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Boycott Pepsi?
I just read a call to boycott Pepsi, as the blogger relates the offense, for omitting "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance so as not to be divisive. Pepsi supposedly did that when printing the phrase "one nation…indivisible…" on cans. The call came from a Christian I know. To put words in her mouth, she is probably saying that the Pledge should be recited as Congress has dictated it.
It took about ten seconds of my time to search on the words "Pepsi Pledge of Allegiance" to find that this is a rumor started about a decade ago over something Dr. Pepper may have done. The "one nation…indivisible" phrase, it would seem obvious, is what one might say in saluting the nation. "One nation, under God" is a religious observation.
Once again, though, we nonbelievers would have received the default discrimination, one that some beverage company would have tried to save the world from–sticking religion into everything–when religion was the intrusion in the first place. (I'm sure you know, but around 1954 in the communist-obsessed environment overheated by Senator Joe McCarthy and others, Congress thought they'd trip up the Commies but injecting God into the Pledge–the same environment that brought us Vietnam–because Commies wouldn't say "under God" if it was in the Pledge. Will someone one please answer my question: Why would the Commies say the Pledge as it was? And if they were going to falsely recite the Pledge, why wouldn't they falsely Pledge to God as well?).
That's what it is, you know. A Pledge or acknowledgement that we recognize that the U.S. nation is under God's charge and loyal to Him. I would venture to say that the communist threat from within has passed… so is Congress likely to remove the phrase? Congress has not only shifted Right, it has shifted even more to the Christian Right. Individually, those congressmen and senators will tell you that their first loyalty is to God… just like their radicalized Muslim brothers would.
You may be familiar with my theory of why or how the religiously affected get that way (Religion is God's Way of Showing Us it's a lot Earlier in Human Evolution than We Thought). If they are deceived, even if willingly, that makes ours a rough row to hoe. Everywhere that religion encroaches, once it's there, it's locked on. Marked territory not only to never be freed again–the religious are blind to it. It no longer is open to question. Religion gets a free ride, a pass. It is outside the questions, outside the equation of things that can be examined for fairness or equality.
That's why it is so hard for us to gain any ground even though religion has encroached so much into are world. Blind justice may treat us fairly, but not if justice is blinded by religion. Why do they think they should be able to treat us unfairly? Well, they pay lip service to tradition, but it's the underestimated effect religion has on the religious that they are most blind to.
If you consider civil rights laws, and rest assured that is the field where the discrimination against us lies, we are being discriminated against due to religion. The bigots among the religious say we can't be because we have no religion.
Correction to the blog post on the Pledge of Allegiance
To: 'firstname.lastname@example.com'
Subject: Misinforming the public
Hello Lauren,
This is the second time I've misinformed the public and those who follow my blog by relying on the information in the Secular Coalition's Weekly Wrap Up.
Let me quote from an article in both the email & on the SCA website:
"Secular Americans Disappointed with MA Supreme Court Decision on Pledge of Allegiance
Fri, 05/09/2014 – 11:26
"Washington, DC—The Secular Coalition for America today expressed disappointment with Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's decision in the case of Doe v. Acton-Boxborough Regional School District.
"The case challenged a state law that requires daily school-sponsored and teacher-led classroom recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance. The Court sided with the defendant, and ruled that the school district can compel students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance including the wording "under God"." [Bolding is mine]
If you'll click on that "decision" link, above, and read the source material, you'll find that school children's reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance is stated to be voluntary and this is repeated about half a dozen times in the court summary.
I can't trust the SCA's reporting of the facts after being twice burnt and that's a shame because you are a position to have a command of the facts and events that are vitally important to nonbelievers, freethinkers, etc.
I've offered links to SCA and its articles on several occasions in my blog and I apologize to my readers for that and my part in misleading them–more than once.
One nation under God with liberty and justice for all
"Today [This is a quote from the Secular Coalition earlier this week.], the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued another disappointing decision in the case of Doe v. Acton-Boxborough Regional School District."
"The case challenged a state law that requires daily school-sponsored and teacher-led classroom recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance. The Court sided with the defendant, and ruled that the school district can compel students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance including the wording "under God"."
The earlier decision referred to was the case The Town of Greece v. Galloway before the U.S. Supreme Court about the village starting each meeting with prayer. To me, though, the Massachusetts decision is much more troubling. The Secular Coalition states it quite well:
"The case challenged a state law that requires daily school-sponsored and teacher-led classroom recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance. The Court sided with the defendant, and ruled that the school district can compel students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance including the wording "under God". – See more at: http://secular.org/news/secular-americans-disappointed-ma-supreme-court-decision-pledge-allegiance#sthash.vY0EsrCE.dpuf
"Niose [then president of Secular Coalition] argued that the wording "under God" in the Pledge discriminates against atheists and other nonbelievers, by instilling and defining patriotism according to a god belief.
' "Atheist-humanist children love their country no less than do children who believe in God, and it's just wrong to have a daily patriotic exercise that invalidates them by associating patriotism with God-belief," Niose said after arguing the case. "If schools conduct a daily exercise to instill national loyalty, it should be inclusive and nondiscriminatory." '
"- See more at: http://secular.org/news/secular-americans-disappointed-ma-supreme-court-decision-pledge-allegiance#sthash.vY0EsrCE.dpuf "
The two points that make this the more heinous decision of the week are these:
state law [ ] requires daily school-sponsored and teacher-led classroom recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance
the school district can compel students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance including the wording "under God".
