DeAnne
Mike CrowlNZ Police
July 14th 2008 08:37
You have to wonder at the police in New Zealand.
I’ve just been reading an article by Muriel Newman in which she points out that Nicky Hager, who was part and parcel of the downfall of the former Opposition Leader, Don Brash, has never been charged in any way with receiving stolen emails – emails that belonged to Mr Brash and which appear to have been hacked into by someone within Parliament itself.
Worse, Government funding is now going to be used to make a movie out of the book Mr Hager wrote (The Hollow Men) as a result of receiving the stolen emails.
Mr Hager seems to make a career out of conspiracy theories. There may be elements of truth in what he writes, but in spite of him being touted as “New Zealand's leading investigative journalist" by Martin Hirst, the Associate Professor of Journalism at AUT Auckland University, New Zealand, it seems that much of what he does is underhand, and not quite as righteous as he’d like us to think.
To come back to the police issue. New Zealand has had some high profile cases over the last couple of decades, cases that have caused the average Kiwi to think twice about trusting the police. (Unfortunately the bad work of some taints the work of the whole.)
The most recent oddity was that Chris Kahui case, where Kahui was charged with murdering his twin baby sons. This only happened after months of the Kahui clan clamming up and refusing to speak up about what they knew. And then at the trial, Chris Kahui came across as an unlikely candidate for the murder; instead, his partner, the twins’ mother seemed to put herself in the mire over and over again.
But are the police going to take up any of the stuff that came out in court? Nope, they’ve concluded that they won’t be able to bring a case, and so they’ve dropped it, leaving two baby boys murdered without any one being blamed.
Something isn’t right here.
I’ve just been reading an article by Muriel Newman in which she points out that Nicky Hager, who was part and parcel of the downfall of the former Opposition Leader, Don Brash, has never been charged in any way with receiving stolen emails – emails that belonged to Mr Brash and which appear to have been hacked into by someone within Parliament itself.
Worse, Government funding is now going to be used to make a movie out of the book Mr Hager wrote (The Hollow Men) as a result of receiving the stolen emails.
Mr Hager seems to make a career out of conspiracy theories. There may be elements of truth in what he writes, but in spite of him being touted as “New Zealand's leading investigative journalist" by Martin Hirst, the Associate Professor of Journalism at AUT Auckland University, New Zealand, it seems that much of what he does is underhand, and not quite as righteous as he’d like us to think.
To come back to the police issue. New Zealand has had some high profile cases over the last couple of decades, cases that have caused the average Kiwi to think twice about trusting the police. (Unfortunately the bad work of some taints the work of the whole.)
The most recent oddity was that Chris Kahui case, where Kahui was charged with murdering his twin baby sons. This only happened after months of the Kahui clan clamming up and refusing to speak up about what they knew. And then at the trial, Chris Kahui came across as an unlikely candidate for the murder; instead, his partner, the twins’ mother seemed to put herself in the mire over and over again.
But are the police going to take up any of the stuff that came out in court? Nope, they’ve concluded that they won’t be able to bring a case, and so they’ve dropped it, leaving two baby boys murdered without any one being blamed.
Something isn’t right here.
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