Why Peter Thiel was really allowed residency in NZ
It’s quaint that NZ media seem to think rich people buying citizenship in NZ is a surprise. The Spin blog went as far as giving a far right think tank platform to defend rich people buying NZ residency.
Our free market system of allowing Ministers to ignore agency advice is ripe for bribery and the recent case of Peter Thiel reminds us of Shane Jones and his remarkable decision to allow William Yan to stay in NZ
The last thing NZ First want is any scrutiny behind why Jones did that just as Jones is about to stand as a candidate for them.
Hilariously Kim Dotcom was turned down when he applied, it wasn’t until the Intelligence Agencies became involved that he was allowed residency, they did that with the plans ultimately to arrest him.
The truth is that NZ is open for business when it comes to allowing rich people to buy residency and both Labour and National are guilty of doing it.
That the Egalitarian Nation that was once NZ would happily sell residency to rich people makes us no better than half a dozen of other banana republics around the world who do the exact same thing.
We don’t need these rich pricks here.
You want to know the real reason Peter Thiel was allowed in NZ?
National security.
Thiel helps the 5 Eyes mass surveillance monster with his company Palantir.
I bet if the media ask official information requests about who the Minister spoke to in making their decision, one of the National Security agencies will have briefed the Minister.
This isn’t just bribery and the elites buying themselves what they want, this is payment for the deep state.
Wonder how much was donated to the National party as part of the deal.
Great to see that far right billionaire are welcome to buy up here, (sarc), I actually don’t care that they are rich, it is the far right ideology that I’m most fearful of and the US culture of corporate lobbying that brings.
As for Dotcom, pity he was a talented IT entrepreneur who happened to scare the pants of TPPA Hollywood, if he had just donated to the Natz (not just John Banks) and bought up billions of property, a Kiwi fruit orchard with cheap migrant labour here he would have been welcomed in with open arms.
As for buying access, 25% of any foreign student doing a dodgy degree gets residency in NZ – even if you have to pay $20k for a fake job to do it.
So NZ citizenship is certainly for sale, and it’s easy to get and doesn’t cost much at all!
+100 SAVENZ
Thiel is also a vampire. I kid you not. Uses the blood of young for longevity.
It’s blatantly obvious that Thiel bought his citizenship. With the Nats, anyone can buy NZ citizenship, just hand over the cash, fellas.
Donghua lui was another one.
The Nats weren’t kidding when they describe this country as “NZ Inc”. Everything is for sale.
Next will be a very generous donation by Thiel, his company, or one of his associates, to the National Party.
Interesting, no wonder the MSM did not report much more.
WOW, I thought, I had read it all, this really sends home the message. As an immigrant not rich prick standard fitting, I salute this message.
The world would be better off without prics like Thiel.
Those shallow thinkers may think money is what matters.
These parasites don’t earn money, they gather it from others.
5i’s don’t ask executives if they can use there digital infrastructure, they threaten executives with arrest.