Everyone using social media has had that moment their words have been misconstrued or misinterpreted, it’s a familiar experience and the idea of allowing those who generate most of the pile ons to be judge, jury and executioner of free speech is enough to turn voters against the left.
Domestic greed, exploitative free trade agreements and naked racism. That’s a great recipe for the poisoned water cocktail we are being forced to drink.
The Christian Right seeks only to put rocks in voters’ hands. It bids them use their ballots as weapons – to punish the sinful.
Everybody knows the old adage that when it comes to lies, there are three kinds: “lies, damned lies, and statistics”. Political press releases, particularly from the National Party, often combine at least two out of the three in some sort of high art form. Yet as is a truth known to only fewer, the best and most persuasive lies are those that actually contain at their core or at least in their sheathing … a hard element of fact.
The irony of a bullying report that has ended up bullying should be lost on no one.
If this can happen to a former Police Officer, what hope do the rest of us have, that we will be not be subjected to unlawful police actions if we ever do something that the Establishment does not approve?
With Trump’s latest effort to smash Huawei the stakes are now much higher for New Zealand. To stick by Trump on this means that New Zealand will have little comeback if China takes counter-measures against us.
I remember from my research that when the 1984 women MPs went to be sworn in, the National front benchers (now relegated to opposition and no doubt smarting from it) scored the Labour women out of ten on their looks as they went up to take the oath. As far as I know, this never led to a formal complaint. Women just sucked it up.
My first thought when it was announced last week that white supremacist and terrorist Brenton Tarrant had been charged with committing an act of terrorism was how the media’s agreed self-censorship of their coverage will impact the trial.
“Kia ora Mr Mark,
Please cancel the proposal to buy millions of dollars of military equipment from apartheid Israel and support Palestinian calls for a boycott instead.”