Pub owner admits his pokie machines are evil

In my opinion they are a social evil and should not be in pubs," he said. "I would get rid of them all together but it wouldn't be a level playing field if the other pubs in the area kept theirs, so I have to keep them."
"It hurts me so much to see the effect on the people using them," he said, "their intensity, excitement,the belief, the sheer systemic disappointment when they lose everything they have for that week ... the absolute despondency when what was hope is jerked back to reality by the knowledge that there is now no money to feed the kids ... these machines are just demonic," and a tear came to his eyes, "but I am a businessman, I have to survive."
Salvation Army Major Lynette Hutson said, "problem gambling is an addictive behaviour that is often more hidden than addiction to alcohol or drugs" ... "& I agree with her whole heartedly," said the pub owner knowingly, "the problem is insidious, all consuming ... why I know of several people who have given their spouse money to go away for the weekend, sold the lawnmower - that's the ride-on over there, the wife uses it to mow the lawns -sold all their furniture and made jokes about coming and living with me if they should lose ... and lost everything ... yes husband ... kids ... house ... yes, it is just a real tragedy and it just hurts me so much to see it happen ... and one or two of them have been pretty good looking you know, if it hadn't have been for the wife I would have had them over"

In the Name of Science & Public Health?

In an area where there are so many natural sources of sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfide, how possibly can a study focus on and claim that, 'Domestic wood burning was the major cause of air pollution in Rotorua and the poor air quality caused respiratory illnesses and 22 premature deaths a year.'

Are these people really unaware that medical research into asthma uses sulfur dioxide to engender bronchconstriction and asthmatic reactions?

If the focus is on wood burning because that can be varied, then fine, but they don't say that ... it must be presumed that the air quality monitors were placed such that they were minimally exposed to these gases and that their identification of source was very discriminating ... because otherwise the dominant pollutants (SO2 & H2S) in the area have got to be seen as contributing to the predominance of health problems in the area.

It's already known that short term exposure to high levels of hydrogen sulphide can have acute effects on people's health including fluid on the lungs, respiratory conditions and even death ... and that, Health fears prompt major sulphur study15.05.2007
Research into the long term health effects of hydrogen sulphide in Rotorua was prompted by earlier evidence linking illness with exposure to low levels of the gas.

It is to be hoped that these 'scientific' procedures are not simply a revisiting of mathematical models indicating that there will be a certain number of health problems and deaths given certain criterion levels of contaminants/pollutants are breached ... a revisiting of those populist models which have been responsible for the global warming hysteria?

More Germaine Comments.

There is something common here.

Eyes? .. or is it that alluring, dependent want to be noticed, need to reclaim the pedestal look?

Greer calls princess Diana a 'devious moron' ... why she couldn't manage life after being HRH. It still puzzles me that she does that no-no thing: she sleeps with married men. . . and this is the angel that people want to crown."

The 'female eunuch' lady who yearns for the ultimate androgenous female fantasy ... 'the beautiful boy,'denigrates the beautiful girl ... after having done the same to the beautiful ocker boy, Steve Irwin.

Is this lady's need for acclaim such that she needs to walk over bodies to achieve it??

'Hunting a 'charming' serial rapist???'

Now what use psychology without predictive ability ... so this becomes very interesting, it is like 'hanging out your dirty washing (academic learning) for all the world to see.'
But then again, only if the information is specific and says more than Mr Joe Average could come up with ... and they have. Mr Joe Average would never come up with this sort of stuff ...


He is thought to be European and aged 18 to 40. A leading criminal profiler says the rapist is "highly likely" to be married with children and "charming", "trustworthy" and "believable"... (University of Auckland psychologist Dr Ian Lambie).
So yes, he succcessfully gets them in to his car, which means he has pretty good verbal skills .. or sufficient to effect his intentions at the time he does this. 'Married' is but only one way by which sexual or other proclivity can be hidden, but a lack of previous sexual conviction? Always there is previous sexual behaviour approximating the use of excess force and always many people are aware of this.
"They like to fool their victims and ensure they aren't caught. They experience some sexual satisfaction but the actual concept [of rape] also excites them."
So it's like a game, and a game where the fantasy or (even more intellectually) the concept, is greater than the act ... oh yes.

