Archive for December 8th, 2005
December 8th, 2005
A friend of mine, Kath, just sent me an email about the toughest sheriff in America. Considering I’ve just written about my views on prisoners and their punishments, I found it fascinating that she would forward me a ‘chain email’ containing this information. I did a quick bit of research and found out that the below story is true. In relation to what I wrote about prisoners receiving compensation, I present this to you as what we should be doing here in NZ:
Sheriff Joe Arpaio for President!
Here’s something you don’t see everyday. A Sheriff who isn’t playing politics? Believe it!
December 8th, 2005
Where the frack does this government get off on paying prisoners compensation for being put in solitary confinement.
A law was passed in June this year (in NZ) that makes any successful prisoner compensation claims go to the victims of the prisoners first. Where the frack does the arsehole in the article get off on saying it’s an ‘appallingly nauseating piece of legislation’ that has a ‘callous disregard for prisoners’ human rights’. Where was that regard for human rights by the prisoners? If they had regard for human rights, they wouldn’t be prisoners!
They’ve committed crimes against people, for frack’s sake, violating their victims’ human rights. Some of these prisoners have killed people. How the frack can this fracking arsehole take the violation of prisoners’ rights to the fracking UN Human Rights Committee? Which just might award these prisoners MORE compensation!!!
December 8th, 2005
This is ’series 2′.
This is a photo of my friend Peter and I. We caught up before my birthday party and had a couple drinks. Unfortunately, the setting on the camera was incorrect, so there was some overexposure that caused a wavy efect in the background lighting…
Deidre and Letizia, Peter’s partner, in a moment of hilarity…
Some of the party guests…
My friend Vicki and I…
The host, Mike Howard, is a very funny man. We share surnames, so that night we were ‘brothers’. Well, that’s what he was introducing himself as, with his Welsh accent: “Hello, I’m Alan’s brother. Pleased to meet you.”
December 8th, 2005
I thought I’d better update this with the latest series of photos before I left for my holiday to Australia. Here’s ’series 1′.
This was a nice sunset I took. Pretty pink…
A view of the houses on Mt Victoria, overlooking Oriental Bay, at dusk. I wanted to get the lights…
The city at dusk, from Oriental Bay…
This is an old monastery on the hill overlooking Oriental Bay…
This is the fountain that is in the bay. Nice lights…
A view of the marina and harbour, from the lawyer’s office the other day…
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