Wednesday, August 5, 2009

An utter disgrace

Bribery and corruption. Not a good look is it? Nor yet conspiring to pervert the course of justice. That Field was guilty was as plain as the nose on your face. The man is no more than a common crook and presumably will be treated as such in October when he is sentenced. A time in the big house looks inevitable and it couldn't happen to a nicer bloke.

A couple of things have been exercising me over the last day. One is that it has taken nearly four years to get to here. September '05 was when rumours and allegations first surfaced that when Philip Field was talking about tiling he wasn't recalling what a jolly good time he had just had at Bunnings. Our court and justice system seems to move at the speed of the continental drift and is one reason for this delay.

The other reason is inexorably involved with the second thing that bothers me more over all this. A corrupt Minister of the Crown is nowhere near as bad as the cover that was run for him by bloody Clark (in particular), Cullen and all the other nightmare people who used to run our lives. All her politicking slowed down even the start of a Police investigation. The break-in in at Watergate was bad, the cover up was way worse. Let us just hope that Richard M Nixon is a role model for Helen E Clark. We can only hope.

She was (is - who cares) an utter disgrace over this as in most things she touched. Her dealing with Field was a good rehearsal for lying and obfuscating over Winston Raymond Peters last year. Mendacious witch. She set up the Ingram enquiry with terms of reference so narrow and so irrelevant that it couldn't have established that the sun rose in the east. When this meaningless piece of horse manure suggested that there was a lot more that he (Ingram) was not allowed to comment on Clark just ignored it and said that the enquiry showed that there was 'Nothing to see here. Move along' Ingram was forced to keep his counsel and has had to wait a couple of years to get the vindication he richly deserves.

It is disgraceful that anyone can be so economical with the truth just for her own political ends. Clark needed Field's vote and was happy to use it even when he was suspended. Field was allowed to stand at the 2005 general election after all this had come to be widely known and was only kicked out of the Labour Party much later. Reason for ejection from Labour? Bribery? Corruption? No, sir. He was evicted for threatening to vote against Labour.

With Clark in New York you would think that the rump of her ghastly regime would now come clean and admit that Labour's defence of Field was just wrong. They are not even within a bull's roar of saying anything like it. Field's conviction is, according to Alfred E Neuman, disappointing. What a load of bollocks. Is that the best you can do, Goof? Well it is and that is why you are a political dead man walking. Is the tune for this still being called from a office in a tail building overlooking Central Park? You wouldn't bet against it. They seem to be hell bent on rewriting history rather than admit they were wrong. Presumbaly that is why that useless ginger headed Labour spokesman was saying nothing today; they haven't made it up yet.

The politicking that has been run around protecting a common criminal for hideous aims is an utter disgrace. My biggest hope from here is that before Field gets sent off to chokey he squeals like pig and takes a few more of the ratbags (and the more prominent the better, please) with him.

And is the first Minister of the Crown in New Zealand ever to be found guilty of such serious criminal offending the most news worthy thing to have happend in the Land of the Long White Cloud in the past day? You would have thought so wouldn't you? Not according to Granny Herald who filled the front page with a story about penguins dying on Auckland's beaches.

A plague of frogs on all of them.

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