Can I just say my excursion to Wellington was completely soured by this spectacle of uncouth rabble!Me and Penelope were here to do our Chrissie shopping not to witness the great unwashed!needless to say we dashed off to the nearest bar(of some sort of repute)to try and forget this unsightly spectacle!
Fanny Barnham-Smythe...Fendalton

hope it all went well

Dirty fithy swine, set the dogs on them I say.

was a good day,music was excellent!!

If the first and third comments are for real then I can easily see the need for protest and understand the large numbers. That people engaged in preparation for Christmas have such disdain for "the unwashed masses" is sad indeed, though I suppose Christmas has long since lost any relationship to the stories of Jesus and his dealings with the unwashed of his day.

"Jesus and his dealings with the unwashed of his day."

The whole cult of Jesus was a little exclusive, like I wrote a book about the teaching's of a guy I never meet. No room for fags etc.

All you see is people using the Halo effect, i.e. so I play well or can entertain and you connect with my music. I use that connection to convince you everything else I say or do is right.
You see effect in action with John Keys, he is a very good commodities trader and has amassed personal wealth (not unlike the greens leadership or Niki Hagar) and the things he says about the NZ economy are correct. It is stagnant , no movement in the last 10 years, with the government taxing the worker, feeding of them and then bragging how much of their retirement funds they have stolen.
I he like the cult of Jesus, the greens and Helen Clarks of this world- one trick ponies with me me me attitude

Don't confuse people liking a sing song, with mass support for your rather inward focused views of the world. Never kid yourself that you are part of some mass movement and that you will take some leading roll in it when the crunch comes- the worlds to the song are always about selling your soul and the reward being death
At the end of the day, its trade that makes the world go around - not people with low intellectual capacitance still struggling to make sense of why they were born.

Bloody Marvellous!

Great to hear that music and culture remain part of the peoples movement for social change, and it is well there is a mass movement and that does prove the people want and need food, clothing, and shelter before police raids, and wars for more pollution. Rescue the earth, and re-tool the whole industrial revolution to the non-pollution solution, wind, tidal, and solar power which transforms to electricity. Viva the constitutional reforms. Viva socialism.

"At the end of the day, its trade that makes the world go around - not people with low intellectual capacitance still struggling to make sense of why they were born."
And you're telling everyone they were born to shop, obey and die, right?

"And you're telling everyone they were born to shop, obey and die, right?"

Let you in on a secret, they want to sell records and all they are doing is aligning themselves with their market.
There is nothing more capitalist than the music industry.
You just have to look at the Bono's and Geldofs of the world. They are weathly beyond what you could fathom, do they poor money "personally" back into their projects- err NO, they set up tax havens so they pay less tax and the world can feed itself, it's your problem after all.

What would Jesus buy for christmas, Perhaps a Home fires burning cd"

couldnt make it ,heard it was a nice day,we need more of these

I'd just like to point out that I wasn't there in solidarity with anybody, I was just taking a walk and there were some bands playing in a public space. The headline above is a bit like claiming anybody who ever watched David Icke stop a football was there in solidarity with his war against the lizard people...

Eh? The headline is claiming nothing like that.

hello

nice!!

great to see so much solidarity

Greed is right and greed works?

Nah, burn Hollywood, BURN!

www.youtube.com/watch

Why don't we pop pills, take crack and smoke dope with these dole moochers?

Imagine if the people arrested were skinheads overheard talking about killing non whites would there have been any complaints if the police had one in with force? the answer is no.

We know this all too well.

Google neocon philosopher, Leo Strauss. He states painting an evil threat, even if it's imagined, is sometimes neccessary to exert power over the masses.

Maori are a historical target in NZ's dark history of power exertion. Especially rebellious Tuhoe.

2000 people got together to comfort each other in the fact that they know they are a bunch of losers who will never have any power in New Zealand.

