John Key - ' From Hollow Man to Shallow Man'

Why Key’s denials sound so off and why Dotcom’s fight is all our fight

The shrillness of Key is the issue. His denials just too forced and rehearsed. Key has gone from Hollow Man to Shallow Man with his lashing out at Pulitzer Prize winning Journalist Glenn Greenwald by calling him a ‘henchman’. This after describing a hate speech merchant like Cameron Slater as ‘colourful’.

Martyn Bradbury

the Daily Blog,

15 September, 2014

The shrillness of Key is the issue. His denials just too forced and rehearsed. Key has gone from Hollow Man to Shallow Man with his lashing out at Pulitzer Prize winning Journalist Glenn Greenwald by calling him a ‘henchman’. This after describing a hate speech merchant like Cameron Slater as ‘colourful’. Key’s view of where the actual line gets drawn on serious issues like this is terrifyingly absent when he is belittling a credible source while promoting a toxic poison.

Key would have been briefed by the NSA on what they believed Snowden had in terms of NZ so he has had months and months to prepare what their defence would be. They of course planned and pre-scripted their tactics before Dirty Politics. This means the political capital National strategists had banked on when they were prepping Key to do a straight denial is now of course totally absent.

After Dirty Politics, Key has no such political capital. He has huge question marks over everything he now touches and has touched for the last 6 years. That’s why his denials seem a tad wide eyed, they were expecting this to be the Hager book, they weren’t expecting a vast dump of their own internal dirty politics plus now a massive dump of all their external dirty politics.

What is most worrying for National however is that Kim’s case is actually a righteous one. He has been treated appallingly by our Government. As the Pacific becomes the new cold war friction point between China and America, the expansion of US soft power via a TPPA that strips us of economic sovereignty has generated immense pressures on Kim Dotcom. His extradition and legal witch hunt has been inspired by Corporate Hollywood who have managed to advance their profit margins into a national security agenda via intellectual property rights.

America doesn’t care if we buy our flat screen TVs from China, they care that we are watching their media, their culture, their value system, their corporate hegemony. That’s soft power and it’s cheaper than hard power and has far fewer deaths than an occupying army causes.

Dotcom’s lawyer, Bob Amsterdam, sums all of this up in an incredibly articulate way.

What Key has allowed to happen under his watch is inexcusable, and that’s why he’s lied about it from day one. To widen the mass spying of all NZers because America has let us into their little club is as offensive as the ridiculous farce of a defence he is currently floundering with.

These are issues involving abuse of power directly connected to the Prime Minister, the allegations are serious, deserve to be heard and the media must show courage and hold the Prime Minister to account.

This is not acceptable behaviour from the leader of our country.

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