While Revisiting These (Neglected/Deferred) Matters Aplenty, Let Me Not Fail to Give Credit Where Credit is Well - Long Past - Due: to RNZ National's Frequent Afternoon Panellist, the (Once - & Arguably Still Very Much) 'Honourable' Christopher Finlayson, Attorney-General and Treaty Negotiations Minister Under the Long-Running Key National Administration...

His breadth of vision and depth of insight upon matters political is ever a sheer wonder to behold - or, more aptly, tune in to - and in particular his inherently contrarian views on so many topics under discussion...

...especially over recent times upon the neglect (in the mainstream media discourse) of those conscientious objectors in wartime such as James K Baxter's (grandfather?) Archibald Baxter, no less...

...and over recent weeks of yet another evidently wrongly incarcerated individual, Allen Hall this time I believe...

Finlayson's pointed remarks about New Zealand Police prosecutions starting to make us (i.e. Aotearoa-New Zealand) look much like a tinpot banana republic being almost too close to the mark for (due) comfort...

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