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Something has gone a astray somewhere along the line:
A major headline in a NZ Herald article states Man strangles Valentines Day present puppy so one assumes someone has gotten upset at a relationship break-up, and there’s some animal welfare issue being reported. What gets me, is that the ‘puppy strangling’ is the major headline, yet a couple of paragraphs further down, we discover – oh, by the way, he also punched his partner, pinned her to the floor, and punched her again.
Something is terribly wrong here, when animal rights are pushed a few notches above human rights. Why would the Herald think it more newsworthy for us to hear about a dog being strangled (though, it appears, not killed in front of the children, that was done elsewhere), rather than a mother being brutally assaulted?
Yes, I might have upgraded myself to Cubase Studio 4 recently… and be hanging out to copy and paste myself some new music… but this just made me laugh. Thanks to my mate Craig for this one…
I’m sitting in London, in the old country, reading Wikipedia and Official NZ history websites and what they have to say about The Treaty of Waitangi. The Treaty; a historic document, an event, a myth and it seems, a legend, all at the same time. The ghost of February’s past? I am a Pakeha kiwi who is proud of my country, my home, and I just want us all to get on with living as New Zealanders and stop the bickering and positioning. I thought that was the objective of the treaty in the first place; peace and security. Anyway.
While I was doing a little reading, I had the following thought.
Why does the current, or recent, government of this country place so much weight and heated debate on top of a small, sparsely worded historic document – and seek to build legislation around it, and yet, it seems happy to avoid, and at worst, actively legislate against, use of the historic document that the majority of our laws and governance was founded on: The Bible.
I wonder what difference it might make if we were to trade the debate and use of one for the other.
