Threats to Bennett are unacceptable, but the simmering political fury that is erupting on social media towards this Government and its policies is understandable.
The despicable things this Government and its right wing media mates have perpetrated on NZ during the Dirty Politics scandal is infuriating. The way beneficiaries and the poor have been treated by this Government and its right wing media mates generates righteously angers. The mass surveillance powers, the increased erosion of our civil liberties, the economy structured for the rich, the inability for many to be able to actually get ahead all fuel an anger.
Then right wing vandals like Matthew Hooton from a perspective disconnected privilege describes that anger as a mental illness.
The anger is there because the media don’t just give a different perspective, they claim a different reality to the desperation many sinking from 8 years of National are going through.
Hooton being singled out should surprise no one, this is the same Hooton who handed Nicky Hagers address over in the hope he would be killed by Chinese organised crime.
Using Slater as a source to attack Sue Moroney is so 2013.
There’s no place for political violence or threats, but when you rule over people rather than with them, a Government breeds contempt.
The privileged ones who have been listening to the right wing spin are caught by surprise at the anger that has been building over the past seven years?
Too much listening to Hooton and Farrar, Natz lies, et al.
Actually, some of us are really pissed off. I am amazed that it has taken so long for the downtrodden 50% to voice that anger.
The individual anger is uniting against those who have increased their wealth by 40% since GFC. That anger needs to gather strength through unity.
Yes, many of us are *really* pissed off. It is time for the bastards to feel a bit of fear.
It might help them get in touch with reality.
I think the restraint shown by New Zealanders has been remarkable. I also think the Prime Minister in particular and his government have taken advantage of New Zealander’s natural disinclination towards expressing any form of political. According to them and their supporters, even booing the PM is unacceptable. What do they expect? People to clap hands to express their anger? Calling 20,000 people who take part in a protest march “rent-a-crowd” shows a contempt for peaceful protest.
When disgusting people like Bennett drive over peaceful protesters in a vehicle, it is outrageously hypocritical to cry wolf over any threat to her.
To then argue, that she just wishes to be like any ordinary mum and visit the supermarket with her children, well, that’s bordering on derangement.
She wasn’t driving.
She was a complicit passenger in the car, driven by Chester Borrows, the man who has done all to persecute beneficiaries who got overpaid by the WiNZ department, while they transited into work. Anyone claiming a benefit, that cannot be stopped from one day to the next (given weekly payments), who was caught in the transition was labeled a “fraudster” by Borrows, and Bennett was happy doing the same.
Cry baby, cry baby!
No but she was a passenger happy for it to happen, so yours is a lame excuse.
Nothing wrong with violence Martyn.
Governments have been practising it for years.
Military violence, police violence, governmental psychological violence, financial violence, political violence and straight out violence violence.
Trickle down.
Roger Douglarse should be pleased.
Cause and effect is the only reality in this universe. Applies to the ape-descendants as well.
And Bennet is most definitely an ape-descendant…
Are you sure? She always makes me think of Reginald Perrin’s mother-in-law.
Actually, she rather does, doesn’t she…
Point taken.
For the younger people out there https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2mLAajm7ZY
In every century governments go too far and are taught to fear their people once more. A collapsing economy, a housing crisis, a job crisis, a crippled social welfare system, Christchurch still in ruins, multiple electorate offices burned – I’m surprised it’s taken this long. The Key government are on the cusp of something special.
““Dr. King’s policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That’s very good. He only made one fallacious assumption: In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience”
….Stokely Carmichael
…and a heart. Absolutely right ANNO1701. It won’t work if the opponent doesn’t care or give a stuff.
can someone please oia this information:
– when did bennett make a complaint about the death threat?(it was posted two weeks ago)
– who made the threat?
– what action have police taken? (points to credibility of threat)
Little on TPP: “I don’t support it, we don’t support it” http://thestandard.org.nz/little-on-tpp-i-dont-support-it-we-dont-support-it/
Matthew Hooton …
28 January 2016 at 9:40 pm
You make a good point. So why are people going to riot against the signing?
weka …
28 January 2016 at 10:13 pm
🙄 You guys are really scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Chris …
28 January 2016 at 10:26 pm
Maybe because it’s a filthy little arrangement made in private to help the rich get richer on the backs of not only the poor but now on pathetic little countries like ours? These people stop at nothing. Now they’re taking on whole countries. And rioting’s been justified for way less than the TPPA.
Brendon Harre -Left wing Liberal …
28 January 2016 at 10:55 pm
Gosh Mathew are you encouraging people to break the law and riot?
My understanding is on the 4th of February that people are going to get together, have a friendly party, walking around Auckland telling people they agree with Little, Turei and Peters that the TPPA as it exists is a crap deal and hopefully it will never be put into action.
Meanwhile McClay is meeting some guys from around the world who think the TPPA is fantastic (one suspects that like you Mathew they are in the corporates pockets) to announce the deal is signed, even though the deal may never be ratified.
It seems to me that the left have a much clearer idea of what is going on than the right!
Yes, and I haven’t forgotten and no one else should either, that Matthew Hooton was scaremongering, and he made up lies about the anti TPPA protesters as justification for police action when he tweeted…
“anti-#TPP protests plan to destroy property and assault people”
“Matthew Hooton @MatthewHootonNZ Jan 27
Police action is necessary because anti-#TPP protests plan to destroy property and assault people. ”
https://twitter.com/matthewhootonnz
The anti TPPA protesters showed Matthew Hooton up as the shit stirring liar that he is.
