3 reasons why I can’t care about Gerry Brownlee’s airport security fiasco

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I find it very difficult to get upset about Gerry Brownlee barging through airport security for 3 simple reasons.

Firstly I think airport security in this country is a total farce. Why we need to be conditioned to security searches while merely travelling domestic has always been a terribly tedious issue for me. Jumped up airport staff with all the fanatical zeal of jumped up parking wardens doesn’t make me feel safer. Seeing as the only domestic air incident we’ve ever had in NZ was from an angry refugee who wanted to have a Blenheim flight take her home, I still can’t understand why I have to be subjected to a metal detector and x-ray search of my luggage every time I want to fly to bloody Wellington!

In short, Gerry is right and the security process is a time wasting joke.

Secondly the idea that this somehow gives us an insight into the very soul of Gerry Brownlee is as tedious as the airport security. Gerry is an arrogant clown, we don’t need any new examples to breathlessly declare this.

The third reason I can’t get excited about Gerry’s impatience at airport security is to me the most important. We seem to have a tendency in this small minded little country to judge and denounce a person on the most tiny of criteria rather than judging the work they are actually doing.

We shouldn’t sack Gerry over a bullshit run in with airport security, we should sack the clown for the total cock up of the Christchurch rebuild. This is a man who has stolen Christchurch’s ability to self govern and has turned the city into his own personal fiefdom.

It says an awful lot about the sleepy hobbits of NZ that we would demand a sacking over a Minister who offends our sensibilities of wait your turn rather than the neoliberal disaster capitalism he continues to force upon Christchurch.

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  1. In my opinion domestic security checks are nothing to do with deterring “terrorists”; they are installed to maintain our fearful mind-set and to be grateful dear leader is watching over our safety.

    • Actually airport security is a good job
      +30$ an hour, overtime, insurance, uniform, pension scheme, travel, free medical
      All for doing nothing except inconveniencing people like you
      Guess who is laughing loudest??

  2. Agreed Martyn. Reaction from opposition politicians has been fairly muted really, a few have issued some mild rebukes, but that seemed to be more because they were expected to rather than because they were really interested. No, it is Brownlee and Key and the MSM that have blown this up out of all proportion. By directing the MSM attention to trivial rubbish (that is very easy because they have the attention span of two-year-olds) you avoid focus on the hard issues and National’s abysmal six year record. The MSM simply have no idea how they are being used for dupes. National party execs must roar with laughter when they think of how they snap their fingers and the MSM follow them around like well-trained dogs.

    • Quite right Mike.

      At the time Jonathan Coleman is exposed as knowing of Kim Dotcom before he said he knew, Gerry does the security bypass stunt, something he and others have probably done over and over. Then running to a tight script its followed by (a) the obligatory empty resignation offer and (b) the PM addressing the issue head on, looking decisive and yet fair and bingo the Coleman problem is defused and up you go in the polls.

      Ruling NZ is not hard is it?

      I tend to think the media thought they were being balanced but of course this was a non event.

  3. Well I can see where you’re coming from – but Brownlee is such a useless and offensive sack of shite that frankly anything that gets rid of him will do, and the sooner the better. How such a manifestly rotten apple ever got anywhere near positions of responsibility is mystery to me.

  4. Do you really need do run condescending lines like “sleepy hobbits” to describe the New Zealand public?

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