Ian Wishart

via Stephen Franks

How dissent is literally silenced and ignored instead of debated. We witnessed this just last week with the treatment of Lord Monckton. We have seen it in action with anything that Ian Wishart ever says and now we are seeing it with John Ansell.

The other trick is to quietly exclude certain people from the national discourse. It is best summed up by a German word: totschweigtaktik. To be totsched is to be subjected to death by silence: books, ideas, people that challenge the status quo are simply ignored.

In Quadrant last year, Shelley Gare wrote that those who are totsched find “their efforts left to expire soundlessly like a butterfly in a jar”. When Orwell wrote his 1938 classic Homage to Catalonia, which addressed Stalinist Russia’s involvement in the Spanish Civil War, the left-wing literati simply ignored it. By the time Orwell died in 1950, barely 1500 copies had been sold. As Gare traces, the same death by silence was used to ignore Australian writers such as Chris Kenny, who challenged the secret women’s business behind the Hindmarsh Island affair. It was used when author Kate Jennings aimed her fire at the sisterhood, postmodernism and women’s studies.

It’s used by those who tell us that climate change will destroy us all if we do not act immediately. The sceptics are being totsched. Opposing views? What opposing views? Governments have their own tactics. Those with poor ideas and even worse policies resort to something best described as the bipartisanship racket. Former prime minister Kevin Rudd called for bipartisanship on indigenous policies. In fact, Rudd sought supine obedience to the rollback of the NT intervention. If you disagreed, you were charged with politicising an issue. Just imagine if similar calls from those defending the status quo had managed to shut out the ideas from people such as Noel Pearson. The very last thing we want is bipartisanship when it is used so blatantly to stifle dissent and vest moral authority in one voice.

These days in New Zealand if there is something that someone says that a few rowdies don’t like, they must be sacked, how dare they have an opinion. Someone writes a book, calls are made to ban it. People whinge and whine about television shows, art works, all calling for censorship and banning or worse. We even have people trying to shut down political debate on electoral systems because they don’t like the people who think that New Zealander should have a debate when we have a referendum.

It is cringe worthy and it is a sad indictment on our society.

There have been calls to ban Macsyna King’s book by Ian Wishart. For what ever reason I can’t fathom other than some people are upset about it. But calling for it to be banned is or boycotted is just plain ridiculous.

Personally I have no interest in a book probably dictated to Ian Wishart because I doubt she can write a coherent sentence, therefore I won’t buy it. That is how people should react to the book if they don’t like it, simply don’t buy it.

But to call for bookstore to cease stocking the book, to call for bans and boycotts is just silly.

Life is about a contest of ideas and all the book stores that are refusing to stock the book but at the same time stock “Go the Fuck to Sleep” are plain hypocrites. For them to appoint themselves as the moral compass of New Zealand with such glaring inconsistencies in their moral compass is worrying. Paper Plus for instance who said when silly calls were made to ban “Go the Fuck to Sleep” told one of the people making the calls to ban the book, Bob McCroskrie:

“Paper Plus is not in a position to act as the moral compass for NZ families and we believe it is our responsibility to give our customers access to a complete range of books and stationery.”

Except now though, they have decided that part of their responsibility to give customers a complete range of books doesn’t include Macsyna King’s book. SOunds very much like they are acting like the moral compass now.

When people say and do and write silly or offensive things you don’t call for banning, sacking and boycotts, you mock and ridicule and deride. Finally after doing all that mocking you simply do not buy, watch or subscribe to the book, tv show, radio programme or magazine. The contest of ideas is measured in the ratings.

We supposedly live in a democratic society yet people call for the sacking of a TV show host because he used a bit of offensive humour, a silly sexist boss was calle on to be sacked instead of mocked mercilessly and now we are conducting the modern equivalent of a book burning. Worse there are alleged commentators who are trying to have people exercising their democratic right to stand for parliament banned from standing, deciding to be the their own little moral compass for New Zealand when it comes to political parties candidates and whether or not they fit their warped world view. Even though that is abhorrent, the attempted shutting out of a political candidate worse is the wholesale attack on a small group of individuals who have dared to share an opposing view about about MMP and are daring to have a debate around the referendum. What has become of our country.

I am saddened by New Zealand and continue to be saddened that we haven’t managed to grow up rejoicing that people from the heaving underclass of New Zealand are able to get a book published. Hell if hookers can write books and have them stocked in bookstores then why can’t indigent negligent parents.

