Edward
Snowden and Glenn Greenwald – I have had big problems with Assange from the
get-go - could not have picked a worse vehicle to deliver their important
message about mass surveillance than last night’s circus The Moment of Truth, paid for and planned by a man both men should
have had the nouse to keep a great distance from. Instead of journalistically delivering
their data in a non-partisan forum called New Zealand’s free press, they both
used their judgement to nonsensically get involved in the partisan hard-Left
politics of our tiny country, in a political hit event designed to disrupt a democratic election with dirty
politics, so making me suspect the judgement of both men over all: I'm gutted,
disgusted and appalled.
And
that’s all I have to say on that fiasco, because I’m on holiday trying to pull
together a private project that has nothing to do with this blog. Though that
said, I will never let the below hypocrisy pass unchallenged, being the
contradiction over privacy of a Left whose authoritarian model of the state necessitates
mass surveillance with penalties for non-compliance, and has set up the most
ruthless secret police forces in history to enforce the destruction of the
private lives of every individual. Of every Left MP and blogger I’ve pressed to
respond to this, not one has:
With all this talk of mass surveillance, spare a thought for those whose private lives are intricately monitored by the state: beneficiaries
— Sue Bradford (@suebr) September 15, 2014
@suebr And what of the taxpayers whose lives are intruded in daily, massively, by a department in no way bound by our Privacy Act?
— Mark Hubbard (@MarkHubbard33) September 15, 2014
@suebr But welcome to Orwell's 1984. We call it a welfare state, funded coercively by the tax surveillance state. GCSB have nothing on IRD.
— Mark Hubbard (@MarkHubbard33) September 15, 2014
@suebr But hope u note the Left's glaring contradiction: spying 2 save us from terrorism, bad: to take our income/property, fine, apparently
— Mark Hubbard (@MarkHubbard33) September 15, 2014
To
be frank, Sue, mass surveillance is despicable in any guise, albeit I’m happier
being protected from terrorists, than being protected
from use of my own income or property by the irrational cult
of redistribution – irrational because welfare begets poverty, and law aimed at forcing the common good on a people, leads to an
embittered, barbaric society, not a better one.
Further Reading:
I agree that KDC and his band of losers was a poor association for a couple of people I believe have put themselves into a difficult position because of a stand on principle.
ReplyDeleteBradford doesn't understand that we are in a relationship with the people who pay us wages or for services. If you want to minimise govt intrusion into every aspect of your life don't depend on them for a living. Its proper that non-productive people who live off the proceeds of the productive be closely looked at by those managing the handouts.
Yes on all accounts.
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