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Dollars for Sense - Greg Hallett and Spymaster

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<strong>Dollars</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Sense</strong><br />

Judicial Train Wrecks<br />

NZ Herald, ‘Judge asks <strong>for</strong> drug report on Millie Elder<br />

after guilty P plea’, 4.42 pm, Monday 27 August 2007.<br />

“An Auckl<strong>and</strong> District Court judge has asked <strong>for</strong> a drug <strong>and</strong><br />

alcohol report on Paul Holmes’ adopted daughter after she<br />

admitted three drugs charges today.<br />

Millie Elder, 19, pleaded guilty today to possessing a P pipe,<br />

possessing methamphetamine <strong>and</strong> permitting her premises<br />

to be used <strong>for</strong> drugs.<br />

She h<strong>and</strong>ed police the P pipe, which was hidden near her<br />

genitals, at Auckl<strong>and</strong> Central Police Station when they began<br />

physically searching her following her arrest on June 17.<br />

Elder winced as some of the details surrounding her arrest<br />

were read to the court.<br />

Six other charges, including possession of a cannabis bong,<br />

possession of cannabis, receiving a $18,500 plasma television<br />

screen <strong>and</strong> receiving $15,000 worth of clothes from Auckl<strong>and</strong><br />

department store Smith <strong>and</strong> Caughey, were withdrawn after<br />

police said they would present no evidence. [As bribed.]<br />

Judge David Robinson asked <strong>for</strong> a report assessing Elder’s<br />

drug <strong>and</strong> alcohol use to be compiled along with a pre-sentence<br />

report be<strong>for</strong>e sentencing on October 26.<br />

Elder, a model <strong>and</strong> office temp worker, had not appeared in<br />

court prior to these charges. She was rem<strong>and</strong>ed on bail.<br />

The maximum sentences <strong>for</strong> the charges she admitted are two<br />

years’ imprisonment <strong>and</strong> a $1000 fine.<br />

Holmes <strong>and</strong> Elder’s mother, Holmes’ ex-wife Hine Elder<br />

– herself a <strong>for</strong>mer broadcaster – were present in court to<br />

support their daughter.<br />

Wearing a thick black coat <strong>and</strong> jeans, Elder’s whispered guilty<br />

pleas could barely be heard.<br />

The summary of facts revealed that police found cannabis<br />

inside Elder’s bedroom <strong>and</strong> a P pipe inside a kitchen drawer<br />

when her Ponsonby flat was first searched in her absence by<br />

police on June 3. [She would have been warned, both times.]<br />

She was present at a second police search on June 17, when<br />

police found a glass P pipe encrusted with residue from<br />

recent use along with a small bag containing P, <strong>and</strong> a plastic<br />

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2 0 New Zeal<strong>and</strong> – A Blackmailer’s Guide<br />

“Fuck this.”<br />

The New Zeal<strong>and</strong> judiciary on track with logical progression.<br />

. . . <strong>and</strong> I have a few suggestions – the running of the judges.<br />

Just as Spain has ‘the Running of the Bulls’, New Spain can have<br />

‘the Running of the Judges’. The same weapons would be used – a<br />

rolled-up newspaper.<br />

The judges would be required to run from Mayoral Drive, along<br />

Albert Street to Customs Street where any dissatisfied citizen could<br />

take out their judicious anger on any judge they saw fit. This would add a<br />

tourist attraction to New Zeal<strong>and</strong>/New Spain <strong>and</strong> make it an extremely<br />

popular country, noted worldwide.<br />

Every Monday morning <strong>and</strong> every Friday night would be the go.

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