Never forget. We outnumber them, we have them surrounded and there running out of bullets.
With out state violence there laws (cough.legal statutes) aint worth didly shit. and the bigger and slower they are the less leed time you give em. double tap..
Oh gosh, who would have thought that Paula Bennett deserved such treatment? I am totally against threats and such BS, but come on, how many beneficiaries were thrown off benefits during her reign, how many were treated with contempt and hunted down as supposed “welfare cheats”?
Paula Bennett would not be safe walking some streets in Otara, or Manurewa, I reckon, not at night, but most would still treat here with respect, which she may not deserve.
The government we have has been busy, behind the scene, to get welfare policy introduced the UK style, where being sick is NO reason to not be “fit for work” anymore. They used “science” from there, bought from UNUM Insurance, that funded a Mansel Aylward led “research institute”, serving mostly lies.
Yet the MSM has never caught onto that, as they seem to rather be complicit with government to shaft the worse off and defend the middle class and those better off. What a disgrace this country has become.
https://nzsocialjusticeblog2013.wordpress.com/2015/10/04/how-the-n-z-health-and-disability-commissioner-let-off-a-biased-designated-doctor/
http://nzsocialjusticeblog2013.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/medical-and-work-capability-assessments-based-on-the-controversial-bio-psycho-social-model/
http://nzsocialjusticeblog2013.wordpress.com/2013/12/28/designated-doctors-used-by-work-and-income-some-also-used-by-acc-the-truth-about-them/
http://nzsocialjusticeblog2013.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/the-health-and-disability-panel-and-its-hand-picked-members/
Well said. The msm are complicit in National demonizing, persecuting and criminalizing the poor and vulnerable. In 19th century England with its introduction of the work house, being poor was a criminal offence and against the law, and therefore deserved punishment. In many respects, National has pushed this country backwards to that kind of brutal 19th century mentality.
Paula Bennett wants to ensure most people wouldnt have a normal life after she got through with tearing their lives apart. I seriously doubt Paula Bennett has ever wanted to walk the streets, or see the inside of a supermarket. She would see that as being beneath her anyway.
A government that turns vulnerable, mentally unstable into murderers has to ask itself some honest questions.
“Russell John Tully went from nicest bloke to killer”
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/77612963/russell-john-tully-went-from-nicest-bloke-to-killer
Quote:
“Russell Tully was born in Ashburton Public Hospital on March 14, 1966, to Eileen Patricia, a registered nurse, and Patrick Noel, a railways clerk. His mother was then 33 and Patrick, a strong Catholic, was 45. They already had a son Kevin and a daughter Catherine, who now live in Australia and have made their lives a success.
Patrick Tully died in 1980 when Russell was only 14 and his mother did not remarry. In 1984 the two boys were living with Eileen. Kevin worked as a farmhand and Russell was a storeman.
After his job as a storeman, Russell worked for an Ashburton machinery company which refurbished tractors and the like and sold them overseas.
A workmate from the time, who did not want to be named, said Tully was a good worker and “you couldn’t have met a nicer bloke”.
Tully was a quick learner and had a good mechanical aptitude. They went rabbit shooting together.
“There was never any sign that he was anything other than a good bloke. He was always smiling, always joking. He had a really nice girlfriend.”
Tully had not done an apprenticeship but stayed at the company at least a couple of years.”
So what have MSD been hiding, what has the Minister to hide, and why do our MSM report nothing else on this matter?
He was a man with issues, for sure, but why did he feel so let down to resort to a crime?
Government offers NO answers, I wonder why?!
Hooton must prescribe to the “positive thinking” ideology. If any person cannot see a glass half full, they must be mentally ill, that is what they really think.
I have come across some people like that, they would have made the most perfect NAZI propaganda strategists, so Hooton is in “good company”, I fear.
Had to laugh when Bennett said “I want to remain a good Kiwi woman”
I wonder, was Paula Bennett ever a good Kiwi woman?
By all accounts and purposes, it appears that Paula Bennett had an axe to grind. Over the last 7 and a half years, ex DPBer Paula Bennett, who took every advantage the welfare state had, launched a personal crusade to inflict as much damage as she possibly could, and she welds her position of power as a weapon to persecute and criminalize the poor, the sick, the vulnerable, the homeless, the old, the young and in particular, she targets struggling parents with children, and she does it all with such relish, without one iota of moral conscience.
It’s amazing then that Bennett still doesn’t think she is being targeted. Such blind denial and delusion of the consequences of her time in government. It would not be an exaggeration to say that Paula Bennett must be one of theee most hated ministers of the Key National government.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=11613235
its easy to shut down Auckland tppa proved that we need to do it again but we should pick one issue eg housing not the shot gun approach
Obviously Ms Bennett doesn’t understand cause and effect. When you’ve spent the majority of your tenure in government making the lives of the less fortunate increasingly miserable, people will be inclined to make their displeasure known. Some people will go to extremes that are counter-productive, but that makes their grievances no less valid. Jenny Shipley was burned in effigy in the street during her time as Minister of Social Welfare. If Ms Bennett continues to pursue her current course, she’s likely to be subject to a lot worse. She’ll still be able to visit the supermarket and the park, but she’ll require an entourage of government minders to escort her I suspect. A more vindictive soul might say, “Harden up, sweetie. You’ve made your bed, now lie in it.”
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