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Whafe

Reading the sad attempts at some sort of smear on right leaning bloggers by the hay seed David Fisher, tells basically nothing of any consequence and will do the positive of showing just how biased and left leaning NZ’s MSM are…
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June 1, 2013 8:05am
Left Right and Centre

Rich kid so-called ‘do-gooder’ ‘trips’ to the third world…. fuckwits…..

You see them all the time in local papers….

Joanna heading to Ghana (Wellingtonian May 30 page 5)

She’s globe-trotting off to be a ‘volunteer’ for four weeks. Cost? $9 000. Yep. The big $9K.

And they’re fund-raising for this rich girl trip…. really? Piss off.

“I feel like if you are in a position to give something back, then you should”.

Huh? It’s a rich girl trip. It’s all about her and her life experiences. Don’t try to tell people it’s about helping anyone else. There’s fuck all that some stupid little Miramar tart can do over four weeks to help anything in fucking Ghana eh?

It’s a big time big ticket luxury item…. $9 000… and these turds try to turn it into some favour they’re doing the planet…

How about this…. raise $9 000… send it to Ghana… sweet. I’m sure that would do more for them than receiving the highly questionable benefit of 90 hours of Joanna’s third world tourist ‘expertise’.

Do what you want with your money… but don’t dress up a high cost item as giving back to the third world… and don’t beg for funds for something many would consider an extravagant expense for a rich brat.

(and what’s costing $9K anyway… take out airfare… it’s the third world ffs??)
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June 1, 2013 8:47am
The Scorned

For the annoyance of the usual suspects….:-D

“Not since Tinky Winky, the purple (possibly closeted) Telletubby scared Jerry Falwell into a homophobic meltdown has a cartoon character caused such a panic amid religious conservatives. SheZow, premiering tomorrow on cable TV, is being called the first transgender cartoon “shero”. The Catholic League’s Bill Donahoe, who never likes anything, predictably warned the sky was falling.”

http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/first-transgender-cartoon-hero-debuts-on-hub-tv-tomorrow/media/2013/05/31/67806
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June 1, 2013 8:52am
Left Right and Centre

Breakfast in schools…

It gets right up your nose. Discuss….
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June 1, 2013 9:01am
nasska

….”It’s gets right up your nose. Why?”…..

Because as a taxpayer I’m being forced to pay for the same thing twice. The parents, through benefits or WFF tax credits, are already being paid to feed their kids. Then the fecund deadbeats are taught to rely on schools to feed their loin fruit.

Next time you buy petrol pay before you fill up the tank & again before you leave the forecourt….it will give you exactly the same feeling as forking out for school breakfasts.
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June 1, 2013 9:11am
iMP

Is John Key a moral pigmy? http://conzervative.wordpress.com/2013/06/01/some-pornography-for-the-pm/
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June 1, 2013 9:23am
jcuk

Irrespective of the alleged incompetance of the parents it is the kids we should be thinking of not your selfish selves.
It is typical short sightedness of the right to object to feeding children so they pay attention in school and grow up to be useful slaves to the capitalistic system.
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June 1, 2013 9:28am
Nookin

I wonder if there is a remote possibility that the powers that be will ever determine that Brendan McCullum is not worthy of a place in the team as a batsman?
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June 1, 2013 9:37am
Pauleastbay

@Nasska Because as a taxpayer I’m being forced to pay for the same thing twice,

exactly, why don’t we just stop the fucking around, stop worrying about ” feelings” and put a large proportion of benefits into food stamps. Another portion of the benefit into automatically paying, power, phone and rent. Anything thats left over in cash.

The money is being given for nothing, if you really need it you wont care whether its in coupons or not.

Bugger ” rights” if you are receving benefit money , you get it the way the government wants to give it to you – problem with that ? Fuck off then.
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June 1, 2013 9:37am
wat dabney

jcuk,

“slaves to the capitalistic system.”

One of the beauties of Capitalism is that it is the only arrangement compatible with liberty.

By contrast, the various leftist systems – Socialism, Fascism, Communism – literally make slaves of the workers, whose earnings are considered the property of the owning state.

And if feeding children is the issue, why are these millions of dollars not being targeted at children who are really starving, as in Africa?