I'd like to be a student there and be outted for not saying "under God." I currently substitute "religious freedom" in the Pledge now.
If I wouldn't be turned in for that, I'd turn myself in for lying when I say, One nation under God with liberty and justice for all though that now lies at the feet of the Massachusetts Supreme Court.
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Writing yourself to the spiritual place you want to be in.
I recently picked up a book, the Accidental Masterpiece in which the author speaks of the impact of art on our lives. And says, also, that we can choose to pull that impact into our lives, to create our own art or just a life informed by art, or perhaps, we can even choose a life transformed by art. And art may be ours for the defining.
arguably, are love, death, and sex in no particular ranking. There are aspects or items in life, such as beauty, architecture, or nature which seem to boost us toward those vehicles of transcendence.
Eric Maisel tells us we can create a special place, real or imaginary, which will be a safe, but inspiring place to write. I think what we are doing in setting up that place is creating a spiritual dwelling place for ourselves. (I'm hesitant to use the example, but a church is such a place set up by its members for the spiritual sense it gives them—or failing that—a place for the default rituals—the next best thing.)
For us, receivers of the revealed wisdom that we are "spiritual beings in a secular universe," we can choose what is spiritual and what is art and what nourishes the human spirit. Those things, those places, those ideas that we can bring together, that we can curate, accumulate, create. We may engage in our own practice of art so it will inspire us further.
This is no small item. Inspiring ourselves. Even when inspired by something or someone else we participate in our own inspiration. Certainly, we must. Art and other creative acts are never truly isolated. We bring them forth as products of ourselves, our world, and our culture.
So it is with our writing, or it can be. This is true, also, of those who don't think of themselves as writers. Writing is an art or craft like many other endeavors. What you get out of it is in relation to what you put into it.
The short lesson on writing is this: write, revise, and keep going. Perfection is an illusion. Don't get hung up on it. It doesn't matter what you write, but write what you want. As an endeavor of the human spirit, write randomly. Leave the topic open. Just keep writing.
After a few pages, some things will draw your attention. Different categories of things. Some things will seem to be negatives—make a note to eliminate or overcome them and move on to write in other directions. Some goal, wish, or desire may pop out of the writing. Acknowledge it and keep writing.
When you're at this for a while two spiritual things (our secular human spirit) will materialize: What it takes to nurture your spirit and What it is that you do that nurtures your spirit. For me, just this kind of writing does it.
Other things may suggest themselves through your writing that you can do—nature walks, camping trips, art or other museums, or whatever you may find. If you try it all and run out of things come back and write at it some more.
You may just find that words, thoughts, and concepts may do it for you. That is, they may elevate your spirit, your mood, your outlook. You may be moved to write about that experience for others. Even in that process you may find nurturance for your very human spirit, that soul-like thing. If each of us gets the spiritual nurturance we need, we are less likely to point angrily at each other and say, You spoiled my happiness.
Who has the right to define spiritual atheism?
Dayton Freethought members clashed over definitions at a recent gathering on the topic of spiritual atheism. More definitions flew around the room than one might have expected.
Surprisingly, the most significant clash was over the meaning of the term atheism. With respect to the definition of atheism, it's true that it literally means there is no god. We found in discussion, however, that a number of members of Dayton Freethought who claim the title atheist for themselves also have a range of beliefs with respect to a spiritual realm or at least some energies that go beyond strict materialism. I think some who call themselves atheist could also be said to be agnostic about a spiritual realm.
A number of folks in attendance stated that atheism means a person doesn't believe in anything spiritual. At least, technically, though, some atheists evidently can and do believe in something overtly spiritual. Who's right? These spiritual atheists can stand on the technical interpretation of the definition of atheism to prove their case.
Still, there has been a common usage of atheism that not only negates any god, but anything nonmaterial as well. I think in much of western culture, atheism has meant materialism. I checked the usage of the word with a number of major writers on the topic of atheism and believe they do mean atheism in the sense that negates anything spiritual. Reading their work to get the context showed it to be consistent with materialism. That was my use of the term and many others at the Dayton Freethought meeting.
Now to complicate this further, writers like Steve Antinoff, Spiritual Atheism, (and myself) talk of a spiritual atheism that does not imply a spiritual realm, supernatural beings or events, or anything nonmaterial.
I'll speak only for myself. I talk of the traditional sense of atheism consistent with materialism. Given a material world with no supernatural realm, no spooky events, no energies that arise from nonmaterial sources, I parse the word "spiritual" in two ways:
1. This null set of things that believers meant, but that do not exist, and therefore, I set aside as indicating nothing in the real world.
2: (Given the absence of a spiritual/supernatural realm, we potentially are all equally spiritual. It's all natural and a product of human minds, culture, and genes.) Spiritual in this sense, is the sense of what is real and what takes place within and between humans in the real world. This is what makes us feel a certain spiritual nurturance has taken place. Some call it life-affirming. Others might call it ennobling the human spirit.
What makes me think I have the right to use the word spiritual in this latter sense? Well, because of the reality that spirituality must conform to. I think it is a response we make to an inborn drive for spiritual fulfillment. Not exactly a God Gene, but still a certain drive, one that sponsors religion.
