I agree that we don't have anything close to a perfect record. And when dotcom was raided at gunpoint I really felt that this was it. Everything you wrote above

I agree that we don't have anything close to a perfect record. And when dotcom was raided at gunpoint I really felt that this was it. Everything you wrote above was now just the new normal, and we were just a passive conduit of foreign and corporate interests. But this pushback seems quite real and give some reassurance that some part of the NZ legal system is working in a way that can make us feel (sometimes) proud.