Would you support a move to cancel this breakfasts-for-comparatively-very-rich-families and send the money to African children instead?
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June 1, 2013 9:44am
Pauleastbay

jcuk

Its a long weekend, too long in fact to be bothered with wankerisims from you, please desist until you have something remotely sensible to say or go for a long walk.
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June 1, 2013 9:47am
Left Right and Centre

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/8743870/Mum-leaves-kids-1-and-4-home-alone

Mum leaves kids 1 and 4 at home alone and goes to shops.

Ah yeah… just another day in Cannons Creek. Yeah… breakfast provided half a calendar. Sea. Sandcastles.
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June 1, 2013 9:53am
Judith

@ Chuck Bird (3,494) Says:
May 30th, 2013 at 12:34 pm
I just heard Doug Graham lot his appeal or right to appeal and may loss his knighthood. How sad. 🙂
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Didn’t get a chance to answer this the other day, so will now.

This is sad for a number of reasons. The first being that he just does not deserve to lose the title he earned for his services to the community – which were many.

To strip him of his title would be punishing him more than the others involved, which is extremely harsh as even the prosecution admit there was no malice or criminal intent.

As Sir Bob Jones pointed out he also has a knighthood and a criminal record for assault, and yet there has been no suggestion that he should be stripped of his title.

Doug Graham is still a good role model to society. He was and still is extremely hard working, devoting much of his time to others, and his family. His success was self made, his failures due to a world financial crisis of which he and his family also lost. Had he believed the company would crumble, he would have advised his family members to pull out. He didn’t.

Investments that pay good interest are risky. Blaming Sir Doug would be like blaming John Key for MR Power shares dropping below the cost price, and requesting he resign – absolute idiocy. That is the nature of the beast – you want good returns, you have to be prepared to lose.

I am gutted that Sir Doug feels he should hand back his knighthood, and even further devastated that they are considering home detention. What a waste of tax payer money. At least with community service he, and the other directors can give a little back to the community – with home detention he gets to sit at home – such a punishment for a frail old man!

Nothing they do to Sir Douglas Graham could hurt him more than the pain he feels himself for what happened. He has suffered enough, especially considering there was no intent – his past actions earned him a knighthood he is still entitled to. I hope he doesn’t hand it in – and that John Key does not give in to pressure from a few and strip him of something that was achieved through good effort that far outweigh any damage the collapse of Lombard’s caused.
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June 1, 2013 10:09am
nasska

….”As Sir Bob Jones pointed out he also has a knighthood and a criminal record for assault, and yet there has been no suggestion that he should be stripped of his title.”….

The essential difference between Sir Robert Jones & the other convicted criminal is that the former didn’t rubber stamp the gifting of the country to the “gimmes”. (Sir) Douglas Graham started the Treaty gravy train.

That is his legacy to the country & what future generations will judge him by.
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June 1, 2013 10:39am
Viking2

National turns on hard right advisor
By David Fisher @@DFisherJourno

Simon Lusk pushed to get rid of the “wet wing” and make sure MPs obeyed donors. Now a leaker has revealed his agenda in an attempt to discredit him

Leaked documents written by a political strategist who has trained National MPs set out a vision for taking the party to the right of the political spectrum, tripling donations to $6 million a year and using donations and government jobs as inducements to control MPs.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10887749

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Gotta read this.

Why the Nats are pussies.
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June 1, 2013 10:41am
Viking2

now they are really turning feral.

Fucking wet pussies.

Ports and bloggers colluded: strategist
By David Fisher @@DFisherJourno
5:30 AM Saturday Jun 1, 2013

A political strategist who has trained National Party MPs says the Ports of Auckland colluded with right wing bloggers to undermine industrial action against the Ports of Auckland.

The claim is in a leaked document written by controversial strategist Simon Lusk – and hotly denied by the publicly-owned port compa

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10887752
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June 1, 2013 10:45am
hj

“Without a robust moral compass, like the Bible or the teachings of a Church (that have guided our civilisation for the last two millennia), we live in a vacuum of subjective relatives and are confronted by competing absolutes (like jihad). Into this relative vacuum, leaders are forced to compensate by legislating against negatives. ”

from conservative thinking processes blog.

well what about the inquisition? Heinous tortures if you weren’t on the right line of thought?
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June 1, 2013 10:52am
Fletch

well what about the inquisition? Heinous tortures if you weren’t on the right line of thought?

