Judge Bernard Kendall said the evidence of bar staff had been clear about the grabbing of Mr Spiers' T-shirt, which constituted an assault.
But there was no injury or physical effect on the victim and he discharged Kelt without conviction.
Aha ... so now 'assault' or conviction for this breach of the law, requires that there be an enduring physical effect.
I wonder where Section 59, Sue Bradford's legacy, sits with respect to this finding.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Saturday, June 13, 2009
'Tis A Hard Road Being The Perfect Model, Son.
All Blacks trained in risky business of a social life ... to avoid potentially embarrassing headlines and has hired risk management company Core Dynamics to educate players about the pitfalls of public life.
Sessions include role-plays and practical help, such as being shown what drug utensils look like.
Obviously Rugby Management, buoyed by their success at toilet training, at reducing that onfield pandemic of explosive nasal & other orificial clearance ... a pandemic more infectious and potentially dangerous than that 'scare-mongered up' swine flu ... are taking a further, brave step forward. Of course, as new players are included in the squad, this basic skills training will have to be an ongoing annual phenomenon.
... but really, as if many would not have known about drug paraphenalia.
... and then there are the rugby skills ... Oh dear ... so many well developed muscles and so few connected neuronal pathways. How, when under pressure, could they be expected to remember those sixty plus planned and rote learned moves?
Is the characteristic of immediate self-gratification really synonymous with being a good sports person? I would have thought it made a person more subject to performing emotionally, as evidenced by that 'dead, defeated look' in so many eyes when they were behind 17 to 3 ... sort of 'once were warriors.'
It would appear that Graham Henry is making considerable in roads into improving those basic social skills, those skills basic to social functioning, but....
Sessions include role-plays and practical help, such as being shown what drug utensils look like.
Obviously Rugby Management, buoyed by their success at toilet training, at reducing that onfield pandemic of explosive nasal & other orificial clearance ... a pandemic more infectious and potentially dangerous than that 'scare-mongered up' swine flu ... are taking a further, brave step forward. Of course, as new players are included in the squad, this basic skills training will have to be an ongoing annual phenomenon.
... but really, as if many would not have known about drug paraphenalia.
... and then there are the rugby skills ... Oh dear ... so many well developed muscles and so few connected neuronal pathways. How, when under pressure, could they be expected to remember those sixty plus planned and rote learned moves?
Is the characteristic of immediate self-gratification really synonymous with being a good sports person? I would have thought it made a person more subject to performing emotionally, as evidenced by that 'dead, defeated look' in so many eyes when they were behind 17 to 3 ... sort of 'once were warriors.'
It would appear that Graham Henry is making considerable in roads into improving those basic social skills, those skills basic to social functioning, but....
Saturday, April 18, 2009
A Duty Of Care .. A response to MacDoctor's Egotism.
MacDoctor struck a nerve.
... until such time as medical practitioners are trained in research methodology and statistics and have the ability to critically assay research ... and read the stuff prior to 'selling' it as a 'treatment of choice' ... and enable and demand independent (not drug company) research with control groups prior to the widespread implementation of treatments - rather than claim that such research cannot occur because it involves with holding a 'treatment of choice' and as such is unethical, then the moral high ground you purport to inhabit is simply 'puffery.'
Perhaps, 'spare the rod and medicate the child' (the 'educational drugs'), are a good example of this.
There are so many medical treatments for which the underlying research does not stand up to rigorous scrutiny, cost benefit analyses (i.e. benefit versus harm) are more often than not lacking.
How would most medical practitioners know whether they were causing harm or not?
Certainly studies looking at reliability of diagnoses have not revealed figures worthy of celebration, and this without considering validity.
Is this situation of greater concern than that which you describe?
I would have thought so.
... until such time as medical practitioners are trained in research methodology and statistics and have the ability to critically assay research ... and read the stuff prior to 'selling' it as a 'treatment of choice' ... and enable and demand independent (not drug company) research with control groups prior to the widespread implementation of treatments - rather than claim that such research cannot occur because it involves with holding a 'treatment of choice' and as such is unethical, then the moral high ground you purport to inhabit is simply 'puffery.'
