Welcome to John Key’s “Brighter Future”. Here are some headlines:
Violation speaks ill of our democracy
…It also speaks of something very sick and rotten at the heart of the country’s democracy. …
Time to get a grip on politics for our own good
…Strip away the legalese and it is clear that something is rotten in the state of New Zealand….
Spy bungles start to entangle PM
… Key can’t escape questions over what his chief of staff, Wayne Eagleson, and his own department, DPMC, knew about the information being handed over. …
… Akel, the man who has helped define privacy laws in New Zealand, believes the privacy of the individual and the autonomy of a free media are under grave attack. …
Gordon Campbell on the Vance phone scandal
… Either way, it illustrates just why the GCSB Bill should be scrapped or sidelined. Because plainly, the current political masters of the security services cannot be trusted not to use private information for their own political ends. …
Political Report: The State can’t be trusted
… What we have seen over recent months is an insidious creep away from personal freedoms to an at best casual and at worst flagrant disregard for them. …
… The question now is not just how much you trust the executive, but how much you can trust an executive that presides over the screaming absence of constitutional empathy that this one does. …
Govt betrayal on a monumental scale
… The prevailing sound was of the democratic fabric being ripped asunder. …
Photo by Craig Baxter in the ODT.
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