Jughead’s Journal

I had to vist someone in hospital yesterday for about three hours. While we were waiting we got to reading the magazines left in the room. There was a Girlfriend magazine from 1998! Maybe it’s about time they updated their catalogue a little.
I am happy to report though that Christina Ricci is in fact a hot up and coming under 21 year old and Sony have just realised their new Sony Discman in hot orange with ESP2.

Listening to National radio on Friday some people are astonished that the Police had some difficulty using the Army for anything more than ‘administrative support’ during the siege.

now the government has asked for a report to find ways to make it easier to “call out the army”

Once again we are faced with this damned thing called common sense.  It just seems to make sense that the police use the army when they are confronted with a lone gunman. The government should make it easier to do that right?

wrong.

When you sit down to think about it and put individual, highly emotive cases to one side there is a very good reason why there is separation between the military and the police. Using a nations military against its citizens should always be a last resort and should never be ‘made easier’

You only need to look at nations where this is common place to see it’s a road we don’t want to go down.

If necessary police should have their own armored

vehicles. Better the devil you know.

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Do I think David Bain is guilty? Yes. Do I think that beyond a reasonable doubt? No. So in that respect I think the Jury got it right. The Defense team didn’t prove David innocent but they did produce enough experts to dispute the crown and sow just enough doubt that the jury couldn’t make any other decision.

The 111 tape was interesting…

Firstly the crown tried to portray David as a cold blooded killer who shot his family then spent 15 minutes setting up the scene which included a suicide note and arranging the bodies…If the crown was correct and was that calculated why would he confess to a 111 operator at the first opportunity? This evidance dosen’t fit with thier case.

Second the defence contends that he did not say those words.  If they belive he didn’t say anything why go to such lengths to suppress it? Given the reaction to the tape thus far it seems it would have sowen more doubt and helped their case.

One last thing  Rosemary McLoed is right we should remember there are still five dead people. Three of them never got to grow up. With all the fist pumping prehaps we have forgotten that.

I have installed postie on the blog and set up a 'cron' job to automatically upload. lets see if it works..

As the blanket coverage continuesabout Tony Veitch I’ve come to ask my self what do we want from him?

What he did was….well how can you put that into words… it was a terrible terrible thing (what ever I put it doesn’t sound enough)

But as the coverage continues and the outrage froths forward I have to ask my self what do we want?

Do we want punishment, rehabilitation or justice?

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So I’m in Tauranga again training and on my way to the exchange I hear there will be an event in town today to celerbrate Tauranga being included in some kind of world safe city index…

To bad the two big stroies in Tauranga are on one child abduction and another being held at knife point by her mother