Man on trial for threatening to kill PM sent 88 abusive emails
Michael Cruickshank outside the North Shore District Court. Photo / File
Man on trial for threatening to kill PM sent 88 abusive emails Mon, 26 Jul 2021, 2:33PM I will personally wipe you off this planet and I will blow your head off are death threats a man allegedly sent to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and then Justice Minister Andrew Little among a barrage of abusive emails over a three-month period.
The Crown alleges Michael Cruickshank, in his 50s, regularly referred to the Prime Minister and Government as criminals, slave traders and state-sanctioned terrorists among some 88 lengthy emails he sent between October 2019 and January 2020.
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A little humour goes a long way at the UN Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.)
When a Southeast Asian ambassador hosted a lunch for journalists, including reporters from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, he told us there was an ulterior motive for the sumptuous lunch at his residence.
“We will soon begin our two-year term as a non-permanent member of the Security Council – and we need your cooperation (read: news coverage)”.
And then added: “Hey guys, remember, as the Americans say, there is no such thing as a free lunch”. A wise-cracking British journalist shot back: “Ambassador, there is also no such thing as a free press”.
THIS weekend, a steady stream of anti-fascists will be making their way to memorials all over the world, marking the 85th anniversary of the uprising which led to the Spanish civil war.
Comrades will lay wreaths, flowers and ribbons in the vibrant red, yellow and purple of the Spanish Republican flag.
Many will give the clenched-fist salute, honouring the volunteers who fought in the International Brigades, taking on the might of Franco and his grim allies Hitler and Mussolini.
Some will see large groups gathered (pandemic permitting). Countryside and cities will hear the Internationale sung, in a myriad of languages, echoing the voices of the brigaders themselves, on the battlefields of Spain.