I think unforgetting that all of history has involves the rising and the smashing of social movements once successful shall oust the rich and restore the masses to their natural place as heirs to destinies of their choosing

"I think unforgetting that all of history"

Sorry makes no sense, but definatly forget history. History or the path of history is not easy to quantify an anyone who tries, err like Mike King is a twat and also any goverment that panders to historical complaints is suspect.
And it is no supprise that is has now turned on the very people it helped create.

"Sorry makes no sense, but definatly forget history. History or the path of history is not easy to quantify an anyone who tries"

What about "Lest We Forget." Is that not a world-respected saying quantifying, beautifully and succinctly, a history of sacrifices should always be unforgotten.

Also, I suspect that it's coz he's Maori, but what has Mike King got to do with dodgy post?

AWESOME! There was a wee stall in Otautahi/Christchurch on Saturday (Cashel Mall) and this morning (Outside Court). Solidarity.

great day

"2000 people got together to comfort each other in the fact that they know they are a bunch of losers who will never have any power in New Zealand"
They have people power - the power that doesn't need to be backed up by pigs, guns, tasers or transnational corporations.

Just hairy armpits and unwashed bodies.

"Imagine if the people arrested were skinheads overheard talking about killing non whites would there have been any complaints if the police had one in with force? the answer is no."
True, but when have the pigs ever gone after their own?

"Don't confuse people liking a sing song, with mass support for your rather inward focused views of the world. Never kid yourself that you are part of some mass movement and that you will take some leading roll in it when the crunch comes- the worlds to the song are always about selling your soul and the reward being death"
As well as criticising other people for living according to their own ethos, could you please tell us what, if anything, you stand for?

"inward focused views of the world"
I smell an oxymoron.

Just another day's fun in Babylon?

www.youtube.com/watch

I certainly hope all this action gets positive results.

Aroha, tautoko and solidarity from tianjin, china! :-)

choice

You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it's evolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know that you can count me out
Don't you know it's gonna be all right
all right, all right

You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We'd all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know
We're doing what we can
But when you want money
for people with minds that hate
All I can tell is brother you have to wait
Don't you know it's gonna be all right
all right, all right
Ah

ah, ah, ah, ah, ah...

You say you'll change the constitution
Well, you know
We all want to change your head
You tell me it's the institution
Well, you know
You better free you mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao
You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow
Don't you know it's gonna be all right
all right, all right
all right, all right, all right
all right, all right, all right

hello

How did spam get on here. Gross!

good to see mongrel mob and black power mixing it up for a good cause!

Good to see everybody of every persuasion coming together for a great cause!

The more everybody comes together like this, in protest or in concert, to speak, sing, march out against Imperial State censorship and Imperial State dominance, the better.

An awesome day. With more to come, buddy.

May the Force be with you!

"The more everybody comes together like this... against Imperial State censorship and Imperial State dominance, the better."

People snapping out of their comfy bubbles - Fucken A!

Someone was ranting on about Skin-heads would be treated the same way.

Well they're not.

National Front has had the "kill a maori" claim since the mid 80s (priviously incl. some maori).

Kyle Chapman claims to have left the NF because they're going a bit far for him. Just a reminder he has convictions for fire booming maori property.

Skins Heads may not be bright but they are a credible threat and have killed (mostly their own). Westport, Christchurch, & Timaru are areas they're "strong" in. None of which have been cut off, invaded or violated like Tuhoe in Ruatoki.

True.

Imagine the stuff that would surface if the State spent a year observing a NF snuff house.

Yeah and when the police raided the place no one would complain.

"Imagine the stuff that would surface if the State spent a year observing a NF snuff house."

fuck no don't wanna think about it. but the state forces raid snuff houses. they raid all gangs, just not the whole fucken community the gangs are in, mate. big difference.

the concert rocked! cheers to the organisors.

Fuck if a group of skinheads were caryying out military style training using firearms and talking about killing non whites and the police raided the local white community there would ne no complaints from anyone including all the people on this forum which just shows who full of shit the people are who are pointing the finger at the police.

