Posts by Katharine Moody
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OnPoint: Sunlight Resistance, in reply to Alfie,
Or perhaps the more relevant question would be, on which date were Parliamentary Services notified that Ede was no longer in their employ?
If he was employed by Parliamentary Services, then is the Speaker is ultimately responsible for his conduct? This issue of Parliamentary Services staff not understanding which branch of government they work for, Parliament or the executive, was made very apparent during the Kitteridge report leak.
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OnPoint: Sunlight Resistance, in reply to Andrew Geddis,
So … are we not in a functioning democracy?
And not for two election periods in Canterbury where regional governance is concerned.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/3526047/ECan-councillors-sacked
AND
http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/no-ecan-election-until-2016-keep-flow-water-management-bd-127847
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OnPoint: Sunlight Resistance, in reply to Andrew Geddis,
So … are we not in a functioning democracy?
Not a democracy functioning appropriately in the sense that individual rights are adequately protected from the abuse of executive power ... according to the New Zealand Law Society, that is:
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OnPoint: Sunlight Resistance, in reply to Ianmac,
What can we actually do about it though?
I'm gonna give these folks another plug;
http://www.actionstation.org.nz/royal_commission_cleanup_politics
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OnPoint: Sunlight Resistance, in reply to Andrew Geddis,
Agreed.
An argument (i.e., abuse of executive power) I've put forward on Pundit on more than one occasion, but I find you never engage on.
Or am I being unfair?
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OnPoint: Sunlight Resistance, in reply to Andrew Geddis,
Can’t, sorry. Not a real lawyer.
So what can you do to defend your colleagues? Give us your ideas.
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OnPoint: Sunlight Resistance, in reply to Russell Brown,
Russell, additionally you have likely read Wendyl Nissan's account of having been smeared;
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11325097
The comments by readers on this article were many, many in number and all shocked and supportive of Wendyl. They have since been removed. Is this normal practice for Herald comments? Are they removed after a certain period?
Regardless, Wendyl is another individual who in my opinion has a case for defamation.
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OnPoint: Sunlight Resistance, in reply to Russell Brown,
The whole thing appears to be a carefully-constructed effort to smear a group of health and nutrition researchers on behalf of a paying client.
A defamation case must be mounted which serves as a legal precedent to discourage such dishonest behaviour by these individuals (and the many more, I assume) who also deploy such techniques.
Given in this case, it is Otago University academics, perhaps Andrew might represent them.
We could crowd-fund the legal costs. This really must be stopped.
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OnPoint: Sunlight Resistance, in reply to Andrew Geddis,
What do you mean by “a vehicle”? If you mean that the media quoted Key, et al saying this, then … yeah. That’s what the media does, unless you really want it to stop reporting things that the journalist in question happens not to believe. But if you mean that the media actively promoted this meme … I’m not convinced.
Yes, media did promote the meme – if by the meme we mean the repeated messages Key used over and over without critical analysis – and yes, they were indeed “the vehicle”. The vehicle to spread the propaganda (Key’s).
Where was the headline: Key employs propagandist techniques from the master
With quotations from Hitler’s Mein Kampf which prove the above headline. Such as:
“The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan. As soon as you sacrifice this slogan and try to be many-sided, the effect will piddle away, for the crowd can neither digest nor retain the material offered. In this way the result is weakened and in the end entirely cancelled out...”
“..But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success."
http://www.hitler.org/writings/Mein_Kampf/mkv1ch06.html
Indeed, the media failed – or succeeded – in propaganda winning on the day.
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A journalist who gets it!!
Thank you, Keith.