Key wasn’t just scare mongering with Jihadi Brides – he used it to distract from Tim Groser GCSB spying
Let’s just remind everyone what actually happened here.
Late last year, The GCSB and SIS had to front for the Intelligence and Security Committee. Questions were being asked about what the bloody hell the GCSB thought they were doing spying on our trade partners to try and get Tim Groser a job. Instead of answering those questions, the mouth pieces for the GCSB and SIS said they couldn’t answer that but they could talk about ‘Jihadi Brides’ – John Key immediately then seized upon this – as if this had been planned all along – and in front of the media played up the domestic threat posed by ‘Jihadi brides’ which justified expanding spy powers.
So instead of being forced to explain how they are currently misusing their spy powers, Key and the Intelligence Agencies managed to distract and spook everyone while demonising Muslims.
It NOW turns out that entire spin line about Jihadi Brides was bullshit because they didn’t even live in NZ!!!!
NZers have been conned. Once again. And instead of focus on this outright lie and blatant attempt to manipulate the public, we get media attention false focused on Andrew Little for supposed racism based on questions the media put to him and we have another distraction with Key tweeting some inane crap to Jack Black about bloody pandas!
The Left are angry because of the out right lies and distractions that pass as mainstream media coverage. The Left are angry at the ease with which Key can deceive. The Left are angry at how gullible the rest of the electorate are.
That anger then gets portrayed by a right wing political mercenary like Matthew Hooton as some type of mental illness.
Meanwhile 300 000 kids live in poverty, the economy is being held up by lazy immigration and a housing bubble while dairy intensification falls over under an ocean of debt. We have private prisons bulging and public hospitals squeezed and we have entire generations unable to conceive of ever owning a home.
But don’t worry, the fucking Batchelor is on so it can’t be too bad eh?
What da. The number is 300k now. That’s to many kids in poverty. You can’t run an economy like that.
Craziness
What are you saying, that NZ citizens living in Australia aren’t ‘real’ kiwis then?
the impression given and received for those gullible enough to believe it …was that we had a serious security problem in New Zealand
…as usual it was a lie
I think it depends on whether they have left NZ for good, or are just doing an OE thing. If they have left NZ for good, they are no longer ‘real’ Kiwis in my books.
That is the silly thing – apparently some of these Jihadi Brides had dual Nationality, so they could actually be Australians rather than Kiwis. (Maybe all of them, or was there perhaps only one? We do not know.)
Yet for bullshit propaganda purposes they/she are/is being called Kiwi(s). Face it – there is a stench of dishonesty and deception about this whole can of slimy worms.
Except the scenario given was of people leaving New Zealand, because they wanted to spy on New Zealanders, not New Zealanders resident in Australia. Try to keep up.
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This was your best yet martyn you was so on to it there, and what a lineup you had also magic mate keep it up.
You have described my feelings perfectly. The MSM are so frustrating with their Key worship as if he is some sort of god. I keep thinking of the saying “every dog has his day” & hope Keys days are running out. There must be a revelation to the people that Key is running a ponzi scheme with the economy although I suspect most of them will only find out after the inevitable crash.
From one RNZ report:
“They were New Zealand citizens domiciled in Australia and they left from there.”
Yep, did anybody think anything else, when this hit the news?
There was already much scepticism then, and despite of lack of real proof, even our useless MSM repeated this “news” giving the impression there were possibly a dozen or more New Zealand women preparing to head to Syria or Iraq, to join Jihadists as their brides.
We should have learned by now, that Australia and their larger cities like Sydney and Melbourne have a larger Muslim community, and that there have admittedly been some cases of radicalisation, which their MSM have though also exaggerated on numerous occasions.
So it may not surprise that some New Zealand citizens, apparently holding dual citizenship, who lived there, many have become somehow attracted to jihadist ideology, that would be in small numbers.
Yet the SIS knew this, the GCSB will have known this, possibly Mr Finlayson and Mr Key will also have known this, but they made NO attempt to clarify the then scare mongering media reports that went around.
Again we are sold the “ISIS fighter under your bed” story, to justify further expansion of spy and surveillance powers, and John Key is one expert at telling us half truths and untruths.
Any word coming from John Key must be treated with a grain of salt, I am dismayed that so many, first of all our useless MSM, do still give the PM so much credit.
Key is a repeat offender when it comes to compromising the truth and to misrepresenting things. When do our rat pack and other journos finally wake up, and start pressing the man with the really hard questions, rather than behave like tamed mercenaries?
Our useless MSM will continue to parrot Gnat Party spin as long as they remain in the pocket of the Govt.
What we must have is independent media: people who are unafraid to look under the rocks, ask the real questions and keep asking them, challenge MPs and make them squirm, engage the public with real information.
I think that will be a long time coming.
+100 Martyn.
“But don’t worry, the fucking Batchelor is on so it can’t be too bad eh? “MB
Frustratingly this is the sad truth.
The majority are still such happy slaves, they do not care about people worse off than themselves. As a solo parent I have found myself in the most stigmatised, vulnerable and dismpowering situation. I am prey for every guy who thinks I must be “dying for some” when I walk out my door. The solo in the street.
I supported my partner’s career for 10 years+. He pays 70 a month. I have to please him even though he physically abused me in front of my daughter, so he might be inclined to help buy clothes etc. No one cares, we are labelled.
BTW This is an educated European male well respected in his, what was our, community, I had to move to another town 3 hours away to prevent him having access to me on his terms.
I am cleaning it is the only work that suits the hours I can be with out my daughter. I am trying to study, my 76 year old mother who lives nearby is about to come home in 10 days she will need help which I believe is my duty and I want to help her.
My daughter and I are following the US Presidential Elections, we watch parliament, we sign petitions together, from banning female genital mutilation to saving forests.
We don’t have a television. We are reading Katherine Mansfield and next will be Kafka (perhaps…. it might be a little to close to what home is becoming).
It is ridiculous that the lobotomised enjoying The Batchelor point to me as bringing the country down. Under John Key, I might as well be a Mexican Muslim in Trump’s world.