Hewitson on Slater
August 28th, 2010 at 8:16 am by David FarrarMichele Hewitson interviews Cameron Slater for her weekly interview. Some extracts:
spoke to him during the lunch break on Wednesday and, during that phone conversation, he said he thought the judge would reserve his judgment, which proved to be the case.
He then proceeded to say, mildly for him, rude things about the judge.
When we met on Thursday (he’d suggested we meet at the zoo, which was tempting but he would have enjoyed being photographed outside the monkey cage far too much) I asked whether it was clever to slag off a judge to a journalist.
He said: “He’s been rude to me!” But was being rude about him clever?
“Probably not. But then again, you know, do I trust … the justice system and that the judge will put aside personal feelings … ? Am I stupid? Probably.”
I’m quite sure the Judge will put aside personal feelings.
I asked if he was a bully and he said: “Yep. I admit that.” That’s not an attractive trait to admit to. “No, it’s not.” He says the drugs he was taking for his depression caused the “self-limiting mechanism” that most people have to “disappear”. …
He used to earn, he says, probably $150,000 a year and did so for years and now he’s on a sickness benefit and the family home has gone.
He is in a prolonged battle with his insurance company over a cancelled income protection policy.
He says he has been “a complete arsehole to live with” and “rude, abrupt, thoughtless, uncaring” to his wife.
He hasn’t been happy and hasn’t liked himself for years now. He is working on happiness and is now off the drugs he says his insurance company “made” him take and which he believes made him madder.
He said, perhaps hopefully, that he thinks the blog has become more temperate. “I’m not using nicknames and derogatory terms.” (He was still calling North Shore mayor Andrew Williams a “clown” last time I looked, but that’s almost affectionate for him.)
I’m not sure most people would term “corpse fiddler” temperate, but that was off-blog.
For Cameron, corpse fiddler is temperate!
August 28th, 2010 at 8:35 am
Stop giving this idiot oxygen.
I hope the judge and the lawyers take him for everything he’s got and leave him destitute for life. Oh hang on, an insurance company already did us that favour. LOL.
Slater is a low life who deserves everything the legal system can throw at him, then some more.
Vote:August 28th, 2010 at 8:47 am
It was a long article and by the end I didn’t have a clue what either the writer of the interviewee was on about . . .
Vote:August 28th, 2010 at 10:01 am
@ MNIJ – do you have the guts to say what you think publicly, and under your own name, not a pseudonym? Thought not …
Vote:August 28th, 2010 at 10:08 am
I hope the judge and the lawyers take him for everything he’s got and leave him destitute for life. Oh hang on, an insurance company already did us that favour. LOL.
Slater is a low life who deserves everything the legal system can throw at him, then some more.
Gary Jeffrey.
IV2, your turn.
Vote:August 28th, 2010 at 10:18 am
Whatever his problems, the Whale still manages to expose much of the covert corruption that occurs at high levels in such a manner that it cannot be ignored and in so doing does the Nation a great service.
Vote:August 28th, 2010 at 10:18 am
“Stop giving this idiot oxygen.”
I agree, DPF stop letting this offeensive female body part Jackboot suck O2 on your site.
You a nasty peice of malicious crap as well as being a rabid anti-Semite of no redeeming quality. I would happily read about your having been been hit by a bus and care more about the damage sustained by the bus.
ESAD.
Tagging out to Inv.
Vote:August 28th, 2010 at 10:29 am
What Murray said. Let’s wait and see how Whale’s action against Fidelity pans out before we pass judgment. Breach of contract isn’t good for an insurance company’s reputation.
Vote:August 28th, 2010 at 10:37 am
I’d say it will pan out about as good as Veuve Clicquot/NBR did this week. They will cave eventually as the brand destruction keeps on rising, not to mention the pending court battle.
Vote:August 28th, 2010 at 11:32 am
Murray, you confuse me with someone who gives a fuck about you and / or your genocidal jewish state mates.
Vote:August 28th, 2010 at 12:31 pm
Lee C notes:
Yep, that’s what you get in the age of “celebrity”. No attempt to wrestle with the issues, just some once-over-lightly “profile” aimed to feed the public’s insatiable interest in what so-and-so has for breakfast and their favourite brand of sunglasses.
Not blaming Whale at all… there are some meaty legal and moral issues raised by his stance that I’d love to sit down and debate with him… but he can only respond to the questions he’s asked. Thankfully we have the likes of Kiwiblog, where us plebs can argue about it, and others like the excellent Media Law Journal that delve into the underlying issues.