If don’t like what Macsyna King and Ian Wishart have to say then don’t buy the bloody book. But don’t go mounting attacks on book stores because they offer the opportunity to other people who may want to read it and the bookstores shouldn’t cave in to the raucous mob baying for blood.

Perhaps Helen Clark was right when she said their are haters and wreckers in our society. Then again she would know after she demonised a small group of blokes who dared to oppose her government. Our country has learned its behaviour from its leaders and we are poorer for it. We have become a nation of haters and wreckers.

All available lines to New York will be taken up tonight by Labour as they seek guidance from Helen Clark after Ian Wishart dropped a bombshell on Labour in the latest issue of Investigate. This is an epic Tory party style sex scandal, except all the players are Labour elite. It’s got the lot, gay sex, drunken parties, drugs, troughing and bribery.

The article is huge and can be summarised as follows:

• Claims Tim Barnett encouraged a 14 year old to leave school to work in his office. Is this grooming?
• Claims former Mayor Gary Moore also part of enticement with job offers. Labour pals stick together.
• Truancy Officer was Labour supporter and aided and abetted truancy. More pals involved.
• Government money used to fly 14 year old numerous times around country. Troughing.
• Given free reign around parliament and Beehive as a 14-15 year old. WTF!
• Had Speaker Jonathan Hunt intervening in favour of 14 year old with security at Parliament. What else was Hunt involved in?
• Alleges Tim Barnett confides in 14 year old about Helen Clark, Heather Simpson and Judith Tizard being involved in lesbian affairs. First time this has aired in a major publication to my knowledge.
• Alleges Chris Carter was phoned and intervened on 14 year old’s behalf with CYFS to release 14 year old.
• Chris Carter denies knowing Hamish Jevan Goulter but Goulter has photos of Carters wedding on his Facebook page. Oh dear!
• Chris Carter denies Goulter at wedding. Pants on Fire?
• Chris Carter “remembers” pinging Goulter in parliament and “sending him home” to Christchurch. Very strange explanation
• Investigate holds emails between Goulter and Chris Carter arranging wedding details Has Carter lied?
• Barnett alleges that Goulter was trying to trace his birth mother and was emotional. Very strange reply to serious questions. How very intimate of Barnett to know all about the state of mind of a 14 year old.
• Lianne Dalziel knowing Goulter but Investigate publishes a photo of them together. Oh dear, can Lianne ever tell the truth?
• Dalziel apologises to Goulter in a Facebook chat for denying she knew him. Liar, Liar, pants on Fire.
• Tim Barnett and Labour functionary and ADHB board member Dr. Ian Scott conspire to get drunk Goulter off work to continue partying. More grooming behaviour, two drunk older gay men assisting a drunk underage teenager to abscond from work.
  
• Tim Barnett provided taxpayer funded taxi-chits to Goulter regularly. Oh they do trough don’t they.
• Alleges Helen Clark overrode Jacinda Ardern on issue of Goulter drinking at Premier House. Jacinda Ardern so far is the only Labour person who looks like and acts like a person with responsibility.
• Drank frequently with Michael Cullen, Lianne Dalziel, Ruth Dyson, and Annette King. Old soak eh Lianne? Always on the turps.
• Goulter alleges he spent considerable time in Jonathan Hunt’s office and flat, alleges he could do what he likes.
• Goulter alleges that Tim Barnett, his partner Ramon, Chris Carter, Charles Chauvel regularly smoked marijuana with him.
• Alleges Chris Carter and him were in regular contact and Carter enjoyed being out with “twinkies”.
• Alleges Michael Cullen also smoked Marijuana at Labour Conference.
• Carter says “no cigarette has passed his lips in 30 years”. Interesting choice of description. I have never heard of a joint referred to as a “cigarette”.
  
• Goulter alleges that Tim Barnett made homosexual advances on him.
• Goulter alleges Barnett made him sit down on a chair with him, and lunged and tried to kiss him.
• Goulter was at one time under the “care of the Speaker’s Office”. Whatever that is supposed to mean.
• Alleges Judith Tizard paid Mika hush money to keep Goulter quiet in election year via Arts grants. I always wondered what Tizard actually did, now we know, she allegedly paid the bribes.
  

