Comments on: Hotel Paremoremo

By: logie97

logie97 — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:33:10 +0000

Brian, I cannot believe I wrote that it was Mark Blumsky. It was in fact Garry Moore. My apologies to him as well.

http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/aft/aft-20100219-1640-The_Panel_part_2-048.mp3

By: BE

BE — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:34:41 +0000

Brian, you may have listened to the Afternoons panel yesterday.

Thanks logie97. Will do.

By: logie97

logie97 — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:30:47 +0000

Brian, you may have listened to the Afternoons panel yesterday. Mark Blumsky was on. If you didn’t may I recommend you visit replay radio. With people like yourself, and Mark on the airwaves, there is hope yet that our society will not sink even lower than Thatcher’s level. He was particularly scathing of McVicar and the SST, and for once Jim Mora was stopped in his tracks when trying to be Devil’s advocate.

By: Rory

Rory — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:37:57 +0000

If you have prison hotels in NZ. they have dancing prisoners in the Cebu. It (dancing) will most likely be unacceptable to NZ prisoners.

By: Richard Cranium

Richard Cranium — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:50:17 +0000

Careful, bro’ — I could have a field day, with your “surname”.

By: Tom Semmens

Tom Semmens — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:11:41 +0000

Of course, “Richard Cranium” is simply a dishonest troll name for “Dick Head”. I wouldn’t take him seriously.

By: BE

BE — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:36:00 +0000

If Mr Edwards goes into “deep depression” and “black despair” over prisoners serving their lawful sentences — imagine what he’d be like if he had been a witness to the horrible crimes, and he was there at the families’ side, having to share the grief

My comment was not about “prisoners serving their lawful sentences”, it was about the conditions that exist in most New Zealand prisons. There is a common misundertanding that people are sent to prison to be punished. Their loss of liberty is their punishment and it is severe. The second misconception is that sympathy for the victims of crime is incompatible with a humane concern for the welfare and rehabilitation of people sent to prison. The third is that long prison sentences are a deterrent to violent offending. They are not. Indeed, societies with the most punitive approaches to violent olffending are those societies with the worst record of violent offending, New Zealand being one.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:17:24 +0000

Sorry, Richard for my misinterpretation

By: Richard Cranium

Richard Cranium — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:00:27 +0000

I was, actually, referring (“rope” and “beam”) being meant for the author, not the inmates.

By: BE

BE — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:43:41 +0000

It’s just as well you didn’t look too closely at the nature of those inmates’ crimes and the emotional devastation which was wreaked upon their victims’ families. You’d have a rope in your hand and be looking for the nearest beam to sling it over. Well, no I wouldn't, because that would make me no different to them. Worse probably. You might like to have a look at my blog Death Out of Season which explains my reasons for saying this.