Key called again on bullying tactics

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1. Murray Olsen 1

   9 August 2013 at 5:49 pm

   Rodney Harrison was not comfortable with injustice and he fought hard against the Clark government to get some measure of justice for Ahmed Zouai. He was bothered that the lies of torturers and murderers were used by the SIS to besmirch an innocent.

   If he’s the sort of person Key uses to cast aspersions, I have found one more reason to not be comfortable with Key. I am very, very bothered. Just how low is Key when the curtain comes fully back? Does he make WhaleSpew look like a bleeding heart Marxist?
2. BLiP 2

   9 August 2013 at 5:56 pm

   ‘

   And here we see John Key demonstrating the classic National Ltd™ kneejerk response when dealing with an inconvenient truth . . .

   TORY 101: when faced with undeniable facts and/or irrefutable logic, apply ad homs

   . . . as well as seeking to denigrate the source of the truth, such Tory basics help ease the chronic personal cognitive dissonance exacerbated when forced to even consider, let alone examine, their core belief system. Many Tories, particularly those in leadership roles, are not even aware they are using TORY 101. This is because their belief system is installed at a young age and informs even the adult that leadership is defined, achieved, and maintained by those best able to shove others around the playground and steal lunch off the weak, especially those not from here.
   • Rodel 2.1

     9 August 2013 at 8:35 pm

     BLip
     The not being aware bit is so true..and the most concerning.The mafia are/ were not aware that they were/are the mafia.
3. Anne 3

   9 August 2013 at 5:58 pm

   He can’t bear to be crossed and cannot take criticism. Full of himself. How dare anyone stand up to him- especially when deep down he knows they’re right and he’s wrong. It should be remembered all bullies are cowards when it come to the crunch and it will… in the not too distant future. Then watch him run for cover as fast as his little legs can carry him – all the way to Hawaii.
   • karol 3.1

     9 August 2013 at 6:19 pm

     He can’t bear to be crossed and cannot take criticism.

     Yep, that’s my perception.
4. McFlock 4

   9 August 2013 at 6:26 pm

   Key thinks that it is a slight on a lawyer’s character to defend someone who was not a terrorist.
   Come on, John, it’s not like Zaoui did anything as shitty as forex trading his own country into bankruptcy.
5. Paul 5

   9 August 2013 at 6:27 pm

   “Key told a Newstalk ZB talkshow this morning”
   Hoskings or Smith?
   • Pascal's bookie 5.1

     9 August 2013 at 6:29 pm

     Smith.
     • Paul 5.1.1

       9 August 2013 at 6:35 pm

       I assume Smith asked Key difficult and challenging questions about the loss of our Civil Rights, his government spying on Peters, Vance and Ambrose, the army spying on Stephenson etc.
       Or was it a love fest?
       • felix 5.1.1.1

         9 August 2013 at 6:42 pm

         I’d guess the most challenging question would’ve been “what’s wrong with those bloody lefties and why won’t they just stfu?”
       • Anne 5.1.1.2

         9 August 2013 at 6:46 pm

         A love fest for sure. Newstalk ZB is for ignorant louts, the intellectually challenged and the modern day version of the 1930s brown shirts. Radio host Leighton Smith and John Key fit nicely into the mould.
         • Paul 5.1.1.2.1

           9 August 2013 at 7:10 pm

           From Wikipedia…. Smith, ,”always starts his show with a monologue of a few minutes discussing his thoughts on recent events ……is an avid right-winger, an advocate of social authoritarianism and a denier of anthropogenic global warming. ”
           Ignorant host feeding a gullible audience.
           • Anne 5.1.1.2.1.1

             9 August 2013 at 7:12 pm

             Right on the button Paul.
             • Paul …

               9 August 2013 at 7:16 pm

               And who pays the fiddlers tune?
               The 1%
         • Rodel 5.1.1.2.2

           9 August 2013 at 8:36 pm

           Hey its just radio retard…we all know that
         • Tim 5.1.1.2.3

           9 August 2013 at 9:54 pm

           Oh for Aunt Daisy – she’d have given him a run for his money. She’d probably also given him a thrill. (The smell of mothballs up the back passage and all that).
           This guy really does have to be NZ’s worst Prime Minister EVER
       • Pascal's bookie 5.1.1.3

         9 August 2013 at 7:05 pm

         I didn’t listen, but I did follow the snark on twitter.
     • North 5.1.2

       10 August 2013 at 7:20 am

       Hatin’ Leighton Smith……..the redneck Tea Partyist who really really really really believes he’s massively intelligent………whose every sheep marble is a pearl. The very sort fascistic oligarchy loves to bits.
6. red blooded 6

   9 August 2013 at 6:53 pm

   …and yet every time Radio NZ ask for an interview or comment they are turned away. He doesn’t want the more thoughtful listeners to hear him answering what are usually actually pretty tame questions.

