EXTREMISM MARS ELECTION RACE he 2014 general election campaign is shaping up to be the dirtiest ever. It has already become nasty, ugly, and personal. A new low for New Zealand politics was the reached last week when the Internet Party held hate-fuelled gatherings, where the German founder called for a “revolution” and incited frenzied crowds into chanting “F… John Key”. These events – which have been likened to Nazi youth rallies – are being held around the country. Video footage of the disgraceful affair is now part of the Internet-Mana Party’s official campaign advertising. Party leader Laila Harre, a former Alliance Member of Parliament and so-called champion of the poor, defended the hate chants by saying she celebrated students “becoming politically involved”. Her stance demonstrates just how completely she sold out her principles when she went onto the millionaire’s payroll and started dancing to his tune. In our 5PM newsletter, we wondered “if she would similarly celebrate ‘F… Laila Harre’ chants as an expression of being politically involved. We can assume not given her reaction when the PM referred to Dotcom as her ‘sugar daddy’.” To read the newsletter, please see here > 5pm.org.nz/newsletter-26/ MP Hone Harawera, another so-called champion of the poor, has also sold out. In a cash-for-favours deal, he has trashed the integrity of a reserved Maori seat with his plan to piggyback an independent party into Parliament. Through his actions, he is turning the Maori seats into a commodity, to be bought by anyone of financial means who needs a loophole to get into Parliament without having to reach the 5 percent party threshold. Once in Parliament, the Internet-Mana agreement allows the parties to split and operate independently – presumably gaining additional taxpayer funded benefits along the way. That the so-called sacrosanct Maori seats are being manipulated so blatantly away from their original purpose, corrupting MMP and democracy as we know it, demonstrates only too clearly that the time has come for New Zealand to move to a single electoral roll. If you agree that the Maori seats should be abolished, please support the Campaign 4 Change newspaper advertising campaign here > nzcpr/campaign4change/ While all of this is undoubtedly a dangerous turn of events in New Zealand politics, the endless...... Continue reading Dr Muriel Newmans latest NZCPR newsletter here > nzcpr/extremism-mars-election-race/#more-12689
Posted on: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 20:25:09 +0000
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