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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Key's Dotcom apology

‘It is the GCSB's responsibility to act within the law, and it is hugely disappointing that in this case its actions fell outside the law. I am personally very disappointed that the agency failed to fully understand the workings of its own legislation’, said John Key as part of his apology to Kim Dotcom. Will he say the same thing now, to the other people whom it is alleged, have been spied upon? Seems not. Seems he no longer believes that the agency "failed to fully understand the workings of its own legislation".

8 comments:

Armchair Critic said...

"...personally very disappointed that the agency failed to fully understand the workings of its own legislation."?
I'm disappointed that the minister responsible failed to exercise proper oversight and thereby failed to prevent the repeated breaches of the law. It's the kind of thing an honourable person, one who understood thwarted concept of accepting responsibility, would resign over.
And, the gcsb broke the law. People who break the law should be prosecuted.

robertguyton said...

Those are honorable sentiments, AC. I expect John Key, honorable man that he is, will do just as you describe.
have you read the Political Scientist's post on joking around? It's excellent.

http://www.thepoliticalscientist.org/?p=1138

Armchair Critic said...

Gawd, predictive text throws up some terrible things. In my comment above "thwarted" should be "the".
I will go and see what puddleglum has to say.

Armchair Critic said...

Often I am lost for words when I read one of thwarted political scientist's posts. He wrote the one you refer to in November last year and there's nothing that's happened in the interim to cast doubt on its contents.

robertguyton said...

Ha! Again, thwarted!

robertguyton said...

But was that a conscious 'mistake'??
Wot a tangled web!

Armchair Critic said...

Now that's really bad. I must try to figure out how to change the settings on my phone.
I've been pondering the whole National-lite thing that Labour were accused of being. It seems to me that National have taken some of the things that they excoriated Labour for and not only done them, but to a greater extent. Intruding into our privacy, banning stuff and raising tax. Does this make them "Labour-heavy"?

robertguyton said...

More Big Brother/Daddy Statists, I feel. Labour seem little different. It's a Coke, Pepsi thing as Russel would say. No choice at all really.