Our rockstar atheists, Dawkins & Dennett, don't think religion could have ever had benefits to humankind to the extent that it would have become an evolutionary adaptation. Many scientists in the most relevant fields do believe religion is in our genes for several reasons.
1. Universality. Religion is in every culture on earth now and across time as far as we can tell. Universality is the hallmark of a significant evolutionary adaptation.
2. Conversely, No cultures unmarked by religion have survived to the present whether winnowed by competition among groups or by simply not making it through cataclysmic population bottle necks, Mount Tobu eruption, etc.
3. People treat their religions as if vitally important. They're tenacious about their beliefs and often organize socially on that basis alone.
4. Twins reared apart. Identical twins reared in households with differing levels of religious exuberance match their twin's religious interest, practice, and activity rather than that of the families who raised them.
(Too involved to fully develop here, I do develop that thesis in my book, see it at this link: http://www.amazon.com/Religion-Showing-Earlier-Evolution-Thought/dp/1458208931)
At any rate, if all the spirituality the world has ever known has occurred as natural phenomena in response to our desire for it supported by our genes, then all actual spirituality has come from within us alone. Every religiously inspired accomplishment by believers, Michelangelo's David and ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, every cathedral ever built, and anything inspired by a god or any object of worship all come from the same organic source potentially within every human. No dreamed of or contemplated god or saint or spiritual being was at the root cause of the spiritual experience. Though believers may have made these accomplishments inspired by thoughts of such beings, no such beings exist, therefore, any spirituality or spiritual events are of a secular, worldly nature and, arguably, possible for anyone to have.
Would such a spiritual drive be sufficient for that inspiration? Believers and nonbelievers alike enjoy neurochemical rewards for a number of thoughts and actions. That's the payoff for religiously and secularly inspired accomplishments. Like our artistic and academic achievements, religio-spiritual accomplishments bring neurochemical rewards, pleasure, and/or loftly, uplifting feelings. (See any article on the mutation about 25,000 years ago that doubled the dopamine receptors in the brain.)
So the drive to achieve the spiritual and the reward for achieving it, are all we have. Dopamine, serotonin, and other neurochemicals released internally to give us the reward for that.
Through the use of this filter that we have applied, we have eliminated the misunderstood origin and aspects of spirituality and left us with only the garden variety of spirituality—only what could have occurred in a material world. Why consider this paler version of spirituality? Because we have it. Our genes drive us toward it; we need it. Our psychology, our brains, and our neurochemistry are structured to reward it. Ultimately, when religion is understood and tamed our secular spirituality will serve us well.
"Why can't we all just get along?"?
|Perhaps, this is just the season of our discontent. Is the atheism movement big enough for all of us? If Christianity is big enough for all of them, I would think so. But more to the point, do we, can we, leave the "old atheists" behind? And the New Atheists, too? And seek a better destination, in the land of neo-atheists or Atheists+plus where we will reveal only the better angels of our nature?
Feminism feels unwelcome if not rebuffed. LGBT, under-served. Other issues and constituencies might feel that way, too. Humanism could take the position that New Atheism is too hard on Christianity.
In the branch of atheism that I've suggested as neo-atheists, I suggest that we will make the most progress by interacting with believers, showing them we are people of goodwill, having common-ground discussions with them, perhaps doing joint humanitarian projects. Nothing new here, but it takes each of us a while to "process" our thoughts and feelings to be ready for such a step.
Many of us were largely cast as the lot we found ourselves to be in by Christians. Our "godless" natures and other self-applied apellations/epithets can be traced back to our outcast origins. For us, we bought into Christian culture's role ascribed for us as "bad boys" and the like.
There was, or is, in the zeitgeist the sense that atheists are the demonseed, blasphemers, heretics. Bastards of our type, the holy books said, should be stoned to death. It was easier to stay in the closet than face all that. As we come out, the liberation is heady. It can make us giddy, even a little immature.
Those that came from a different background–say a nonbelieving family–free from such baggage, are more functional than those of us who were liberated later in life. Are these the Eloy who would move on?
Humanity is a story of assent, perhaps, even a spiritual story. To the extent that each of us can incorporate that assent, emulate it, in our lives, we strive for an upward climb. Can we grow as people? Yes. Do we grow?


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I just want the world to know how I see it. I'm in love with music, just to let you know. My favorite quote is, "If who I am is what I have is what I have and what I have is lost, then who am I?"
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The notes on this…… its awful. People seriously dont give two fucks about other peoples feelings..


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It would be "idiotic" to subject judges to regular performance reviews, Auckland Queen's counsel Grant Illingworth says.
A review of the kind sought by the mother of a murder victim would compromise judicial independence, he says.
Leigh Woodman told the committee she wanted an independent authority to conduct an annual review of judges' performance.
"There needs to be more accountability for judges who expose the public to undue risk.
"Every year I have a performance review or appraisal on the job I am doing, as do most people in New Zealand, so why are judges exempt from this?
"A performance review is simply a way of saying that someone can tell a judge whether the judge is doing a good job or a bad job and that there will be consequences as a result of that review."
But her concerns cut no ice with Mr Illingworth, who says her proposal was completely inconsistent with the concept of judicial independence.