To address that question, I direct you to an article by Jenny Gibbons who belongs to the Wiccan movement and an has MA in medieval history and a minor in the Great Hunt. If anyone should be against the Church it would be her. She wrote an article found on the pagan web site “Covenant of the Goddess.”

Since the late 1970’s, a quiet revolution has taken place in the study of historical witchcraft and the Great European Witch Hunt. … many theories which reigned supreme thirty years ago have vanished, swept away by a flood of new data. the quantity and quality of available evidence has dramatically improved…Today, for the first time, we have a good idea of the dimensions of the Great Hunt: where the trials occurred, who was tried in them, who did the killing, and how many people lost their lives. Every aspect of the Great Hunt, from chronology to death toll, has changed. And if your knowledge of the “Burning Times” is based on popular or Pagan literature, nearly everything you know may be wrong.

For years, the responsibility for the Great Hunt has been dumped on the Catholic Church’s door-step. 19th century historians ascribed the persecution to religious hysteria. And when Margaret Murray proposed that witches were members of a Pagan sect, popular writers trumpeted that the Great Hunt was not a mere panic, but rather a deliberate attempt to exterminate Christianity’s rival religion. Today, we know that there is absolutely no evidence to support this theory.

When the Church was at the height of its power (11th-14th centuries) very few witches died. Persecutions did not reach epidemic levels until after the Reformation, when the Catholic Church had lost its position as Europe’s indisputable moral authority. Moreover most of the killing was done by secular courts. Church courts tried many witches but they usually imposed non-lethal penalties. A witch might be excommunicated, given penance, or imprisoned, but she was rarely killed. The Inquisition almost invariably pardoned any witch who confessed and repented.

… in York, England, as described by Keith Thomas (Religion and the Decline of Magic). At the height of the Great Hunt (1567-1640) one half of all witchcraft cases brought before church courts were dismissed for lack of evidence. No torture was used, and the accused could clear himself by providing four to eight “compurgators”, people who were willing to swear that he wasn’t a witch. Only 21% of the cases ended with convictions, and the Church did not impose any kind of corporal or capital punishment.

… Ironically, the worst courts were local courts. …”Community-based” courts were often virtual slaughterhouses, killing 90% of all accused witches… national courts tended to have professional, trained staff — men who were less likely to discard important legal safeguards in their haste to see “justice” done.

But what of the Inquisition? For many, the “Inquisition” and the “Burning Times” are virtually synonymous. The myth of the witch-hunting inquisition was built on several assumptions and mistakes, all of which have been overturned in the last twenty-five years.

…a common translation error … said that a witch was tried “by inquisition”..Later, when historians examined the records in greater detail, they found that the majority did not involve the Inquisition, merely an inquisition …older and more popular texts (such as Rossell Hope Robbins’ Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology) still have the Inquisition killing witches in times and places where it did not even exist.

…In the 1970’s, when feminist and Neo-Pagan authors turned their attention to the witch trials, the Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches) was the only manual readily available in translation. Authors naively assumed that the book painted an accurate picture of how the Inquisition tried witches. Heinrich Kramer, the text’s demented author, was held up as a typical inquisitor. His rather stunning sexual preoccupations were presented as the Church’s “official” position on witchcraft. Actually the Inquisition immediately rejected the legal procedures Kramer recommended and censured the inquisitor himself just a few years after the Malleus was published. Secular courts, not inquisitorial ones, resorted to the Malleus.

…Lamothe-Langon’s [who’s notoriously forged] trials were the last great piece of “evidence”, and when they fell, scholars re-examined the Inquisition’s role in the Burning Times. What they found was quite startling. In 1258 Pope Alexander IV explicitly refused to allow the Inquisition from investigating charges of witchcraft: “The Inquisitors, deputed to investigate heresy, must not intrude into investigations of divination or sorcery without knowledge of manifest heresy involved.” The gloss on this passage explained what “manifest heresy” meant: “praying at the altars of idols, to offer sacrifices, to consult demons, to elicit responses from them… or if [the witches] associate themselves publicly with heretics.” In other words, in the 13th century the Church did not consider witches heretics or members of a rival religion.

