Tau Henare accuses TV3 of stalking
A former National MP has accused TV3 of stalking after one of its journalists attempted to question a former Beehive spin doctor.Today’s episode of The Nation featured an unsuccessful attempt to question former advisor to the National Party Jason Ede outside his Wellington home.
Ede was accused of working with right-wing blogger Cameron Slater to attack political opponents in Nicky Hager’s book Dirty Politics.
Journalists spent two days outside Ede’s home and had a brief encounter with Ede’s wife, and got Ede on camera but he refused to answer questions.
Former National MP Tau Henare, both in a panel segment and on Twitter said The Nation’s tactics had more closely resembled “stalking” than a stake-out and Ede did not have an obligation to answer questions from the media.
Two things.
One – I’m surprised anyone gives a damn what Tau Bloody Henare has to say about anything.
Two – I’m surprised anyone watches The Nation.
The mainstream media have been pathetic at investigating any of the Dirty Politics allegations, if you look at the majority of the coverage during the election post the printing of the book, all the media did was regurgitate 3 points.
1 – Kim Dotcom was the hacker.
2 – It was all a Communist Conspiracy.
3 – Nicky Hager is a hypocrite for using stolen emails.
The media did not investigate the allegations of candidate rigging, blackmailing an MP, hacking into and downloading the entire Labour Party database, the smears of public servants and Corporate hate merchants paying Slater for hate campaigns against public good organisations.
Let’s be specific shall we?
Why didn’t the media investigate these allegations? Because the majority of these media outlets had been working hand in glove with Slater for 6 bloody years smearing everyone they hated!
The only investigations that did occur were by Key’s ridiculously narrow investigation into Collins, which the former head of the SFO has already branded as “inevitable” and the Inspector General’s report into handing over SIS information to Slater which concluded that the PMs Office instigated and colluded to smear the Leader of the Opposition with falsified SIS information months out from an election by leaking to a far right hate speech blog.
The media’s response to what is effectively evidence of a coup has been spineless and gimpish.
Ede should be hunted down like the dirty dog he is and forced to answer questions about his role in all of this, shrugging and saying ‘meh’ isn’t an answer.
I believe that not enough NZers read Dirty Politics and that the book desperately needs to be made into a documentary so that as many NZers as possible can see what Key and his corrupt Government really did. We simply can’t trust the mainstream media, who are so contaminated through their own relationships with Slater, to do the job we require of them in a properly functioning Democracy.
“I believe that not enough NZers read Dirty Politics and that the book desperately needs to be made into a documentary’
How about making it available to download for free, especially if sales have tapered off. Even a best seller like Dirty Politics never makes a lot of money, so projected lost profits could be covered by crowd funding or a generous benefactor.
A comic book version of the highlights would reach another market altogether (like the comic book versions of classic works of literature used to be made).
Or make it into a drama series of (15-20 minute?) episodes downloadable for free?
DP book was available for download from the IMP site back in late August.
(Sorry I can’t find link)
Love it. The book should be put into as many media streams as possible, video, downloads, documentary, Youtube, even music video etc – It is the message that is important. Again crowd funding can be used. I would donate.
So would I.
Comic Book? brilliant!
It would also be gold as a TV series, but who would be brave enough.
Bold enough to end their career by playing Blubber Boy?
If approached right he’d probably play himself for the publicity.
More like WO playing with himself…..
Al Barry would be the obvious choice to make Dirty Politics into a film and I for one would be glad to contribute to such a project, within the limits of my resources.
Yes, totally agree and will also contribute our limited resources if he needed them. He did a fantastic job with The Hollow Men.
To paraphrase the line so often used by the right-wing, if Ede has nothing to fear, why is he hiding? His involvement in this affair and his refusal to discuss the issues involved just leaves a vacuum that will be filled by rumour and myth. For somebody whose day job was to ‘frame the narrative’ his current reclusive nature is just letting other people tell his story. This must be highly irksome to him I imagine.
I guess when your options are to own up to being involved in orchestrated campaigns designed to besmirch the reputations of your opponents rather than address the issues they raise with your parties policies or to stay silent, he’s chosen silence.
That’s alright though, we’ll just judge him by the evidence rather than his spin.
Beats me why Ede isn’t investigated and brought before the courts to tell on oath what was going on, but of course Key wont let that happen
Key is judge and jury in NZ.Key says no one is above the law,except him and his cohorts.
Wonder if Tau has somebody to clean his filthy toilet these days?
Yeah and if they don’t like cleaning his toilet for an unlivable wage they can piss off and get another job.
As John Minto said Raymond is nothing more than political drift wood.