The "traditional and acceptable way" of correcting errors on the part of judges is to subject their decisions to the scrutiny of the appeal process.
"There's also the process of judicial review which, for example, was used in the case of the comedian who was resentenced recently.
"So there are mechanisms in place to correct errors on the part of judges and a performance review is simply an unacceptable way of interfering with the independence of the judiciary."
Mr Illingworth believes judges are more accountable now than they have ever been in the past.
"We now have the Judicial Conduct and the Judicial Commission Act which enables complaints to go to a Judicial Conduct Commissioner.
"So judges are already subject to a complaints process which can be followed in appropriate cases and even in inappropriate cases."
All very reassuring perhaps, but the commission, which examines complaints of improper behaviour by judges rather than their decisions, appears to be drowning under a flood of complaints as a result of budgetary constraints.
And the commission cannot deal with whether a judge is good or bad on the job.
Judges whose decisions are consistently successfuly appealed get a hurry up from the chief justice or their head of bench, none of which is done publicly.
And judges, while they can be leant on heavily to take early retirement, can only be sacked by Parliament – and then only if they are guilty of some appallingly bad behaviour.
The commission was itself the defendant in a High Court action late last year when a lawyer complained it had not acted on his complaint about the behaviour of a District Court judge soon enough.
During the hearing, Judicial Conduct Commissioner Sir David Gascoigne apologised for the delay and said he was hampered by the volume and complexity of complaints he was receiving and a lack of resources to deal with them.
"The present level of resources – especially people, but also premises and equipment – is increasingly inadequate for the task in hand.
"This is a serious issue, detrimentally affecting the effectiveness of the office," he said.
In not upholding the complaint, Justice Tim Brewer said it was clear the legislation which established the commission was not working as intended.
"The purpose of the act is, in part, to enhance public confidence in the judicial system by establishing an office for the receipt and assessment of complaints about the conduct of judges."
Prompt assessment of those complaints was a critical requirement of the legislation, he said.
Lawyer and former ACT MP Stephen Franks says he predicted the commission would be swamped with complaints.
And he says he sympathises with the victims of crime who are calling for the judiciary to be more accountable.
"They're stunned when they hear that judges aren't held to account or punished in any way for substandard performance.
"It's not surprising because as a community we've become much more punitive generally about errors.
But, like Mr Illingworth, Mr Franks says he is concerned about the risk to judicial independence from performance reviews.
"I don't see any easy solution but, that said, the judiciary have seriously dropped the ball in terms of the quality of the system.
"In my working lifetime the length of trials has blown out and judges don't see it as their responsibility to apply all the remedies that are available to them."
Mr Franks believes the judiciary could take a leaf from the book of other organisations in terms of accountability and transparency.
"For example, airline pilots welcome investigations into errors provided the pilot isn't going to be hung out to dry.
"They accept black boxes in their aircraft, they accept a process of investigation and publicity of causative errors.
"Search and rescue do the same for their own operations and try to learn lessons and, in fact, all sorts of organisations now have systematic investigations and publicity when things go wrong.
'But I'm not aware of any similar process within the judiciary looking at how they might avoid or reduce the incidence of some of the problems you have when some of the judges are consistently known to be naïve or totally idealistic or not inclined to use the tools that are there.
"I think the judiciary should be responding to the concerns that are coming through or they'll find there will be knee-jerk things forced on them.
"What is needed is leadership from within the judiciary. They have to clean their own house and do it in ways where they come up with ideas rather than sitting there defensively pretending it's not their problem and it's not their fault," he says.
So could New Zealand learn something from the United States where there is regular evaluation of judicial competence?
Mr Illingworth thinks not.
"Our system is very different from what America has where judges are voted in by popular vote.
"There are a lot of things they do which we regard as being antithetical to our values.
"The American system is absolutely not applicable to this country – as soon as you have judges being answerable to the executive you've lost the ability for judges to claim that they are free from influence of the executive of government and you've lost the concept of the separation of powers.
"We have a great system which means that judges don't have to fear the consequences other than by way of an appropriate appeal," he says.
But a paper entitled Judging Judges from the UK-based Foundation for Law, Justice and Society, sees significant merit in the American system of judicial accountability.
Written by Professor Denis Galligan it says European countries have much to learn from the experience of the United States.
"The US has made considerable progress with provision for regular evaluation of judicial competence.
"It includes efficiency in deciding cases, one aspect of which is timelines, another substantive performance.
"It extends to the judge's handling of the lawyers, the parties and the witnesses, and the ability to conduct proceedings with integrity, treating parties and witnesses according to principles of equality and fairness.
Professor Galligan says judicial competence in the US is assessed in various ways, including each judge's self-assessment, and observation by and comments of other judges, lawyers and litigants.
"Witnesses, experts and sometimes interest groups are also able to participate in surveys of the judicial performance of individual judges while some benches meet annually to evaluate each other's performance."
He concludes by saying that European countries have little to compare with the United States in terms of judicial evaluation.
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The problem with the remedy of an appeal process is that it forces additional costs onto the parties which may often be prohibitive. Also the awards of costs to the wronged party are often so limited as to be derisory.
Sometimes appeal courts effectively change the law through their interpretations so the trial judge has not necessarily made an error even though that decision was overturned.
