Now we have guilty verdicts, when will NZ media call this out for the Chinese attempt to influence our political system that it was?

1. I still remember Simon Bridges (leader at the time) being in “I know nuthink” mode, stuttering, stammering and stumbling over a Chinese donor. Trying to say the guy wasn’t a member of the National Party. But he was to be going to the National ‘candidates’ school.’
   Which you could always do while not even a signed up member of the party.

   There was hint of paperwork being conveniently lost and so there being no proof the donor had actually signed up. Bridges was trying to not lie by answering questions which weren’t asked.

   It’s sort of funny when all is done and dusted that Mr [Simon] Bridges was possibly a ‘victim of such a desire of J-L Ross to take down him down that Ross lied in a most compelling way he could by falsely stating he had carried out Mr Bridges’ instructions.’

   The specifics involving Bridges lying in a most compelling way were not part of a legal case and so he could appear in court as a witness, all earnest and innocent looking. Inside he must’ve been thinking, “Phew! Got away with it.”

2. when will we convict the white co-conspirators? if you’re going to say chinese subversion then the other defendants were treasonous..

3. So they’re busting the people who made the donation but letting those accepting those donations off the hook?

   • I agree. Not sure this is justice. Not knowing????? about dodgy donations is ok as an excuse.

     Too many dodgy donations and dodgy ways to hide donations that the political parties are only too aware of.

     The Dotcom vs John Banks, for example. John Banks guilty and then suddenly without a trial is found not guilty.

     NZ is full of political corruption now led by the parties who are obsessed with donations, and that is also why NZ can’t get anywhere and our social policy is creating poverty for political purposes aka making money of social bonds, making money off cheap/illegal labour and making money from assets sales.

     • When Jamie Lee Ross first announced all this every other party fell silent, none of them pointed fingers, it tells me the problem is more widespread except the other parties didnt get caught doing it.

4. I remember the “recovered memory” mania, the leading questioning of children. So much hysteria. Ellis and his fellow workers dragged through hell. At the time it appeared to lack rationality, yet the Court convicted. Its now too late to admit it was wrong.

   Looking back we were naive, that we had faith in common sense. That should have told us to look out, it was the beginning of “woke”.

   • todays news nicki, never thought the fucked up NZ judiciary would admit it was a fit up, although RNZ typically is still trying to pretend ellis was guilty.

5. And actually speaking of American influence, remember that referendum on cannabis?
   We had right wing christian outfits in the US funding Family First New Zealand for their nope to dope campaigns. Massive blip in their charity donations around the 3 years leading up to the actual referendum, was over a million dollars. It was called out at the time but got ignored. S.A.M they called themselves. Right wing religion here had two campaigns using the same mailing address and campaign material. Combine the two and they overspent the legal allowable limit.
   A review into the referendum instigated by Labour found nothing. cannabis didnt even get a mention.
   All politicians, left right and middle are all up to their necks in this corruption, those politicians create these loopholes for themselves to skirt the law.

   • I agree @ Mark.
     Aotearoa/ New Zealand hasn’t been our beloved Aotearoa / New Zealand since roger douglas hatched, like the parasite he is, from Old Labour to throw us all under his speeding greed bus. Since then, all our political parties have one thing in common. They’re all the same thing. They’re only about the money. And if a political system’s only about the money, as is ours mostly, then our politicians can be bought. And they were. And still are. If you, or you, think you’re an AO/NZ citizen, you’re not. You’re a ‘consumer’, or more accurately a slave to a foreign banking infrastructure which was further strengthened by the latest ludicrous property fetishists greed fest. We’re now specifically U$A’s banking infrastructure’s slaves and if you don’t play by their rules you’ll end up in the street. And pretty soon, once we’re labeled a ‘republic’ you will lose all the rights and privileges of being a part of the commonwealth. Like free health care, education etc and access to what’s now considered public spaces. Like national parks, rivers, beaches etc.
     We’re at an extremely dangerous cross roads made all the worse for the spectre of global heating which will lead to displacement, hunger and territorial wars.
     In my humble opinion, everything that politicians tell us we must do, we must do the opposite.

   • The American CIA’s ‘National Endowment for Democracy’ gave just one of their pawns, the hysterical liar Anne-Marie Brady. more money than these guys handed out this year alone.

6. Dem bigwig and former U.S sec of state …’when it comes to Noo Zeeland….we don’t even have to…ask.’

7. ” We can’t be this fucking stupid can we ”

   Bomber YES YES YES

   The Hobbit’s shire is easily manipulated by those with an agenda foreign or domestic. Just look at where we are after 45 years of manipulation.

   Well maybe Willies merger will ensure greater transparency ?

   We live , get shafted and hope.

8. oh come on blazer our govts often vigorously demand..’how high shall I jump sir’

9. ” Former National MP Jami-Lee Ross has been cleared of fraud charges over political donations in part because the judge agreed a sense of betrayal and mental breakdown could have led him to lie ”

   I don’t buy that. Ross was a scumbag and a lying politician and both are deadly dangerous.

   This stinks to high heaven and has not been given the attention it deserves.

Comments are closed.