Comments on: Brash and Zaoui http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/12/17/brash-and-zaoui/ hopping along the corridors of power Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:33:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: big bruv http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/12/17/brash-and-zaoui/#comment-23357 big bruv Thu, 08 Feb 2007 07:27:29 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/12/17/brash-and-zaoui/#comment-23357 "Immigration Minister David Cunliffe has decided the family of Ahmed Zaoui cannot come to New Zealand while the Algerian refugee's security risk certificate review is being determined. "As Mr Zaoui's own status in New Zealand is yet to be determined, I have decided that it is not appropriate that his family should be allowed to come here," Mr Cunliffe said. "I have made this decision without prejudice to any final decision on Mr Zaoui or his family. I can make no further comment on this matter." It is not often that I will ever congratulate a Labour minister but on this he deserves it. “Immigration Minister David Cunliffe has decided the family of Ahmed Zaoui cannot come to New Zealand while the Algerian refugee’s security risk certificate review is being determined.

“As Mr Zaoui’s own status in New Zealand is yet to be determined, I have decided that it is not appropriate that his family should be allowed to come here,” Mr Cunliffe said.

“I have made this decision without prejudice to any final decision on Mr Zaoui or his family. I can make no further comment on this matter.”

It is not often that I will ever congratulate a Labour minister but on this he deserves it.

]]> By: peterquixote http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/12/17/brash-and-zaoui/#comment-22589 peterquixote Mon, 22 Jan 2007 05:10:44 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/12/17/brash-and-zaoui/#comment-22589 i don't get this climate change thinmg fwwog please ecxplain i don’t get this climate change thinmg fwwog please ecxplain

]]> By: big bruv http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/12/17/brash-and-zaoui/#comment-22466 big bruv Sat, 20 Jan 2007 02:57:47 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/12/17/brash-and-zaoui/#comment-22466 I am surprised that Keith Locke has the cheek to expect Zaoui's family to be allowed in to NZ, given that we have not been able to get rid of him I sure as hell do not want the rest of his family here costing us a fortune. For a man who is supposedly missing his family I find his behaviour strange, he is free to leave at any time as far as I am aware, mind you I suppose that is the last thing his lawyer would want him to do. I am surprised that Keith Locke has the cheek to expect Zaoui’s family to be allowed in to NZ, given that we have not been able to get rid of him I sure as hell do not want the rest of his family here costing us a fortune.

For a man who is supposedly missing his family I find his behaviour strange, he is free to leave at any time as far as I am aware, mind you I suppose that is the last thing his lawyer would want him to do.

]]> By: kiwinuke http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/12/17/brash-and-zaoui/#comment-20879 kiwinuke Thu, 21 Dec 2006 04:50:01 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/12/17/brash-and-zaoui/#comment-20879 BB, I don't think zaN was being silly, just pointing out that earlier in this post you had been. BB,

I don’t think zaN was being silly, just pointing out that earlier in this post you had been.

]]> By: big bruv http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/12/17/brash-and-zaoui/#comment-20851 big bruv Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:07:07 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/12/17/brash-and-zaoui/#comment-20851 zANavAShi Says: December 20th, 2006 at 12:18 am Hehehe kiwinuke, I am amused by the reasoning that no evidence to the affirmatory holds more weight than no evidence to the contrary. Can’t you just imagine BB as Judge in the “One Rule For All� court where everyone is guilty until proved innocent. :D Don't be silly Zan, but I can tell you one thing.....the excuse of "he/she had a terrible upbringing and there fore should not go to prison your Honor" would not wash with me. There would be one rule in my court...you do the crime, you do the time, and scum like Chrsi Kahui would NOT be out on bail thats for sure. zANavAShi Says:

December 20th, 2006 at 12:18 am
Hehehe kiwinuke, I am amused by the reasoning that no evidence to the affirmatory holds more weight than no evidence to the contrary.

Can’t you just imagine BB as Judge in the “One Rule For All� court where everyone is guilty until proved innocent.

:D

Don’t be silly Zan, but I can tell you one thing…..the excuse of “he/she had a terrible upbringing and there fore should not go to prison your Honor” would not wash with me.

