There are many many many good reasons to hate David Seymour, this is not one of them
Comrades.
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Seymour defends letter to police in support of Polkinghorne
ACT Party leader David Seymour said he wrote to police about the treatment of Philip Polkinghorne because it’s an electorate MP’s job to pass on the concerns of their constituents.
The former eye surgeon was acquitted last year of the murder of his wife Pauline Hanna at their Remuera home in 2021, but was sentenced to 150 hours of community work for possession of methamphetamine.
The trial lasted eight weeks and heard from 80 witnesses before the verdict was delivered.
On Sunday, the NZ Herald reported that Seymour wrote to police Auckland District Commander Karyn Malthus in 2022 after he was approached by Polkinghorne with concerns about his treatment.
“Mr Polkinghorne has had a harrowing and traumatic experience, but feels he has been treated like a suspect rather than a traumatised member of the public,” the letter stated.
“It’s understandable that police would regard him as a person of interest. But in this instance, the police appear to have gone beyond that brief. While acknowledging the difficult balance police must strike, Mr Polkinghorne feels that he has been subject to prejudice from the police in the above actions.”
…ok.
Couple of things here, yes Audrey Young is right, IF Seymour had written the letter questioning the Police investigation as a Minister he would have had to resign, but he didn’t, he wrote it in his capacity as an electorate MP.
David Seymour has stepped up for me as a constituent MP in my case against the Police illegally gaining access to my bank records when they were telling every bank in NZ that I was the Rawshark hacker – a case the Police lost BTW, in the Polkinghorne case, it turns out again David was right to question police tactics because the entire case fell over because it was so weak.
Again, many many many good reasons to hate David Seymour, him stepping up for constituents isn’t one of them.
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Bullshit Martyn, Seymour should not have inserted himself into a murder inquiry. Polkinghorn was guilty as hell.
Martyn, you are being far too fair.
Nice to see that you have an open mind unlike the right wing nutters here who just hate for the sake of hateing .Bob AND TREV COULD TAKE A LEAF OUT OF YOUR BOOK .
Perhaps Seymour could have gone to the Human rights commissioner, rather than use his right wing manifesto influence, you know, the one he want’s to abolish.
The point of all this to me is that the police lie and attempt to fit people up regularly, not always for such serious crimes but across the board, from traffic infringements and up.
The average victim of such treatment seldom gets the immediate attention from an MP and the police complaints process is weighed overwhelmingly in police favour.
Just saying.
Wow! How remarkably fair-minded. I humbly acknowledge your righteousness and superior knowledge in this case. Despite the fact that the vast majority of the followers of TDB will probably not respond to your humility – not ever having experienced such emotion themselves, thank you for your fairness in an environment that is characterised by prejudice, ire and abuse. Patrick Grey could learn a lot from you.
Oh please Martyn.
Already had a minging migraine before I tried to read above.
Seymour using your name on RNZ as an example of how magmanimous he is not a reason to hate him you say.
Okay.
Another valid reason to loathe him and his tone deaf lack of decency and I do.
He is just like JABanks who even used a dying activist to platform off.
Seymour would use his grear great grandma’s cultural heritage if he thought it would be of use ..
Oh wait a minute.
He has!
The point is not Seymour taking the case, but that if a Labour/Green/TMP MP had acted on Polkies behalf, the hounds of hell would have been unleashed on them.
This is true.
While still completely agreeing with Martin, TM, I sense you are absolutely correct in your observation IMHO.
Yeah, right. The world is unfair and everybody hates you.