Claiming it is ‘legally compliant’ means nothing if the crooks and the elites write the bloody laws!
Past Key’s sophistry, the simple political question for NZers to ask themselves is this…
Key is going to have a difficult day pretending he hasn’t built a tax haven.
The announcement of the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) with its new $22million budget is being sold to NZ as some sort of big cuddly Government Department that protects NZ business from cyber attack.
This week is looking very difficult for John Key and his right wing rich mates. Mass surveillance lies didn’t wake sleepy hobbits up. Dirty Politics didn’t wake sleepy hobbits up. Looks like Key building Tax Havens and getting caught might just wake them up.
Who would want vengeance on the Prime Minister of NZ with the skills to hack?
National’s spitefulness in voting against it highlights just how idealogical this Government really are and how focused their defence of the rich truly is.
National are the Party of Farmers. Bankers and Property Speculators – they merely pretend to be there for everyone else.
When the next round of allegations become public watch Key scramble to look like he’s actually doing something about the tax haven he’s built.
The citizens of a democracy need well funded public broadcasting with an ethos centred in the values of the fourth estate to be aware enough to cast a vote once every 3 years. Working out how we fund the next generation of journalists and journalism is vital.
I’m hoping Trump is just a cynical egotist who is playing to his crowds ignorance rather than a dangerous maniac who is actively enraging his supporters to generate something terrible.