Hmm – this and ‘Slightly Left of Centre’ …has ‘Chaos and Mayhem’ got themselves a new buddy or just mister Slater?
The book had sold 16,700 copies by October. That’s a pretty amazing total for 2 months of sales. A doco would be excellent. There will be a lot of curious people, who haven’t/won’t read the book, but would tune in due to hearing a lot about it in the media.
If it was dramatised, who would play Mr Oil?
Tau Henare…could turn his hand to acting.
Yes tau henare would make a appropriate oily slater, albeit with a sun tan. Tau henare has a lot of acting ability, with bit parts in NZ First, Mauri Pacific and National parties, he also has delusions of grandiose. No one who is relevant listens to the irrelevant tau henare, just a grandstander from way back.
One thing is certain, he won’t be turning his hand to scrubbing toilets
No doubt the Taxpayers Union will be chasing him down too to reassure themselves that our money, paying a dirty dog to do scumbag work, was doing well for all New Zealanders.
How would you force Jason Ede to answer questions? That sounds like intimidation and also I thought everyone is NZ had the right to silence?
I think that right would be in the context of a trial held as/when there is a prima facie case of criminal behaviour. As in, Mr Ede’s right to silence needs to be balanced against the public’s right to have his not-in-the-public-interest-while-being-publicly-funded behaviour properly investigated. At least TV3 seems to be having a go at it.
Stephen – rubbish. Ede was paid by the taxpayer. I thiunk we have a right to some answers to questions on how he used that money.
Hi,
Yeah it seems to me that this man has not been charged with a crime, and until he is he cannot be forced to do anything.
The problem is that everyone in the media seems to be confusing their wants and desires (this man must be interrogated etc) with what “should” be. And what should be is that his rights should be respected. We do not interrogate Joe Bloggs walking down the street simply because we want to. He has rights. And the right to silence and to live his life free of harrassment are right up there. I have them, you have them and so does he.
If you want to get the answers about what he did, then the best way to do this is to investigate. Get him charged with crimes if you think he can be held responsible for them. And let the police, who are charged with the responsibility for investigating, sort it out. The real question to be asked is why hasn’t this happened? There are lots of things in there that could be construed as crimes.
But really just hounding the man endlessly is little more than sucumbing to mob justice and crying that he must answer is little more than screaming at the top of your lungs that whatever the mob wants it should get.
Cheers, Greg.
What a load of arse. He was directly responsible for co-ordinating the use of falsified SIS information to smear the leader of a political party months out from an election. My bet is that if it was Labour who had done this, you’d be screaming Greg.
The media should hound and hound and hound him until he answers questions.
He should indeed be hounded. His silence would speak volumes for the public. No infringement on his rights. But we know that the MSM will spin matters the other way, and Ede will continue to get the easy ride of not even being questioned.
Couldn’t agree more Martyn.
This should not just be left to slip by.
‘Dirty Politics’ is an extraordinary reveal and New Zealand has no democratic future until every stone is turned and all involved are held to account.
If this doesn’t happen N.Z’s future is worse than bleak!
Yes and no. In his line of work, especially when funded by the taxpayer, you would expect some accountability and public exposure of any wrong doing. There are some pretty damning accusations flying around at the moment so the logical thing for an innocent man to do is front up in an interview and answer the questions openly and honestly, thus protecting his reputation.
Even a guilty man would do this to try and minimise the scandal and frame the debate, e.g the Len Brown ‘affair’.
I hate those violent ‘camera-in-your-face’ attacks on people, but this particular event was did not look particularly aggressive on the programme (don’t know what was edited of course). The interviewer called out questions and Ede refused to answer. Probably went too far asking the partner, though.
Indeed. Our mainstream media has been, on average, incompetent if not complicit in this whole sorry affair.
As far as Dirty Politics is concerned, I took down the ebook from Amazon for myself. I showed to Better Half and then tracked it down on the Auckland Library site [the ebook as well as physical copies]. After some figuring out of ebook readers she was able to borrow it from the library and read it on her tablet.
How would Jason Ede be forced to discuss the allegations made against him? Even if he was arrested for a specific crime he has the right to silence.
Yes that is a good question. The thing is, in the Gwyn report Ede is mentioned something like 30 times. So the allegations are not just from Hager’s book. With that in mind, Ede probably has some obligation to front and be held to account. But I would like to hear a legal opinion on this.
Royal Commission. There is a good case for having one into the whole sordid affair, including the role of GoSSmann as a paid attack troll.
Threats!
Six months sharing work space with Mr Slater. (No more should be asked!)
Trapped in a small space, no coffee, and forced to watch the late late sessions of Parliament when the back benchers and has-beens drivel on.
