Comments on: GUEST BLOG: Josie Butler – Why I attacked the TPPA roadshow

By: Ana

Ana — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 05:52:13 +0000

A Chilean man questioningly said to me at our protest outside the Christchurch rogue Show, that NZers don’t care about the TPPA – to which I said we do, but many are too scared or shy to stand up and it was also done in secret by our government so many people don’t know what it’s about. He said “in Chile, there are streets closed off and blocked with people rioting against the TPPA. Huge numbers of people”. I told him about the protest in Auckland Feb 4 with 15,000 plus people, but you can’t find anything about it on mainstream media.

I never thought I’d be scared of my own government in NZ.

By: Julian L Jayet

Julian L Jayet — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 22:01:50 +0000

Getting of the track a little ,,I just read correspondence addressed to fairfaxmedia spread interception ,,, ,, I quote this correspondence word for word as I read it,, '''''Hi there ..Its been 5 years 6 Months since Christchurch had the 7.1 earthquake that flattened a lot of the city ,,''Our house snapped in half ,,''Lost most of the bricks and was surrounded by liquefaction and feces etc,,''We still live here and are not looking forward to another winter ,,the NZ Govt have chosen to ignore us and for me my wife its probably to late ,,''There,s asbestos flaking off the all the ceilings in our house which is moldy everywhere ;;''The sewer broke under our concrete path and leaks ,,so there's raw sewage under our house ,''Its truly horrible ,,however the Govt do build new roads and flash buildings whilst people like me and my wife suffer ..We cant afford to escape this hell even for a holiday ,,we will need to raise funds to take the govt to court to enforce our premium insurance policy that that they hold ,,Life sucks for us right now please HELP,kindest regards ,,Joseph ,,,,The correspondence there end's , ,, My thinking is ; .Why ? Why do we still have this happening ,,This is New Zealand ,,The above house at 10 Lamorna Street Christchurch City ,Yes I will name the address its no good hiding from the truth , Coincidently ,,This is the same street that our Minister Gerry Brownlee's Mother lives on ,,And we have a young working family paying there bank and insurance's still living like this ,,''I think the work HELP, Is telling us something ,' ,,,Julian ,,

By: Frank Macskasy

Frank Macskasy — Sun, 13 Mar 2016 19:45:35 +0000

In reply to Beatty.

… but I am a supporter of the Labour Party, but find the antics of Ms Butler childish and irritating. People like her could persuade me to vote for ACT.

I doubt you are a Labour Party “supporter” at all, Beatty. What you’re really doing is trying to paint yourself as a left-wing supporter to lend credibility to your criticism of Josie. Threatening to switch to vote ACT is a tactic to suggest how “bad” Josie’s actions were by conflating the two.

In reality, you are no more a Labour supporter than I am a National/ACT supporter.

If I’m wrong, feel free to post your criticisms of the TPPA. What do you disagree with? What have you done to oppose it?

Let’s get to the issue here, the TPPA.

I look forward to your views on the issue, on the person.

By: TopHat

TopHat — Sun, 13 Mar 2016 18:48:53 +0000

In reply to Jack Ramaka. Take your apathy and stick it were the sun refuses to shine!

By: Steve King

Steve King — Sun, 13 Mar 2016 18:39:14 +0000

In reply to Beatty. If people like her could persuade you to vote for Act, that says a lot about the strength of your convictions. I do not agree with everything said on TDB, and sometimes I might not agree with some people's tactics, but that would not make me want to support a bunch of crooks like the ones currently in power. Protest comes in all forms. Choose your own, but first make up your mind.

By: Steve King

Steve King — Sun, 13 Mar 2016 18:33:19 +0000

In reply to OneTrack. They don't listen to criticism even when it is coherent. They are so bought and paid for that they will do nothing without the backing of their corporate masters.

By: WILD KATIPO

WILD KATIPO — Sun, 13 Mar 2016 14:24:54 +0000

In reply to Stuart Munro.

Oh yes… the clowns are more intelligent but the dickheads are limp.

Which means that the dildos have more integrity that the dorks who masquerade as our neo liberal wretch surrogate politicians.

A thorough cleaning out of these viruses is needed to restore balance and sanity to our democracy. My only hope is that the generation after us benefits from the unrest and dissension of this generation.

And if the symbolism of an erect phallus is what is needed so be it.

If it was left up to me …. the neo liberal wretch would be represented solely by the limp variety.

All promise of a fully loaded gun but when the proof testing is finally conducted … nothing but a faulty misfire is found to be the case.

Tantamount to the same correlation to its false and bogus mis -representation of a modern democracy.

By: WILD KATIPO

WILD KATIPO — Sun, 13 Mar 2016 14:13:06 +0000

In reply to KS.

Um… do we really have to honour this ?…seriously…

Erm… 25k peeps on Queens St… and this person issues a statement or a question like this… um… I’m flabbergasted…hmmmm… must be an American right wing sycophant…uneducated in NZ history , culture and economics… I smell a rat here…

When did you fly in on a taxpayer funded private flight?

Were you mates with Clapper?…

Do you feel insecure when democracy is worked out in truth?

Are you a fascist?

Do you support Nazis in operation Paperclip?

Are you a Nazi?

Do you support Totalitarianism?… hell boy,… you sound like a National security risk to me…

Are you anti the new initiatives to include Cuba in economic trade sanction lifting’s or are you some sort of failed ex CIA wannabe?

Or do you just stand to make a few million more at the expense of New Zealanders?

Which is it, son?

By: Nick J

Nick J — Sun, 13 Mar 2016 14:09:39 +0000

There appears to be a lack of understanding (or should I say contempt )for democratic principles from our public servants being displayed here. The key word is servants. These creatures paid for by yours and my taxes act as masters. Should we ever elect a new government their greatest and most necessary task will be to purge the public service of corporatism and managerial ism, and to remind everyone on the payroll who they work on behalf of; you and me.

By: WILD KATIPO

WILD KATIPO — Sun, 13 Mar 2016 13:56:31 +0000

In reply to Beatty.

Look…I’ve just got to say please , please do go off and support the less than 1% party… go on….do it.

Please join the failed neo liberal wretch party… it makes it so much easier to negate and discredit that party and its adherents…

What I’m really saying is this:

Please , please , please grow a pair and show some consistency…. we are no longer children swayed by this speaker or that speaker… please for the love of God… show some backbone and establish what you really believe in instead of being such a dishwater individual…

Good God… please….!!!!!

Our country no longer needs such spineless voters… they are an absolute subversive and treasonous cancer.

Bad for both the left and the right.