The glaring point you happen to blur and overlook is that the National Front in New Zealand do train with weapons. This is widely known. The NF do talk about killing non-aryan classes all the time. The police do raid their snuff houses within white communities.

However, it's the racist and authoritarian nature of Tuhoe raids that's at fault.

"racist and authoritarian nature of Tuhoe raids that's at fault"
What a load of bullshit, every time it's and issue to do with Maori- drones like you scurry from the black holes you inhabit and start pointing fingers and calling people racists’, what a twit-

Here is a challenge if you are against racism and not just another name calling product of the drugs culture. Read that as paranoid schizophrenic without the ability to differentiate between right and wrong
Name on this site the people who made racist comments to a policeman at the recent Auckland dispositions- name and shame those Maori- go on dare you

Freud would be happy
Booming is meant to be bombing

Ignore the negativity, all of you coming together as a show of support is truly great. And if you did just happen to be walking in the park on that day and did not intend to go and join the supporters then perhaps this synchronization is trying to tell you something .... are you listening???

"Ignore the negativity"

That's what the smarmy Pom Michael Cullen does, he thinks your stupid and your mission is to prove it by allowing him to do what ever he wants.

Bollard has never managed anything more technical than his book account at a Universty library- yet you say nothing when he tells you he will bankrupt the workers

"racist and authoritarian nature of Tuhoe raids that's at fault"

true so so true! we know deep down the tuhoe raids were bogus. excuse to pass the TSA, keep bloody maaris and meddling activists in line. buuullllshit!

more events like these are great for public awareness!!!! make the next one bigger, that'll really fuck the Crown and the smearers here off, but more importantly it'll keep the fire burning underneath this.

"go on dare you"

how old are you?

"Ignore the negativity, all of you coming together as a show of support is truly great."

Really, I would say most people showed up to listen to music. I don't think militant racist groups like yours have any wide support outside of the fringe idiot groups who run this sycophantic web site

"how old are you?"

Old enough to know better than to listen to scum like you.
Name the racist Maori who abused the police with racist slurs at the depostions hearing- they are scum and need outing or are you a coward

"Old enough to know better than to listen to scum like you."

Drop the juvenile insults, mate. You sound shrill, desperate and hateful.

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"how old are you?"

LOL!!! that'll just make the kid more angry man...

"Ignore the negativity, all of you coming together as a show of support is truly great."

Well said, friend.

Racisim is interesting.

Tariana claims Maori can't be racist to Pakeha due to the power imbalance that exists.

I'm not sure I buy that but I'm still mulling it over. She really does say some terrible reasonable things.

An insult without power to prejudice the insulted is merely an insult without the power of racisim to discriminate against the insulted.

If anyone followed my online thinking - I'm starting to see Tarianas point (I think).

I think I'm undervaluing the power ot the word racisim.

"Ignore the negativity, all of you coming together as a show of support is truly great."

nice! to all the organizers, thanks.

From Bolivia… Continuad la batalla!

...zzz...zzz...zzz...zzz...zzz...who is that rude person trying to wake me up from my slumber...zzz...zzz...zzz...I'm a typical person living in Aotearoa...zzz...zzz...zzz...zzz...all that I'm worried about is what's going on in Coronation and Shortland Streets...zzz...zzz...zzz...zzz...and how the All Blacks and the Black Caps do...zzz...zzz...zzz...I wonder if I'll have crandberry saurce with my turkey for Christmas dinner this year and what expensive presents I will get...zzz...zzz...zzz...zzz...zzz...I hope I get laid and drunk for New Years...zzz...zzz...zzz...I wonder what exciting things will happen in Home and Away next year since things are hotting up in it at the moment...zzz...zzz...zzz...so don't bother me with silly things like social justice, animal rights and helping the poor because TV, sport and my personal comfort are more interesting...zzz...zzz...zzz...zzz...zzz...zzz...zzz...zzz...

