Guest Post: What If ….
A guest post by David Garrett: Recently I lost a very old friend – Herbert Anthony Perry, of Sacramento California. Although I had known Herb for 40 years, I only relatively recently learned that he...
View ArticleGuest Post: Labour’s goal of a safer society doomed to fail – unless there is...
A guest post by David Garrett: Andrew Little has said he is utterly committed to creating a safer New Zealand – a laudable goal, but one which he simply cannot achieve given Labour’s present...
View ArticleGuest Post: Worrying holes and corruption in driver licence testing
A guest post by David Garrett: During the summer, I found myself waiting outside in the sun on Lincoln Road in Auckland while a friend attended to some business inside his bank. While taking in the...
View ArticleGuest Post: David Garrett on manifestly unjust
A guest post by David Garrett: Application of “manifestly unjust” exception a constitutional outrage On 22 May, I sat among the grieving family members of Aroha Kerehoma, listening to the appalling...
View ArticleGuest Post: What does “tough on crime” mean?
A guest post by David Garrett: In his attack on the 3S law and the 2013 changes to the Bail Act, the most coherent argument Andrew Little has made is that “tough on crime policies don’t work”. What...
View ArticleGuest Post: Gangs are changing alright – for the worst
A guest post by David Garrett: Gangs are changing alright – for the worst One of the “experts” at Andrew Little’s justice talkfest is Dr Jarrod Gilbert of Canterbury University. Gilbert has pretty much...
View ArticleGuest Post: Overhaul the mental health system and reduce suicides
A guest post by David Garrett: A week or so ago a fellow sufferer of long term mental illness made the papers. Due to her personal circumstances – amplified as is always the case by her illness – she...
View ArticleGuest Post: Messy political divorces
A guest post by David Garrett: Simon Bridges vs. JLR – how does this compare with past messy political divorces? As the Simon Bridges – Jami-Lee Ross affair continues, with fresh developments happening...
View ArticleGuest Post: Technological and scientific developments in WW I
A guest post by David Garrett: At 11am on the 11th of November, it will be 100 years since the guns went silent in what those taking part thought of as “the war to end all wars”. For the historical...
View ArticleGuest Post: Judges simply refuse to impose LWOP
A guest post by David Garrett: Since the Sentencing and Parole Reform Act came into force in June 2010, the sentence of life in prison without possibility of parole (LWOP) for murder has been a...
View ArticleGuest Post: The Greatest Ever Armada
A guest post by David Garrett: 75 years ago, on the morning of 6 June 1944, the greatest armada the world has ever seen crossed the English Channel to begin the long awaited invasion of Nazi occupied...
View ArticleGuest Post: Is three strikes “silly”?
A guest post from David Garrett: Before and after his abortive attempt to repeal the three strikes (3S) law, Andrew Little’s only comment on it was and remains that it is “silly”, and “the high water...
View ArticleGuest Post: The Battle of Britain
A guest post by David Garrett: The Battle of Britain was fought eighty years ago next year Eighty years ago, on 1 September 1939, World War II began when Germany invaded Poland, and refused a British...
View ArticleGuest Post: Is martial law next?
A guest post by David Garrett: Over the past few weeks – and particularly since “lockdown” began only two short weeks ago – we have seen police powers growing, seemingly by the day. It began with...
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Guest Post: Meet a new Labour voter # 1
A guest post by David Garrett: As most readers will know, just prior to lockdown, Andrew Little was ramming through a Bill which would reverse a law change in 2010 which currently prevents all...
View ArticleGuest Post: Wally and the Mob
A guest post by David Garrett: Readers will recall that during the level 4 lockdown, it was reported that Deputy Commissioner Wallace Haumaha was in regular contact with the president of the Waikato...
View ArticleGuest Post: Some gang members are actually fine law abiding chaps – the police
A guest post by David Garrett: On 8 June, the Mongrel Mob took over a street in Hamilton in order to hold a tangi for one of their dead members. On 11 June, Stuff reported that residents of the area...
View ArticleGuest Post: Tarrant unlikely to get life without parole
A guest post by David Garrett: When Brenton Tarrant comes up for sentencing in the High Court at Christchurch on 24 August, it will be a unique event in New Zealand criminal law in at least two ways:...
View ArticleGuest Post: Why I will never be an Aotearoan
A guest post by David Garrett: I am and always have been a very proud New Zealander. Although I have little interest in sport, particularly rugby – I am often unaware of when or even who the...
View ArticleGuest Post: Hehir responds to Garrett
A guest post from Liam Hehir: Former ACT MP David Garrett wrote a guest post at Kiwiblog entitled “Why I will never be an Aotearoan” setting out his resentment towards the trend of re-adopting Māori...
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