When reading police reports in the media, it’s almost always most instructive to pay attention to what they don’t say, rather than what they do. Like most mendacious government bureaucracies, police media units are dab hands at obfuscation and misdirection.
For instance, when reporting a suspect still at large, if police fail to provide any actual description, then you can bet your house and your grandmother that it’s a member of their favoured diversity groups. Similarly, “children” are invariably hulking, 17 year old brutes (of the “diversity” persuasion, of course), because technically everyone is a “child” up to the stroke of midnight before their 18th birthday.
And when police report that an item “is not of concern”, without actually telling you what it is… well, you’ve good grounds for suspicion.
Police have reopened a central Wellington street after investigating an “item of concern” found near the Israeli embassy.
The item is not of concern, they have confirmed.
OK, so what is it? All you can guess from the vague police statement is that it wasn’t a live bomb.
That doesn’t mean it was nothing at all sinister, though. After all, police used near-identical language to describe a fake baby covered in blood also left outside the Israeli embassy, in December.
The New Zealand Defence Force Explosive Ordnance Disposal team later confirmed there was no risk to safety from either package.
Well, it wasn’t about to blow up, any way. But the fact that there are clearly anti-Semitic extremists on the loose in Wellington must surely be a matter of police concern? After all, imagine the pearl-clutching and collective fainting fits, should someone leave, say, a golliwog outside the offices of the Maori Party. Yet, for once Kate Hannah and Byron Clark are nowhere to be heard.
Perhaps, hopefully, it was nothing more than an abandoned tote bag or empty cardboard box — so, why not say so? If nothing else, to put the minds of the embattled Jewish community at rest.
But the NZ media and police have form, here. In other, similar incidents in recent months, they’ve coyly referred to “schools” and “religious sites”, instead of coming right out and telling us which schools and which religious sites.
Especially when there’s a pattern of attacks on Israeli embassies around the world.
Swedish authorities announced that they had destroyed a potentially explosive device found outside the Embassy of the State of Israel on Wednesday morning, policy say, according to Reuters.
The embassy staff had notified police of the device’s presence leading toward authorities detonating it in a controlled manner, a police spokesman told TV4, the outlet reported.
It has been alleged that the device was a hand grenade, the Swedish outlet Aftonbladet reported, referring to unidentified sources […]
The incident was an upsetting one for the local Jewish community as well.
In this case, at least, Swedish authorities and media are admirably forthcoming, by comparison with their New Zealand counterparts.
In another case, a “pro-Palestine” nitwit attempted to apply the laws of natural selection.
A woman set herself on fire in front of the Israeli consulate in Atlanta, police confirmed Friday.
Police responded to the location Friday afternoon after the woman, who draped herself in a Palestinian flag, doused herself with gasoline and lit herself on fire, ABC News reported. A security guard who tried to stop her from igniting herself was also injured in the incident, according to WTVM.com.
Well, there’s the problem: he tried to stop her, instead of letting Darwin do his work.
Lushington describes himself as Punk rock philosopher. Liberalist contrarian. Grumpy old bastard. This article was first published HERE
1 comment:
Can we "apply you logic on the NZ Police and what they do not say"- but have the audacity to ask if member of the Public saw anything or may have CCTV footage from their Home cameras [yes every Household in NZ will now be encouraged to place these at all 4 corners of the house, with one at each external entrance] - can they ring the Police Playcenter - thus my point being - with all the armed shootings that have occurred within NZ, since the Mosque attack, can these "be blamed on members of a diverse group"?
I am sure that there is many a conversation, dialogue, discussion, debate amid the "NZ Licensed Gun Owners"- those who were "made to suffer the indignity of having to surrender firearms", because 'one tosser' went on a rampage - yet now have to both watch and listen to news items on either TV News and/or radio - on the firearms incidents that are occurring - and must ask -
- "what, how, why" - on the firearms being used and the source of same.
And the Police on this matter - silence.
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