And the MSM wonders why sales are declining…
Vote:August 28th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
Jerk/Borker
You seem a bit frisky today. I’d expect a draft dodger to have a little more empathy.
Vote:August 28th, 2010 at 3:23 pm
Um, I’ve read quite a few of those Hewitson interviews in the Herald, and I think there’ a good 10 words or so of useful information in each – and they cover the entire back of the front section.
They mostly seem to be about the interview itself (weather, how the handshake was…) than actually a recording of what someone said in an interview.
Vote:August 28th, 2010 at 3:42 pm
There seems to be a fair amount of aggression in your post, its sad
MyNameIsJack (1,410) Says:
August 28th, 2010 at 8:35 am
Stop giving this idiot oxygen.
I hope the judge and the lawyers take him for everything he’s got and leave him destitute for life. Oh hang on, an insurance company already did us that favour. LOL.
Slater is a low life who deserves everything the legal system can throw at him, then some more.
Vote:A thought JACKOFF
Did Cameron use up all the toilet paper and you didnt notice,(yours was a real shitty post) JACKOFF wheres the kama
August 28th, 2010 at 5:01 pm
r rabbit
Jerk/borker is still struggling to come to terms with the fact that his daddy was in the merchant marine and didn’t get a medal during WWII. It appears to have unhinged him.
Try and show some compassion.
Vote:August 28th, 2010 at 5:43 pm
I don’t think the insurance company is going to ‘cave’ at all. Here’s why:
To start with, I didn’t even know it was Fidelity so I doubt they are concerned about their brand. This is not to say that companies base their strategies on my personal feelings but; i read this blog every day and follow the New Zealand media as closely as ever and I didn’t even know about it. I doubt many others know either.
Even if it was widely disseminated (and I doubt Slater would be doing his case any good by encouraging this), I don’t think many people would care. The general public, I think, regard Slater as somewhat of a prick. Name-calling, bullying, offensiveness etc. I don’t think that the vigilante action against name surpression really makes up for it. This is because most people (the people from The Real World) understand the reasons for name surpression and are perfectly happy with the current arrangements. Because of this, I doubt Fidelity are concerned with any backlash.
In terms of breech of contract, I havn’t seen the case but I would say that you are probably supposed to keep taking your medication as per doctors orders. Medication is usually designed and used to get you back on the rails quicker, back into work and off the insurance company’s bill. A cynic might say a refusal to take medication is likely borne of a desire to remain on the teat.
Not to mention that FL probably have an army of lawyers who specialise in this sort of thing.
No I think they will keep fighting it and will probably win.
Good luck though.
Vote:August 28th, 2010 at 6:27 pm
And Bored Boy succinctly explains why drugs re evil, why insurance companies like Fidelity Life are evil and how little he understands depression.
The drugs are NOT your friend. They didn’t work for me, the side effects were appalling and it is only now some 5 weeks after coming off them completely that I am starting to feel what life is really like.
I am actually getting better off the drugs, far faster than the 6 years I was on them. No one wants depression and no one wants the “teat” life depressed is terrible, that you suggest I’d actually want this shows how little you understand me or the issue.
Vote:August 28th, 2010 at 6:31 pm
He was lucky to get Judge Harvey – apart from the fact that the Judge understands the technical aspects of blogging to an unequalled extent, Harvey DCJ is as straight as they come.
Vote:August 28th, 2010 at 6:35 pm
Furthermore, every hoop those lying cheating pricks at Fidelity Life asked me to jump through, I jumped. I did everything they or their paid flunky medical professionals asked me to do.
Everything they asked of me made me worse not better, then they had the mendacity to say just cut me off.
They caused me to have 3 additional major depressive episodes and as a result I now have a lifetime of living with the illness instead of beating it.
If you even had a microscopic understanding of the pathology of depression or the math of it you’d know this.
Vote:August 29th, 2010 at 4:47 pm
I for one hope WhaleOil wins.
I also think the average joe-public probably doesn’t even know who he is. At most, they’d be vaguely aware that some guy on the internet named and shamed a few sex offenders who really shouldn’t have been granted name supression in the first place. And anyway, why should rapists and paedophiles get off with just a slap on the wrist and maybe a small fine – while the guy who has the guts to name them gets dragged through the courts?
It’s an indictment on our nation; criminals have more rights than our victims or those who would seek to stop offenders.
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