However, I believe that when a decision is overturned on appeal in general the successful party should be compensated properly for the failure of the courts to make a correct determination initially. That penalty should be used to create incentives to get things right asap but with some care to make sure it does not create a disincentive for correcting bad decisions.
See Alan - you can make a rational contribution to a discussion without emotion or abuse. Well done!
My patience is limited as to the number and quality of fools I can suffer on any particular subject. However I do try to treat each on its merits.
"Idiotic" if you have something to hide.
Corruption = Monopoly & discretion - accountability
without accountability corruption flourishes.
There obviously should be some way of measuring judicial performance.
This should be followed up by the justice minister.
Judges make poor decisions all too often because they have spent most of thier proffessional lives in specialist areas of law usually very competently , when they become a judge they are expected to hear cases in areas of law they know nothing about ,for example town planning or treaty of waitangi specialists becoming High Court judges and than expected to have a good understanding of tax , Trust or criminal Law for example. no wonder we get judges ignoring legal precedent and Act of Parliament and selecting the facts that suit thier particular bias and ignoring what dosent suit. Ask Mr Dotcom . The system brings our Courts into public contempt, a wealthy person or company can always apeal ( Dotcom), but not the average person , they cant aford it , The system does not properly serve its purpose. We need specialisation at the Bar if we are to get quality decisions and outcomes. This is a design fault in the Judical system.Some areas of Law should be inquisitorial (finding the truth than applying the law) as opposed to confrontational (winning at all costs - any trick will do). the system in effect requires proctologists to do brain surgery unacceptable in medical practice 100 years ago.
It's the first time I've heard it argued that accountability creates a bias, and that non-accountability ensures independence . . . only a lawyer could accomplish that.
The current system isn't working . . . if it was we wouldn't be debating it.
With due respect to Mr Illingworth QC, he and I took part in litigation last year where even the High Court ruled the Judicial Conduct Commissioner was failing in his obligation to hold Judges accountable, the case citation is
Deliu v Office of the Judicial Conduct Commissioner [2012] NZHC 356, HC Auckland CIV-2011-404-3055 7 March 2012 Brewer J. Readers can find it here: http://jdo.justice.govt.nz/jdo/GetJudgment/?judgmentID=205521
And I quote:
"[48] It is clear to me that the Act is not working as Parliament intended. Indeed, it could be having the opposite effect. The purpose of the Act is, in part, to enhance public confidence in the judicial system by establishing an office for the receipt and assessment of complaints about the conduct of Judges. Parliament recognised that this purpose would not be achieved unless complaints were assessed promptly.
[51] I find that the delay in dealing with the plaintiff's complaint of 14 May 2010 is a failure by the first defendant to carry out his functions under the Act. He has not dealt with the plaintiff's complaint as soon as practicable after receiving it. I accept, of course, that the plaintiff amended the complaint on 19 October 2010 (but that was really an additional complaint) and "finalised" it on 5 July 2011. But it is clear from the first defendant's letter of 12 July 2011 and from his affidavit that the plaintiff's complaint of 14 May 2010 has simply not yet got to the top of the pile; in other words, the first defendant has not yet begun to deal with it to any real extent.
[56]...(a) There is an Act of Parliament, the Act, which is not being given effect as Parliament intended.
(b) The application brought by the plaintiff, coupled with the affidavit of the first defendant, demonstrates that there is both a backlog of complaints and that delays are systemic and constitute a failure by the first defendant to fulfil his functions.
[60] I direct that a copy of this judgment be sent to the Attorney-General and the Minister of Justice."
When a Judge says he is not being held properly accountable you must believe it to be correct. The Attorney and Minister have done nothing to alleviate the situation since writing me pro forma to make clear they will not.
With due respect, as a practicing barrister I see many problems with the judicial branch of government that the JCC does not properly address. His office is in my humble opinion window dressing. The only reason Justice Wilson was held accountable was because it reached the media. The Saxmere issue had been present and Mr Gascoigne had done nothing serious until the Honourable Ted Thomas involvement became public.
I have been investigated and prosecuted for years simply for complaining about Justice Harrison whom I alleged was acting improperly towards counsel. When his brother Justice Randerson intervened against me I complained against his Honour and this has led to years more of investigations and prosecutions. The New Zealand Law Society instead of protecting me as a lawyer has persecuted those who speak out against certain members of the judiciary. I am not the only one and a quick perusal of the New Zealand Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal website will find cases such as Comeskey, Dorbu and Orlov as others who have been attacked by judicial branch vis-a-vis NZLS. This, with due respect, is something more becoming of a third world country.
The public are unaware of how deep the problems are and any form of further (real) judicial accountability cannot be anything but a positive step forward. New Zealand is very much backwards compared to Australia, Canada, England and the United States in this area and the small and incestuous size of the legal community only makes matters worse. Those who fight for change are attacked. More accountability is a must if New Zealand is to continue being internationally perceived as a transparent Western democracy.
Whistleblowing by lawyers is perhaps the only hope to improve this dire situation.
Totally agree, the fact the Wilson did not see and continued to deny a conflict of interest is pima facia evidence of judicial incompetence or a severe lack of common sense and the fact that no real sanction was applied smacks of collusion/corruption at the highest level as do the leaked e-mails.
