June 19, 2015

Couldn’t this have been filmed by the Fox bunch?
Sir John Kirwan – gone as coach of the Blues and Alf did nicely, thank you, on some punts with his mates.
Next?
Alf is tempted to put some money on Colin Craig being a goner fairly soon.
Mind you, he has not been given any inside tips on this matter.
He is reliant on the news media and is bound to say this means he is listening to journalists,and journalists are at the bottom of the pecking order when it comes to public trust.
For what it’s worth, therefore, consider this:
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Politics | Tagged: Colin Craig, Conservative Party, David Farrier, Garth McVicar, Sensible Sentencing Trust |
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Posted by Alf Grumble
February 25, 2015
Alf looks forward to returning home at the end of the week to bask in the acclamation of his mates in the Eketahuna Club. They are tough on law and order and will be chuffed about the passage of some legislation dealing with parole hearings.
The Bill was aimed at reducing the number of unnecessary parole hearings for offenders who still pose a threat to the community.
It increases the maximum interval between hearings from one year to two years. For serious offenders on indeterminate sentences – such as life imprisonment or preventive detention – or sentences of 10 or more years, the maximum time between parole hearings increases from three to five years.
The Bill also includes a range of measures to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the parole system.
Helped by an “aye” vote from Alf, it passed its third and final reading in Parliament last night.
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Law and order | Tagged: Amy Adams, Parole Amendment Bill, Parole Board, Parole hearings, Sensible Sentencing Trust |
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Posted by Alf Grumble
December 4, 2014
The Sensible Sentencing Trust almost makes a case for having the judging business declared a caper fit for blokes only.
Preferably blokes with no whiff of greenie, leftie or any other namby-pamby leanings.
But Sensible Sentencing falls short of saying this and obviously has opted to pull its punches while preparing a news item headed:
Violent thug deserves four year sentence, not sympathy from a Judge
The news release says Sensible Sentencing wonders why trained Judges seem to find a very simple law hard to follow.
Presumably they mean some judges and moreover they probably mean some modern judges, because blokes like Judge George Jeffreys had no trouble following a simple law, and if they did, they simply resolved the matter by sentencing the defendant to a stiff sentence, often of the life-terminating variety.
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Law and order | Tagged: Garth McVicar, Judge George Jeffreys, Judge Jane Farish, Sensible Sentencing Trust |
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Posted by Alf Grumble
August 3, 2014

It’s unacceptable enough that a woman is subjected to some sort of indecent assault.
But it becomes outrageous when her attacker can then gag her as well, aided and abetted by the justice system.
Alf refers to a Sunday Herald report that tells us the victim of an indecent act is outraged her attacker is allowed a say in whether she can reveal her identity.
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Law and order | Tagged: name suppression, Ruth Money, Sensible Sentencing Trust |
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Posted by Alf Grumble
July 2, 2014

And I use this for sniffing out my prey.
The Waikato Times has caught up with Maxine Hodgson, who was involved in bringing Rolf Harris to Hamilton in the 1980s.
Harris, of course, is a performer with a special talent for playing a wobbleboard and – as he is more notoriously known nowadays – for his flair as a furtive kiddie fiddler.
Alf is inclined to think it might be better not to mention having anything to do with Harris.
Especially when the irony around one’s involvement with the disgraced Ozzie wobbleboarder is brought into considerations.
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Law and order | Tagged: child sexual abuse, indecent assault, Jekyll and Hyde, Maxine Hodgson, Parentline, Rolf Harris, Sensible Sentencing Trust, wobble board |
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Posted by Alf Grumble
June 15, 2014

The main thing to be mist should be life on the outside.
We can be a colourless and soulless mob, at times, clearly lacking an appreciation of poetry and good language.
Correction. Some of us on occasions don’t appreciate the application of poetic language in palpably inappropriate circumstances.
“Correction” (as it happens) is the operative word in this post.
Alf’s attention has been drawn to this Herald on Sunday report, which kicks off:
A decision to name New Zealand’s biggest new private prison a place to “move out of the mist” is being called “potty” by justice campaigners.
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Law and order | Tagged: Anne Tolley, Brian Brown, Kenneth Wang, prison, Ruth Money, Sensible Sentencing Trust, Serco, Te Akitai Waiohua, Wiri |
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Posted by Alf Grumble
February 9, 2014
So how long will this go on for, and how many state-run children’s homes will be needed to cope with the consequences of Oriwa Kemp’s fecundity?
Oh – and by the way – will the aforementioned Oriwa Kemp ever get a chance to demonstrate that maybe she can bring up her children without the need for state intervention?
Those are among the lofty questions tackled over the Grumbles’ breakfast table this morning, while we ploughed our way through the Sunday newspapers.
Oriwa Kemp, if you don’t happen to know it, was banged up for a while for cruelty to Rotorua toddler Nia Glassie.
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Family issues, Law and order | Tagged: Child Youth and Family, Garth McVicar, Merepeka Raukawa-Tait, Nia Glassie, Oriwa Kemp, Paula Bennett, Sensible Sentencing Trust, Sterilisation |
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Posted by Alf Grumble
March 14, 2012

This looks like a good source of paper for wiping inmates' bums.
A nasty pair of southerners are being banged up for setting dogs loose on Asian people.
Jail, of course, is the best place for the buggers, although they will spend too little time there before being let loose.
Trouble is, our prisons are going soft and sappy.
Among other things, the couple could well finish up – good grief! – being given puppies to train.
Alf would not want to be a disabled person who was given a dog they had trained.
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Law and order, Uncategorized | Tagged: Anne Tolley, assault, Beven Hanlon, Corrections Association, dog attacks, Garth McVicar, Greg Newbold, Mobility Assistance Dogs Trust, prisons, race hate, Sensible Sentencing Trust, Serco |
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Posted by Alf Grumble
August 15, 2011
New Zealanders don’t want criminals on the street – Poll
Well, bugger me. Who would have believed it?
All of Alf’s mates would have, for starters.
And probably almost everybody elsewhere.
The exceptions would be criminals, lunatics and leftie wimps and tossers.
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Law and order | Tagged: crime, DNA, Law and order, Pauline Colmar, prison sentences, Sensible Sentencing Trust, youth offending |
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Posted by Alf Grumble
May 23, 2011

And if we run out of containers, we can try Joe's tent idea.
Alf is much more appreciative of Bill English than the law-and-order lobbyists who lament he has gone lame.
Tossers like Garth McVicar have seized on something Bill said without taking into account what he was busting to say next, before his Q+A interview was abruptly terminated.
McVicar – at the Sensible Sentencing Trust.- is accusing Bill of destroying the good work done by Crusher Collins and Simon Power by saying we shouldn’t build any more prisons.
Bollocks.
English did cavil with the idea of spending good public money on building more prisons.
But where in the inteview did he say he objected to banging up bad buggers in converted shipping containers?
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Uncategorized | Tagged: Bill English, Garth McVicar, recidivism, rehabilitation, Sensible Sentencing Trust, shipping containers, Tent City prison |
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Posted by Alf Grumble