Airport runway plan silence deafening

Dave Armstrong is right on the money again ( Councillors get stick over latest spend on airport extension, December 22).

Infratil, where the hell are you? – as the Aussie tourism ad used to say.

Head down, no doubt, tickling the Wellington City Council fancy.

Don’t forget to tell them you sold Prestwick (Scotland) for a dollar.

Most of us don’t mind if the runway is extended as long as the beneficiaries (or not) pay their due.

As a Wairarapa resident my concern is we will have to help fund this nonsense if the supercity goes ahead. Pass.

Infratil is a parasitic enterprise looking for someone (tax or ratepayer) to pick up the tab.

Bill English has a nice turn of phrase ‘‘nice to have’’.

Let’s have some openness from Infratil.

What do they expect to contribute to the feasibility. Anything?

Just tell us who will commit to landing here and how many times per day. So far the silence is deafening. JOHN WESTWOOD

Martinborough

The threats of violence against theatregoers cannot be justified, and our government has already rightly condemned that.

But what about the issue at the centre of this – the film itself?

In the US it is deemed harassment even to joke about some sensitive issues. But apparently it is OK to make a comedy about assassinating another nation’s leader.

The American literati are so absorbed by their own rights and what they mean by freedom of expression that they seem not to notice that the offending started with them.

Wherever the threats originate from, Hollywood should have known North Korea would be sensitive.

After all, assassinating other nations’ leaders and overturning other governments – even democratically elected ones – is not just the stuff of Hollywood; the US has at times done just that, and at other times has tried to.

Hollywood and the US are unrepentant about their film.

That is their choice, but they cannot make it our problem. PETER CULLINANE

Ashhurst