   I think it’s a disgrace that our PM treats our state broadcaster with such disdain.
   • felix 6.1

     9 August 2013 at 7:00 pm

     Not just our broadcaster, but the people of New Zealand.
7. Pascal's bookie 7

   9 August 2013 at 7:18 pm

   Reckon that Pablo over at KP should tell everyone what he really thinks and stop sugar coating it so much:

   http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2013/08/note-to-john-key-zaoui-was-innocent/

   This is why John Key is behaving like a sniveling weasel. In order to garner support for his spying bills he has played on latent anti-Muslim prejudice and fears of terrorism long after the Zaoui case ended to make it appear that Zaoui was guilty of something and that Mr. Harrison was wrong to defend him. Yet the truth is quite different: Mr. Zaoui was an innocent man wrongly accused for political and diplomatic reasons by the New Zealand authorities of crimes he never committed. Mr Harrison was one of the champions who defended Zaoui against the gross injustice perpetrated against him by the State. Both men displayed integrity and steadfastness of purpose in the face of concerted official duplicity and malice.
   • Paul 7.1

     9 August 2013 at 7:29 pm

     Snivelling weasel.
     What an apt description.
     • BrucetheMoose 7.1.1

       9 August 2013 at 7:37 pm

       And lower than a toilet bowl licker.
   • Chooky 7.2

     9 August 2013 at 7:54 pm

     +1 Pascal’s Bookie

     Zaoui seems to be a very fine man.
     • Rhinocrates 7.2.1

       9 August 2013 at 9:55 pm

       Are you so certain about? Since we so naively let him, he’s masterminded numerous successful and devatstating plots against us decent folk. He blew up the big L and P bottle in Paeroa, put garlic in every pavlova, burned Weta Workshop to the ground, created nanotechnology that turned all Buzzy Bees into sawdust, he organised his terrorist cells to paint all Holden Commodores a very unmanly pink!
       • Chooky 7.2.1.1

         9 August 2013 at 11:18 pm

         smile…he is a lovely man
   • Rhinocrates 7.3

     9 August 2013 at 10:00 pm

     concerted official duplicity and malice.

     By Clark and Goff, I have to note. “Labour” needs to start showing some consistency and responsibility to have any credibility.
8. BrucetheMoose 8

   9 August 2013 at 7:32 pm

   Key should be banned from Newstalk ZB and More FM for abusing the privilege of apathetic radio stations…and our intelligence.
9. freedom 9

   9 August 2013 at 7:37 pm

   https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/q71/998445_336437066491079_947712949_n.jpg
   can we really blame the puppet though ?
10. MikeG 10

    9 August 2013 at 7:52 pm

    Chris Finlayson first mentioned the Rodney Harrison / Ahmed Zaoui connection in the House on Tuesday night during the GCSB debate, when he also claimed that a number of lawyers were unhappy with the Law Society’s submission.
    • handle 10.1

      9 August 2013 at 8:35 pm

      I suppose zero is a number.
    • North 10.2

      10 August 2013 at 7:45 am

      Well Chrissy QC (hahaha!)……….if there are a number of lawyers unhappy with the Law Society submission let’s have the number and the names. Or would that be to churlishly invade THEIR elegant privacy ? Yikes ! Can’t do that ! (Clutch pearls and look mortified).

      Enough of your devious bitch throwaway lines Chrissy QC. Elitist natter engaged in those wells of democracy the Wellington Club, the Northern Club and similar, does not impress……..
11. mickysavage 11

    9 August 2013 at 8:01 pm

    I just wish that Rodney Harrison and Key had a chance to debate the issue. Harrison would wipe the floor with Key and then apologise for the debate being so one sided …
    • yeshe 11.1

      9 August 2013 at 8:48 pm

      Happy to buy a ticket to see that ! And I’ll buy you one too, micky !
12. exitlane 12

    9 August 2013 at 8:48 pm

    so will Key now attempt to bully Austin Forbes QC who penned the latest Law Society statement which again slated the GCSB bill as remaining “flawed” and for use of SOP without public chance to comment?
    http://www.voxy.co.nz/national/gcsb-bill-remains-flawed-despite-proposed-changes/5/163550
13. Rhinocrates 13

    9 August 2013 at 9:47 pm

    Key is our Nixon… where are our Woodward and Bernstein? Certainly not Garner and Espiner, nor Rat-boy! Look at them – so determined to look like heroes, so unwilling to be even remotely brave.
14. Tim 14

    9 August 2013 at 9:48 pm

    He is a bully – but the thing that amuses and disappoints me is that he’s also a wimp – and that makes him a coward.
    His bullying is only possible because of his position – earned in ill-gotten gain fashion.

    The day will come when the trappings and baubles leave him, when there is no DPS, and it’ll probably be a time when he’s tucked up in Hawaii or behind a secure pin-numbered fence and when there’s not a great deal left of Nu Zull.
    • Rhinocrates 14.1

      9 August 2013 at 10:03 pm

      Sir John Key will die fat, happy, in his own bed and at an advanced age.

      That’s how the system works.
15. Appleboy 15

    9 August 2013 at 10:05 pm

    Where are the right wing nutters to defend this crass crap from their hero?
    • McFlock 15.1

      9 August 2013 at 10:14 pm

      They don’t realise some people view it as a bad thing that needs defending or minimising.
16. ak 16

    10 August 2013 at 12:42 am

    Bully is such an apt description. The bully mouth: the ugly Key pie hole mashing maniacally like a demented thoroughbred’s vagina. Bulk and physical intimidation no longer acceptable; the subtle ability to denigrate and intimidate orally assuming paramount current cachet. The recent “He’s completely wrong – as usual” delivered re Winnie with aplomb and casual grin a classic example. “The smiling assassin” a vainglorious misnomer for a weak, sneering bully. The essential currency of kiwi CEOs and political appointees: interminable, impenetrable bullshit laced with razors. Utterly merciless bullshitting bullies, 100% putrid, most preferred by circus audiences everywhere.
17. Sable 17

    10 August 2013 at 1:25 pm

    Sounds like the little Emperor’s crown has slipped or maybe it just never fitted all that well to start with.

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