Of course judges should come under some sort of review process as do most employees which is what they are. Far too many of them make "soft" or in some cases stupid decisions and yet they are untouchable by those who pay their salaries. If they have nothing to worry about then what is wrong with some accountability.
Self-regulation has failed in numerous professions and is failing in this one too. Illingworth is saying that judges should continue to judge each other, but they are an old boys club and can't be trusted to, as is proven every day by inadequate sentencing and appeal court decisions backing those mistakes to protect their own kind. Judicial independence is OK if sentencing is governed by the view of the people, which it is not.
I vote for proper accountability, like everyone else has in their jobs.
My wife and I were involved in a 2-year protracted gagging order battle in NZ's Family court. We eventually won the cases thus maintaining our freedom of speech. However the process was so corrupt that we fled the country in fear. The Family court is New Zealand's Guantanamo Bay where, cloaked in secrecy, the State does it's dirty deeds beyond the contraints of the law and the rule of law. In our experiences, 6 out of the 8 principles that comprises the rule of law as identified by Lord Bingham, were seriously violated. Even though my wife and I were innocent and we won our cases, witnessing the violations of the law and the rule of law inside the courtroom terrified us to such as entent that we packed up and fled NZ taking our high-tech business with us.
Alan Wilkinson, I really like your ideas on compensation.
Interesting that a lawyer can't see any issues with the existing process. Of course an appeals process is great, because it creates lots more revenue for his ilk, at the cost of everyone else. The Police are in the eyes of the media day in day out, subject to a ton of scrutiny as they should be. What about the judiciary? Lawyers as well?
The sins of both the judiciary and more particularly lawyers in NZ (who are self-policed) could benefit from being exposed to a bit of sunlight...
It comes down to a simple case of economics. those who can afford Justice get it ( eventually ) those who cant afford it don't
the reality is that Judges are over loaded and look for short cuts to get matters out of court , evidence does not play a part but the reliance on the word of a lawyer who may not be being honest does .
Lawyers take on cases to win at all costs and forget about their obligations to section 4 of the lawyers and conveyancers act .
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There's a story behind my red suede fedora and pitifully blue floral shorts. I picked out the outfit myself. I was around the age of four at the time.
Being the only girl of three kids in my family, I was sometimes excluded. This was one such event. My parents staged a DIY photo shoot in the living room for just the boys and dressed them up in these enviably crisp tuxedos that my grandparents had sent from the States. I, not being one of the "boys," was told to sit out on this one. I didn't like that one bit. I fussed and cried and was subsequently sent to my room. After scream-crying into my pillow for a good while, I decided to crash their stupid, sexist, self-indulgent photo shoot. I remember this part vividly: Under the dim light of my bedroom, I shuffled through my drawers and picked out what I deemed to be the prettiest ensemble of clothes I owned. You're looking at it right now in the picture.
If being a middle child has taught me anything, it's that it's okay to photobomb other people's pictures. The end.
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By Tererai Karimakwenda
SW Radio Africa
30 May 2014
The views expressed by Zimbabweans and several legislators in parliament were ignored by Justice Minister, Emmerson Mnangagwa, who on Thursday went to great lengths to bulldoze the Electoral Amendment Bill through the house without any proposed changes.
MP Innocent Gonese, who sits on the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, described how Mnangagwa manipulated the voting process in parliament, making sure the Electoral Bill passed without any of the reforms that would bring it in line with the new Constitution.
Gonese told SW Radio Africa that after the second reading of the Bill, the chairman of the Portfolio Committee presented a report that also contained several recommendations made by legislators. The proposed reforms were echoed by several members of the House, including Gonese, who is the MDC-T chief whip.
"The Minister's response was quite emphatic at that point in time that he was not going to entertain any proposals or any amendments. He practically rejected everything that was being proposed after that second reading. It became quite clear that no amendments were going to be formally adopted, because of the attitude already exhibited," Gonese said.
He explained that the presiding officer who oversaw the voting took advantage of the way MPs sit according to their political affiliation. Voting was done by shouting "yay" or "nay" and a quick visual count saw the Electoral Bill sail through without any proposed changes.
Gonese said one of proposed amendments was to allow Zimbabweans the right to vote regardless of where they are, be it in the diaspora, in the hospital or in prison.
Another key amendment ignored by Mnangagwa involved the voters' roll, which according to the new Constitution should be compiled and managed by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC). But the Bill that passed stipulates that this remains the responsibility of the Registrar General, a ZANU PF appointee and supporter.
"It looks like they are going to use their majority to railroad and bulldoze their way through and not listen to any voices of reason or dissent," Gonese fumed.
The Bill now awaits a signature from Robert Mugabe before it is formally adopted as law.
This the final nail in the coffin of any hope this Zanu PF dictatorship could be trusted to do something to ensure the some at least some modicum of free and fairness in the next elections. Those who argued that the nation should accept the regime after it rigged the July 2013 elections as "a political reality" must now hang their heads in shame.
The Mugabe regime is illegitimate and we must expend all our energy on nothing else but making sure that they are haunted out of power so the nation can appoint a interim administration to implement the reform and hold free and fair elections. This is the only way out of this mess!
civil war is the only way to stop this oppression.