Worth reading her whole article if you are interested.
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June 1, 2013 11:14am
wat dabney

Fletch,

Your lengthy quotation is irrelevant. The Inquisition addressed heresy, not witchcraft.
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June 1, 2013 11:24am
Fletch

wat, ahh then you’re talking about a different Inquisition; there were several.
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June 1, 2013 11:30am
wat dabney

“there were several”

There was only one Inquisition, authorised by the Pope though operating under royal auspices.
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June 1, 2013 11:36am
Judith

nasska (6,482) Says:
June 1st, 2013 at 10:39 am
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So you think he should be stripped of his title for doing what his job required of him?

That wasn’t the reason he was given the title, and it isn’t the reason for the suggestion it be stripped.
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June 1, 2013 11:50am
publicwatchdog

I’d post this in Cameron Slater’s blog – but he’s banned me.

Cute.

Whaleoil believes in ‘freedom of expression’ – but not on HIS blog?
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PROOF that ‘activists get things done’ 🙂
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The Auckland DAFT LUNATIC Plan:

Why does all this ‘growth’ have to come to Auckland?

Why isn’t there a national ‘growth’ strategy?

Who will benefit from all this Auckland ‘growth’ apart from property developers, speculators and overseas investors?

How come Auckland Council and two major infrastructure providers, Auckland Transport and Watercare Services Ltd are not ‘on the same page’ regarding Auckland population growth projections?

(Auckland Council is relying upon the Dept of Statistics ‘high’ population growth projections, while Auckland Transport and Watercare Services are relying on ‘medium’ population growth projections!)

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SEEN THIS?

http://www.parliament.nz/en-NZ/PB/Presented/Petitions/5/0/5/50DBHOH_PET3157_1-Petition-of-Penelope-Mary-Bright-requesting-that.htm

Petition of Penelope Mary Bright

Requesting that Parliament declines to proceed with the Housing Accords and Special Housing Areas Bill until the lawfulness of the reliance of Auckland Council on the New Zealand Department of Statistics ”high” population growth projections, instead of their “medium” population growth projections for the Auckland Spatial Plan, has been properly and independently investigated, taking into consideration that both Auckland Transport and Watercare Services Ltd, have relied upon “medium” population growth projections for their infrastructural asset management plans.

Petition number: 2011/64
Presented by: Holly Walker
Date presented: 30 May 2013
Referred to: Social Services Committee
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‘Smoking gun’ EVIDENCE proving the reliance of Auckland Council on the New Zealand Department of Statistics ”high”population growth projections, instead of their “medium” population growth projections for the Auckland Spatial Plan can be found HERE:

http://www.occupyaucklandvsaucklandcouncilappeal.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/AUCKLAND-COUNCIL-GROWTH-Response-to-Ms-Penny-Bright-word-version-of-email-from-Roger-Blakeley-23-05-13-3-1.pdf

http://www.occupyaucklandvsaucklandcouncilappeal.org.nz/?page_id=145

PS: Have been trawling though Auckland Council ‘Future Vision’ and ‘Auckland Plan’ meeting minutes, trying to find out where EXACTLY Auckland Council elected representatives voted on accepting Chief Auckland Planner Dr Roger Blakeley’s (UNLAWFUL?) advice to use the Department of Statistics ‘high’ population growth projections, instead of their recommended ‘medium’ population growth projections for the Auckland (Spatial) Plan (which the Auckland Unitary Plan is supposed to implement). So far – no good…..

Seriously – you couldn’t make this stuff up!

Where on earth is the lawful DUE DILIGENCE?

Not to mention basic commonsense?

Penny Bright

2013 Auckland Mayoral candidate
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June 1, 2013 12:02pm
wat dabney

Whaleoil claims to believe in freedom of expression yet he won’t let me spray-paint shit on the side of his house.

How does that work?
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June 1, 2013 12:07pm
Judith

wat dabney (2,727) Says:
June 1st, 2013 at 12:07 pm
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It’s because then he would have difficulty determining the outside of his house from the inside of his mind.
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June 1, 2013 12:15pm
bhudson

So Holly Walker presented a petition on behalf of Penny Bright?

Well that’s destroyed any credibility she had.
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June 1, 2013 12:19pm
nasska

Judith

Graham was appointed “Minister in Charge of Treaty Negotiations” in 1991. If he & his supporters are happy to accept the kudos from some then the & they can take the brickbats as well. It is true that a minister is acting for the government he/she is part of but there is plenty of scope for them to influence a process with their personal take on any matter.