"Drop the juvenile insults, mate. You sound shrill, desperate and hateful"

Stop avoiding the issue, scum. Name the cowardly Maori who shouted racial insults at a Policeman during the Auckland depositions. They have no mana and neither do you, ya coward

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“Tariana claims Maori can't be racist to Pakeha due to the power imbalance that exists”

Is a typical fat black parasite, she is not disadvantaged by anything- she is first to trough, and would trample you to get there.

She also said that a Maori vote should be worth two Pakeha- racist slight aside the type-2 diabetes must be really fucking with her abilty to think beyond the types of statements and the impact they have on the workers




Ruatoki has a long history of resistance to authority. But when she visits Kim Knight discovers they feel more violated than rebellious.

Ruatoki is the end of the line. Tar seal gives way to gravel, then the river. The valley narrows and the hills close in. No cellphone reception in front; bone thin dogs and kids on horseback behind.

Every home here has been issued with a photocopied pamphlet: Dealing with Police. Know your rights. "If police are hassling you and they haven't arrested you and aren't asking your name, date of birth and address, just walk away and say nothing."

Next time, say the people of Ruatoki, they'll know what to do.

On October 15, armed police locked down this eastern Bay of Plenty valley. They searched every vehicle going in and out and photographed occupants holding pieces of A4 paper with blue felt-penned numbers.

It was 6am when Kathleen Taipeti looked out her window and saw three officers wearing balaclavas. One was pointing a gun, one held an axe, "and the other held something that looked like a baseball bat".

A helicopter circled overhead. Within hours, the media was reporting terrorist training camps and speculating on the explosion of napalm bombs.

But in the end at Ruatoki, just four dwellings (including one workplace), and three "non-dwellings" were raided. Of those taken away for questioning by police (and locals believe that was up to five people), only two were charged. In a community of up to 600 residents, that's a lot of ordinary people left picking up the pieces.

"We were very fearful," says Patrick McGarvey, 31. "A lot of people were wondering who was next. I know that sounds like something you only see on TV, but that's how we felt.

"There were houses in Auckland and Wellington that were raided, but they didn't have their communities shut off. We were treated like the whole community were criminals."

McGarvey is chairman of Te Roopu Tawharau a title that encompasses words like umbrella, protection and shelter. It was set up after the raids to co-ordinate fundraising, welfare, counselling, legal assistance and wider communication.

If the police thought Ruatoki was organised before October 15, they should see it now. "We only have to look behind us, to see what's in front of us," says McGarvey.

To come from Ruatoki is to be Tuhoe. It is the tribe who, for longer than any other iwi, stayed out of the reach of colonial control and British cultural influence. There are flags and signs at the borders: liberators, not terrorists. The police set up roadblocks on what is known as the "confiscation line", the area the ancestors of the people who still live here were forced behind when surveyors cut up the land.

In the late 1800s, Tikirau Ata's kuia spent a year in Mt Eden jail for protesting that action. "Stolen" says the faded white paint on the only road into the valley.

On the morning of October 15, Ata ate porridge for breakfast and drank green tea. He drove to the old Anglican mission on the hill that overlooks the town ready to start work at Hauroa Tuhoe, the agency that organises community housing, youth and health initiatives. Tame Iti's desk is just three seats from his.

"All of a sudden the phone rang and they said, `Hey, we've got a road block here."'

Ata thought there might have been an accident. The helicopter, he says, was not close enough to the bush line to indicate a drugs search.

"Half an hour later, I saw a whole swarm of cars coming in." Ata didn't realise he was alone in the rambling old house.

Men came into his office and said, "get out of there... we need you to come out of the building".

"All of a sudden, there were rifles, all pointing. My colleagues had been seized outside and one of them was pinned up against the fence."

