Opinion
When reading police reports in the media, it’s almost always most instructive to pay attention to what they don’t say, rather than what they do. Like most mendacious government bureaucracies, police media units are dab hands at obfuscation and misdirection.
For instance, when reporting a suspect still at large, if police fail to provide any actual description, then you can bet your house and your grandmother that it’s a member of their favoured diversity groups. Similarly, “children” are invariably hulking, 17 year old brutes (of the “diversity” persuasion, of course), because technically everyone is a “child” up to the stroke of midnight before their 18th birthday.
And when police report that an item “is not of concern”, without actually telling you what it is… well, you’ve good grounds for suspicion.
Police have reopened a central Wellington street after investigating an “item of concern” found near the Israeli embassy.
The item is not of concern, they have confirmed.
OK, so what is it? All you can guess from the vague police statement is that it wasn’t a live bomb.
That doesn’t mean it was nothing at all sinister, though. After all, police used near-identical language to describe a fake baby covered in blood also left outside the Israeli embassy, in December.
The New Zealand Defence Force Explosive Ordnance Disposal team later confirmed there was no risk to safety from either package.
NZ Herald
Well, it wasn’t about to blow up, any way. But the fact that there are clearly anti-Semitic extremists on the loose in Wellington must surely be a matter of police concern? After all, imagine the pearl-clutching and collective fainting fits, should someone leave, say, a golliwog outside the offices of the Maori Party. Yet, for once Kate Hannah and Byron Clark are nowhere to be heard.
Perhaps, hopefully, it was nothing more than an abandoned tote bag or empty cardboard box — so, why not say so? If nothing else, to put the minds of the embattled Jewish community at rest.
But the NZ media and police have form, here. In other, similar incidents in recent months, they’ve coyly referred to “schools” and “religious sites”, instead of coming right out and telling us which schools and which religious sites.
Especially when there’s a pattern of attacks on Israeli embassies around the world.
Swedish authorities announced that they had destroyed a potentially explosive device found outside the Embassy of the State of Israel on Wednesday morning, policy say, according to Reuters.
The embassy staff had notified police of the device’s presence leading toward authorities detonating it in a controlled manner, a police spokesman told TV4, the outlet reported.
It has been alleged that the device was a hand grenade, the Swedish outlet Aftonbladet reported, referring to unidentified sources […]
The incident was an upsetting one for the local Jewish community as well.
The Daily Caller
In this case, at least, Swedish authorities and media are admirably forthcoming, by comparison with their New Zealand counterparts.
In another case, a “pro-Palestine” nitwit attempted to apply the laws of natural selection.
A woman set herself on fire in front of the Israeli consulate in Atlanta, police confirmed Friday.
Police responded to the location Friday afternoon after the woman, who draped herself in a Palestinian flag, doused herself with gasoline and lit herself on fire, ABC News reported. A security guard who tried to stop her from igniting herself was also injured in the incident, according to WTVM.com.
The Daily Caller
Well, there’s the problem: he tried to stop her, instead of letting Darwin do his work.