A
snapshot of what can happen when you blow the whistle.
A
scary world we live in.
EDIT:
To provide clarity, We support Jami-Lee Ross in his efforts to hold
Simon Bridges to account. It is quite a coincidence that he has been
taken into Mental Health Care at this moment. We would hope that it
just is that and Kim Dotcom has offered legal support if he needs it.
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Jami-Lee
Ross taken into mental health care
21
October, 2018
Jami-Lee
Ross has been taken into mental health care
Newstalk
ZB can confirm the rogue National MP was taken in by police.
He
was taken to a facility in Auckland.
A
spokesperson for the National Party said in a statement: "Over
the past several weeks the National Party has taken seriously the
mental health concerns raised by Mr Ross and the medical
professionals he has been involved with.
"That
has included seeking advice from medical professionals and involving
Police wherever necessary to ensure support is made available to Mr
Ross. It would not be appropriate to comment further."
Ross
took leave from Parliament at the beginning of the month. He told
reporters this week that it was because he was "devastated"
at being accused of harassment and denied natural justice.
When
he talked to media on Tuesday and Wednesday, he said that his doctor
had cleared him and he was feeling healthy. He rejected comments from
National deputy leader Paula Bennett that he was suffering from
mental health issues, saying that his doctor had called Bennett to
tell her that he was healthy.
Those
comments were made before six women spoke publicly about what they
called bullying and intimidating behaviour from Ross. Ross disagreed
with the way the women portrayed him in media reports, but admitted
to extra-marital affairs and said he had apologised to his wife Lucy
Schwaner.
A
National Party spokesman said: "Over the past several weeks the
National Party has taken seriously the mental health concerns raised
by Mr Ross and the medical professionals he has been involved with.
That has included seeking advice from medical professionals and
involving Police wherever necessary to ensure support is made
available to Mr Ross. It would not be appropriate to comment
further."
Paula
Bennett has repeatedly expressed concern this week for Ross' health.
It
is unclear if Ross was admitted under the Mental Health (Compulsory
Assessment and Treatment) Act, which means that someone can be
admitted to a safe place and given treatment against their will if
their safety is considered at risk.
Ross'
leave from Parliament at the start of the month followed a text
message concerned about the mental health of the person who leaked
details of National leader Simon Bridges' expenses. It led to
speculation that Ross was the leaker, which he denies, even though an
inquiry found that he was likely the leaker.
Ummmmm, forcing Jami-Lee Ross into mental health services? What?
October
21, 2018
We
are in incredibly dangerous waters now. I think it is of the highest
importance that IF JLR has been forcibly taken into mental health
custody that decision be reviewed immediately to ensure that a
terrible wrong hasn’t just occurred.
Whoa,
whoa, whoa!
MP Jami-Lee Ross admitted to mental health care
MP
Jami-Lee Ross has been taken into mental health care.
Newstalk
ZB understands he was taken in by police.
He
was taken to a facility in Auckland.
A
National Party spokesman said: “Over the past several weeks the
National Party has taken seriously the mental health concerns raised
by Mr Ross and the medical professionals he has been involved with.
That has included seeking advice from medical professionals and
involving Police wherever necessary to ensure support is made
available to Mr Ross. It would not be appropriate to comment
further.”
Ross
took leave from Parliament at the beginning of the month. He told
reporters this week that it was because he was “devastated” at
being accused of harassment and denied natural justice.
When
he talked to media on Tuesday and Wednesday, he said that his doctor
had cleared him and he was feeling healthy. He rejected comments
from National deputy leader Paula Bennett that he was suffering from
mental health issues, saying that his doctor had called Bennett to
tell her that he was healthy.
Those
comments were made before six women spoke publicly about what they
called bullying and intimidating behaviour from Ross. Ross disagreed
with the way the women portrayed him in media reports, but admitted
to extra-marital affairs and said he had apologised to his wife Lucy
Schwaner.
Paula
Bennett has repeatedly expressed concern for Ross’ health.
It
is unclear if Ross was admitted under the Mental Health (Compulsory
Assessment and Treatment) Act, which means that someone can be
admitted to a safe place and given treatment against their will if
their safety is considered at risk.
Am
I reading this correctly? Has JLR been forced into mental health
care? Folks, we can all be disgusted by his behaviour – but we
also can see involuntary imprisonment by the State into mental
health custody as ummmm terrifying right?
Look,
if he has suffered a mental health break down where he is unable to
make rational decisions for himself and is a threat to himself, that
is a terrible outcome and while his actions and behaviour have been
offensive, on a purely human level, what a tragic outcome and a
symptom of the clusterfuck toxic masculinity leaves in its wake.
Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut
IFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF this is something else, ummmmmmmmm, I mean, Jesus
wept!
We
are in incredibly dangerous waters now. I think it is of the highest
importance that IF JLR has been forcibly taken into mental health
custody that decision be reviewed immediately to ensure that a
terrible wrong hasn’t just occurred.
Because,
Jesus folks, just – JESUS!
This
is a shocking turn of events in a story that has managed to lower
the bar with every single revelation.
From yesterday
The Jami-Lee Ross strategy and endgame: Possible impacts for the 2020 election
What
we are witnessing is a political hit job of bewildering savagery and
maliciousness. I understand the moment Simon Bridges won the
leadership, dented egos started plotting.
20
October, 2018
I
believe Jami-Lee Ross was never going to stand in Botany to seek a
by-election mandate because he was always intending to remain inside
Parliament. He made the statement knowing full well National would
unleash upon him all the allegations of harassment that they had
helped hide. His political advisor Simon Lusk would have known this
and they would have concluded that in their haste to destroy
Jami-Lee Ross, National would inevitably over egg their attack and
go too far.
Paula
Bennett did just that with her ‘inappropriate behaviour for a
married MP’ attack, and once they had ‘gone there’, Jami-Lee
pulled the wounded martyr routine and announced he would stay in
Parliament for self righteous utu against a corrupt leader.
If
he had announced he was staying in Parliament and then National hit
him with the allegations, he would have found it hard to stay in
Parliament in light of those claims, that Lusk and JLR had the
foresight to get their footing right from the outset should worry
all because this isn’t the random madness of a rogue MP, this is
cold and calculating with an agenda.
What
we are witnessing is a political hit job of bewildering savagery and
maliciousness. I understand the moment Simon Bridges won the
leadership, dented egos started plotting.
Simon
Bridges: The chinless wonder
Why
isn’t Simon resonating with the rump of the National Party despite
unprecedented party polling? I’ve known Simon far better than I’ve
personally known any of the other National Party leaders. In private
he is funny, pragmatic and clever. His external social conservative
shtick is for the voting base, but Bridges is ultimately a solid
person who would probably do a reasonable job of running the
country.
And
that’s the problem.
There
is a huge electorate within National who are spittle flecked with
rage over the election loss. They were robbed by the MMP commies,
lesbians and Maori’s and for them, this mutation of a Government
has no legitimacy.
So
incandescent with rage are National rump voters, that they actually
hate the PMs baby, hate the fact the PM is a young unmarried woman
and hate any suggestion of kindness.
The
right wing of NZ have become as twisted with hate as the Left did
over Key, except of course with Key propping up a speculative
property bubble, slashing public funding, privatising welfare and
implementing a mass surveillance state, anyone with a basic
education had every justifiable right under the sun to be spittle
flecked with rage. National Party white rage however has no such
justification other than
‘change-and-difference-frighten-us-and-we-hate-things-that-frighten-us-what-the-hell-is-uber-eats’.
Simon
can’t connect with his supporters irrational anger because that’s
not really the person he is, as such he comes across as flat,
rudderless and without purpose or direction. With people around him
with far more ambition than talent, it was only a matter of time
before his inability to channel his inner redneck to connect with
his book burning supporters would be used against him.
Jami-Lee
Ross: A neanderthal hairplug looking for a homicide
One
of the reasons this implosion is so dirty and nasty is because JLR
was a chief whip and bagman. He knows where many of the bodies are
buried because he helped put them there. His ruthlessness and
arrogance have been highlighted by his bullying and harassment of
anything with a pulse and general contempt for any inanimate object
that doesn’t pose an immediate benefit to him. With an ethical
code that would make your average drug cartel blush and look away in
disgust, JLR is a right wing creature devoid of the usual moral
safeguards and his desire to destroy Simon Bridges over little more
than a professional slight by being demoted combined with a
grotesque sense of self importance has set JLR on a behind the
lines guerrilla mission to destabilise the Party.
Simon
Lusk: Something evil this way slithers
Lusk’s
weird love of destroying people that he shared with Slater is well
documented in Hager’s Dirty
Politics.
He has detailed that his political strategy is to inject venom
into politics so that ordinary voters who can’t stand the sleaze
don’t vote leaving the minority to win.
- Lusk and Slater charge aspiring National politicians to help them win candidate selection in National safe-seats by running attack campaigns against their opponents.
- The book documents an extensive smear campaign in the Rodney electorate in 2011, in which Lusk and Slater successfully elected their client Mark Mitchell, who is now the MP for Rodney.
