“Holed up in Hong Kong” The project to criminalize whistle-blowing and dissent Radio NZ National, Checkpoint, Monday 10 June 2013, 5:20 p.m.
Just heard Susie Ferguson parrot the line that Edward Snowden is “holed up” in Hong Kong. She was, perhaps unwittingly, referring to yet another dissenter as though he’s some desperado who pulled a bank heist.
It’s started. Expect sexual allegations in the next week, and a “request” for extradition.
Expect also some diligent reiteration in this normally excellent forum of whatever Obama’s drones say.
By the usual parrots.
UPDATE:
Susie Ferguson has just repeated the “holed up” meme on the 5:30 news.
Damn – did they not rewrite the RNZ news script despite your helpful advice?
Golly, you’re onto it! I DID send them a hurry-up at 5:30 pm. Sound intuition there, my friend. I haven’t checked my email yet; I’ll let you know if and what they replied.
8:14 pm
Just checked my email. You’re right, she treated it with contempt. Not even a snarky one-liner, as Jim Mora or Michael Laws or Leighton Smith will at least bother to do.
Nothing. I am so lonely now. Ignored. Marginalized.
No. I don’t do sarcasm. I leave that to lower forms of life, like our friends Populuxe1, weka and Te Reo Putake.
Because you do sometimes apparently send RNZ emails that you republish here.
I do, and there’s nothing “apparent” about them; they are genuine. I’ll have another look to see if they’ve replied, then I’ll publish my letter (probably unanswered, I will bet) on today’s Open Mike (11 June).
Brit’s Haig? commented that their spying activity is not wide, enveloping and random it’s – ‘organised, targeted, appropriate’ and something else that has slipped my mind. Do we feel that the Brit govt is a bastion of freedom and respect for all citizens? Do we think that NZ is?
The project to criminalize whistle-blowing and dissent
Radio NZ National, Checkpoint, Monday 10 June 2013, 5:20 p.m.
Key- Nah! (to paraphrase briefly).