It’s good to watch the competitive sprit in rugby between two teams, one ranked number one in the world and the other somewhere between fifth and eighth going off the last Rugby World Cup.

Interesting to observe how South Africa goes tomorrow for the final day at Lord’s for the cricket. They looked gone for all money against England after Day three. Today they appear to have dug out a draw. Might have to head to the concluding day tomorrow to catch the action.

Your going to lose this upcoming election and then your going to suffer the consequences as a result of your failed socialist belief system.

I don’t wish to condemn or praise Veitch for the “alleged act” itself. The Law has taken its course.

I do note that the All Blacks lost to the Springboks this Saturday 12 July 2008, feel better madbilly?

With Veitch’s absence from the Olympics who is going to be the cheeky chappy to make funny and fill in all the dead air between New Zealand not winning any medals and looking as lame as the Sydney result?

Think about that while you watch the snoozefest of New Zealand underachievement, the living embodiment of what the Labour party stands for, better to participate than to win. Yawn.

Something you’re no doubt good at!

You can’t be loser all your life madbilly, best stop now.

I never said the Mallard incident was OK, I just pointed out your puerile comparison beween that incident and the Veitch incident, an incident which was far more serious. So calm down.

Project your own inadequacies somewhere else. The “Mallard incident” as you put it was not acceptable behaviour by a member of parliament. What fine did Mallard pay for his violent actions? Did Mallard have to stand down from Cabinet? He’s still drawing a cabinet ministers cheque isn’t he?

Where were you to condemn his actions?

Stop being a silly boy and embarrassing yourself with your slanted and just plain wrong views.

That would suggest that the media actually know the facts. Which they admit they don’t. You have to know the facts to build a media beat up. In this case it is a media fabrication. They don’t know the facts and aren’t waiting. In fact, they’re now misrepresenting legal jargon and taking advice from remand prisoners.

(see today’s Herald online Veitch Incident update – a letter from a remand prisoner saying how it’s so unfair he can’t pay “hush money” http://tinyurl.com/5o98em )

There never was any hush money. It was a confidentiality agreement. Same diff you say? Then all those others that settle out of court for various reasons are cowards, frauds and worthy of losing their jobs? Yeah right.

So Herald, front up with sourced evidence of hush money or watch out, you may get call to account legally. And should.

A confidentiality agreement requires an agreement. It is not one party binding the other to a chair and threatening them with torture unless they take the money. To work, there has to be an agreement not to speak. You have to agree that the money is worth more than the personal cost of not revelealing the truth. If you then break such an agreement, you’re a blackmailer and a liar and generally the agreement has some kind of legal penalty.

The Herald are wading into the realm of complete and utter lies on this and not only bringing their company and the media into disrepute they’re embarrassing themselves. So to quote their own expert on employment law in today’s Veitch Incident article:

“…Rick Hargreaves, a senior associate at DLA Phillips Fox in Auckland, says: “You would expect any action which brings the company into disrepute would be subject to action up to and including dismissal.”

Will the people responsible for fabricating unsubstantiated rumours about a well known public figure and so bringing their own company into disrepute suffer the same fate as Tony Veitch?

Or will the media close ranks and defend the indefensible?

Looks like Journalists just moved a up a level on the least trusted scale, surpassing Real estate agents. I remember the recent news item on TV about it: the woman reporter said that it was a dirty job, but someone has to do it.

The further this witch trial continues without fact, the worse the MSM looks – clearly they don’t care – but there ar enough lawyers out there that do. Can they come up with a reason why should people like DPF, and others who look for the inside angle on a matter, should use them as reference to political matters when they are hiding proven liars and fabricators in their own ranks? They’ve made themselves obsolete in the information age.

They don’t make the same issue about any other man who beats his partner, unless they are a celebrity whose name on a headline will get them more business.

His “celebrity” certainly gives the story some prominence… but I honestly believe the severity of the assault would guarantee this made headlines if it had been Joe Bloggs round the corner.

As Brian Smaller has pointed out, by getting a $170,000 payout she may well be better off than she could ever have hoped for by going through the court system, and he has already had his punishment. I am very glad they could come to an amicable arrangement without the stress and expense of court.

And I still feel the media is just beating this up for money from the headlines. They don’t make the same issue about any other man who beats his partner, unless they are a celebrity whose name on a headline will get them more business.

The guy has been humiliated, effectively lost his career and any standing he had in the community – and is out $170K (surely the biggest fine for assault in the history of New Zealand. I think Justice is well and truly served now.