| Friday, June 29, 2012 6:53 PM

Dotcom

The Dotcom case is far from over.

The Crown and the police clearly messed up on the raid but there’s more to play out in this case. It is unclear what Justice Winkelmann will do when this returns to court early next month. It could be that the Crown appeals to the Court of Appeal.

Labour's Charles Chauvel says the government should drop its support for the U.S. bid to extradite Kim Dotcom.  This is what you call political point scoring. It’s unwise. More level heads understand the allegations against Dotcom are serious.

On the judges ruling that the warrants and seizures were illegal largely because they took irrelevant material, legally this seems to be a procedural and technical breach.

What we have here is the police and the Crown stuffing up again. This is a recurring theme. It’s amazing how they just can't get things right. They must have had plenty of time to plan for this.

But make no mistake - it doesn't alter or change the allegations against Dotcom.

SOE Legislation

The SOE partial sale legislation went through the House as expected.

There was mocked outrage by opposition political parties. They are playing this up for all its worth.

The prime example was Winston Peters claiming that he will by force buy them all back.  He's going to nationalise the SOE's that have been partially sold and it will be a bottom line in coalition talks.

Mr Peters is dreaming on this one.

GFC

The dollar dropped a cent last night on the back of the EU summit in Brussels.

There is not much optimism that the leaders will be able to address the growing debt crisis.

The Bank of England governor Mervyn King believes that the world is barely halfway through the financial crisis that began in 2008. He said he had no idea what was going to happen in the Eurozone.

Nobody really knows what is going to come out of this summit but I predict more of the same - a band aid.

I still wonder if there is inevitability about all of this. Sooner or later is all going to crash and burn.

Other stuff through the week:

Labour MP Megan Woods likened the governments SOE sales to Hitler - a rather stupid statement from a so called historian.

The Baby Blacks player Nathan Harris outed himself as being the alleged rapist in South Africa - he did it to take the heat off his team mates, this was admirable.

The Human Rights Commissioner is against a law that would place asylum seekers in a detention centre - I think he's out of touch with Kiwis on this, NZ is a sovereign country we have rights too.

High risk criminals will be tracked via GPS – it’s a deterrent factor and it’s about time.

ACC victims were offered $250 for a breach of their privacy when their details were sent to Brownwyn Pullar - it was a minor breach and they shouldn't have been offered a dime.