- Lusk was hired by Brash to help replace Rodney Hide as leader of the ACT Party. Lusk – evidently without Brash’s knowledge – found out from Jordan Williams that Rodney Hide had been sending ‘dodgy texts’ to a young woman. Slater published hints about this on his blog and Lusk proposed that they approach Hide quietly and ‘tell Hide that someone had the texts and will release them if he doesn’t resign by Friday’. Hide resigned.
Duncan
Garner alleged during the 2014 election that Lusk took
money to bribe Maori voters to vote against Hone Harawira.
Later in Story last Monday, TV3 reporters quizzed several MPs in Parliament about their relationships with Simon Lusk. The discomfort of some was clear. Evidently the exposure of Dirty Politics hasn’t scared off all his political clients. Duncan Garner also revealed supporters of Labour’s Napier MP Stewart Nash paid Simon Lusk to canvas the option of a new political party, and that Simon Lusk had told him Labour MP Phil Twyford would be his next target.
Simon Lusk also claimed on Story he had been instrumental in unseating Mana Party co-leader Hone Harawira in the last election. Unnamed “businessmen” had paid thousands for that, he said. And in conversation with his co-host last Monday, Duncan Garner said money had been paid to get Maori electors to vote in Te Tai Tokerau.
Lusk
is a political strategist who is so dangerous the National Party
tried to formally push him and Slater away in 2013…
National turns on hard right advisor
Simon Lusk pushed to get rid of the “wet wing” and make sure MPs obeyed donors. Now a leaker has revealed his agenda in an attempt to discredit him
Leaked documents written by a political strategist who has trained National MPs set out a vision for taking the party to the right of the political spectrum, tripling donations to $6 million a year and using donations and government jobs as inducements to control MPs.
Lusk
believes the dirtier the politics, the more people disengage, the
easier it is for the Right to win. He and Slater have this warped
fantasy of igniting white rage and harnessing it electorally.
Judith
Collins: “I’m not a Monster” hissed the monster
When
you privately ask why the power brokers of the National Party do
everything in their power to stop Judith gaining the
leadership, the answer is simple, they are terrified with what she
would do with power. Her version of hate inspired politics would go
full Trump, she would exploit cultural fault lines and have no
problems declaring martial law at the drop of a hat.
My
deep suspicion is that she is ultimately the one pulling all the
puppet strings here, and the set up of JLR in Parliament attacking
Bridges every week helps one person and one person only – Judith.
The
endgame:
With
JLR now entrenched in Parliament, he will use the protection of
Parliamentary Privilege to continue drip feeding damaging material
about Simon and any of those on the front bench defending Simon. It
will get nastier and dirtier, but Lusk wants that because it turns
people off voting.
JLR
will wage a campaign against Bridges and as the damage sheets home,
the Party in desperation will turn against Bridges towards the only
person they think will be strong enough to lead, Judith Collins.
Judith
will miraculously gain an immediate state of peace with JLR, the
price probably being him running a new sexist right wing party
uncontested in Botany while Mark Mitchell fleshes out a New
Conservative Party in Rodney.
National
know that need allies to win 51% and two minor electorate based
parties using MMP coat-tailing is the best way to do that.
Political
Guru Bryce Edwards has argued this is extra vile because there isn’t
really a policy difference here, and
he’s partially correct. This isn’t about policy, it’s about
style, Judith wants to kneecap her enemies and bring a level of
Trumpian malignancy to NZ politics that other politicians would find
sickening.
A
dirty politics campaign that purposely drives away voters so only
the most radicalised vote is a page out of the Lusk playbook and
using that campaign to take the National Party leadership to create
a multi-pronged right wing party is a kind of evil genius.
2020:
So,
if Bridges is forced to step down because JLR runs a character
assassination program against him and Judith is elected, she would
want to grant JLR and Mark Mitchell their electorate based side
project political parties with the hope National+ACT+Chauvinist Pigs
United + New Conservatives can get 51% of Parliament.
If
TOP run a better campaign, they will not get above 5%, but they will
cannibalise the Greens under 5%. Unfortunately the Greens have lost
themselves in alienating woke revisionism and are currently reading
poems to their electric vegan bikes. They are the political
equivalent of a fart in an elevator.
Labour
will hope to have something to show those who trusted them with
their vote and do better than their 2017 result while NZ First will
just be praying Winston continues to defy every death calculator and
somehow lives another 3 years.
Right
now many on the left are loving the National Party implosion, but I
fear the people deeply involved in this have far darker agendas and
because of those machinations, there’s no certainty 2020 will see
Jacinda re-elected.
Dirty Politics alright!!! Judas ie the National Party, have effectively crucified Jamie. And I thought only "Nurses eat their young"
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