Homegrown terror?

What the hell is going on in the Uraweras? Well how would you know. This is all more bizarre than a bizzare thing. There would appear to be an alliance between Tama bin Laden and Te Qaeda and the Totora Liberation Front if some of the reports are to be believed. Depending on who you get your information from this was either a nature ramble or sorting the stockpiles of napalm and AK47s. The truth, as always, is almost certainly somewhere in between. But how is anybody supposed to take anything with Tama Iti in the midst of it seriously? Who thinks that this tattooed idiot and fifteen of his mates could organise a nun shoot in a convent let alone cause nationwide mayhem. They couldn't take over a corner dairy far less a country.

The reaction to the AOS crawling all over the Eastern Bay of Plenty is predictable enough. How could they be so culturally insensitve as to set up road blocks on the same lines as the site of land confiscation in, wait for it, the 1860's? How could they search for automatic weapons and incendiary bombs in the full view of school buses? Of course there are truck loads of rocket launchers in the area because the local people often go into the native forest to hunt for food. I suppose they also pop down to the Four Square or Liquor King in the family Apache helicopter or A10 Warthog. And of course this sort of kerfuffle wouldn't be complete without Keith Locke sticking his beak in. He has said something but I didn't listen to what it was because it would be the same crap he always talks and it is meaningless.

Howard Broad has staked his reputation (I wasn't aware he had one) on all this storm in a teacup stuff. There will be a lot of bluster for, ooh let's see - 72 hours, charges will be laid under legislation no one has ever heard of, all involved will get legal aid and in about eighteen months time a few bus tickets will get wet. Who cares?

Banksie wants to go over the Eden Park upgrading business again. Please spare us all this. He says, quite reasonably, if Pond Scum was prepared to stump up $1 billion for a waterfront jobby why can't he (PS) raid History Boy's obscenely obese piggy bank for a paltry $50 mill. It is reckoned that the GST take alone from the 2011 World Cup will be in excess of $200 mill so the numbers don't seem too hard. Whatever the outcome of round twenty seven of this seemingly endless saga (and Banksie is not known for giving up on things) the impression we will be giving the rest of the world is that we couldn't find our way out of a paper bag.

We have recently displaced Greg Norman as the chokers of all time and adding this new accolade is hardly a good look is it?

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