In any case there is ample precedent for parliamentarians to be hated or revered for the legislation & actions they instigate. Witness David Garrett for ‘Three Strikes’ or Michael Cullen’s purchase of NZ Rail.

From Wikipedia….”Douglas was appointed as a Knight Companion of The New Zealand Order of Merit for services as a Minister of the Crown and Member of Parliament”. He will not lose his title for cuddling the Maori elite but rather for aiding & abetting the fleecing of gullible yet greedy elderly investors who confused charm for competence.

The effect will be the same.
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June 1, 2013 12:20pm
Judith

nasska (6,483) Says:
June 1st, 2013 at 12:20 pm
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There is no justification in anything you say that warrants his being stripped of his title.

His punishment has been given by the Courts – his crime was not a deliberate act – he should not be made to suffer unduly, and unequally, just because in the past he gave more to society, than the others. They were equally responsible (or irresponsible) depending on how you look at it. Sir Douglas Graham is twice the man any of those who want to strip his title because of his involvement with TOW, will ever be.
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June 1, 2013 12:30pm
nasska

Judith

As a fifth columnist for the left it probably suits the agenda of your comrades to have the conferring of honours denigrated by the subsequent actions of the recipients.

I’d prefer that the holders of knighthoods are above reproach. If we have to weed out the slackers from time to time then so be it.
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June 1, 2013 12:39pm
Kea

Fletch, the tortures inflicted on innocent people by the church defy comprehension. They even published a torture manual, (Malleus Maleficarum) described as the most evil book ever written, though I would give that title to the filthy bible.

For those with the stomach to learn the truth about christians:

http://www.medievalwarfare.info/torture.htm

http://www.medievality.com/torture.html

It is remarkable we allow these vile people to live among us to this day.
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June 1, 2013 12:45pm
CharlieBrown

F’ing SPCA – time to remove all government funding for those bastartds:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/8745881/Cat-skin-rug-auction-extremely-disturbing
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June 1, 2013 12:48pm
Judith

nasska (6,484) Says:
June 1st, 2013 at 12:39 pm

I’d prefer that the holders of knighthoods are above reproach. If we have to weed out the slackers from time to time then so be it.

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I have had the dubious honour of knowing five ‘Knights’ during my life – two part of my extended family. Believe me – none of them were beyond ‘reproach’ – I suspect if we want our Knights to be beyond reproach, we may have to look beyond the human species.
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June 1, 2013 12:50pm
Shunda barunda

Oklahoma city (including Moore) is currently being hammered by 4 confirmed tornadoes and up to 7!!

Live feeds here:

http://kfor.com/on-air/live-streaming/

http://live.foxnews.com/#/1155606214001

Poor bastards!
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June 1, 2013 12:55pm
publicwatchdog

Seen this Kiwibloggers?

(If YOU don’t believe in the ‘rule of law’ – then you probably won’t be interested………………. )

http://www.greens.org.nz/speeches/protecting-our-democracy-crony-capitalism-speech-dr-russel-norman-agm-green-party-2013

Penny Bright
2013 Auckland Mayoral candidate

http://www.occupyaucklandvsaucklandcouncilappeal.org.nz
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June 1, 2013 2:17pm
Fletch

Fletch, the tortures inflicted on innocent people by the church defy comprehension. They even published a torture manual, (Malleus Maleficarum) described as the most evil book ever written, though I would give that title to the filthy bible.

Kea, when you say “the church” – the Church did not put out this book.
Here is a review by that same Wiccan scholar, Jenny Gibbons. As I said earlier she belongs to the Wiccan movement and has an MA in medieval history and a minor in the Great Hunt

The Malleus Maleficarum is indeed one of the most influential Witch-hunting manuals of all times. And since it’s easily available in modern English translation, it’s still influential, the darling of amateur historians today. But it’s not a reliable guide to the Burning Times: it’s a duplicitous text with a checkered past, a book you simply can’t take at face value.

#1: The Author and His Motivation

Almost all of the Malleus was written by one man: Heinrich Kramer (aka Henry Institoris). A German inquisitor of the late 15th century, Kramer was not a well-respected man. His views on Witchcraft were considered weird and extreme by most of his fellow clergymen, who continually opposed and hindered his trials. .

