Since when could a man of peace like Keith Locke be considered a threat and continue to be classified as a threat because he speaks out against the unchecked power of the Secret Intelligence Service?
Beyond the petty joy of the daily schadenfreude of breathless media updates on rudeness, littering, minor theft and children brandishing verbal threats of handing out the bash, there is a deep seated resentment towards tourists by the locals that kept this story alive well beyond it’s initial 15 minutes of Nek Minit infamy.
…the hypocrisy of National demanding transparency over innocuous text messages when they did everything in their power to hide their text messages when in power would be funny if the media weren’t feeding this double standard.
Some senior PSA staff are as undeservedly self important as your average Wellington mummy blogger, creating scab unions is a tactic that will blowback on them.
Many already know who the accused is and the lynch mob comments on social media do no one any good.
While the mainstream media focus ridiculously on a band of littering tourists, real questions about the power of the deep state in this country go utterly ignored.
I feel like this needs to be a reality TV show or a political satire funded by NZ on Air.
I’m sure we will see you on the battlefield again Slater. Best of luck to you, your team and your family in overcoming the challenges ahead.
Not only is cheap tourism degrading our environment and our infrastructure, but it is also contributing to our appalling record over the past ten years of gas emissions increases when they were meant to be decreasing.
The latest international Demgraphia survey (which looks at house prices vs incomes) tells us what we have known for many years now – that housing in our country is severerly unaffordable.
