Over correction

It appears the Granny Herald has turned into the drudge report judging by their salacious disclosures. That wasn't responsible. That's the sort of misuse the authorities (and Phil Goff) were paranoid about. Everything that Mr Bradbury has said about TV3's Alistair Wilkinson - an excellent journalist - and the heads up that gives them now applies to the Herald. Although you'd have to suspect they've shot their bolt already by plastering all the names over the front page this morning.

Well since it's now in the public domain...
I had to laugh when I saw Pete Atkinson described by the Herald:
The file contains information such as the suburban address Peter Francis Atkinson - a feared criminal dubbed "Pete the terrorist" - has been approved to live at on release.
"Pete the Terrorist". Feared criminal. The man's a character is what he is. I worked with him for a short time in Mt Eden - down in the kitchen. He's done a series of long lags and he had some wild stories about his life and times - unfortunately I think that most of them were absolutely true! The one involving water fowl at Pare' just can't be recalled in polite company. As he was connected peripherally to the Mr Asia syndicate (as in he was trying to deal/manufacture/distribute to, or probably trying to kill, one or more of them at the time) I found him an intriguing personality and he got along well with pretty much everyone.

I wish him well if his parole is coming up, and hope he's sensible enough to put the mischief on the back-burner.

And his cousin was inside too - he was as mad as his Uncle Pete. Mad in a good way. The bigger it was the more he wanted to steal it. Fuck we had few laughs. Our running joke was that under my beard was two massive bulldogs, or fists depending on who was being introduced to me. And I would be all shifty and silent and cool and glowering and then I would give him a massive gang hand gesture and strut around barking or whatever the occassion called for. Who could tempt fate the most. A prisoner's darkly comical Russian roulette - ratcheting it up in ever closer view and earshot of the actual gang members. Crazy times.