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1. Robinsod 1

   13 February 2008 at 8:32 am

   Good Stuff! The last vestiges of vague respect I had for Franks ended when he made the outrageous claim at an FSC march that Rod Donald would be ashamed of the greens support for EFB – while knowing full well that the FSC is funded by Peter Shitcliffe – the same man who ran a smear campaign on MMP and Rod personally in the 90’s. Franks is scum.
2. Seamonkey Madness 2

   13 February 2008 at 8:50 am

   So they got kicked out of the public gallery AND banned from Parliament, for ….wait for it…..saying nothing!

   Helen must be even more of a coward than I thought.
   Beware the silent masses!
3. burt 3

   13 February 2008 at 8:57 am

   all_your_base

   The latest in a long line of failed protests on the Electoral Finance Act

   The protest made it to the top of the political news on page 2 of todays dom, the biggest picture on the page. That’s hardly a failure….

   Keep spinning Labour good – National bad !
4. Benodic 4

   13 February 2008 at 9:04 am

   Base: Brilliant

   Burt: You shouldn’t be drinking this early in the morning.
5. outofbed 5

   13 February 2008 at 9:12 am

   Isn’t the partisan takes on news items interesting

   I was disappointed that they were not on Page 1
   There were not enough FSC marches for me
   And there are not enough ktb billboards throughout the country
   And the KTB website they couldn’t have designed it to be less effective if they tried
   I consider the whole campaign not only a failure but bloody amusing
   Thanks guys keep it coming

   Do you want to buy a brick?
6. Seamonkey Madness 6

   13 February 2008 at 9:13 am

   I mean this is truly frightening stuff!

   First Labour took away your right to have free speech.

   Now they take away your right to have no speech!

   Whats next?
7. BeShakey 7

   13 February 2008 at 9:21 am

   Seamonkey – wouldn’t want to let the facts get in the way of your opinions, but Labour doesn’t actually set the rules for conduct in the public gallery, not does it set the rules around banning protestors from parliament (I suspect he was simply banned for 24 hours which is the normal way these things work). Better you just go back to shouting ‘Communists!’.
8. Steve Pierson 8

   13 February 2008 at 9:34 am

   Seamonkey. The Franks were removed from the Gallery for breaching Parliament’s long-standing rule that members of the public can’t make protests fromthe Gallery. They were prefectly within their rights to do so elsewhere, but they knew they would be kicked out of the Gallery and did so only to get attention.
9. Seamonkey Madness 9

   13 February 2008 at 9:43 am

   Thank you Steve.

   For all odds it was a PR stunt to highlight that it was the first sitting day at Parliament under the EFA.
   Quite justified then.
   Albeit quite ridiculous though, when they weren’t even shouting or waving any placards about. 😉

   And yes BS, I had notice the ban was for 24 hours (just like the EFB protestors in Wellington last year).
10. Matthew Pilott 10

    13 February 2008 at 10:19 am

    Interesting to note that they had to have a silent protest – as every decent bastard knows, free speech isn’t banned so the muppets had to find another way to pretend it was about free speech, not paid advertising.

    I doubt someone of Franks’ calibre will see the irony though. 😉
11. gobsmacked 11

    13 February 2008 at 11:55 am

    Political strategy for dummies:

    You want to see a law repealed. A party is committed to repealing that law. That party is ahead in the polls. They have achieved this by keeping the right wing quiet, appearing “moderate”, appealing to the centre ground. Polling tells you what issues the voters are interested in – and it’s not the Electoral Finance Act.

    What do you do?

    a) Get as much publicity as possible for the right-wing fringe that 99% of New Zealanders don’t vote for

    b) Not

    E-mail your answers to John Boscawen or David Farrar at HelpingHelen.com …
12. AncientGeek 12

    13 February 2008 at 10:20 pm

    all_your_base should have also put that post in humor. Definitely a good piss-take.

    As Steve Pierson says, there is a long standing rule that only sitting MP’s are allowed to make fools of themselves in the house. Looks like Steve Franks was just trying to queue jump.

    Finally a post where TDS is not that last poster when I arrive. Hurrah!
13. Andy Moore 13

    14 February 2008 at 11:19 am

    They are true Kiwis – and they have the support of the majority of the population.
14. Robinsod 14

    14 February 2008 at 11:23 am

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    Ha.

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