Seven people were kept outside the building for three to four hours while police searched inside and underneath. Computer hard drives were removed. Brown paper bag lunches were delivered to police. There was no food for the locals. "I got a bit brassed off," says Ata. "One of my colleagues said, `I don't think they're joking. They might shoot you."'

In another life, Ata was a member of the motorcycle gang, the Filthy Few. He became a building contractor, and has worked with the police as a negotiator during armed offender stand-offs. Three weeks before the raids, he took a call from Iti the Tuhoe activist arrested during the raids: "Bro, I need you to come home, I'm going to retire and it would be great if you could come back."

Ata's wife told him, "Your people need you."

And now? "Some of us used to sit back and just let the day go by... This has created more young leaders. That's something that's come out of this."

The Sunday Star-Times went to Ruatoki in the wake of a visit by Peter Williams QC, barrister Heeni Phillips and private investigator (and former detective inspector) Mike Crawford. The team interviewed around 30 people, investigating the possibility of suing police for their actions on October 15. A letter, outlining complaints, has gone to police commissioner Howard Broad. Friday a week ago, assistant commissioner Rob Pope acknowledged the letter saying, "the complaints you have raised are viewed seriously by police and will involve a level of inquiry before a substantive response can be forwarded". On Friday, a police spokesman said investigations were in early stages and "we do not yet have a timeframe around when we will formally respond to them".

Says Phillips: "The people of New Zealand just don't realise the enormity of what has happened there and the effects on the people, their whole attitude and the effects on the children and their view of the police."

In the living room of the house across the road from Te Rewarewa marae, Kathleen Taipeti's eight-year-old son asked, "Are they going to shoot you, mum?"

The 29-year-old told police she helped Iti run a marae-based youth group and a "hapu wananga".

At her house, they removed seven rifles from a gun cabinet, two boxes of bullets, one camouflage jacket, a diver training manual, a basic scuba certificate and a green balaclava.

"My dad, he owns the rifles and they're all used to go to the bush.

"Just about every household in Ruatoki owns a balaclava to keep our ears warm during our very cold winter months. Sometimes I wear mine when I haven't brushed my hair."

At the roadblock, she says she ducked in shame. "So no one could see me being taken away like a criminal. As I was being driven I cried and wanted my mum and dad to be with me."

Taipeti says she's heard of an eight-year-old boy being thrown to the ground with a gun pointed at his head and later being told to go to the toilet where he was. "One woman was fully strip-searched."

Her children sleep with her now. "I keep teaching them the same thing every night, not that it's working: `Anytime we need help, we go to the police.' And my son says, `but they came into our house with guns'."

Tuhi Ruawai, 47, grew up a stone's throw from his house. He lives in Whakatane, with his partner Centrie Tahere and four children. A day after police swept through Ruatoki, they came to his house with a photograph of his truck, parked in the bush up the valley. It was registered to his 17-year-old son, Tyrone, a Trident High School student who belongs to the local Air Training Corps and wants to join the army.

He says the police "kind of told me I was volunteering to go to the station. I wanted to say no, but I didn't really know what my rights were".

During an interview he estimates lasted only 15 minutes, he was offered a lawyer, "but I didn't know any lawyers, and I didn't really know any of their lawyers. They said they would give me a list if I wanted".

Two guns were taken from the house. Tyrone thinks he last used them in April, to kill possums. He's a tall boy, with a careful voice. Before the raid, he says, he believed police just did their jobs. Now? "I think they went a bit overboard."

Police searched the house before taking Tyrone to the Whakatane station, asking him to wait in the living room with Tahere and his baby brothers.

"I was just in shock," says Tahere. She was allowed to prepare food for her children, "but I got told off for using the breadknife. One of them called out, `What are you doing with that?' I said, `I'm going to cut an apple."'

When she couldn't provide her partner's cellphone number ("Since when has it been a crime to have speed dial?") she says police told her that was suspicious and they would have to search the couple's bedroom.

"I was trying to make jokes, cos, yeah, it was hard... I had the four babies. They're normally really boisterous, but they sat still.

