Just in: photo from David Farrar’s march

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1. Sam Dixon 1

   21 November 2007 at 3:06 pm

   It pretty much looked exactly like that but with more signs referring to fascism.
2. THE Weybridge Digger 2

   21 November 2007 at 3:11 pm

   Pissed myself all_ your_base
3. the bean 3

   21 November 2007 at 3:32 pm

   stop…i can’t laugh anymore it hurts too much.
4. the sprout 4

   21 November 2007 at 3:35 pm

   clearly the masses are outraged at this grevious threat to democracy.
   oh no that’s right, it’s only the corporate elite and their stooges who don’t like it.
   http://thesproutandthebean.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/outrage-concern-silence/
5. Billy 5

   21 November 2007 at 3:42 pm

   “…the corporate elite and their stooges…”

   Are you being a parody left-winger? Are trying to be Rick from the Young Ones?
6. Barnsley Bill 6

   21 November 2007 at 3:52 pm

   Brilliant photo-shopping effort. A genuine moment of high humour at the standard. It will stand as a diamond in the big turd that is the rest of your efforts at being funny. Well done.
7. Seamonkey Madness 7

   21 November 2007 at 3:58 pm

   Yes, have to admit it, nice humour.
   The tumbleweed rolling through adds to it nicely.

   Pity you didn’t PS in the YL contingent though. Heh. 😉
8. milo 8

   21 November 2007 at 4:00 pm

   Nice photo. Yeah, there weren’t many. But I was still proud to march.

   Oh, and it seems section 55B9(d) will ban TVNZ from broadcasting political advertisements next year. Gee, its such well drafted legislation, isn’t it?
9. The Double Standard 9

   21 November 2007 at 4:06 pm

   Yup, nearly as funny as this one from Scoop

   http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0711/2644f92d85ceb5be5613.jpeg

   Actually, it’s not that surprising that attendance is down in Wellington. After all, no-one who works for the state would risk their job by attending eh?

   Also odd that the hecklers were apparently masked. Maybe some of the Tuhoe stayed in town?
10. Sam Dixon 10

    21 November 2007 at 4:18 pm

    The counterprotesters were wearing John Key and Mr Burns masks to go with their satirical chants (money in politics, more more more was one I caught)… they took them off at Parliament and the joker who spoke gave his name.

    milo- drafting errors like that are really the fault of Crown Law who do the drafting.. it’ll be fixed in the readings, that’s one of the reasons we have subsequent readings.
11. Barnsley Bill 11

    21 November 2007 at 4:23 pm

    sam, shame on you. blaming fellow lawyers! that will get you baned from the friday biscuit club mate.
12. THE Weybridge Digger 12

    21 November 2007 at 4:25 pm

    No checked the link and the “standard’s” photo is funnier
    David you must feel like crap it must be like giving a party and no one turns up
    I hope there are some more planned the better news coverage the better
13. The Double Standard 13

    21 November 2007 at 4:40 pm

    I can’t help wondering how the war petition is going after all the outrage here? Last time I checked it was well behind the numbers wanting megadeath (or some other band) to visit NZ. I doubt it is higher than the numbers marching against the EFB.
14. Lampie 14

    21 November 2007 at 4:42 pm

    question- thats the Herald photo right? No wonder they didn’t have it on the website!
15. Robinsod 15

    21 November 2007 at 4:47 pm

    Bill you old sociopath – I see you’re back. Don’t you have puppies to torure or shotgun reviews to masturbate over? I’m surprised you’ve got the gall to post anywhere given your reputation. Oh and you see Whale can you ask him why the fuck he’s not suing me or the standard yet? It’s starting to look like he’s just a big lying fraidy cat.
16. Robinsod 16

    21 November 2007 at 4:54 pm

    Oh and DPF/Santa?dblstd – if you want to change teh topic how about we change it to the question of why you decided to use my wee joke as your new moniker. I mean it kinda looks like you’ve got a thing for me bro…
17. tom-tom 17

    21 November 2007 at 5:06 pm

    Beautiful – the march and the March Hare!
18. Billy 18

    21 November 2007 at 5:10 pm

    “I’m surprised you’ve got the gall to post anywhere given your reputation.”

    Yet yesterday you were imploring Robert Owen to continue posting, despite having been caught out in duplicitous double-dealing.

