Cult calls for official corruption
October 4th, 2010 at 3:00 pm by David FarrarA small fanatical cult in Timaru has called for their religious leader to be exempt from the laws of New Zealand, reports TVNZ:
They said in a statement today, issued under the name of Paul Carruthers, that the petition also sought the immediate removal of the Hubbard’s from statutory management, and for the removal of the investigations that are being carried out by the Serious Fraud Office.
That is a call for official corruption. No Government should interfere with an SFO investigation. The cult members obviously have lost grasp on reality, and do not understand little things such as separation of powers.
What is interesting is that the cult are being actively supported by Labour. Do they support the call for the Serious Fraud Office to be told that certain people in New Zealand are too highly regarded to be investigated?
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October 4th, 2010 at 3:02 pm
Geez. All they have to do is adopt Gerry as their leader and they’re home and hosed.
Vote:October 4th, 2010 at 3:14 pm
Indeed, m@tt – Gerry has the power under the CERRA to both call a halt to the SFO investigation and to remove Hubbard from statutory management in order to allow Hubbard to help with the Canterbury recovery effort.
Vote:October 4th, 2010 at 3:25 pm
Exempt from Corruption – well Labour have a track record in that respect with both their own corrupt minister Philip Field (now in prison) and also Winston Peters – Unemployed who stole and lied.
Winston was given special treatment by our Dear Leader which left the impression that corruption within the ranks is Labour is ok.
Vote:October 4th, 2010 at 3:26 pm
Didn’t Labour try to close the SFO anyway in their last term? Or am I confusing that with something else.
Vote:October 4th, 2010 at 3:28 pm
But the government investigators have issued a tonne of press releases on this issue. Are not these releases too an attempt to influence perceptions of guilt or innocence, or at least justify the SFO actions? Surely its OK for a group of citizens with opposing views to likewise advertise them.
Vote:October 4th, 2010 at 3:29 pm
Monty said
Indeed Monty. Despite being a Climate Change sceptic (heretic; he must be eliminated), WRP voted WITH Helen Clark’s government to enable the passage of its ETS immediately before the 2008 election. The pay-back that he received was that Labour refused to vote for the Censure Motion against him after the Privileges Committee inquiry.
To segue back to the topic, it’s actually quite strange that WRP has been so silent on the Hubbard/SCF issue. I wonder what we can infer from that.
Vote:October 4th, 2010 at 3:57 pm
The investigation is harming the reconstruction of Canterbury … come on Gerry, you can do it!
Vote:October 4th, 2010 at 5:08 pm
Do they support the call for the Serious Fraud Office to be told that certain people in New Zealand are too highly regarded to be investigated?
When the investigation was initiated for nefarious purposes I certainly hope they do.
Vote:October 4th, 2010 at 5:13 pm
Separation of powers David? The current government fails to grasp that concept, demonstrated with CERRA, so why blame this lot if they don’t get it?
Vote:October 4th, 2010 at 6:03 pm
So, despite evidence to the contrary they are saying he has done nothing wrong.
No one so blind as those that cannot see.
Vote:October 4th, 2010 at 6:48 pm
The Statutory Managers reports are available here:
http://www.grantthornton.co.nz/statutory-managers-hubbard-update.html
I respectfully suggest the pro-Hubbard lobby group take a moment to look through the reports, especially pages 7 and 8 of the 2nd.
Vote:October 4th, 2010 at 6:58 pm
It’s just insane isn’t it?
Vote:October 4th, 2010 at 7:49 pm
What is interesting is that the cult are being actively supported by Labour. Do they support the call for the Serious Fraud Office to be told that certain people in New Zealand are too highly regarded to be investigated?
Yes. Look at there track record. Join Liarbore and you are free from any Police charges as long as you remain a member i.e P Field
Vote:October 4th, 2010 at 7:58 pm
Phil 70 and Blue Coast 104 … good posts.
Vote:October 4th, 2010 at 8:41 pm
Thanks for the links to the SM’s reports Phil; they are pretty damning.
Vote:October 4th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
Hubbard curried favour from the locale and lived for near free. Using other people’s money to facilitate his miserly tendencies.
But for the Labour Government G’tee scheme, the innocent investors that were just plain lied to would have lost the lot.
Hubbard is just a creepy old man that should have given up his many tentacles of power, influence and largesse decades ago.
Vote:October 5th, 2010 at 12:42 am
Let’s try to be a bit more objective, shall we? I think the biggest question on most people’s minds is why Hubbard, who has moved hundreds of millions of his own money into SCF to try to save it, is getting the hard word from the government while the Mark Hotchkins of this world swan off to Hawaii with their ill gotten loot and conspicous status mongering in huge contrast to the plight of their many investors.
The retail guarantee scheme means SCF investors will not be impoverished the way that Hanover investors have been.
Vote:October 5th, 2010 at 8:01 am
I was speaking to a tough retired Otago farmer recently. I thought he may have come out in support of Alan Hubbard. Almost to my surprise he said that he considered that Alan was irresponsible for letting his affairs getting into the state they were in at his age. What would have happened if Alan had dropped dead at this time. Everything would have been just as difficult to untangle and people would have still lost money.
I suspect things were so tangled that the tentacles of Alan’s empire were firmly holding him and that it required some ‘circuit breaker’ to sort things.
Vote:October 5th, 2010 at 10:43 am
Did he say Hubbard? F**K, so close. An official exemption from silly things like ‘laws’ would have been so useful.
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