Perhaps, 'spare the rod and medicate the child' (the 'educational drugs'), are a good example of this.
There are so many medical treatments for which the underlying research does not stand up to rigorous scrutiny, cost benefit analyses (i.e. benefit versus harm) are more often than not lacking.
How would most medical practitioners know whether they were causing harm or not?
Certainly studies looking at reliability of diagnoses have not revealed figures worthy of celebration, and this without considering validity.
Is this situation of greater concern than that which you describe?
I would have thought so.
Friday, April 3, 2009
Maori crime rate down to early childhood maltreatment
Maori crime rate down to early childhood maltreatment!
Really?
Really?
Monday, March 30, 2009
The Irony Of It All.
When David Lange was 'rogered' by that Rogernomics ... when egotism faded and he became aware he was but a facade hiding their manoeuverings ... where industry employing the 'unemployables' was deemed subsidising industry and they were 'turned out to pasture' to be supported by benefits, when the idealogues imposed their will and deemed a full-employment economy an artifice, when local industry was undermined and simultaneously the base production for export destroyed - one week Morrison Mowers received an export award and the next they did not exist - and the notion of such a deregulated economy, interest rate balanced/controlled, and a notion of 'trickle-down' to the less fortunate/educated. This had to work and work quickly, before the negative consequences of it became entrenched... it did not do so.
The irony is that this failed, deregulated, global economy, 'one world (global warming, single currency) claptrap,' has seen production go to the 'least cost third world minions' at immense social cost to our economy, and the cost is increasing ... that our own prime minister should receive accolades for this national demise and social desecration, and be placed on the world stage for her 'expertise' is indicative of the pathological nature of such an ideological malaise.
It was this ideology that destroyed the Apple and Pear Board because it was a monopoly and yet lauded the successes of Fonterra ... and Don Brash ... bless his simplistic self-serving little soul, 'can't keep his pants on' economic wizzardry, gets involved in a company trying to scoop some of the cream off a success story (Fonterra).
The true irony though is that those who talk authoritatively on this matter, treasury economists ('it doesn't matter as long as we can live in the manner to which we have become accustomed') and the social commentators like Lindsay Mitchell whose limited knowledge of history further 'deal' to the generational flotsam created by Roger Douglas and cohorts ... the increases in child abuse, sexual assaults, violent assaults, and murders, the sundry psychiatric disorders, that are the legacy of these idealogues ... those in society that were least able to cope, had least skills, least resources were thrown in to the wilderness - put in to a position where basic routines were meaningless ... 'up at eight, you can't be late for Mathew and Son and they wont wait ....' was a thing of the past as were the routines, motivation, self-respect, honesty, moderation of excess, implicit in this. Every one knows that time without direction 'is a killer,' metaphorically and increasingly, literally. Solo mums know that the most difficult time is when the kids are asleep ... when all you are left with is that which is in your head. Forced into a life in which dishonesty is advantageous, the unemployed nuclear family financially disadvantageous, the rewards from drugs manifold.
When I was but a young fella, I had the privelege of watching what occurred in a psychogeriatric ward. I saw nurses treating 'olde neuronally loose' people in a manner which they themselves felt they would like to be treated if in that condition/position .... they killed them, some within three weeks! They took away their 'meaning for life,' they took their routines, their self-respect, the ability to do for themselves ... they killed them ... and we do it today ... this Douglasian 'trickle down theory' has certainly resulted in a generationally transmitted or imposed social malaise that has mushroomed and now the victims are further persecuted.
Twenty seven teacher training providers relying on EFT points for maintaining funding have destroyed the education system ... thank you Roger, competition works ... you have to pass them to retain the funding. The real irony of this is when NZCER claim that 60% of the effect of student performance is attributable to famillies ... why do we need teachers, why should we send our kids to school?? How can parents be prosecuted for truancy under such circumstances?
