Right-wing?
NewstalkZB has reported on the attack on the PM’s electorate office, and I was interested in this paragraph:
It is the second time the Prime Minister’s Electoral Office has been targeted by vandals. Right-wing activist Tim Selwyn took to the office with an axe in November 2004. He was later jailed for willful damage, publishing a seditious statement about the act and fraud.
Now labels are never that useful at the best of times, especially when it comes to Tim 
But considering the 2004 brick incident was to protest the Foreshore & Seabed Act, labelling it as the work of a right-wing activist is somewhat misleading. If one has to use a label I would say a Maori sovereignty activist.
Incidentally I am quoted on Radio NZ criticising this attack.
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January 1st, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Weren’t his objections based on property rights? I remember Act being against the F&SA for that reason.
January 1st, 2008 at 1:13 pm
His jail sentence was more to do with his fraud than his sedition!
Actually hes now a dab hand at earthquake analysis
http://tumeke.blogspot.com/
January 1st, 2008 at 1:17 pm
GWW – careful the earth doesn’t open up in front of you, maybe one day you’d wish you could have some right wings ?
Talking about fraud, and regular representative criminality ; how many National MP’s appeared in the Court docks in 2007?
January 1st, 2008 at 1:18 pm
So a piece of left leaning toughened glass isnt a match for a right wing brick.
January 1st, 2008 at 1:22 pm
John it was an “axe” not a brick
January 1st, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Some of the people who write the news at NewstalkZb are fruitcake socialists with the limited political perceptions that usually accompany that condition.
January 1st, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Drunken dickhead I would say.
January 1st, 2008 at 2:17 pm
It is a shame the government could not have afforded toughened glass at the Waiouru Museum as they seem to have at Helen’s electoral offoice.
January 1st, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Of interest to me was that the witness to the brick throwing was disturbed and attacked by a wild cat. Such creatures are often the companions of witches and are called Familiars. It seems in this case Ms Clark’s familiar in defending her property mistook the witness for the offender.
January 1st, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Very good, Baxter! !
January 1st, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Oh, FFS… last month, I had a rather pleasant lunch next door to the Prime Minister’s electorate office and noticed a grill over the front windows. So pardon me if I can’t get over hysterical about this – and wonder if there’s some combination of a very slow news day (turns out the anticipated yoof riots didn’t happen, oddly enough) and someone hitting the holiday cheer hard and getting their arses kicked.
January 1st, 2008 at 5:15 pm
More of Helen’s attacks on “golfers, accountants and lawyers”
January 1st, 2008 at 7:43 pm
im talking about this attack,gww,
January 1st, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Chuck has a good point ? If Helen Klark went missing ( hyperbolically speaking of course ) would New Zealanders want her back or the missing medals ?
Maybe the cat that Baxter speaks about can provide the keystone cops with a dog lead ?
January 1st, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Oh very good last line D4J
Of course chucking bricks is, as DPF says, stupid. Very thin paper with “Don’t vote Labour” printed on it, a bucket of that really, really sticky wallpaper paste (making sure several coats go over the paper to seal it), and nightly return visit would be much more effective and ensure the perpetrator wasn’t open to accusations of drunken hoonery.
January 1st, 2008 at 11:53 pm
I think this was actually the work of an overzealous but hard-of-hearing Labour supporter.
I refer to Helen’s recent reshuffle, in which the precedent of ‘chucking pricks’ before an election was established as correct a Labour-Party protocol.
The supporter in question obviously had a little too much New year’s Eve cheer, and decided to emulate his leader’s example.
Chucking idiot.