Regular readers will be aware of the various other articles that LF has posted over the past two weeks exposing the goings on inside the New Zealand police force, in particular their seriously dysfunctional Central Otago area command. For those...
It would seem that the Central Otago cops have been at it again. Team LF have been advised that Clyde resident Chris Wardill has again been arrested by the plods, this time for posting a comment here on laudafinem.com. The Otago Daily...
Last week LF ran a story on the plight of central Otago man Chris Wardill who stands accused of naming a police officer who had name suppression, despite the cop having admitted the serious sexual offences. Since that article was published...
Over the past two days two news items have surfaced in Fairfax publications, however they certainly did not make headlines as perhaps they should have. The most prominent of the two articles was penned by Kiwi journo Ian Steward. Stewards...
To think that it was only yesterday that police commissioner Mike Bush was advising his fellow New Zealander’s of how the country’s police force had made significant “behind the scenes” changes in the way it did business in 2014 –...
On Wednesday 24th December last week, the day after LF posted a story on the arrest of a man who police alleged had assaulted Inspector Kerry Watson had made the previous Sunday (21st December 2014) evening, the New Zealand Herald reported...
This morning ex National party member of Parliament Tau Henare made his second court appearance on charges of having breached the name suppresion granted to his fellow Kiwi ex-politician, has-been rugby player and Central Otago resident Grahame Thorne. The New Zealand mainstream...
Arguably one of Mahatma Gandhi’s most enduring wisdoms was that civil disobedience demanded that right thinking citizens, true democrats, do their utmost to disobey apparently unshakable laws that are inequitable or just plain evil; bad for justice, bad for democracy, bad for...
Nearing the end of the second world war, with the imminent defeat of Nazi Germany, a group of well organised SS officers established an organisation whose sole purpose was to aid Nazi war criminals fleeing Europe, to escape prosecution for war...
LF wants ex cop Pieter Roozendaal brought to account for another serious bout of corruption. LF has been well aware of Pieter Roozendaal’s corrupt past. We have also been collecting the numerous ridiculous responses he has written in connection to...