    Care to explain?
19. The Double Standard 19

    21 November 2007 at 5:13 pm

    Robbo – please keep your vile homophobia in check. Nothing relevant to add to the debate as usual I see.
20. Leftie 20

    21 November 2007 at 5:20 pm

    When is Megadeth coming to New Zealand?
21. Nih 21

    21 November 2007 at 5:21 pm

    Just after John Key apologises.
22. Barnsley Bill 22

    21 November 2007 at 5:31 pm

    robinnome is not to blame for his vile outbursts, the “left attack blogging for beginners” only covered how to wind up D4J. I wonder if you talk to strangers that way face to face wee man? Due to your being able to type I suspect not. Unless you have one of those drumsticks taped to your head and you are typing from bed.
    I guess thread jacking here is about the only place left for you now.
    Anyway back to the topic, it was indeed the funniest pic I have seen on a left blog, I am sure DPF is also having a chuckle as well. He is quite able to laugh at himself. self deprecation is a trait commonly found everywhere but the left.
23. Barnsley Bill 23

    21 November 2007 at 5:37 pm

    Also, organising a march to protest against the govt in WELLINGTON was not the smartest proposition.
    The whole place is populated by civil servants who could not take part and spotty kids working retail.
24. shreddakj 24

    21 November 2007 at 7:01 pm

    Okay this isn’t even funny. You realise you have no sense of humour at all and this is…

    I can’t even begin to explain how pathetic and childish this is…
25. Nih 25

    21 November 2007 at 7:03 pm

    Meanwhile magnetic money continues to be funny no matter what.
26. Leftie 26

    21 November 2007 at 7:26 pm

    oh and shreddakj gallops in on his high horse.
27. r0b 27

    21 November 2007 at 7:39 pm

    Well well, today, DPF flexed his political muscle.
28. milo 28

    21 November 2007 at 7:48 pm

    I wouldn’t write off the marchers quite so quickly r0b. And I will believe that DPF is irrelevant the day that The Standard and Kiwiblogblog close down.

    Actually, that’s an interesting question. What do you call it without DPF. Blogblog? And maybe The Standard would have to start posting its own ideas, and discussing those?

    Heh heh.
29. thomas 29

    21 November 2007 at 8:12 pm

    I’m not sure what is funnier the pic or
    I am sure DPF is also having a chuckle as well. He is quite able to laugh at himself. self deprecation is a trait commonly found everywhere but the left.
    Mind you if you are from Barnsley that would explain a lot
30. Insolent Prick 30

    21 November 2007 at 8:27 pm

    I missed the Robert Owen thing. What was that about? Is this the same Robert Owen who shared the same IP address as Robinsod?
31. Billy 31

    21 November 2007 at 8:47 pm

    Prick:
    http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2007/11/hilarious_hypocrisy-2.html#comments

    See DPF’s post of 4:55.
32. Gruela 32

    21 November 2007 at 8:57 pm

    I actually saw DPF one night in a nightclub in wellington. He bowled up to a group of young ladies (none of whom could have been over 25) and introduced himself. If I’d had a camera phone I could have taken that exact same photo not 20 seconds later.
33. Nih 33

    21 November 2007 at 8:59 pm

    So if farrar isn’t over here posting endless tirades and abuse under various logins, who is? That’s why we invented the word crony. So we’d have something to describe a tool used to act when you don’t wish to be seen as acting yourself.

    You’d think a “hard core libertarian” would be against banning people, particularly on a pretext. RobertOwen was mystified as to why he was banned until farrar decided he’d called him a “fat cunt”. I personally doubt it.

    Farrar himself defends redbaiter’s far more vile abuse under the pretext of being a libertarian and believing in free speech.

    So basically boo hoo, only farrar’s cronies can act like juveniles with a list of swearwords to work through. Glad that’s settled.
34. milo 34

    21 November 2007 at 9:22 pm

    Nih. I read it. You’re wrong. DPF is right. Is was a particularly nasty piece of abusive ill wishing. Grow up.
35. r0b 35

    21 November 2007 at 9:29 pm

    I was expecting something – you know – larger.
36. rogue_element 36

    21 November 2007 at 9:32 pm

    Don’t know about you folks but I figure that pro-free speech protesters outnumbered Labour Party lackeys by about 50 to 1.

