The News Zealand press - even faster with the news that matters than the BBCA recent story from the New Zealand Herald...
Corrections boss defends 'Zaoui and Bain' lookalikes
12:00PM Saturday January 05, 2008
The Corrections Department has defended the actions of two staff members who attended a work Christmas function dressed as former prison inmates Ahmed Zouai and David Bain.
The staff members turned up as asylum seeker (and alleged terrorist) Zouai and accused murderer Bain for a themed party where head office staff dressed up as their favourite notable New Zealanders.
National Party Corrections spokesman Simon Power said the workers' choice of dress was irresponsible given their role in a government justice organisation.
However, Corrections acting chief executive Phil McCarthy told the Dominion Post newspaper the pair were juniors and not directly involved in managing offenders, even though most staff went as sportspeople.
"In the context of a staff Christmas party, I don't think it matters a jot."
It would be different if the two workers were employed as probation officers or warders, or had had contact with the former inmates, he said.
However "they're as likely to have been a clerk or information officer".
The pair were simply masquerading in costume -- "in David Bain's case it involved no more than a rather large cardigan", Mr McCarthy said.
He said he did not know how Ahmed Zaoui had dressed but said "a certain physical resemblance" was thought to have been the biggest motivation for the costumes.
New Zealand's foremost alleged familicidal murderer and leisureware icon David Bainand for anyone not up to speed with fascinating story of David Bain you can either check out his Wikipedia entry here or, alternatively, a blog post which attempts to collate every sick joke about Bain ever cracked in New Zealand
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and commiserations to my Kiwi friends over the tragic news of the recent death of that great New Zealander and leading exponent of the national haircut - Sir Edmund Hillary
Truly the end of an era, and a reminder of more innocent times when leaving someone to die on a mountainside because you were in a bit of a hurry wasn't a prerequisite for having a movie made about your climbing exploits
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NB Connoisseurs of ballsed-up and gratuitous anti-terror raids and nonsense items labeled by police as terrorist equipment may enjoy this story which was reported in the aftermath of the truly epic series of ballsed-up and gratuitous anti-terror raids in New Zealand last year (all completely justified by the appalling toll taken by terrorists in New Zealand in recent years)...
Pensioner feels violated by police raid
5:00AM Thursday October 18, 2007
A Tauranga pensioner feels "violated" after armed police stormed his home, "trashed" the place, and left with three jackets and an air rifle.
Clive Martin, 67, said he learned from neighbours that the armed offenders squad had raided his property on Tuesday afternoon while he was out.
His home is one of dozens police are searching as part of a massive operation after the discovery of alleged weapons training camps in the Bay of Plenty.
Police have so far made 17 arrests.
Mr Martin's Redmond St home was left with a smashed window, a broken window latch and a mess in his shed after the raid. He said he was upset when he found a 20-page search warrant sitting on his table stating there "is reasonable ground for believing" there were items inside which were an offence relating to either "participating in a terrorist group", or the unlawful possession of firearms or restricted weapons.
The warrant stated the home could contain clothing from "camps" in January and June this year, which Mr Martin said he had no involvement in.
Other items suspected of being at the property are detailed on the warrant's four-page list of military-style equipment, some of which has appeared on the internet auction website Trade Me.
Mr Martin said he had no idea why his home was searched and was "gutted" police had linked him to people potentially involved in terrorist crimes.
"It is a big mystery and I feel violated. As far as I'm concerned, I've been violated," he said. "They've trashed my house. I just vacuumed it out - there's dirty mud all over the floor. They've trashed my shed, they've trashed my linen cupboard."
Police took an old oilskin jacket, a raincoat, a polarfleece jacket and magnets that he used to hold loose change. They also took an air rifle...
Part of the Polartec TerrorFleece™ range - absolutely lethal in trained and desperate hands(though, obviously, still not a patch on the ultimate WMD that is the awesome Delta 6250 - aka 'Satan's lunchbox')
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4 comments:
In The Graun article about prostitution this week, a beuatiful piece of condescencion was well answered.
'New Zealand is too far away from the main markets for sex traffickers to generate profits in the way they can in Britain. As a small country, where people know each other well, there are strong social....'
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I am a New Zealander. Mactaggart writes about the country as if we live in the year 1808, not 2008. There are 4 million people in the country and we do not "know each other well".......She presents the country as if Lord of the Rings was a documentary and we all live in Shire like Frodo. How can legislation even be proposed by someone who is so ill informed?'
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http://tinyurl.com/2ewqcd
She presents the country as if Lord of the Rings was a documentary and we all live in Shire like Frodo
she makes a fair point
that only goes on in South Island
I can hardly reply.
Just had this vision of hordes of Conspiraloons (TM) and Conspiraloonesses (TM) with big, flat, hairy feet living in isolation on Pitcairn Island at some point in the future.
It's the only way to go.
More info on Ahmed Zaoui is on the thread here.
Read Zaoui's New Zealand Refugee Appeal case notes here.
The guy has been through hell & some chumps in the NZ prison service try to joke it up.
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