The police perspective is also interesting ... not altogether different from Lambie's, a bit of echolalia perhaps... projection with a Women's Refuge/feminist overlay ...

Unit head, Sergeant Brett Pakenham, said, ... Rape is "seldom about sex", he says, but usually about power.Some serial offenders are driven by a fantasy which the reality never lives up to. They continue to offend in an attempt to realise that fantasy. Others rape to release anger and while that anger may be released in the short term, when the anger builds up again they will look for another victim."

Rape is by definition always to do with sex, in fact sex realised through power, non consensual imposed suppression of dissension sex. But 'power, fantasy and anger?' ... not sex?

And if 'reality never lives up to the fantasy,' then one would assume it to become self-limiting .. oh, unless of course he doesn't have a partner, or unless this is previously well established behaviour and re emerges periodically ... like rather than reoffend again presently he may well do the four to seven year hibernation that is quite common with serious sexual offenders when the probability of impending consequences become considerably greater than the pleasure from the rape.

My dad always used to say a 'standing prick has no conscience.' It sort of said it all really, and far more succinctly and realistically than our experts and law enforcers seem to be able to ... not withstanding that frequently the level of physiological arousal is such that it is this that drives the behaviour, not the erection per se .. too much blood flow to the peripheral muscles ... but that is academic really.

Profile of a rapist
* Is convicted of any criminal offence at the average age of 16 and convicted for the crime of rape at the average age of 24
* 90 per cent of rapists have a conviction for house burglary before committing their first rape
* At the time of being arrested for a series of rapes the offender is unlikely to have a previous rape or sexual-related conviction.
* He is also likely to continue offending until he is apprehended.
* Victims are usually always strangers, identified by prowling activity.

Audrey on 'There's Something About Hone.'

Now it may just appear that Audrey Young is having a liitle difficulty determining the 'high ground,' ... My blog played a small but significant part (TV3, the DomPost were among the others that played key roles) in doing what the gallery should be doing - keeping the bastards honest. This in respect to the dismissal of Benson-Pope.

And this coming 'hot on the heels' of: Give Hone a break ... How about giving him a break.
Sure, it's rude to leave a pre-arranged trip. But at the very least it can be argued he was on parliamentary duties of great relevance to his party.

If you know how to work the system you can get away with murder.

I think I understand?

Heard on the Radio.

'When I was a wee fella there were only two movies we could watch ... and so it came to pass that my all time favorite movie became, 'The Sound of Music.''

& he wants to be a school teacher ...

Reportedly from his new book.

Greens back Harawira

'I'm glad I did it' says unrepentant Harawira


The Green Party's Maori affairs spokeswoman Metiria Turei said today he had done the right thing.


Nandor Tanczos, the Green's representative on the select committee's trip, said he backed Mr Harawira "100 percent".


In the last two days he (Hone) has told Australian media Mr Howard has "introduced a level of racism in the Northern Territory unseen in the whole of the South Pacific". Which is of course nonsense, a far greater travesty has been committed by our own Labour Governemnt led positive discrimination policies - 'euphemisms' do not reframe racism as something other than what it is.

And as for Nandor, does he really think that Green would metamorphose child physical and sexual abuse, the use of force , fraud, alcohol, inhalants as both precipitant and mitigant into love of children, paedophilia intsead of pederasty ... and that reframed it would be all right.
Can these minimalists, in respect to intellectual capacity, not see that their own efforts at addressing the same problems with our own indigenous people have been an abject failure?

Silly Pricks We Know.

