Andrew Williams, fomerly known as the Clown of  Camp­bells Bay and the Mad Mayor is these days going by the moniker “The Scare­crow” for the scare­crow in the Wiz­ard of Oz was miss­ing a brain.

The Scare­crow has dic­tated a mis­sive that shows as much about his men­tal state as his addic­tion to pain killers and alco­hol. It is a ram­bling inhore­cent piece of tosh. The Her­ald must have been short of a few col­umn inches today to pub­lish this rubbish.

The post could be sum­marised like this:

• Ran­dom Quote, totally irrel­e­vant to rest of document
• Con­spir­acy The­ory of con­trol of Auckland
• Call Local Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter and other Min­is­ters liars
• Moan about los­ing his job
• pathetic link back to the first quote.

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The case of the Dirty Down­loader in Palmer­ston North has had an inter­est­ing turn of events, events that make the deci­sion of Judge Grant Fraser sim­ply apalling. Keep­ing Stocks explains why:

We have been made aware of the iden­tity of the Promi­nent Palmer­ston­ian– from sev­eral inde­pen­dant andun­re­lated sources. We were also made aware of some­thing yes­ter­day which, work­ing in the ECE sec­tor, we found rather chill­ing. After much inter­nal debate between me, myself and I, we decided that this needed to be put in the pub­lic domain, but in a man­ner which would not breach the Court-ordered suppression.

So we ask this ques­tion; did Judge Grant Fraser know that the Promi­nent Palmerstonian’s busi­ness premises share the same street address as a pre-school? We believe that this is a very impor­tant ques­tion in the con­text of Judge Fraser’s deci­sion to allow name sup­pres­sion. This is indeed a case of pub­lic interest.

Pon­der this; do the par­ents who send their chil­dren to the pre-school involved have a right to know that its neigh­bour had an unhealthy inter­est in chil­dren? For us, that’s a no-brainer; we can’t think of a clearer case where pub­li­ca­tion of the defendant’s name IS in the pub­lic interest.

There are many other ques­tions and alle­ga­tions about the rela­tion­ship between the Judge and the defen­dant swirling around, ques­tions that need to be answered, in the mean­time with the infor­ma­tion that Keep Stock has posted I think the Crown pros­e­cu­tor should be in court imme­di­ately seek­ing an urgent appeal to the sen­tence and sup­pres­sion in this case.

Bear in mind that the Dirty Down­loader came to the atten­tion of the FBI. His activ­i­ties are not noth­ing, theya ren’t some­thing to be swept under the carpet.

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My appear­ances are get­ting shorter. Yes­ter­day I was informed that the Crown was try­ing to add bail onto my charges. This was ulti­mately doomed to fail­ure because you can’t add bail with cus­to­dial pro­vi­sions onto a sum­mary charge with no cus­to­dial sen­tence. This morn­ing as I enetered court I found that they had had a re-think after a very strongly worde3d dis­cus­sion with my lawyer.

I plead not guilty to all five charges and was remanded at large for another three weeks when we will have a sta­tus hearing.

Lastly I have been informed that another two charges will laid for The North Shore Teacher and the Nel­son per­son of National Sig­nif­i­cance. Pffft, what hap­pened to the con­tempt charges, well noth­ing, if they coulda they woulda is my opin­ion, but they can’t.

I shall con­tinue on, I am sure another med­dling Judge will help the cause at least three more times in the next three weeks.

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Pos­si­bly the first ever 4×4x4 LEGO Rubik’s Cube solver? This Rubik’s Cube solver was designed and pro­grammed using a Nokia N95 mobile phone, a LEGO Mind­storms NXT and lots of LEGO tech­nic pieces!

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Craig Ersk­ine

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1. Do the Judge and Doc­tor belong to the same Lodge?
2. Do the Judge and the Doc­tor play at the same Golf club?
3. Does the Judge share an inter­est with the Doctor?
4. Ten­nis maybe?
5. Tid­dly­winks?
6. Or is it just a pro­fes­sional cour­tesy from one closed shop to another?
7. Surely he would have recused himself?
8. Any­one heard from Silent T this year?
9. What is hap­pen­ing with the Bill Liu case?
10. Its nearly been two years, should it take that long?
11. Who really is Phil Goff?
12. Why did so many “names” go bank­rupt in October?
13. Isn’t Ali so much hot­ter now she bats for the other team?
14. Ali Mau or Pork Chop?
15. Def­i­nitely Ali, right?
16. Actu­ally who would go with Pork Chop?
17. Is Brooke Two-Fathers the new Ricardo for Pork Chop

Pop­u­lar­ity: 14% [?]

I’ll be in Court today, it should be a bit of a bat­tle because of their attempts to put a bail con­di­tion on me.

I’m due there at 0900.

Pop­u­lar­ity: 14% [?]

Cather­ine Delahunty, the Mem­ber for Mars is really putting her foot in it at the moment. She has now revealed that the Greens really are watermelons.