Kramer wrote the Malleus to win the cooperation of his peers. The book isn’t — as some assume — a guide to what most 15th century Christians believed about Witches. It’s a minority opinion, written to convince the populace at large of the dangers of Witchcraft.

#2: The Endorsements

The Malleus is usually circulated along with a papal bull “Summis Desiderantes”, which rails against Witches and the people who oppose Kramer and his co-author, Jacob (or James) Sprenger. In the 15th century, there was also a little recommendation from the Faculty of Cologne (the Inquisition’s top theologians). Both of these endorsements are misleading.

Pope Innocent had actually never read the Malleus when he wrote “Summis Desiderantes”. Kramer complained to the Pope about the poor reception he was receiving from other priests, and the Pope (who was very superstitious and feared Witches greatly) obligingly gave Kramer this bull. Kramer treated the bull as if it was a full endorsement of his book, but it wasn’t.

The recommendation from Cologne is an out-and-out forgery. When they were finished writing, Sprenger presented the Malleus to the Faculty, asking for its approval. Instead, the Inquisition resoundingly condemned the book. It said that the legal procedures it recommended were unethical and illegal, and that its demonology was not consistent with Catholic doctrine. Undaunted, Kramer forged an enthusiastic endorsement. As you might expect, the Faculty discovered this quickly and was enraged! Kramer and Sprenger parted on bad terms, and the Inquisition condemned Kramer in 1490, just four years after the Malleus was published.

#3: The Impact of the Malleus

The Malleus wasn’t an immediately influential book. Most Church and Inquisitorial courts ignored it, probably because of the Faculty’s condemnation. Civil courts, unfortunately, gave it more weight. Fooled by the forged recommendation and the out-of-context bull, many non-religious judges believed that the Malleus had the approval of the Church. Many used it, though it did not — as some authors say — lie on the bench of every judge.

It publication did not increase the number of Witch trials. In fact, it came at the beginning of a slight lull, when the steady rise in trials stalled for a few decades. But when the major panics of the Burning Times hit in the mid-16th century, the Malleus came into its own. It was the most detailed discussion of Witchcraft around. Many civil courts were handling Witch trials for the first time. They had no idea how to proceed, and so they latched onto the Malleus’ recommendations gladly. By the end of the 16th century, other Witch hunting manuals eclipsed the Malleus. But at the beginning of the crazes, it did have an enormous impact.

#4: The Theories

You also have to take the Malleus’ theories with a grain of salt. As I’ve said, Kramer’s views were condemned by the Inquisition. They certainly don’t represent the official view of the Church of the 15th century.

If you compare the Malleus to other Witch-hunting manuals, you can see how unique its theories are. Kramer’s sexual hang-ups shine through like a super nova. I mean, there are seven entire chapters on all the awful things Witches can do to penises, and Kramer apparently thought that it was quite common for men to wake up and discover that their Virile Member had walked off in the middle of the night… The book’s sexism is also extreme. Most manual profer sexist explanations for why the majority of Witches are women. But none are as virulently misogynist as the Malleus.

The theology is also primitive. Read the Malleus closely, and you’ll notice that many of the “traditional” bits of Witch lore are missing. There are no sabbats. No covens. No Witches’ marks. Many of the Witchcraft stereotypes we’re familiar with developed in the 16th century. By comparing the Malleus (1484) to, say, the Compendium Maleficarum (1608), you can see how much beliefs changed during the height of the panics.

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So, not a lot to do with the Church.
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June 1, 2013 2:29pm
Pete George

Of cartoons and enforced socialism:

Cartoons like this tell us one thing for sure – the left will only get for poor people a fair share from the likes of the people Nisbett appeals to when they take it, and not by asking politely.