There would be one rule in my court…you do the crime, you do the time, and scum like Chrsi Kahui would NOT be out on bail thats for sure.

]]> By: Pip http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/12/17/brash-and-zaoui/#comment-20835 Pip Wed, 20 Dec 2006 09:22:04 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/12/17/brash-and-zaoui/#comment-20835 Big bruv says <i>You over look that Zaoui has been told he is free to return home</i>. I guess you would have counseled <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussein_Kamel" rel="nofollow">Hussein Kamal</a> to return to Baghdad in 1996. Maybe taking the word of those from whom refuge is being sought from isn't always the logical step. Can't get it right every time, can you. Big bruv says You over look that Zaoui has been told he is free to return home.

I guess you would have counseled Hussein Kamal to return to Baghdad in 1996. Maybe taking the word of those from whom refuge is being sought from isn’t always the logical step.

Can’t get it right every time, can you.

]]> By: zANavAShi http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/12/17/brash-and-zaoui/#comment-20792 zANavAShi Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:18:56 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/12/17/brash-and-zaoui/#comment-20792 Hehehe kiwinuke, I am amused by the reasoning that no evidence to the affirmatory holds more weight than no evidence to the contrary. Can't you just imagine BB as Judge in the "One Rule For All" court where everyone is guilty until proved innocent. :D Hehehe kiwinuke, I am amused by the reasoning that no evidence to the affirmatory holds more weight than no evidence to the contrary.

Can’t you just imagine BB as Judge in the “One Rule For All” court where everyone is guilty until proved innocent.

:D

]]> By: kiwinuke http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/12/17/brash-and-zaoui/#comment-20773 kiwinuke Tue, 19 Dec 2006 09:53:19 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/12/17/brash-and-zaoui/#comment-20773 Keep living in your world of delusion BB, you have absolutely no idea about my views on "all things American". The only reasonable inference that can be drawn from my above statement is that I think the US war on Iraq is a disaster (and unjustified) and the US intelligence services were incompetent on 9/11. A lot of Americans (many of them Republicans) share these views. If Don Brash's own assessment of the evidence are insufficient for you too bad. He had access to the evidence and I'm willing to take his views on that seriously as he had nothing to gain politically from coming to that conclusion (as was shown by his decision not to pursue the issue). You do like to jump to coclusions and assume everyone else is as biased and judgemental as you are eh sweetie? Keep living in your world of delusion BB, you have absolutely no idea about my views on “all things American”.

The only reasonable inference that can be drawn from my above statement is that I think the US war on Iraq is a disaster (and unjustified) and the US intelligence services were incompetent on 9/11. A lot of Americans (many of them Republicans) share these views.

If Don Brash’s own assessment of the evidence are insufficient for you too bad. He had access to the evidence and I’m willing to take his views on that seriously as he had nothing to gain politically from coming to that conclusion (as was shown by his decision not to pursue the issue).

You do like to jump to coclusions and assume everyone else is as biased and judgemental as you are eh sweetie?

]]> By: kiore1 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/12/17/brash-and-zaoui/#comment-20771 kiore1 Tue, 19 Dec 2006 09:48:16 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/12/17/brash-and-zaoui/#comment-20771 Well big bruv, it is usual for anyone pro animal rights to be right wing on other issues, but I guess it is not logically inconsistent. And if you can persuade the National party to put forward a good animal rights policy then I will even vote for them although I disagree with just about all their other policies. Well big bruv, it is usual for anyone pro animal rights to be right wing on other issues, but I guess it is not logically inconsistent. And if you can persuade the National party to put forward a good animal rights policy then I will even vote for them although I disagree with just about all their other policies.

]]> By: big bruv http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/12/17/brash-and-zaoui/#comment-20756 big bruv Tue, 19 Dec 2006 05:06:24 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/12/17/brash-and-zaoui/#comment-20756 Kiwinuke Just as I thought, you have no evidence to the contrary do you, just an overwhelming hatred of all things American. Kiwinuke

Just as I thought, you have no evidence to the contrary do you, just an overwhelming hatred of all things American.

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