SHOOT YOURSELF
We were rather surprised to hear Newstalk ZB run this story on their 6am news (and later bulletins) this morning - read on:
A nasty poster with a picture of Police Minister Judith Collins with a bullet through her head has been plastered around some Auckland suburbs.
A nasty poster with a picture of Police Minister Judith Collins with a bullet through her head has been plastered around Auckland suburbs.
The poster reads "Judith Collins - Shoot yourself", followed by "No guns for police".
It has been seen in suburbs on the North Shore and in Remuera, and at the bottom has a "People Not Profit Collective" slogan.
Here's the really ironic bit though:
Right wing commentator David Farrar has posted it on his blog which has generated over 90 comments already.
He can't remember a politician being targeted in such a horrible way.
"Even when you've had very controversial Prime Ministers like Robert Muldoon, I don't think you ever got stuff quite this deranged or nasty," he told Newstalk ZB.
He says the slogan at the bottom is similar to a very left leaning group from a couple of years ago, but he's unsure whether it's the same people and has no idea who is behind it.
Now DPF also ran the story on Tuesday of last week; ELEVEN days ago, as did WhaleOil, who gave us a heads-up last Monday. Once again the blogosphere has scooped the MSM, and this time by well over a week.
The big question is this; why has the MSM ignored this story for so long? We know that journos routinely patrol the blogs, because we get e-mails from them. This was a significant story which attracted comment from both right-wing and left-wing blogs, yet the MSM didn't want to go there. Advocating violence against a Minister of the Crown is not something that a "normal" person does. The media was quick to speculate as to the motives of Jason Laughner after the tragic shooting on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, and yet there could be a similarly crazed person or group pushing an agenda right here.
But credit where it's due; well done to Newstalk ZB for exposing this lunacy; but it's far too little, and far too late.
8 comments:
Seems to have become news because JC refused to answer questions about the posters at an event yesterday...
JC was probably not giving the clowns oxygen.
Yes, Alex, exactly what the blogoshpere should have done. An abhorent poster like that deserves no publicity. Now INV2 you seem proud you gave it life before the MSM? Twisted!
There's two schools of thought here Anon; yes, one could ignore such hate stuff as this. I chose not to.
It was a particularly nasty attack on Collins, especially so soon after the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords. In my opinion it was more important to publicly condemn the poster.
And on the same day, even the left condemned it, with Eddie at The Standard saying "So, there’s plenty of good ways to criticise her without dumb shit like this."
'Even the left condemned it' Unfortunately that sums up why many find it difficult to allocate any credibility your way. Adversarial left-right bullshit is how you view everything. What a small world you inhabit.
My point Anon was that this poster was criticised from both sides of the political divide. There were commenters on The Standard who suggested that Collins was getting what she deserved, and they were rightly jumped on by the moderators there.
This is not a left/right issue; I would hope that anyone who saw it, regardless of their politics would be repulsed by it.
A delay of a week or two?
Then, there's hope the MSM will finally get round to reporting the bad things found about Uncle Helen on the UNDP watch blog that I keep referring to at my place.
Erm, DPF is not a right winger....well only just...ha.
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