What is the meaning of civil war, you fcking Rhodie? A bill that passes unopposed in parliament, does not bring war. If anything, it is a clear testimony clear that unanimity in these legislative provisions by members of parliament prevails in the country. If you disagree while the majority of our MPs agreed to pass the bill unopposed, that is entirely a different matter. All I can say is "sorry my fcking Rhodie pikinini". That is all I can say my pikinini. Ok?


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Gene Hackman's injuries were life-threatening after a car struck the actor while he was riding his bicycle in Florida -- this according to the 911 tape, in which the dispatcher also calls the accident a "hit-and-run."
According to the caller, Gene lost consciousness after the car hit him -- and was bleeding from multiple places.
Later in the call, it sounds as if Gene regains consciousness -- but won't cooperate with bystanders who are asking him to stay still.
The dispatcher calls the accident a "hit-and-run" -- but law enforcement sources tell TMZ, that was a mistake ... the woman who struck Gene stayed on the scene and cooperated with authorities.
TMZ broke the story ... Hackman was struck by the car earlier this month while riding around in the Florida Keys --and was subsequently airlifted to a trauma hospital in Miami, where he was treated for injuries to his head and body.
He was truck? by a car?
What gives you the ****ing right to post this? You guys think you're SOOOO important but you're not NO ONE GIVES A **** ABOUT ANY OF YOU
I never believed the first story where his manager said he had some bumps and was released from the hospital. If the man was say, 40 years old, that might be believable but NOT at 80-anything.
Why does TMZ feel the need to post these 911 calls. Just like the gal that walked into a plane prop, the whole thing is in bad taste and has no journalistic value whatsoever...Damned media leaches...
So, his injuries were serious and he was airlifted and TMZ tried to make it sound like he was getting special treatment on the hospital, when he was probably just in the ICU, where everybody gets special treatment.
If it would have been anyone else we would NOT have been air lifted anywhere, in our 80s or not. Especially because the techs at the scene can tell if there were any life threatening injuries. Local ERoom.
we will never know how bad it was.
maybe we shouldnt..but if he acts like gary busey next time
we see him, we will know ..good actor, hope he IS ok.
Gene Hackman is an excellent actor I hope he pulls through this.


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Now coming up on 21 years since the October 1991 release of his seminal album Girlfriend, Matthew Sweet comes to town for a victory lap in its honor. He'll play the album in its 15-track entirety. Fortunately for Twin Citians, Girlfriend is an album more than worthy of the tribute-tour treatment and one that's held up surprisingly well with the passing of time, since its Byrds-ian jangle and country-rock flourishes weren't exactly redolent of their flannel-loving era to begin with. Sweet's sugary power-pop is truly timeless, part of why he's never been a bigger star — he's never had the right fit for flavor-of-the-month status — but also why his formidable cult of fans remains sizable enough to fill large concert halls. 18+, $20, 7 p.m. 1308 Fourth St. SE, Minneapolis; 612.604.0222.
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UPDATE @ 6pm
OAK HILL, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- What should have been a simple traffic stop ended with an officer down.
A worse case scenario that has police hunting for the driver who got out of his car and started shooting at an Oak Hill Police Officer early Thursday morning.
27-year-old Corporal Chris Young took a bullet to the chest but survived thanks to his bullet proof vest. He was out of the hospital hours later.
Now, the focus is on the shooter, a man who showed no mercy and could easily strike again.
"People using drugs will do anything," Detective Lt. Jim Sizemore with the Fayette Sheriff's Department said. "I would say that when this is cleared up that it was in some way related to drug abuse."
The traffic stop happened on Route 61 in Oak Hill at about 4:00 Thursday Morning. Corporal Young turned on his lights to pull a driver over, but the driver didn't pull to the side -- according to officers, he hit his breaks, jumped out and started shooting.
"This guy had something to hide," Lt. Sizemore said. "He got out of his car and started shooting before Corporal Young even got out of his vehicle."
One of the bullets hit the cruiser, the other hit Officer Young in the chest.
"It's very surprising to me that anyone would have such disrespect for a fellow human being," Oak Hill Police Chief Mike Whisman said, "much less a police officer out there doing his job."
Police say if there's one thing to be thankful for -- it's the bullet proof vest that saved his life.
Now, an investigation is underway from several departments as they team up to track down the driver who undeniably took a wrong turn.
"This is a brotherhood and you do everything you can to protect your family and find the guy who did this," Lt. Sizemore said.
Officer Young did fire back at the shooter, but police say they aren't sure if the man was hit.
Investigators have been searching for him all day. They say they are looking for a man driving a large, dark colored Cadillac with tinted windows and Ohio tags.
The shooting happened around 4:30 a.m. along Route 61.
Police Chief Michael Whisman tells WSAZ.com Corporal Chris Young, 27, was starting to make a traffic stop when the driver of the car stopped in the middle of the road, got out of the vehicle and started shooting at the officer.
Corporal Young was hit by one of the bullets, but his bullet proof vest saved his life.
Young did return fire, but there's no word if any of the bullets hit the suspect.
Corporal Young has been with the Oak Hill Police Department for more than five years.
Young was taken to the hospital for treatment, but he has been released from the hospital.
At the time of the shooting, Corporal Young was with a K-9, but the dog was not injured.
A portion of Route 61 was closed for several hours while investigators searched the area for the gunman. However, the roadway re-opened to traffic around noon Thursday.
