Ilovethebomb

That's a good point, I assume they just take the person's word for it. There's a lot of Maori that don't look particularly Maori around.

This offence criminalises the act of “foreign interference”. To commit the offence, a person must be doing an activity for a foreign state, and the person’s actions must include all three of the following key elements – they:

know, or ought to know, they are acting for a foreign state, and
act in a covert, deceptive, coercive, or corruptive manner, and
intend to, or be aware that they are likely to, harm New Zealand interests specified in the offence through their actions.

This doesn't really back up the claims you make in the body text, and this is the source you've provided to back yourself up.

First, factual reporting isn't acting for a foreign state, unless they're paying you a salary.

Second, there isn't anything deceptive about reading, writing or sharing news articles.

Third, I struggle to see how this would harm NZ interests.

This is all very tinfoil hat, in my view.

I feel even Forrest Gump would have seen through this one.

Yeah, I had a similar reaction myself when reading this. On one hand, I do feel sorry for them, on the other hand, how thick can you get?

Honestly, I've never had a particularly high opinion of the Spinoff. Their articles are often waffle pieces that could say the same thing with half the words, and there's often an air of arrogance around their reporting.

I won't miss them.

Given that this was also a factor in the grounding of one of the Interislander ferries recently, I'm thinking autopilot systems are much more complex than they need to be.

Oh, jesus christ.

I'm starting to think the marine industry needs to take a good, hard look at the helm and autopilot systems in use, it sounds like they're far more difficult to operate than they need to be.

It's also been a major factor in two different vessel groundings, just with NZ flagged vessels.

So, because the police want to go from having firearms in the car and easily accessible, to carried on their person, that means they want to be able to execute people in your mind?

Okey dokey. I knew Lemmy had some cooked takes as far as policing is concerned, but I thought this instance was a bit more reasonable.

They copped a lot of criticism for not having enough Maori on staff, not enough Te Reo in their broadcasts etc, and I think they're overcompensating a bit.

Also, why exactly will so many Maori men be having negative interactions with the police?

Apparently 68% of police see Judge Dredd as an idol.

How on earth did you reach that conclusion? Your thought process is fascinating.

Well done to the family member that took the gun off him, that could have been a whole lot worse otherwise.

The way the story unfolded gave me future serial killer vibes.

Exactly what I thought, imagine having someone like that living in your house.