A quick word

I agree with Simon Wilson that Rebecca Kitteridge should resign as head of our spy agency if far right extremism has not featured at all in her reports to Parliament. Joy Edwards, Coatesville.

Interesting the Crusaders name is now under debate. What about All Blacks and All Whites?

Bev Owen, Mission Bay.

It would be nice if, as a gesture of friendship, New Zealand’s Muslim community told the Crusaders that changing their traditional name isn’t necessary.

Frank Jones, Thames.

Praise be we’re not lumbered with a US style second amendment. John Hunt, Hobsonville.

Linking the mosque shooter to a “dark underbelly of racism and white superiority in New Zealand” is a long bow to draw. It smells as if someone is politicising this tragedy.

W. Clark, RD Pukekohe.

Anne Salmond: critic and conscience of our society.

Cathie Hutchinson, Mt Albert.

Tame Iti is now activist in residence at Massey University. Given his past history of firing firearms in public, is this appropriate?

Neville Cameron, Coromandel.

How can the Commerce Commission sit back and allow a sale of Westland Dairy that has an ongoing price fixing clause in it?

Noel Bland, Grey Lynn.

Logically now that we know the white supremacists are a terrorist group they should now forfeit their right to own a gun. Gary Hollis, Mellons Bay.

Does anyone still think the PM is a silly little girl afraid to make the hard decisions? Once the amnesty is over it will be illegal to have assault weapons in your possession.

John Capener, Kawerau.

I was a white supremacist of the kind Dame Susan Devoy and Dame Anne Salmond despise but since all those Asian kids started winning most of academia’s prizes I’ve had to eat humble pie. Does that bring me into the fold or am I still beyond the pale?

Kerry Craig, Mt Eden.

The strange forces that want to remove the iconic moniker Crusaders from the local footy team will now have to turn their misguided attention to a slightly bigger problem. What will be the new name for Christchurch.

Peter Sweeney, Sydney.

Get a grip Whitcoulls. If I was looking to ban a book used as a manifesto for hate crimes, persecution, intolerance, and genocide, I might start with your religion section and pull every copy of the Bible and Koran off your shelf.

Len Houwers, New Plymouth.