Best Wall...
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Dread Times: Take prosecution power away from police
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Watchman Ras Nandor Tanczos reports from Aotearoa / New Zealand. Thursday, September 8, 2011. Take prosecution power away from police. A young man I know was in court recently. He and some friends were drinking round the back of a sports club and they decided to smash a window. It was typical dumb drunk stuff and they deserved to get caught. He didn't deserve a conviction for attempted burglary, which was what the police charged him with. Who was charged in April with disorderly behaviour likely to incit...
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Dread Times: Post election thoughts
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Watchman Ras Nandor Tanczos reports from Aotearoa / New Zealand. Tuesday, November 29, 2011. National supporters in Epsom will be congratulating themselves for following instructions and voting for John Banks. Now that he has climbed through the electoral window, his support may be crucial to a compliant National-led coalition government. Going through with such a threat would be a dangerous game indeed. From my 3news blog. I can only hope that the opposition parties make every effort to hold the Key-par...
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Dread Times: September 2011
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Watchman Ras Nandor Tanczos reports from Aotearoa / New Zealand. Thursday, September 29, 2011. My (late) representation to Parliament on the Video Camera Surveillance (Temporary Measures) BIll. The Justice and Electoral Committee. RE: VIDEO CAMERA SURVEILLANCE (TEMPORARY MEASURES) BILL. Dear Chester and the members of the Justice and Electoral Committee. My views are as follows:. 1 I totally oppose this bill as unnecessary, inimical to good policing and as offensive to justice and the rule of law. Determ...
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Dread Times: July 2010
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Watchman Ras Nandor Tanczos reports from Aotearoa / New Zealand. Tuesday, July 27, 2010. You can't force people to learn to speak Maori. Actually, you can't force people to do very much at all in the long run, which is why the PR techniques pioneered by Dr Goebbels. Remain such a popular means of social control. For most of us that realisation of ignorance leads to a desire to learn more so as to understand more. For some others it creates a defensiveness and a retreat back to the comfort zone. P...It's ...
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Dread Times: Te Hau
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Watchman Ras Nandor Tanczos reports from Aotearoa / New Zealand. Thursday, December 1, 2011. Every day you change. Your eyes now slate not. Or dark as the infinite sky. You are coming into your body. Like light through a lens. A star coming into focus. I cried when you were born. Your body indescribably soft in my hands. As soft as the womb you were born from. Once the head's out". The feeling of the body sliding. Down the birth canal. I'll never know but. Because of the intensity. Because of her courage.
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Dread Times: October 2010
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Watchman Ras Nandor Tanczos reports from Aotearoa / New Zealand. Saturday, October 30, 2010. But I am beginning to wonder what good 'throwing the book' at anyone would actually do. If Mr Mears is convicted, what use would there be in putting him in prison? The third issue is how do we prevent, or at least lessen, this kind of moronic behaviour in the future? The Deeerstalkers Association is urging all hunters to learn from the bad practises that led to Ms Ives' death, but I wonder whether a more systemat...
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Dread Times: December 2011
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Watchman Ras Nandor Tanczos reports from Aotearoa / New Zealand. Thursday, December 1, 2011. Every day you change. Your eyes now slate not. Or dark as the infinite sky. You are coming into your body. Like light through a lens. A star coming into focus. I cried when you were born. Your body indescribably soft in my hands. As soft as the womb you were born from. Once the head's out". The feeling of the body sliding. Down the birth canal. I'll never know but. Because of the intensity. Because of her courage.
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Dread Times: June 2011
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Watchman Ras Nandor Tanczos reports from Aotearoa / New Zealand. Wednesday, June 22, 2011. Te Tai Tokerau by-election. I've always thought that calling the Te Tai Tokerau by-election was a mistake for Mana. Not because of the cost to the country, which is insignificant in the context of what it costs to have a democracy. I thought it was a mistake because of the costs to the party. Wednesday, June 8, 2011. Cue the hyperbole. Bomber. When you see the political world in monochrome then of course black, whi...