"They started asking, `Are we baddies, mum? Is my daddy a baddie?"'

Two weeks ago, this family were ready to pack up and leave Whakatane. A twitching urban curtain telegraph suspected them of being part of a drugs raid. Tahere heard talk she was a bad mother. They're staying put now, agreeing to front up to media out of a sense of pride and justice.

"Ma te ture te ture ano hei aki," says Ruawai, quoting prophet and resistance leader, Te Kooti. "Pitch the law against the law," he translates.

Last month, when a police officer asked him what that meant, "I reached across and grabbed his pen and said, `Here's my sword mate. I'll beat you with that."'

On the day of the search, Ruawai, who was taken to the Mt Maunganui police station, says he felt "cut off at the knees".

"They said, `We've got your family detained in the house and your son's being taken away for questioning."'

They asked Ruawai senior about his association with Iti. "I said, `He's my cousin."' They asked if he was Tuhoe. "I thought what a stupid bloody question. I looked at him and said, `100% mate."'

Police referred to intercepted conversations between Ruawai and Iti, regarding a container load of AK47 firearms. Ruawai says he was ridiculing Iti. "I shouldn't do that, but I did... of course I was f---ing joking."

Nobody the Star-Times spoke to in Ruatoki believes there were military training camps in Te Urewera. Isaac Nuku, 61, who drove the kohanga reo bus that became the centre of claims police had stormed the vehicle (Nuku confirms one officer searched the bus, after asking its three occupants to disembark), says the community's old people would know if something was going on.

"They would smell it in the air."

Approximately $4000 has been raised to help the people of this town affected by the raids. One woman, who can't be identified because her son was arrested and still has name suppression, has been milking cows from 4am since late October, earning funds to pay for two cattle to be slaughtered to help feed families.

The fallout has spread to the wider Tuhoe community. In Perth, Australia, a couple with the iwi's name on their truck found a note under the windscreen, saying "We don't need your sort over here."

"That's a frightening thing, eh?" says Nuku. "We've got each other to comfort us here, but out of our boundaries, they've got no one."

He's still trying to understand why and what happened.

"Is it because we're Maori and they wanted to use us as guinea pigs to show the people if this crap goes on, this is what'll happen?

"Like that lawyer said, there's no bloody way they'd do that in Remuera."



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Aroha.

Mā te rongo, ka mōhio; Mā te mōhio, ka mārama; Mā te mārama, ka mātau; Mā te mātau, ka ora.

Through resonance comes cognisance; through cognisance comes understanding; through understanding comes knowledge; through knowledge comes life and well-being.

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"Stop avoiding the issue, scum. Name the cowardly Maori who shouted racial insults at a Policeman during the Auckland depositions. They have no mana and neither do you, ya coward"

No point really, since the incident reported on tv was a cut and paste event that left out the comments made by an officer to the person in question, racist comments that lead to the racist outburst reply.

zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz.I find the apathy in NZ frustrating.zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz.and people's selfishness too.zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz

"No point really, since the incident reported on tv was a cut and paste event"

Stop lying and making excuses, name the people involved- it's simple you have racists in your group- out them - I can't take you seriously when you display such arrogance and lack of accountability.

There is no excuse, there never has been an excuse for Racisim-

To sleepyhead zzz I understand your annoyance since some people don't even recycle even when it is picked up from their front gate. Let alone changing the world for the better in regards to social justice, global warming, world and local poverty, etc. Grrrrrrrr.......

Yeah, most Kiwis are self absorbed idiots. If they put as much passion into social and environmental causes as they do into their cars, rugby, cricket, racing and beer then the world would be a much improved place. But nooooooooooooooo..........................

I agree that most people waste too much time and energy on the wrong things and not on issues for positive social change.