‘Sanctuary’ is an odd pseudonym for someone with these views.

http://dimpost.wordpress.com/2013/05/31/parental-responsibilty/#comment-92564
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June 1, 2013 3:05pm
Manolo

More to enrage the food-nazis: http://news.msn.co.nz/nationalnews/8668204/deep-fried-pies-a-big-fat-hit-in-cafe
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June 1, 2013 4:42pm
Manolo

King & Queen? http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/obama-eliminates-hot-meals-for-marines-dines-on-chocolate-opera-cake/
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June 1, 2013 4:50pm
mandk

jcuk @ 9.28
Sorry to join the debate a bit late, but objecting to blanket provision of welfare has nothing to do with selfishness.
It’s simply the case that, for many people, providing benefits does no good, and can be harmful.
Over the last half century, we have seen a progressive roll out of more and more benefits. But can you honestly say that the overall effect has been positive?
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June 1, 2013 5:12pm
mandk

Hey Penny Bright, 2013 Auckland Mayoral Candidate
How about making a deal with us? If you don’t get at least 5% in the election, will you promise to acknowledge that the huge majority of people (as witnessed by readers’ reactions to what you post here) simply have no interest in anything you have to say and withdraw from all forms of public debate?
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June 1, 2013 5:22pm
Nostradamus

Mandk:

You could make it 0.5% and still be on the winning side of the deal! 🙂
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June 1, 2013 6:16pm
Nostradamus

Analysis from the 2011 election result to substantiate my previous comment:

Official Count Results — Epsom
Candidates

BRIGHT, Penny IND 124
TOTAL 36,354

124/36,354 = 0.34% – so, on actual performance, Penny Not-So Bright was comfortably within the margin of ~~error~~ irrelevance!
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June 1, 2013 6:33pm
cha

sigh…

http://gunrunnerhell.tumblr.com/post/51838105889
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June 1, 2013 6:37pm
bereal

i see “jcuk” has made a contibution @ 9.28

Here we have an example of a , ‘holier than thou’ leftist fuckwit, and the thought train is typical of his ilk.

1. Do not address the cause of the problem, address the effect.

2. The solution, as always with this type of fuckwit is to throw more money at the problem.

3. Your money, you right wing, selfish capitalists.

This fuckwit begins his contribution by claiming the high ground by suggesting that he alone
is thinking of the poor kids.

Question for the fuckwit jcuk.

Who has objected to feeding kids ?
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June 1, 2013 6:37pm
nasska

I for one announce my sincere endorsement of Waterwoman’s candidacy for the office of Mayor of Auckland.

Qualifier: I’m a long term Wairarapa resident. 🙂
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June 1, 2013 6:42pm
nasska

I just fell in love Cha. 🙂
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June 1, 2013 6:43pm
Tauhei Notts

The New Zealand Herald advises on page C13 today that Treaty is dead.
Te Tiriti O Waitangi died peacefully on Thursday 30th May.
I thought the death might have been in Papeete, but apparently it was in the King Country.
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June 1, 2013 6:57pm
Pauleastbay

Justin Fucking Marshall two games on the trot , what are Sky doing?
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June 1, 2013 7:48pm
nasska

Paddy is called to the teacher after taking a test.

“Paddy, I have reason to believe you were copying Murphy’s answers” she told him.

“Whatever makes you say that?” He asked.

“Well” the teacher replied, “For his answer to question three Murphy put “I don’t know”, and for the same question you have put your answer as “Neither do I.”
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June 1, 2013 8:00pm
MT_Tinman

Pauleastbay (3,768) Says:
June 1st, 2013 at 7:48 pm
Justin Fucking Marshall two games on the trot , what are Sky doing?

Catering to real rugby fans who know good and insightful comment when they hear it.

Unfortunately commentary for idiots is excluded.
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June 1, 2013 8:01pm
Pauleastbay

Well at least run an alternative commentary for us then Tinny.

Listening to the wanker I think he must be getting paid by the word
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June 1, 2013 8:03pm
bereal

No bites yet. (see 6.37)

i asked jcuk, or any like minded person.

Who, in your mind, have objected to feeding hungry children ?

And guess what.

There will be no bites, because these types just don’t have anyone home when they are
called out.

Prove me wrong jcuk
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June 1, 2013 8:53pm
bereal

Hey jcuk, (or your mate) where is your argument ?
Just giving me a thumbs down is piss weak.

Prove me wrong, try and grow some balls.

Answer the question and show that you are not just a weak piece of shit.

Bet you can’t.
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June 1, 2013 9:25pm
jcuk

NIL to 21 negative votes … is that a record ? Thankyou all 🙂 Like the Left the Right are also pretty brainless too.
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