DR Sitaleki Finau, Massey's Director Pasifika, says, "in light of studies suggesting the procedure male circumcision, has health benefits for men and women as well as being considered important to Pacific people ... yep a traditional rite/procedure there too, not just specific to the jews or 'civilised americans.'.
The studies show male circumcision helps prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, including Aids, and there was a proven link between circumcised men and a decrease in cervical cancer caused by the human pampilloma virus
Dr Thomson, bless his innovative heart, has performed more than 6000 circumcisions in his private clinic in the past 30 years using a non-surgical device attached to the penis that causes the foreskin to come off in a few days ... not a single penis has dropped off, nor decayed as a consequence of the attached organism dying.
Mind you, I believe a string of dessicated foreskins make for a very fine & distinctive necklace that is perceived with fondness by Pacifica peoples.
There was a time when mental illnes was seen as an artefact of maturbatory behaviour and numerous thousand women were clitoridectomised as a consequence - a significanly lesser number of men were emasculated.
Is this a revisitation of this?
Without foreskins are there fewer wankers in the world?
Should we really pull everybody's teeth for fear of tooth decay, or should we teach them something about the importance of personal hygiene?
Is the next thing that female circumcision is to be deemed 'culturally appropriate' and 'healthy?'
There has to be something proper about going through life au naturel, according to design rather than anthropogenic artistry.

But, there's more ... Professor Sitaleki Finau from Massey University says there is a proven link between men being circumcised and lower rates of cervical cancer caused by infections.
He says if the Government is serious about preventing diseases among Pacific people, then it should fund the 170-dollar snip.
Sitaleki Finau says the Government needs to maintain cultural values as traditionally Pacific Islanders have been circumcised and funding the procedure is one way to achieve that.

Perhaps, just sometimes there is good reason for cultural values to change just a little ... like perhaps having a shower, or even just a gentle genital area scrubdown daily.
But subsidising an operation because a cultural group view uncleanliness as an inherent and important part of their culture which requires circumcision as a disease prevention ... gosh.
It wont take a lot for these culturally important practices to become infectious cross culturally.

Hone Goes Tropo.

Maori Party MP Hone Harawira has pulled out of a Parliamentary committee's itinerary in Australia to go walkabout ... and of course Harawira is defiant over his outback trip.

Christchurch's New Zealand First list MP Ron Mark revealed in Parliament yesterday that Harawira had abandoned the official select committee visit to travel to Alice Springs.
He said Harawira had "gone AWOL" and "unleashed a tirade of abuse on the Australian authorities for the second time".

One wonders why this flagrant disregard for anything but his own agenda is permitted. Margaret Wilson should demand that this junkert is paid for by himself and that his monies for this period are similarly 'docked.'

And of course Hone, in his erudite fashion, would of course take this on the chin, "c'est la vie" he has already said.

And his namesake, John (Howard), should look at pressing charges against him ... this is not just protest, this is undermining existing authority, inciting at the very least discontent, at worst riot ... made worse in that he has used a goverment platform on which to do it. He should be made 'persona non grata,' not again permitted to soil the soil of Australia ... and all this from a base of abuse.

It is consequently not surprising that his PC based empowerment or arrogance has resulted in further abuse of the system for his own ends.

Sack him Pita, the Maori Party does not need a 'loose unit' like this ... if Titiwhai's Carrington Hospital Reform school were still in operation, now there would be a place for his reprogramming.

Inevitable Really.

If a government department with mandatory powers is publicly seen as failing in their duties in a repeated and systemic manner, then further disempowerment is readily achieved by intimidation or allusion ... A social worker told a Greymouth District Court judge she was pleading guilty to an assault that she did not commit to end a campaign of threats and abuse against her family.

and if the 'emotional climate is right,' and these same authorities charged with the protection of children fail to act, then some people will take steps to stop a recurrence of the behaviour - they will take the law in to their own hands ...A woman arrested and charged over the death of convicted paedophile Glen Donald Stinson has had the charges against her upgraded to include murder.

So who really in their right mind would want to be a policeman, a social worker or indeed a paedophile?

Speechless.

In a text message to the Herald on Sunday last week, Lisa Kuka said: "People out thea dat know me know dat I love and care 4 my babi wif al my heart."