The answer to all of the above is simple.
The irony is that this failed, deregulated, global economy, 'one world (global warming, single currency) claptrap,' has seen production go to the 'least cost third world minions' at immense social cost to our economy, and the cost is increasing ... that our own prime minister should receive accolades for this national demise and social desecration, and be placed on the world stage for her 'expertise' is indicative of the pathological nature of such an ideological malaise.
It was this ideology that destroyed the Apple and Pear Board because it was a monopoly and yet lauded the successes of Fonterra ... and Don Brash ... bless his simplistic self-serving little soul, 'can't keep his pants on' economic wizzardry, gets involved in a company trying to scoop some of the cream off a success story (Fonterra).
The true irony though is that those who talk authoritatively on this matter, treasury economists ('it doesn't matter as long as we can live in the manner to which we have become accustomed') and the social commentators like Lindsay Mitchell whose limited knowledge of history further 'deal' to the generational flotsam created by Roger Douglas and cohorts ... the increases in child abuse, sexual assaults, violent assaults, and murders, the sundry psychiatric disorders, that are the legacy of these idealogues ... those in society that were least able to cope, had least skills, least resources were thrown in to the wilderness - put in to a position where basic routines were meaningless ... 'up at eight, you can't be late for Mathew and Son and they wont wait ....' was a thing of the past as were the routines, motivation, self-respect, honesty, moderation of excess, implicit in this. Every one knows that time without direction 'is a killer,' metaphorically and increasingly, literally. Solo mums know that the most difficult time is when the kids are asleep ... when all you are left with is that which is in your head. Forced into a life in which dishonesty is advantageous, the unemployed nuclear family financially disadvantageous, the rewards from drugs manifold.
When I was but a young fella, I had the privelege of watching what occurred in a psychogeriatric ward. I saw nurses treating 'olde neuronally loose' people in a manner which they themselves felt they would like to be treated if in that condition/position .... they killed them, some within three weeks! They took away their 'meaning for life,' they took their routines, their self-respect, the ability to do for themselves ... they killed them ... and we do it today ... this Douglasian 'trickle down theory' has certainly resulted in a generationally transmitted or imposed social malaise that has mushroomed and now the victims are further persecuted.
Twenty seven teacher training providers relying on EFT points for maintaining funding have destroyed the education system ... thank you Roger, competition works ... you have to pass them to retain the funding. The real irony of this is when NZCER claim that 60% of the effect of student performance is attributable to famillies ... why do we need teachers, why should we send our kids to school?? How can parents be prosecuted for truancy under such circumstances?
The answer to all of the above is simple.
Govt considers denying bail for murder accused
Justice Minister Simon Power says he is seriously considering denying bail to prisoners facing murder charges.
This should also apply to those arraigned on sexual offences, particularly, rape ... as stress/ anxiety are often a precursor for such behaviour, and stress/anxiety are what are experienced given almost certain incarceration... and violent offending ... or indeed on any offending in which a lengthy prison sentence is inevitable ... for with concurrent sentencing, what happens in the interim is of little consequence.
This should also apply to those arraigned on sexual offences, particularly, rape ... as stress/ anxiety are often a precursor for such behaviour, and stress/anxiety are what are experienced given almost certain incarceration... and violent offending ... or indeed on any offending in which a lengthy prison sentence is inevitable ... for with concurrent sentencing, what happens in the interim is of little consequence.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Law review looks hard at culture of drinking
But why?
Why is it that we have a culture that places so much focus on excess, on that small percentage of folk that have so little self-regulation or regard for rules that any 'abusable' behaviour or substance will be 'abused,' and regulate all as a means of trying to contain it?
Why is it that we have a culture that places so much focus on excess, on that small percentage of folk that have so little self-regulation or regard for rules that any 'abusable' behaviour or substance will be 'abused,' and regulate all as a means of trying to contain it?
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