23 June 2004

So Long Saied

New Zealand First is telling the Immigration Service to send unwanted overstayer Saied Ghanbari home on the next flight, said Associate Immigration spokesperson, Dail Jones.

“Rt Hon Winston Peters first asked the Minister of Immigration in the House back in February why this illegal immigrant was still happily living in New Zealand despite the Immigration Service having full knowledge of his whereabouts.

“Ghanbari has deliberately evaded Immigration Service officials for 18 months and now they have trusted him to go home while they prepare his travel documents.

“The Immigration Service has already humiliated itself enough by its inability to find its most wanted overstayer. Now that he has handed himself in, they should not let him out of their sight,” said Mr Jones.

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>