A spokesperson with the West Virginia State Police tells WSAZ.com investigators are looking for a man driving a dark colored Cadillac, with tinted windows and Ohio tags. Because the shooting happened so fast, the only physical description of the driver is that he is African American.
According to a Fayette County Detective, they believe this case could be drug related.
Keep clicking on WSAZ.com for the very latest information.
Dispatchers in Fayette County tell WSAZ.com that the officer was shot during a traffic stop early Thursday morning.
It happened on Route 61 around 4:30 a.m.
Dispatchers say the officer was not injured. Police are still searching for the person who shot the officer.
No other details have been released.
We've been informed by Fayette County Schools that buses will not run on Route 61 this morning due to the incident.
Right now, a portion of Route 61 just outside the main part of town is closed to traffic. West Virginia State Police, Fayette County Sheriff's Department and the Oak Hill Police Department are on still scene trying to locate the gunman.
WV MetroNews is reporting the officer has been with the department for about five years. They're also reported the officer called 911 to report he was shot by someone driving a Cadillac.
The officer was conscious and alert when emergency crews arrived on scene. He is being treated at Plateau Medical Center in Oak Hill.
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sometimes i feel like people don't understand
that it's actually really hard being assigned white.
i feel like folks have a lot of expectations for me. when i meet a POC i'm supposed to project an aura of authority and prove that my intelligence is superior to theirs. if i don't then i'm "white trash". once i've subtly asserted my superiority, i'm supposed to apologize and experience guilt about the existence of white privilege. what if i don't feel privileged?
i know this is an unpopular opinion, but i'm sure a lot of you share my beliefs.
I present to you: the bewildering case of the poor, oppressed
white person TRANS-KOREAN OTHERKIN.
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You see it all the time as an arts journalist in Flyoverville meeting with people trying to form a new performing arts group — the worry on their faces.
Bright, talented, and clearly energized actors and singers fret about where they're going to perform in a city that's increasingly facing a paucity of venues, like Charleston, S.C.
One such group here is the Little City Musical Theatre Company. It's concerned about being homeless, about being unable to market the theater's quality work, about being unable to cultivate an audience, because, you know, the audience wouldn't know where to find them for lack of a permanent venue.
It's a reasonable concern. Having a theater is probably better than not. But I wonder if a group like Little City might have an advantage. I wonder if being smaller, nimbler, more mobile, and more media-savvier might be just the traits needed to survive, and perhaps thrive, in the 21st century, as we witness the rise of what arts administrators are calling the "active audience."
Fifty years ago, you went to the theater, sat down in the dark, watched a play, clapped, and went home. You didn't interact. You didn't engage. You were passive. And that was fine. Now, more than two decades into the digital era, active participation is the paradigm of the age. To quietly receive a performance, as if it were a church sermon, seems almost antiquated.
That's because we are otherwise engaged in the act of making more than ever before, privately (knitting circles, book groups, community choirs) and publicly (YouTube, Wordpress, Make Magazine). Viral video, instant communications, and social networking have fueled this urge. The orthodoxy of DIY marginalized in the 1980s is now the center of the 21st century.
Culture used to be controlled by its producers — in particular, mass media culture like broadcast television, Hollywood movies, daily newspapers — but increasingly it's controlled by consumers. New technologies promulgated a shift in power, and with that shift has come a change of behavior: Instead of waiting for Katie Couric to read the news, we're now getting it for ourselves.
In other words, we are searching.
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The Nets came to work today after their embarrassment in Portland Wednesday. The effort was there, particularly on the defensive end, and Brooklyn secured a much-needed win on the second half of a back-to-back.
It was their first win in Denver since Jan. 2007.
He didn't have to play much, but he ran the break a couple of times and made some pinpoint passes. He was a +31 in his 26 minutes.
Sliced and diced his way to 8 points and 8 assists. His arms are still long and still causing problems in the passing lane.
His shot was off. I think his knee is still bothering him.
Paul Pierce backed up his comments following the Nets' loss last night and came out assertive, offering his jump shot at every opportunity. He finished with 18 points on 7-of-12 shooting in only 22 minutes.
He played a marathon 12 minutes. I hope he's not too exhausted. Still, Garnett brought the defensive intensity in his few minutes. He wasn't taking any crap from the Nuggets in this game.
Really solid. He had a number of #TheBestOfBlatche moments and #TheWorstOfBlatche was nowhere to be found. Although if he had given Faried the request piggy-back ride we'd all be a lot happier right now.
He finished with 9 points, 9 rebounds, 4 steals, and 1 cold-blooded 3 from the wing.
Kirilenko'd thoroughly in his 10 minutes of play.
Didn't play until the fourth quarter, at which point the outcome had been clear for 33 minutes. He continues his streak of playing in every game for the Nets this season.
His shot looks so good when it's on. And he humored us with one brick that hit nothing but glass in the fourth quarter.
He's showing his whole repertoire, and I'd rather just see his spot-up shooting.
He played the final 8 minutes. I don't think I need to tell you what he did during those 8 minutes. Still, JASON COLLINS! Not an A+ because he fouled J.J. Hickson on a jumper. He scored his first point in this stint with the Nets.
Ran hard. Jumped high. Reverse dunked. Forward dunked.
Actually kind of looked like an NBA player. At some points.