Most people who’ve followed the Teina Pora case are convinced the Police mucked it up. The evidence (as outlined last year by TV3’s Third Degree and in a Maori Television documentary) makes a strong case that Teina Pora was not guilty of murdering Susan Burdett, and that his confession was false.
Predicting the prospects for a party that hasn’t yet been launched is a risky business, but the Internet Party has certain things running in its favour:
It is hard to see how the NSA won’t retain broad powers to search the metadata, because the whole thrust of the agency has been to collect as much as possible for later searching by key words, etc. Only last week we discovered that the NSA has been collecting 200 million text messages a day from around the world.
It looks like Len Brown will be staying as Mayor of Auckland. This will be a defeat for the moral right, which has refused to separate the mayor’s private life from his political life.
Many people have criticised the wall of secrecy around negotiations for a Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. They fear New Zealand’s negotiators will sign a deal which undermines our sovereignty and has a big social and economic downside.
We should not forget that until quite recently Mandela himself was designated as a terrorist by the United States, and had to get a special exemption from the State Department to visit Washington in 2008.
My opinion piece (below) was published in the 5 December 2013 issue of the New Zealand Herald.
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