Somebody doesn't like John Key. In fact a number of people hate him enough that they've threatened to kill him. The threats are so serious that enormous amounts of extra money have had to be spent on sending protection squads to accompany Key every where he goes, even on his holidays in Hawaii. Are there Hawaiians also threatening his life?
Key's unctuous, it's true, but is that reason enough to threaten to kill him?
I wonder what reasons those who wish him dead are giving for their discontent?
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C'mon Robert, he's, like, the most popular PM in, like, ever. Those opinion polls don't, like, lie. Even schoolgirls swoon when he walks by. So no one would be making threats against him, surely?
Maybe it's the schoolboys then?
Let's alert Judith Collins. She's absolutely certain that John is in immediate peril and needs the beefed-up security, just as he needed them on the night he won the election and had to walk the perilous path through his Tory supporters to get on stage at Tory HQ.Who knows how many of those were there to kill John on that night?
I wonder what reasons those who wish him dead are giving for their discontent?
Just scroll through Kiwiblog and read posts by a "Greenfly".
Robert, don't be an idiot. There are lot of morons out there. Just the other day I saw a poster of JK on which someone had written the words "I hate the poor".
Brains....lack of brains on the left.
I doubt it's schoolboys Robert, Key has always struck me as quite androgynous.
As I see it, it's a breakdown in process. All PMs have threats made against them. All PMs deserve protection against the threats.
All citizens are entitled to be assured that taxes are being spent well, through proper budget allocation and management. A good government elected on a platform of openness and accountability would make as much detail available as possible. But that is not our current government.
So Armchair Critic - taxpayers!, that's where the finger of suspicion points. We might have known! I've never trusted those taxpayers - Lefties the lot of them!
Anonymous - greenfly, a killer? I know they're a scourge on the tomatoes but I hadn't seen them as a threat to the PM's life!!!
Smttc - morons indeed, they're amongst us! Why there are more of them now, and more discontent than they were under Helen Clark I'm just not sure. She was somehow able to holiday without a body-crush of burly guards, yet Key can't pull on his Hawaii 50 speedos for a quick dip in his no-need-to-be-heated swimming pool without being pressed about by squads of 'Dirty Dog' wearing brutes, holidaying at our expense. Why on earth is it that Key's under so much more threat that Clark was?
I'm reassured by the newspapers that he's wildly popular, yet he's under siege and living in fear of his life?
Strange days.
Agree with the general direction of your comment.
I have a clear distinction between people who pay tax (taxpayers) and people who are represented by the government (citizens).
The government should, IMO, act in the interests of its citizens, not merely the interests of those citizens who pay some tax, or net tax. By not standing up to those who say or imply that tax payers deserve more of the government's positive attention we do not fulfil our obligations to the most vulnerable members of society.
He tangata, he tangata, he tangata.
/rant over
Ah! I carelessly overlooked the distinction. Citizens indeed, even and especially those who can't pay for their keep (babes in arms spring to mind.)
This Government letting those citizens down?
You betcha!
The level of derailing on the subject is astonishing.
Almost every comment I've read across a range of blogs from anyone with a slightly right persuasion says "it's bound to be due to mentally unstable people who favour socialism". I contend that
(a) there is no evidence to support that statement, and
(b) even if it true (and that seems unlikely), it's the method used to manage the issue that matters.
Can anyone who currently supports Key (or anone who voted National in 2008) address the issues of:
(a) why should the DPS automatically have its funding increased when most other parts of the government are being forced to cut back, and
(b) why a government who was elected on a platform of open and accountable government is not going all out to demonstrate that the funding increase is necessary, and not due to a sense of entitlement.
I think he does need that much security.
I just think the strategy of building protective, paper-mache cocoons out of $50 notes might not be the most cost-effective strategy to keep him safe. Just saying.
Now I understand the whole 'greenstone suit' thing!
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