TV
1’s Sunday program played a great piece this last weekend, in the form of an
interview with Frances Biggs, wife, then ex, to great train robber Ronnie. She had
a raw deal no matter which way you look at it. Having had nothing to do with the
robbery, yet arrested and reviled by the public, then divorce, with the only
money she ever saw from the whole episode being what she earned after selling
her story to the media while Ronnie was sunning himself in Rio. However, the
state then only compounded her victimhood:
That’s
quite a tax bill: the thing about the great train robbery was, it was a oncer. There’s
two thieves featured, the other has grown only stronger, assuming all the powers of the surveillance state. And I can explain, again, how that has
happened.
Yesterday
there was a story run by the MSM which ended up being a beat-up from
misinformation fed by an anonymous – yeah, another one – blog, about Ms
Beneficiary who was apparently denied money by WINZ to buy sanitary products.
In the end the story was not true on all the facts, although if it had been, it would have been absolutely abhorrent: every human individual must
be left their respect and dignity, to say nothing of this was also a matter
regarding the most intimate sort of privacy.
There
were many words written on it, and the Left Twitter was understandably
appalled: my friend Deborah Russell, Massey University lecturer of
taxation, socialist, penned her own piece also, and tweeted a link to it. To
this I replied:
At
this stage, the next day, I still have no reply. I then tweeted the same
question generally, and again no replies, until I pressed Lew Stoddart whom grudgingly ‘sort
of agreed’, but only after being led through hoops of context that were not
necessary, as that question needs no explication.
My
question is where were the Marxist feminists in being rightly appalled for
their sister Ms Businesswoman?
Or,
I’m thinking, does she not count? Over and over on this blog I’ve been through
the shock and awe powers of IRD: before those bureaucrats Ms
Businesswoman has no right to privacy or to be left alone, despite she has done
nothing wrong. And just as in a police state, the onus of proof is turned
against her in the tax courts: it’s not up to the state to prove her guilt,
they just have to say you’re guilty and owe us this, then she has to prove them
wrong. Believe me, Ms Businesswoman goes from interrogation room 101 into that court system terrified given the power
arrayed against her, and it’s not cheap to defend yourself.
All
this to pay, remember, for Ms Beneficiary’s necessities. Fair enough you
say? Okay, but then why is Ms Businesswoman apparently dismissed by the
sisterhood herself? It looks to me as if Ms Businesswoman has been objectified
by Marxist feminists to merely being a purse and a bank account; apparently she
has no right to respect, or to her dignity: that is, her humanity. She’s just a
filthy capitalist. Is that right?
As
I read somewhere yesterday, if socialism didn’t have so many double standards,
it would have none.
Here’s
a word: wholly.
I’m
wholly unhappy about this unholy society I find myself in, and for which a five
figure sum called my provisional tax will be leaving my bank account in just eight days’
time, despite I have no philosophical agreement with this society, and with now
two houses damaged in earthquake zones, for which that money would’ve been
bloody handy at the moment, given the run around we’re getting from EQC. Pity
my vote means nothing every three years, and as a classical liberal, this
representative democracy mobocracy, doesn’t represent me, or Ms Businesswoman,
at all.
Deborah?
Footnote:
I
cannot prove that question of the value of the private use of sanitary products
is on the list of an IRD investigator auditing, say, the corner dairy,
although, I have certainly heard of one instance of it, and in that case the
taxpayer rightly refused to answer. I suspect it would not be routine at all,
however, in the context of this post, that is entirely not the point, which is this proves a point entirely on a hypothetical scenario.