Oh dear, the new Internet Party leader

I’d quite like there to be a credible Internet Party fighting for laws to protect the Internet etc.

I thought it would be hard for the Internet Party to do worse than last time, but I think they have managed it.

The Herald reports:

Kim Dotcom’s political venture, the Internet Party, has a new leader. But she may not be in New Zealand for the election – given she is living in self-imposed exile in Moscow.

Activist and citizen journalist Suzie Dawson has been seeking temporary asylum in Russia since late last year.

I blogged on Ms Dawson in January. Some extracts:

• I remember us getting followed around by Auckland Transport vehicles
• there were days in 2014 where I honestly did not expect to see the light of day in that week. 
• So, at the end of 2014 after there had been several overt attempts on my life, which I document in the documentary
• Because privatised spying and privatised policing is huge, this is what we face now, is for-profit companies that make money from targeting us.
• Then I covered off the specific assassination attempts that I experienced in the lead up to the Moment of Truth event.
• I had the interior ceiling of my house painted and then little holes would appear in my ceiling, just randomly – it’s so sad – I used to go and stick chewing gum in them or pick-up-sticks – honest to God – because one day my ceiling has no holes in it then the next day there’s these little holes in it and I’m like ‘what the hell is going on?’
• We were standing in the way of absolutely everything that they were trying to do to our country and I was the conduit to the international media and to breaking the information out of New Zealand and getting it into the global sphere. And I think that that is one of the many reasons that they came down on me particularly hard.
• If you look at the science of 9/11, it’s obvious that there is a lot of questions to be asked there, just purely from a scientific perspective.

I really really hope she is included in the minor party leaders’ debate assuming she can video-conference in from her room in Moscow where she is hiding from the GCSB assassins.