The Mem­ber for Mars has revealed that the Greens really are watermelons.

Pop­u­lar­ity: 16% [?]

John Key drew a pic­ture, and he signed it, and he put a copy­right on it too, all on live TV.

At least we know that it a) Wasn’t a forgery, b) He actu­ally signed an art­work of his own, c) There won’t be a rub­bish fire in his Helensville Office, set by a staffer try­ing to destroy evidence.

Now the doo­dle is up for sale on Trademe.

John “Smile and Wave” Key drew an image of the kind of flag he would like.

Pop­u­lar­ity: 17% [?]

Alan Bol­lard is right. Given the exist­ing poli­cies and state of the gov­ern­ment sec­tor we have zero chance of mak­ing in roads to catch Aus­tralia let alone try­ing to catch them. Unless dras­tic changes it ain’t going to happen.

New Zealand con­tin­ues to live beyond its means, and “Karori” Bill Eng­lish con­tin­ues to read Trea­sury reports about the Trea­sury reports about the Trea­sury reports he asked for.

And why would we expect any­thing else. If you we keep on doing the same old things over and over we will keep on get­ting the same old thing over and over. Then of course are the men­tal patients resid­ing in Labour. They think that rais­ing the min­i­mum wage is the way to catch Aus­tralia, well that is such a good idea then lets raise all the way up to Aus­tralia right now. Yeah see its dumb isn’t it. Far bet­ter to remove the min­i­mum wage altogether.

We need to be bold not timid, we need to be strong to resist spend­thrifts and wastrels and most impor­tantly we need to act. Smil­ing and Wav­ing ain’t going to get us there.

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The Dom­Post reports that Tasers are help­ing in many sit­u­a­tions with calm­ing down perps.

The Taser is sav­ing lives, and many crim­i­nals are sim­ply sur­ren­der­ing at the sight of it, police say.

Nine peo­ple were shot with a Taser in its first year of use and some inci­dents were so vio­lent, the offender could have been shot with a firearm, if the stun gun had not been avail­able. Police pol­icy is to shoot at the torso.

A tenth per­son was tasered in John­sonville on Friday.

That is so funny. Before the Taser was avail­able peo­ple may have been shot but now the Taser is avail­able the crims are very wary. Go fig­ure, they ignore a Glock which spits 9mm bul­lets and fear a jolt from a Taser. Ignore sthe gun that could kill you, fear the zap­per. Fricken dumb crims.

Back in 2006 vet­eran Crim-cuddler Marie Dyhrberg was all for ban­ning them.

A cam­paign has been launched to stop the intro­duc­tion of taser guns to the police.

It was revealed in Feb­ru­ary that tri­als of elec­tronic stun guns are planned for later this year. Now a group call­ing itself ‘Cam­paign Against The Taser’ is try­ing to fire up debate.

Bar­ris­ter and group spokes­woman Marie Dyhrberg says there should be a full inde­pen­dent inquiry about the devices. She says with major con­cerns already being raised about police use of pep­per spray, it is crit­i­cal the intro­duc­tion of tasers is care­fully scrutinised.

Lib­eral, panty-waist crim-cuddlers should just STFU. The Taser is sav­ing lives.

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Tony “Wardrobe” Ryall con­tin­ues to per­form well in health. He is doing so well he may soon be nudg­ing Crusher Collins off the lead in the WOBH Min­is­ter of the Month Award.

Mr Ryall now wants merg­ers to “bulk up” PHOs and reduce the $33 mil­lion a year the state spends on their man­age­ment fees.

So Tony reck­ons we can give a lot of bureau­crats the arse and be bet­ter off for it. A sure vote win­ner that Labour will say is hurt­ing NZ by reduc­ing the state ser­vices capac­ity or some­thing equally dumb.

Some inter­pret the changes as a PHO take-over by doc­tors and a down­grad­ing of com­mu­nity input. But Mr Ryall said he wanted doc­tors, nurses and other health work­ers to take a stronger role in the lead­er­ship of health ser­vices because that made the ser­vices more effec­tive and efficient.

“Most peo­ple in the coun­try wouldn’t know a PHO if they fell over it. This plan of strong com­mu­nity engage­ment is prob­a­bly more of a myth.”

Yeah what is a PHO any­way? Pretty Hope­less organ­i­sa­tion? Ryall is right, most peo­ple want to see a doc­tor, not a PHO, and com­mu­nity involve­ment requires a com­mu­nity to be inter­ested, which they arent. All the left’s hand wring­ing about com­mu­nity involve­ment is never going to do them any good, because the only peo­ple that believe it are the other social­ists they drink their chardon­nay with.

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Maori Party MPs have joined the cho­rus of con­dem­na­tion at the per­ma­nent name sup­pres­sion given to a promi­nent Man­awatu man who down­loaded more than 300,000 porno­graphic images, many of them pic­tur­ing children.