Writing favourable press releases for the Greens…
Oh, there are ways…
(Meh!)
By keeping quiet and hiding away, Jason Ede’s silence is telling us quite a lot. Much more than he realises in fact, to the point he is virtually incriminating himself!
His slinking around like the cornered sewer rat he is, avoiding public scrutiny, is saying he is up to his sly, sneaky eyeballs in the proverbial, as far as his grubby part in dirty politics is concerned!
Msm needs to do its job and flush Ede out!
TPTB DON’T want to find Ede. They want to look like they’ve TRIED, and hope we’ll look at something else.
The Lame Street Press are as per usual ‘puppets of the National party’.
Brooks Sabin PATHETIC attempt to look professional……..I spent 2 hours outside Ede’s house and couldn’t find him………D’oh…….he was probably at work for 9 hours, or maybe inside hiding. ….twas much easier tracking down ex-worlers for KDC in Philipinnes////eh ???
What a PATHETIC excuse for ‘a journalist’;…..a bit like 90% of NZ’s supposed journalist.
More like National party hacks-Schills
Maybe they should get ‘Fair Go’ onto it, lol?
WHERE – THE – FUCK – IS – THE – GOVERNOR – GENERAL ?
Never mind Jason What’s his name .
The Crown is our head of state . NOT Chinese billionares , American Corporations ( Mafia . ) or Ding Dong Dotcom .
Call me old fashioned if you must .
@Countryboy – I fear the Governor General could be part of the game!
Key put him there for a specific reason. And it wasn’t as our vice regal representative!
What specific crime has been committed that would require the GG to investigate? Why haven’t any opposition parties raised this with the GG?
Oh , and a few words on Nicky Hagers book ‘ Dirty Politics ‘ .
Here’s a really , really creepy thought . What if jonky was caught on camera conspiring with slater to hand NZ over to the Israelis , was heard planning mass cullings of men , women and children , of building work camps for the youngest and fittest poor to be as slaves and NZ’s right wing , neo liberal population thought it a brilliant idea ?
What if jonky , ede , slater , hooten , farrar etc etc were to be admired for their handiwork by the greater population ? What if us loyal human beings and followers of TDB found ourselves in a desperate minority , outnumbered , out gunned , out flanked and out resourced ?
What if we became hunted down and ‘ removed ‘ from society as a risk to the new status quo ?
What if ‘ Dirty Politics ‘ was regarded as a bit of a hoot , a collectable to be placed on a shelf along with the heads of it’s readers ?
My deep fear is that you’re expecting some kind of social back lash against National after everybody reads ‘ Dirty Politics ‘ when in fact the greater population of Nu Zilind having become equally dirty , love it .
I’ve recently been fucked over by close friends over a small amount of money . I was clear and direct . They conspired and colluded . I challenged them both , they twisted and turned . They used weasel words and applied logical fallacies to cement their arguments in straw .
My point is that perhaps people are becoming that which they hate the most . They are succumbing to the new economy and it’s associate bastard child , the new morality .
There’s something new and sinister going on here and part of that is that we humans seem to be abandoning our humanity .
When money is the only God – you can’t trust people.
“Love of money is the root of all evil”
Hear hear Countryboy. Well said and quite valid points raised.
It seems the sordid filth is filtering through into society from the top echelon of Key and his low life co conspirators!
Agreed CB. Whatever happened to basic morals, manners and integrity, and yes our humanity towards others. I see it occasionally – gang members feeding hungry children, successful community gardens etc. but I am worried the attitude of the NZ people mimics more and more, that of its government – arrogant and self centred. The TPPA march was uplifting, as it showed people ‘do give a damn’. Would be good to see bigger, and many more marches in 2015. One hopefully right into the beehive, to clear out the sludge.
Hee hee, judging by all the thumbs down, I see WhaleOil supporters are here, reading TDB.
A much classier choice guys and to think you are increasing the volume of visitors to this great site. Enjoy.
Ede should be brought to justice by having the police Investigate him, along with that fat whale Slater, and Key himself. There are charges that can be laid against these three conspirators, conspiracy being just one. But once again the media moguls have been told to help interfere in the process of bringing to justice those who should be brought forward, along with Key making sure all investigation go one way while keeping himself and his corrupt mates in the clear.
Come the day, and may it be very quickly, Key and his cohorts are going to pay the cost for the lowlife damage they’re causing. If they should be able to get away with what they please, what’s to stop the rest of the population from waging a revolution against the government, storming the Beehive and throwing the entire National party out the door? Pardon me, did you say that law can stop the population? Hmm, think it’s time to seriously question our laws.
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