Nia's mum speaks out, 'SOMEONE WILL PAY': Lisa Kuka visits her daughter Nia at Auckland's Starship Hospital just hours before her death on Friday.
Nia Glassie's mother wants "the mongrels" who tortured her little girl to pay for her death.
"Someone will pay. Those five, they are going to pay for what's happened to my baby." ... and I am sure she really believes this.

But Nia Glassie's mother Lisa Kuka had an older child seized by authorities several years ago after the child suffered "non-accidental head injuries" - but no monitoring of her subsequent children was ever carried out by Child, Youth and Family ... and I am sure she believes these incidents bare no relationship.

What can you say?? CYF were aware of the 'culture' of child abuse in this family, of the predisposition ... and waited for it to happen again??

This institution really does need to be looked at very closely. They can sit quietly by while general intrusive-on-family policies are mooted and implemented and condone these and at the same time fail so miserably in the 'duty of care to children' they are legislated to provide. Additionally, their policy of placing removed children with extended family, often parents of abusers who have knowingly perpetrated similar acts of violence on their children (i.e. it was from whence it was learned) is cause for further concern.

This situation clearly identifies CYF as perpetuating the 'code of silence' in respect to child abuse, as perpetuating a PC racist positive discrimination policy that endangers children - there have been too many instances of this to ascribe it to individual oversight or failing - the problem is systemic and policy driven.

What is even more frightening is that this department gleefully opens its arms to willingly embrace greater powers. Like with the reasons given for the repeal of sec. 59, there are and always have been, sufficient powers to effectively address these issues, both within CYF and the court system, they are simply not used in an appropriate and timely manner.

It's A Long Road 'Till You Find The Perfect Woman Son.

Researchers are warning that it could take up to 50 years to stem New Zealand's child abuse problem.
Massey University's human development team says abused children often think violence is normal and go on to treat their own offspring in a similar manner... and indeed they do, in so far as they learn to discriminate between private and public situations and it can become associated with sexual behaviour and as Bensen-Pope knows, enhance it ... and so the violence perpetuates privately, not accessible to moderation.
...researchers have now developed a method to identify problems within a family in an effort to bring about change ... oh yes
Professor Kirkland says that by focusing on the child's reactions rather than the parents, they can make a good assessment of what is going on in the family ... teachers and others have known this for a long time, eons in fact ... it's called poor instructional control, poor impulse control, a withdrawal response to close social contact often with body tenseness, strong approach/avoidance behaviour, averted eye gaze - not a sign of respect at all, simpy authorities trying to conceal excess, to maintain that 'code of silence,' continue to make the excess not addressable - and parallel 'play'/provocative behaviour with minimal reasonable interaction.
This behaviour used to be adequately addressed by the education system ... it used to be possible to override this asocial/antisocial behaviour and replace it with reasonable behaviour, but now this system no longer has the ability to do this. Teachers know that in the ultimate they can be out-pointed, that they are powerless to effect change, even at times powerless to teach.

Quite simply, Kirkland is wrong ... this problem can be addressed much more quickly, after all it has taken only two generations to escalate what was there all along to the proportions we have today. Further what he is almost suggesting is greater intrusion in to families, as others before him have (Cindy Kiro) and I am sure what he is describing is a simple paper and pencil rating scale as a means of being able to do this with a sense of self-righteousness, with a sense of it being entirely warranted and proper intrusion.

But aside from the well reported victims, it is a pretty sad indictment when a maori girl can say that she wont have a relationship with a maori guy because she is too frightened of what they might do to her.

Hone Breaks His Silence.

Child abuse brutalising Maori society - Hone Harawira

And indeed it is, and has been since I was a little kid and for much, much longer.

But unlike that "racist bastard" Howard who sent in the army, Hone is going to go to the army ...

I reckon we should lock ourselves away in a barracks down Waiouru (anywhere else and the media and the crazies will come along), put people who are good at dealing with child abuse in a barracks next door to give us advice ... and don't come out till we come up with a solution.
Good twist Hone.