“The deci­sion to per­ma­nently sup­press this man’s name is out­ra­geous as is the deci­sion to give him a few months home deten­tion,” Maori Party jus­tice spokes­woman Rahui Katene said.

“We urge the pros­e­cu­tion to appeal the sen­tence so this man can never ever again be allowed to con­tinue his sick actions in a veil of secrecy.”

Simon “FIGJAM” Power will now be shit­ting his dia­pers, he just lost a coali­tion part­ner over name sup­pres­sion and judi­cial med­dling. Even “Hon­est Hone” had some­thing to say.

“The pages of many news­pa­pers in this coun­try are lit­tered with names of small-time offend­ers, yet the real sick freaks out there are get­ting protection,”

I won­der what “FIGJAM” is going to do, ACT’s pol­icy is clearly against name sup­pres­sion, now the Maori Party looks like it is shap­ing up that way two. He is going to actu­ally have to do some­thing about it rather than weasel away in caucus.

But it isn’t just the Maori party that is stinkers. The Crown Pros­e­cu­tor and another lobby group are as well.

Crown pros­e­cu­tor Ben Van­derkolk said grant­ing name sup­pres­sion could be seen as pro­tect­ing a per­son in a priv­i­leged posi­tion. He also dis­puted the need to pro­tect the man’s chil­dren as they were well informed about the offending.

Today Stop Demand’s founder, Denise Ritchie, said the man’s sex­ual inter­est in young girls and his pro­lific appetite for more and more images con­tributed directly to mar­ket forces of demand and sup­ply, lead­ing to more chil­dren being vio­lated and degraded.

“Yet Judge Fraser’s deci­sion sug­gests that if you par­tic­i­pate in and fuel the global sex­ual exploita­tion of chil­dren but you are a promi­nent mem­ber of the New Zealand com­mu­nity, the courts will pro­tect your inter­ests. This is a dis­ap­point­ing and unac­cept­able mes­sage from our courts,” she said.

Given the man’s occu­pa­tion and spe­cialty it is appalling that he has name sup­pres­sion, one could ask the Judge just one ques­tion. Was he on the email list?

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Guyon Espiner must have put away the poetry and stud­ied up over the break as his inter­view­ing has improved con­sid­er­ably. Yes­ter­day he nailed Shane “Five Chins” Jones on Q + A.

GUYON Because we are often told aren’t we that there’s some sort of loom­ing cri­sis here that we could reopen the wounds of divi­sion among Maori and Pakeha and have a New Zealand where Maori and Pakeha are turned against each other, I mean do you believe that?

SHANE Na, no no, I don’t believe that’s the case, although I must say Wai­t­angi has a mag­netic qual­ity and it does draw all sorts of some strange char­ac­ters to Wai­t­angi, and there’s always the ele­ment of a ran­dom event, but look by and large peo­ple are there to cel­e­brate the wakas, cel­e­brate the Treaty and not to give biffo to each other.

That was the set now for the spike.

GUYON Because on Novem­ber 26 last year your leader Phil Goff said exactly that, that we’re at the cross­roads and that we faced a posi­tion where Maori and Pakeha could be turned against each other and we could face racial divi­sion.  You don’t believe that by the sound of things?

Ouch, that would have wob­bled the five chins, Espiner really crunched him there, he man­aged to get Shane Jone dis­agree­ing with Phil “Seat Warmer” Goff. I sup­pose that isn’t hard to do con­sid­er­ing Goff’s inabil­ity to main­tain a sin­gle posi­tion on anything.

The set:

GUYON Just before we leave it, why do you think it is that Labour at the moment is so far behind National in the polls, what do you think is behind the pub­lic just not lis­ten­ing to Labour at the moment?

SHANE Well it was nigh on a year ago that we lost the elec­tion, and you know all of us as politi­cians were ambi­tious and no one likes to be kicked in the guts, the media I think are still enam­oured with the Prime Min­is­ter and his min­is­ters, and we just have to con­tinue to chip paint.

Actu­ally “Five Chins” it was more than a year ago. Now for the Spike.

GUYON You talk about ambi­tions, your own ambi­tions, does that extend to one day if you’re asked per­haps after an elec­tion defeat in 2011, would you take the lead­er­ship of the Labour Party?

SHANE Oh well that lies some­where between our cau­cus and prov­i­dence, so we’ll just wait and see about that.

GUYON But you’re not rul­ing it out?

SHANE Well we’ll just wait and see.

That most def­i­nitely not a no, unequiv­o­cally any­thing but a no. Shane “Five Chins” Jones is mov­ing, it might not be now, it might not be this year but he is mov­ing and he doesn’t have con­fi­dence in Phil “Seat Warmer” Goff.

Pop­u­lar­ity: 19% [?]

Jonathon Howe

[WO: Note this is not Jonathon Howe of the Man­awatu Stan­dard, this just shows you how name sup­pres­sion can tar inno­cent parties]

Pop­u­lar­ity: 27% [?]