"I find the apathy in NZ frustrating"

What apathy, the fact you are ignored- get real flake you’re a side show attraction that has less interest to most people than shortland street.
Back yourself on the back, you’re boring

"What apathy?" There is a lack of concern by most within Aotearoa or the Terrorism Supression Act would've never been enacted. Sad but true.

"Stop lying and making excuses, name the people involved"

The racist officers name is Officer Pokokohua Smith from Auckland Central, and the freedom fighter that mistakedly reacted to the officers racist tirades name is George Rangi from Ngati Rono.

Any more questions u need answering, um, arsewipe?

"your a sideshow attraction" I think some of these ppl have more guts and more of a brain than you,you brainless coward!

"your a sideshow attraction" I think some of these ppl have more guts and more of a brain than you,you brainless coward!"

Spoken from the safety of your keyboard, I guess typical of your kind - dufus. It takes no courage at all to part of a mob mate- being part of pack wins no garlands in the annals history-, if anything you will noted as the schizoid bi-products of the cannabis culture

“Spoken from the safety of your keyboard.” What a nasty little troll you are! Stop hanging around here and being a sock/meatpuppet!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll

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What a turn off since some are getting thoroughly appalling with the name calling and all. It is unquestionably reprehensible!!!

“If anything you will noted as the schizoid bi-products of the cannabis culture.” What does this mean? You come across as being the schizophrenic, cannibis, crack and/or P user.

Talking about P, the P epidemic is truly frightening and should be a major concern for police, as it is especially targetting and damaging middle class white New Zealand. So for all the right wing trolls out there, fix up your own issues first. Oh, that's right, you're too busy attacking political and environmental activists, namely Maori's!

STOP feeding the troll, concerned or otherwise! All what this sockpuppet wants, who made the schizoid/cannibis comment, is a rise which they got. Ignore the unhinged loney and they will soon get bored and go away.

Welcome to the wonderful world of Polynesian culture, the world of Assault, rape and murder- the culture of predatory behaviour:

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Polynesian culture is very human, so is unenlightened as the rest of the human race. Take the Caucasian culture for example and how barbaric it can be: Egyptians use to impale people, the Romans use to nail anyone they like to crosses, the English Kings and Queens use to have people’s heads chopped off at the Tower of London, the French were more efficient by using guillotines and the Nazis had their death camps. And about ten years ago in the Kosovo/Serbian War death camps appeared again. Then there’s the African culture where in Sudan ethic cleansing is going on and in Zimbabwe... Also, rapes, murders, etc happen all over the world no matter what culture is involved. So as anyone can see Polynesian culture is no different from any other. I know it’s a sad indictment on our species but there you are.

Here, here! Good call!

recycling is mentioned above... reusing what you have or buying nothing new are perhaps better strategies as only a small fraction of the plastic that is picked up is actually recycled -- only that which will be most profitable.

im dissapointed there was no streaking

Don't talk about it,go and solve it

"Welcome to the wonderful world of Polynesian culture, the world of Assault, rape and murder- the culture of predatory behaviour"

The person that wrote that post, Ill refer to you as Fred.

Fred!!!! Oh my god!!!! to be a polynesian is to be a violent murderer!!! Oh my gawd, OOHHH MYYY FUCKING GAAWWWDDDDDDD. Fear fear fear live in fear!!!! Fear, look! theres a polynesian over there presenting the news in an alien language!!!! Fear fear fear - look another over there taking over the game of golf!!!! Fear fear fear, look the brownies have their own political party!!!! Fear Fear Feeeeaaaaarrrrr!!!

And now youre telling me that to be a polynesian is to have some sort of genetic penchant assault rape murder and predatory behavior!!!!!! Shit why isnt this ALL OVER the anglosaxon mainstream newspapers....oh shit it is, everyday actually....never mind Fred, go fuck yourself you fearful prejudice weakmind.

Heres a website that Freddy the Fuckwit will enjoy, www.newnation.org/
Same shit that he is spouting, just another continent, and another bunch of coneheaded KKKs promoting their fear ideology.