Keith Locke’s Funeral
We buried Keith on Tuesday.
It was a full house at the Mt Eden Hall. Many people wanted to pay their respects to a human being who touched so many minds and hearts.
It was a beautiful service, here were the flags of solidarity hung on the walls..
…there were songs, stories, remembrance of the cruel manner Winston, Prebble and National MPs bullied Kieth in his first year.
Despite that bullying, Kieth won many backbench awards for actually getting things done.
His belief that you had to work across the spectrum was his strength.
His intellect was unequaled and he would constantly trip up Politicians and Officials who clearly hadn’t read reports.
He was the first person to truly break open the Ahmed Zaoui case and the cavalcade of lies the Government used to imprison him. If not wasn’t for Keith, Zaoui would have been left with a lawyer unable to defend him.
Muldoon would call the Locke family the most notorious communists in NZ.
Kieth was spied on by the SIS since he was child.
He had a 400 page security file on him.
When a man as humble and kind as Keith is an enemy of the state, we are all lost.
His funeral was a wonderful celebration of his intellect and his life and our thoughts are with his whanau and his dear Michelle, who was the love of his life.
He has been a friend for 25 years.
I walked out of Keith s beautiful funeral to learn Assange had been freed.
A moment of justice in a dark world – Keith would have been proud
If Keith is in heaven right now, I know he will be unionising the angels.
Rest in Peace dear comrade
cb You write such thoughtful hard-hitting comments that don’t skirt the problems. Please don’t hit our blogmaster. He seems very busy, keeping discussion going well and I hope he stays well and doesn’t get the new Covid or bird flu.
Not everyone can keep bouncing up after bruising encounters with facts, half-facts, near facts, lies, white lies, black lies, lack of any vision, and so on. But someone needs to as otherwise I fear that climate change effects and mass hypnosis, and the giants of Netgoth will never stop. Howard Hughes ended up on the toilet with long hair unkempt, eating chicken soup*. But these s.ds will keep living on, grafting bits on and grifting. We mustn’t let too much of that sad, bad stuff creep in to our minds and attitudes. I think just do what we can from whenever we become aware that we have been ignoring what is happening to our world and society; no longer science-fiction.
* https://denbrookestelle.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/lesson-8-the-weird-world-of-howard-hughes.pdf (Query – did he or didn’t he, have a talent for math?
While I appreciate your good intentions you can’t deny God in most of your articles then say if Keith is in heaven and expect to remain credible on religious matters. Thankfully our God judges us according to what we know and not by some man made system so if Keith lived according to the light he had (see Micah 6:8) there is hope that he could rise in the resurrection.
Bonnie. Bradbury said “ If Keith is in heaven”, not that there is a heaven, which is a different matter altogether. Where Bradbury errs is constantly denying “God”, with zilch attempt to define God, or to say what he means by “ God”. Most commentators also assume that having a spiritual dimension in one’s life needs this God, possibly because New Zealand is not only intellectually arid, but has a long history of anti-intellectualism.
This is evidenced on a regular basis by the dimwit Golden Calf worshippers of the Beehive. Unfortunately, the most overtly religious politicians, like English and Luxon, have been the biggest ratbags, and with the Catholic Church having abolished Purgatory, they are probably headed for that ever-expanding dark hole which constitutes a fascinating part of our mysterious multiverse, to exist forever and ever as motes in each others’ eyes, just as we now do in theirs.
Bonnie I don’t know how you can speculate about Keith Locke the way that you do considering his contribution to the betterment of society here on earth. I just don’t know. If anything, he’s a good example of how having a splendid hands-on mother in the here and now, may be a positive sort of way to go.