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It is amazing what gets at one.
For me what was most upsetting was the spectacle of a PM, who is supposed to uphold some decorum and dignity, behaving like a common thug, calling an esteemed journalist "those clowns" and "a loser".
The mask has come off the smiling assassin.
What is almost as upsetting is that seems not so much as ruffled a feather.
This offends the rather conservative values that I grew up with.
I would say that with John Key voted back into office we will, in this country be just a heartbeat from full-blown fascism.
The article below dispenses with what is supposed to be journalistic balance and is the Empire striking back. Roll on 7 pm!
For me what was most upsetting was the spectacle of a PM, who is supposed to uphold some decorum and dignity, behaving like a common thug, calling an esteemed journalist "those clowns" and "a loser".
The mask has come off the smiling assassin.
What is almost as upsetting is that seems not so much as ruffled a feather.
This offends the rather conservative values that I grew up with.
I would say that with John Key voted back into office we will, in this country be just a heartbeat from full-blown fascism.
The article below dispenses with what is supposed to be journalistic balance and is the Empire striking back. Roll on 7 pm!
Dotcom email is a fake - Warner Bros
- Purported email is the evidence Kim Dotcom plans to reveal tonight
- Said to be written by Warner Bros CEO at time of Hobbit negotiations
- PM allegedly in on plan to have Dotcom extradited to US
- Warner Bros dismisses email as a fake
- Key says he has no recollection of such a conversation
15
September, 2014
The
Kim Dotcom "big reveal" is out - and has almost immediately
been dismissed as a fake.
The
"reveal" is an email which purports to show Prime Minister
John Key involved in a plan to get the internet entrepreneur into New
Zealand so he could be extradited to the United States.
It
is the evidence which Dotcom is planning on producing at the Moment
of Truth event tonight. It is also contrary to every assurance the
Prime Minister has ever given about his knowledge of Dotcom.
The
source of the email is shrouded in mystery and there are likely to be
arguments over its authenticity.
It
is is dated October 27, 2010 and is purported to be from Warner
Brothers chairman and chief executive Kevin Tsujihara to a senior
executive at the Motion Picture Association of America - the lobby
group for the Hollywood studios.
However,
Warner Bros told the Herald the email was a fake. Paul McGuire, the
movie studio's senior vice president for worldwide communications,
told the Herald: "Kevin Tsujihara did not write or send the
alleged email, and he never had any such conversation with Prime
Minister Key."
Mr
McGuire said: "The alleged email is a fabrication."
Mr
McGuire said Warner Bros had conducted a "thorough internal
review" before dismissing the email. The review would have taken
place in just over two hours between the Herald asking questions of
the studio and the response.
The
MPAA's Kate Bedingfield also dismissed the email. She said: "Mike
Ellis never received this alleged email or discussed this matter with
Kevin Tsujihara."
Warner
Brothers chairman and chief executive Kevin Tsujihara in 2010 after
meeting John Key over the future of The Hobbit. Photo / Mark Mitchell
Mr
Key said this afternoon he had absolutely no recollection or record
of any such conversation. "I do not believe that to be correct.
I have no recollection of the conversation alluded to in that email,
there are no records there and the meetings I had were with other
people around me. So in the end we'll try go and get to the bottom of
it, but we don't have any record of it."
He
said in all the meetings he had with Mr Tsujihara there were other
people present.
Asked
if he had asked the Warners' executives about it, he said he was only
made aware of it a few minutes earlier. "So, yeah, we'll go and
ask them. But look, I'd never heard of the guy. I hadn't been briefed
on the guy.
"Look,
I can't recall any conversation with him, I don't believe it to be
correct but we'll go and check it out."
He
again denied he was involved in the plan to have Mr Dotcom
extradited.
Mr
Key has previously said he had no knowledge of Dotcom before January
19, 2012, the day before the tycoon was arrested by NZ Police acting
on behalf of the FBI.
The
Herald has confirmed that the content of the email is the same
information Dotcom is fronting this evening at the public meeting.
It
is not from the cache of documents brought to New Zealand by
journalist Glenn Greenwald, who is also speaking at the event to
allege Mr Key misled the public over mass surveillance by spy
agencies.
The
date of the alleged email places it right in the midst of
negotiations over The
Hobbit,
which saw the government change
the law and grant concessions to keep the making of the trilogy in
New Zealand.
It
is also smack in the middle of key dates relating to the granting of
Dotcom's residency - a decision opposed by intelligence officials who
screen immigrants but passed by Immigration officials amid talk of
"political pressure".
Dotcom
has claimed he was a bargaining chip used in the deal with Warner
Bros.
The
alleged email reads: "We had a really good meeting with the
Prime Minister. He's a fan and we're getting what we came for. Your
groundwork in New Zealand is paying off. I see strong support for our
anti-piracy effort.
"John
Key told me in private that they are granting Dotcom residency
despite pushback from officials about his criminal past. His AG will
do everything in his power to assist us with our case. VIP treatment
and then a one-way ticket to Virginia.
"This
is a game changer. The DOJ is against the Hong Kong option. No
confidence in the Chinese. Great job."
___
The
alleged email that's said to be part of Doctom's big reveal
The
recipient of the alleged email was said to be the MPAA's Asia-Pacific
president Michael Ellis, who has previously figured in the conspiracy
Dotcom has claimed led to him being entrapped in New Zealand.
The
email largely backs up the theory Dotcom has pushed for almost three
years after being arrested in 2012 on behalf of the FBI on charges of
criminal copyright violation.
Dotcom
had claimed earlier this year that Tsujihara had him followed in Hong
Kong.
Mr
Key has previously dismissed claims of a conspiracy and said he had
no knowledge of Dotcom before January 19 2012, the day before the
tycoon was arrested by NZ Police acting on behalf of the FBI.
It
is dated the day after Mr Tsujihara met with Mr Key to discuss The
Hobbit and dated the day before the decision to grant Dotcom
residency on October 28.
The
decision to make Dotcom a resident - allowing him to move to New
Zealand - came after resistance from the Prime Minister's Security
Intelligence Service.
The
SIS screened Dotcom as part of the residency process and discovered
the FBI was in the process of investigating the tycoon.
Emails
obtained by the Herald under the Official Information Act showed the
objections were over-ruled, with the spies doing the screening
believing Immigration staff were under "political pressure".
Dotcom
has previously claimed Mr Ellis, a former Hong Kong police
superintendent with extradition expertise, had a role in the case
against him. Records show Mr Ellis met with Justice Minister Simon
Power on copyright issues prior to the 2011 election. He was also
present at a meeting between US president Joe Biden with Hollywood
executives and the MPAA's president Chris Dodd in July 2011. The MPAA
ridiculed the suggestion, saying the meeting with Biden was to
discuss getting films into China.
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