    Poor turnout by the left. What a pity. And after all those emails from LP HQ.
37. Gruela 37

    21 November 2007 at 9:46 pm

    Since when does pro-free speech equate to ‘whoever has the most money get to shout the loudest’? rorue, you’re a dick.
38. thomas 38

    21 November 2007 at 10:04 pm

    Gruela
    exact same photo not 20 seconds later.
    That was also really funny
39. rogue_element 39

    21 November 2007 at 10:20 pm

    Have you noticed that people won’t listen to those who shout?

    People aren’t stupid. They didn’t let large pro-National advertising (the EB stuff) sway them last time.

    I say let the dicks spend their money. I choose not to listen and to vote for what I believe.
40. Gruela 40

    21 November 2007 at 10:35 pm

    rogue
    you may choose to vote for what u believe, but u can’t deny that your choice is influenced by what u see and hear. With unrestricted election advertising, this means that those with the most money have the biggest say on the outcome of the election. try and say it isn’t so.
41. Barnsley Bill 41

    21 November 2007 at 10:49 pm

    Gruela you are quite right… And the next election will be won by the party spending the most money just like last time…. Ohh hang on a minute ACT have only two seats!
42. Nih 42

    21 November 2007 at 10:53 pm

    Nih. I read it. You’re wrong. DPF is right. Is was a particularly nasty piece of abusive ill wishing. Grow up.

    So because you saw something I didn’t, I have to “grow up”? You people seem damn keen to reveal someone’s true identity. We call everyone DPF because, frankly, it’s fucking funny. Given the same situation you jackoffs work to take choice out of everyone else’s hands. Your lot has worked impossibly hard to ensure someone doesn’t have a voice.

    I still don’t see redbaiter getting banned for prompting anyone he thinks is ‘left’ to kill themselves. I don’t see you calling him to task. Worse, he’s only one dozens. Look to your own crowd before admonishing me and mine.

    Yeah, me and mine. Because the more you assholes act like dipshits over your prized political views, the more I’m forced to rethink my view of national in general. Thank god none of you are polluting Act for me.
43. Gruela 43

    21 November 2007 at 10:58 pm

    I’ve just gotten back from some years in Europe and can someone please tell me when Helen Clark was taken over by the Central Spirit? When I left I loved her cause she had balls bigger than the MacKenzie Country, but now she seems to be a shell, (occupied by the hermit crab of expediency.) Next thing I’ll be hearing that she’s been having late night whiskey’s with Winston, has moved to Te Kuiti and has 18 kids. Also, how can we make fun of the Americans for voting in GWB, when we’ve gone back to John Banks? WTF has happened to my country?!?
44. burt 44

    21 November 2007 at 11:30 pm

    That’s a very funny picture. Who says the left have no humour!
    Well done.
45. thomas 45

    21 November 2007 at 11:56 pm

    Santa visits Wellington
    
46. burt 46

    21 November 2007 at 11:58 pm

    Gruela

    I think the satire from the McGillicuddy Serious Party with their GREAT LEAP BACKWARDS© was on the money in 1999.

    40,000 people ran away last year. Thankyou for coming back, the recipients of middle class welfare need your tax dollars.
47. Gruela 47

    22 November 2007 at 12:29 am

    burt
    I don’t see it as welfare. I see it as investing in my community, and I like living in a community where I can sit on my deck in the afternoon, sipping a G’n’T and hearing the laughs and screams from the playground at the local primary school. I don’t know any of those kids, I may never meet any of them, but I appreciate that some of my ‘middle class welfare’ went towards that sound of laughter and fun in the warm spring sunshine. I really don’t mind contributing towards the education of random Kiwi kids, or the hip operations for Kiwi oldies in Southland or the East Coast, or WINZ workers in South Auckland. I’m not starving, I have a roof over my head, and at the end of the day I want to live in a society where people look out for each other. That includes financially as well.
48. burt 48

    22 November 2007 at 12:37 am

    Gruela

    Perhaps you have missed the detail while you were away that welfare extends to people earning up to $120K now and the rich bastard top tax threshold is still $60K as set in 1999.

