Media Statement
For immediate release
Monday, 4 October , 2004

Alexander: Statute of limitations increase a good move

United Future law and order spokesman Marc Alexander this evening welcomed Government moves to increase the statute of limitations on the rights of crime victims to sue the criminals who offended against them.

"That is a good move and I welcome it. Anything that swings the balance in favour of victims is stepping in the right direction," Mr Alexander, a strong opponent of compensation for prisoners, said.

"And if this goes some considerable way to taking the 'gold mining' aspect out of the actions of affronted criminals seeking a fast buck from the system they have themselves shown absolutely no regard for, then that's a good thing.

"The hugest anomaly in the whole issue of compensation for prisoners has always been that their victims have been denied the same right," he said.

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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>>