Bill English the Prime Minister of NZ: ‘We don’t need Middle East leftovers’
What a choice of words eh? ‘We don’t need Middle East leftovers’, that was Bill English in 2005 when he was attacking Labour for being forced to allow Ahmed Zaoui to live in NZ.
Let’s just remind everyone that Ahmed Zaoui was innocent of any terrorism. The security services were spanked by the Supreme Court who tore their bullshit claims that Zaoui was a terrorist to pieces.
I remember it well because I helped protest against his incarceration with his lawyer Deborah Manning.
The case against Zaoui is one of the great blunders of Helen Clark. The security services had an officer who was only in the job for one day interview Zaoui and mistook Zaoui’s strong accent as a yes when they asked him if he was a member of an Algerian terror group.
That’s how pathetic the case against Zaoui was.
That Bill English bashed a person who should never have been arrested in the first place, and was arrested because of gross incompetence by the security officials is terrible enough, calling him a leftover from a middle eastern terrorist region is just ugly bigotry.
Fast forward to today and look at how Bill English defends Trump…
…some bigotry never changes.
Good to see Helen not getting a free pass here.
As with many issues these days, immigration, housing, student loans, employment laws, benefit rates etc, it’s very hard to criticize National, or its Ministers, without mentioning the part played by Labour in this very sorry state of affairs.
I think Trump and all that he is doing is one last attempt by White America to stop the demographic of the United States to permanently become majority non-white. He would like to send Black American back to where they came from too if they hadn’t been in the United States so long.
Bill English is a shallow human being
Well he’s a papist, what can you expect?
They did an outstanding job in WWII as well… [sarcasm]