The beginning of the end of Cameron Slater?

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Slater postings on man bizarre, court told
A businessman has changed his appearance and had to install extra security at his home after Whale Oil blogger Cameron Slater posted his business and personal documents online, he says.

Mr Slater has appeared before the Human Rights Review Tribunal facing a prosecution for breaching the privacy of the businessman Matthew Blomfield.

Simon Judd, the lawyer for the Director of Human Rights, said Mr Slater had published 46 documents online – and that was not the actions of a news gatherer.

The problem for Cam was that his use of stolen emails from Matthew Blomfield was never in the public interest. It was a co-ordinated hit he conducted for some of Blomfield’s ex business partners. Some bemoaned at the time that the case against Slater would be a bad thing for journalism.

Yeah right.

The issue at hand when a Judge demands a journalist/blogger hand over their sources is whether or not the journals/blogger has reached the threshold of the public interest defence. Nicky Hager will argue in his case against the cops that the publication of stolen emails in his book Dirty Politics did reach that threshold and the judges hearing the medias argument against Slater’s most recent gagging attempts certainly found that threshold had been reached. Slater on the other hand has no public interest threshold to fall back upon because there was NEVER any public interest in publishing Blomfield’s stolen emails.

None.

A good question to ask about this bizarre attack on Blomfield via Slater was whether or not Slater was paid for this hit by Blomfield’s former business partners. They certainly met and discussed the attacks on Blomfield, was Slater also paid?

This latest legal action against Slater could be the beginning of the end for Cam. He is already facing the costs of his attempt to gag the media and if he loses this current Human Rights case he will be open to a defamation case by Blomfield.

That is on top of the inquiry into how Slater gained SIS info and his involvement in orchestrating a hit on the SFO. All up, Slater could be facing huge legal costs and criminal prosecutions.

Cam strikes me as the sort of person who would prefer a supernova explosion to a whimper so if the end comes expect him to ‘whale dump’ everything he’s ever had before he goes down. That’s what makes his post last week…

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…so much more interesting.  If Slater goes down (and it’s increasingly looking less ‘if’ as it does ‘when’) will he take as many down with him as he can?

Perhaps a media watch on the airport for any sudden family visits to Israel are in order?

 

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  1. doesn’t it invariably end badly for Slater, ‘bad people doing bad things’ as he styles himself – how can that not go wrong?
    But surely his friend, and shoulder to cry on, John Key; sometime recreational Prime Minister of N.Z – will provide the covers he needs for some time to come – 3 – 6 years…. ffs

  2. And so should Cameron and his accomplices be exposed for their ‘crimes against humanity’ …NZ does not need these type of people …. lets clean up NZ politics for the sake of all of us, left or right.

  3. Slater won’t go anywhere. His mental illness has allowed him to make that blog the most important thing in his life. It comes before his wife, his family, his financial freedom, his reputation and his health.

    Unlike most of us – when something has negative consequences, we think twice before deciding to carry on the behaviour because we don’t enjoy negative consequences – but he doesn’t. He gets more determined to continue the behaviour.

    One of the criteria for substance dependence is “continued use despite negative consequences”…and i believe that is pretty much what we are witnessing with Slater. The only difference is – his addiction is his blogging.

    It’s called an impulse control disorder. He won’t go anywhere until he receives some serious psychological help.

  4. I agree – hopefully the beginning of the end for Slater. And let’s hope he doesn’t go quietly – there will be so much more we don’t know about.
    And the PM will have to stop communicating with him because this just continues to haunt him in parliament with MPs like Russell Norman and Winston Peters not letting it go. It’s one area that is a huge weakness for him.

    • It’s one of the things I’ve pondered, Vicki – how much dirt does Slater have on National MPs and Ministers? Considering his close association with the likes of Key, Collins, and various MPs, he must have quite a bit of ‘dirt’ on people.

      They must be praying every night for Slater’s continuing mental stability (or what passes for it, these days).

      I have a feeling that when Slater loses his Court cases, all hell will break lose.

      Remember that Rawshark managed to grab only 10% of Slater’s emails. What else does he have?

  5. I would hate to see Cams blog dissappear. But he’s made a mistake with Bloomfield. I read 5 NZ blogs here in Perth they keep me posted on what’s going on. Aussie politics is a little dull. It will be interesting to see what Freed will be like when it’s launched. We all complain about the msm so just maybe it might sharpen the focus of the others.

  6. Great effort Martyn,

    Conducted as always in your incredible steely manner cutting through the layers to expose the true state of play.

    We need you there as this critical observer as important as any legal beagle would admire your foresight.

    Cameron Is a product of Keyism, where he will twist and turn to make any situation fit his purpose as Key does.

    What is now clear is that all the Kings horses and all the kings men are vanishing under King Key’s secretive veil of black ops, and leaving him bare and strangely exposed now.

    So Key will not be able to sleep soundly without buckets of tranquilizers this term, as he must realise as the wheel of justice churns around and around some leaks will appear in his well covered tracks and one day will trap him as “Tricky Dickie” Nixon got brought down in his following term.

    Keep up the excellent work brother, we will all keep a vigilant eye out for the flaws in the messy story of how a National Government corrupted the parliamentary system of this once proud and free land.

  7. There once was a time in this country individuals like this would most certainly have been legally dealt with – along with criminal corruption in the Prime Ministers ‘office’.

    It is easy to see now how tin pot countrys with tin pot dictatorships flourish.

    We are now a case in point and an even more excellent case history for political science students to earn doctorates with.

    We may no longer carry the cringing title of a nation that ‘ punches above its weight’ , and we may no longer be truly called a democracy , and we most certainly will only be given polite lip service on the U.N council ,….

    But the really spectacular gift we give to the rest of humanity is how a country can be manipulated and cowed into a compliant , docile police state without a shot being fired.

    THAT !!! ….is what we truly bring to the world .

  8. Aside from all of the things listed that this conveniently distracts from, there is also this little piece of revisionist biography going on at the moment which it diverts attention away from;

    In a new chapter in John Key: Portrait of a Prime Minister devoted to this year’s election campaign, Mr Key is quoted as saying: “Someone phoned and told me who the hacker was, but other than having a look at this person, I thought, ‘Oh well … nothing will come of it. Life goes on’.” – NZ Herald “John Key ‘given Rawshark’s name'” 30/10/2014.
    (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11350276)

    The Prime Minister has been informed by ‘someone’, I’m thinking Slater (who else would know better), who Rawshark is. Rather than get involved, as “nothing will come of it,” he allows the police to conduct a 10 hour raid on a journalists home in search of the same information he already has. Sickening.

    Time for some journo’s, or the Opposition, to hold Key to account on this!

  9. You can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep. There’s quite a lot of nasty things under the logs where slaters live.

  10. Funny scenario:

    Slater and Kim both make a secret plan to do a runner and leave New Zealand together. But Slater plans to double-cross Kim and get him arrested before they leave. However Kim anticipates the move and does a double-double cross on Slater first. Game over.

  11. Knowing the current state of play, I expect Cam to to win and be awarded costs, and Hager to get 8yrs in the pokey……..

    cynical?

    Ha!

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