    If you are well aware of this and still have the same views as you express then that’s all good. You have chosen a good time to move back to NZ.
49. Gruela 49

    22 November 2007 at 12:48 am

    Obviously this is a good time to move back, so I can put up counter arguments to posts like yours, burt.
    You make it sound like there’s people on $120k somehow getting housing subsidies or community service cards. As I understand it, to be getting welfare, (or state assistance, as it could equally be termed, or how about social security?), you’d have to have about 6 kids, and even then you’d still only be getting a fraction of the amount that the guy working at the local supermarket would be getting. Do his kids not count as much as the lawyer’s kids? I think they do.
50. r0b 50

    22 November 2007 at 12:55 am

    “I’ve just gotten back from some years in Europe”

    Hi Gruela. I left Muldoon’s NZ, did my time in Thatcher’s England, and returned home to Roger Douglas’ (and David Lange’s) NZ. What a long, strange trip that was!

    “and can someone please tell me when Helen Clark was taken over by the Central Spirit? When I left I loved her cause she had balls bigger than the MacKenzie Country, but now she seems to be a shell”

    Please don’t worry about HC and her government. Give it some time to settle back in here, and you’ll find that the Labour government has the same heart and soul as it always had. What has changed is the pragmatics of MMP in the current parliament, and the extraordinarily virulent nature of the attacks on Labour which have followed their third consecutive election victory.

    But look past the politics to the achievements: unemployment is at record lows, the minimum wage has increased hugely, household incomes have increased, fewer are on benefits, crime rates are down, industrial action is down, the economy is strong and growing, the environment is taken seriously, there are many initiatives to support families, we are making provision for future retirements, the list goes on and on. Labour is still delivering to the people.
51. Peak Oil Conspiracy 51

    22 November 2007 at 1:06 am

    Sam Dixon:

    
    milo- drafting errors like that are really the fault of Crown Law who do the drafting.. it’ll be fixed in the readings, that’s one of the reasons we have subsequent readings.
    

    Your law credentials have been letting you down in recent times. You’ve never heard of the Parliamentary Counsel Office?
52. Gruela 52

    22 November 2007 at 1:12 am

    rob
    I’ll agree with what you’re saying, but so many of positive trends have little to do with Labour, especially the economic aspects. (I think, anyway) And the environment? Bah ha ha! When you’ve been living in Europe, coming back here to the laissez-faire attitude Kiwis take to their natural surroundings is astounding. Friend, I hate to break it to you, but we are BIG polluters, and the only changes to this I see coming from Labour are cosmetic.

    My intended point, however, was that the big HC seems to have lost her mojo. Her spark. Her passion. She doesn’t lead anymore. She seems scared to put her foot down on any position. Dare I say it, she’s become a bureaucrat. A civil servant. Grey.
53. r0b 53

    22 November 2007 at 1:31 am

    “I’ll agree with what you’re saying, but so many of positive trends have little to do with Labour, especially the economic aspects.”

    For some things we can’t know for sure how much of the benefits are specifically as a result of a Labour government. For other things we can be pretty sure – raising the minimum wage, the Cullen fund, KiwiSaver, working for families – those aren’t just good economic luck, they are Labour values in action.

    “the environment? Bah ha ha! When you’ve been living in Europe, coming back here to the laissez-faire attitude Kiwis take to their natural surroundings is astounding. Friend, I hate to break it to you, but we are BIG polluters, and the only changes to this I see coming from Labour are cosmetic.”

    I agree entirely about our poor environmental record. I don’t agree that Labour’s only changes are cosmetic – the new carbon trading system seems to be somewhat world-leading. However, yes, Labour could and should be doing more in this area I feel.

    “My intended point, however, was that the big HC seems to have lost her mojo. Her spark. Her passion. She doesn’t lead anymore. She seems scared to put her foot down on any position. Dare I say it, she’s become a bureaucrat. A civil servant. Grey.”

    Nobody who saw Helen’s speech to the Labour Party conference (or the one before that, or the one before that…) would have this sense of worry. Helen leads all right. I think (just guessing) that it’s a deliberate party policy to keep her lowish profile between election campaigns. My prediction – look out for Helen Clark in 2008.

    Anyway Gruela, pleasure chatting to you, welcome to The Standard. Hope you’ll be sticking round a while. Goodnight…

    captcha: social leadership – you can’t make this stuff up.
54. milo 54

    22 November 2007 at 11:05 am

    Nih: “Grow up” was a step too far. Sorry, I take it back.
55. Visitor 55

    23 November 2007 at 1:06 pm

    Some Friday fun – a late report on the Auckland march (which now looks set to be fondly remembered as the high point of the Great Popular Uprising)

    http://fundypost.blogspot.com/2007/11/sound-of-suburbs.html

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