This is a truly spell-binding article. The details are very clear but I don’t doubt that there is a fair bit of embellishment. Basically Jacinda Ardern is the only person coming out of this story looking completely normal, sensible even. That must surely be a worry for the Labour Party if Jacinda Ardern looks sensible.

Tim Barnett is pictured, by Goulter, as a typical poof, preying on/grooming youngsters and trying to cheat on his partner. Basically a mini-me Chris Carter with out the camel jockeys. It is clear that Goulter is (or was) a teenage star-chaser  and no doubt rated his access a lot higher than the reality was.

However you have to ask what possible motive could a member of parliament have for allowing a troubled teen who has basically been exited from school hang around with him to the extent that he did.

Barnett has been caught lying and so has Chris Carter. Especially the wedding angle. And that sad old poof Jonathon Hunt needs to be asked some hard questions too.

This story shows pretty much the entire senior echelon of Labour with the exception of Jacinda Ardern and Phil Goff (ironically described as “a bit of a nobody”) seem to be a bunch of fag-hags, pederasts and perverts who once they get a little bit of power will use it unwisely.

The one who got caught out in the biggest lie however was Lianne Dalziel who facebooked to Goulter how she had lied about knowing him! Actually I would go so far as to call it outrageous that a child is allowed to attach himself to the inner core of the Labour government, with access to parliament to seemingly come and go as he pleases and have what can only be described as an inappropriate relationship with non family adult males.

Barnett’s alleged comments about the bulldog and the Clark/Simpson/Tizard triangle of terror is priceless. Pure gold.

One thing that doesn’t hold true to me about the traditional description of Clark’s Labour governemnt is that it doesn’t appear that Heather Simpson knew anything about it otherwise the kid’s bum would be whacked back to Mincer Mika faster than you could say “oh Helen”. I simply can’t imagine she would be loose enough politically to let an uppity, teenage bi-sexual drama-queen near the circle of influence. I know real bad pun.

The one thing in Goulters favour is he had the good sense to call Tony Milne and Michael Wood names…plus he hates Jacinda, and writes off Young Labour as “a bunch of smelly fat unattractive people”. Two words people, Sonny and Thomas.

A truly bizarre account of the inner working of Labour. Now we watch and see what falls out. There are certainly some large inconsistencies in the stories but also some information that could only have been gleaned by actually being there on the inside.

Listen to this and wonder why our media aren’t running with this story yet.

Author Ian Wishart talks with Newstalk ZB host Leighton Smith about climate change.

ALL members of parliament need to listen to this interview with Ian Wishart about the hacking of the CRU global warmers emails. The hacking leaking is true and the emails are true. Ian Wishart phoned Prof. Phil Jones Director of the CRU and he confirmed that the hacked leaked emails are true.

Lies about Climate Change have been told by those who believe in anthropogenic global warming. What does NZ do now? The ETS must not be rushed through parliament.

The truth about why Climate Change is happening now has to be thoroughly, and scientifically, researched. The peer-reviewed liars have been caught. If they have told one lie how many others? What is the truth?

The ETS should be parked and the science verified, at a very minimum, how ever long that takes. There is no rush, if necessary abolish the existing ETC legislation that is due to come into force in January, but end this farce now.

The one thing we can say for sure now is that the science is most definitely NOT settled, it is probably made up, misconstrued or doctored but it isn’t settled.

Here is Owen Glenn’s latest letter to the Privileges Committee. It confirms his previous corresposndence and puts paid to the lie from Dail Jones that the letter was a forgery.

It also re-affirms Glenn’s contention that it was Karaka in 2006 that Winston Ramond Peters, 63, List MP of no fixed abode thanked him not 2007 as WRP, 63, LMPONFA contends, remembering of course that there is photographic evidence that despite his assertions WRP, 63, LMPONFA was there in 2006.

Just went and saw "Man of the Year" with the missus.

We are on our nostalgia trip to Hamilton where we met 20 years ago.

Not much has changed in this dump (more on that tomorrow when I upload some photos), but we have been doing all the things we did as students, you know, pubs, drinking, sex, movies, sex, drinking, sex etc.

So we went to the movies tonight and we saw Robin Williams in Man of the Year. Reasonable movie, funny pisstake of politicians, was a bit flat in places but certainly gave me some ideas for a little project I am working on.