"Yes it's simplistic, and yes, there's going to be all kinds of gonks moaning about why they weren't invited, but really, who cares? We need a plan, we need action, and we need it now."

No Hone, it was needed yesterday, your mum mentioned the high incidence of it years ago.

He said it had to be an all-Maori affair otherwise people started to "clam up". And while Maori society had the biggest role to play, Government also had to be involved.

Yep, if it is 'opened up' everyone will see the full extent of the problem .. best to keep it somewhat private,'code of silence' so to speak, but solutions are bound to need funding so at some point, Gvt. involvement, Gvt. funding.

But really Hone, if you can't say it, you can't assay it and you certainly can't address it.

"And colonisation has a lot to bloody answer for as well."

Right Hone, although I'm not sure that attribution of blame equates with 'taking ownership' of a problem.

Right again Hone, without colonisation this behaviour, both physical and sexual child abuse would never have been defined as wrong ... this physically maintained patriarchal hierarchy of power would still be seen as normal .... and these white pakeha paedophile fellas would not have been able to seek safety and security and the ability to fully exercise their proclivity within your culture ... this ability would have been totally for youse fellas.

National Party Maori affairs spokeswoman Georgina te Heuheu said, "In principal it sounds like a good idea."

Maori Party co-leader Pita Sharples' spokeswoman Helen Leahy said Mr Harawira's comments are not party policy..."

Labour list MP Dover Samuels said "more korero" is not what is needed.

He said medical professionals and in-particular psychologists need to get inside the heads of the men who are beating their children ... but this will not work either, the behaviour is cultural, is protected by the culture and the PC belief system that immediately defines any statements about the problem as racist in nature.

So Dover is right and he is wrong ... what is needed is the ability to state the problem honestly, for it (the physical and sexual abuse) to be categorised as absolutely unacceptable and treated in such a manner by all concerned, including the authorities ... these people should be very publicly prosecuted and punished.

Bonding.

August 1 marks the beginning of World Breastfeeding Week ... so ...women may soon be able to bare their breasts publicly with impunity as long as there is an 'age-based' criterion?? Ican recall a notable criminal case in NZ where the children were reputedly breastfed until the age of thirteen and know of numerous five year olds and older where this has occurred ... no age-based' criteria Steve?

Steve Chadwick says if her member's bill is passed discrimination against breastfeeding mothers will be a thing of the past. From what I have seen, if this process is carried out discreetly there has never been a problem ... not so for those more brazen and exhibitionistic in their actions though and probably rightly so. Breasts are just a body part like ankles and legs and neck and back and cheeks: your whole body enjoys those intimate moments between husband and wife, but that does not mean that the mere act of seeing ankles, legs, necks, backs, toes, etc. should inspire you sexually ... yep and lots of others have used the same argument but not very successfully ... "please your honour, I was only urinating and shaking off the last drops."

Yep, just a body part (breasts) ... but a body part that has aesthetically pleasing qualities and historical fetishistic meaning for a large portion of the population and these are as much biological function as having little or larger suckers hanging off them.

But also ...
A bill that would allow women inmates to look after their babies in prison for two years won support today from two government agencies because it would allow mothers to keep breastfeeding their babies and encourage stronger bonding.
Parliament's law and order select committee today heard more evidence on Green MP Sue Bradford's bill, the Corrections (Mothers with Babies) Amendment.

Once again you have to admire Ms Bradfords logic, lock 'em up for offending, enable ongoing contact to encourage stronger bonding and reduce the separation from them as a deterrent to offending and take them off them at the age of two when they have learned quite a few behaviours from their incarcerated mum and all this at a time when removal will have a considerably greater emotional impact on them ... not that I ascribe to this 'new age' notion of attachment disorder but one would have to imagine that separation at the age of two would make this detachment more manifest than no contact at all.

Once again Ms Bradford shows that the welfare of children is not her aim, the reduction of criminal offending is not her aim ... it really just seems she is an intellectual lightweight who has become a pawn of the UN.