After the
event!
So, we are informed by Main Stream Media
today.
This is a
very important claim.
This is the
same media which by my standards, is largely beholden to protect the
government.
As Hon Dr
Bassett comments on the Public Interest Journalism Fund (2) established by
Labour:
“Stuff received $300,000 to establish a “cultural competency course”. To encourage Maori TV, NZME, Pacific Media, News hub and support partners to take on journalism cadets who are Maori or Pacific, a cool $2.4 million was handed out. NZME that produces the New Zealand Herald got $440,000. One estimate I’ve seen is that 40% of the total beneficence will go to Maori projects.”
Under New
Zealand protocols which govern the conduct of the Executive, Cabinet Ministers
must NOT intervene in Operational decisions.
This protocol
applies to every Minister and every government department; be it running a
hospital or fighting a battle in El Alamein.
Government
and more precisely, the Executive, set policy for departmental Heads to apply
and follow.
Departmental
Heads are solely responsible for the application of policy.
This is how
many ministers in the past have avoided the guillotine when a Ministry has stuffed
up applying policy.
However, as
one scrolls through the Main Stream Media account of “How close to the action
was the Minister” when Brain Tamaki was K 9 (arrested), the following sentence
emerges:
“Her office
received an email on October 12 from a member of the police strategic
communications team, stating that Tamaki was appearing in court that day.”(3)
Okay.
This ‘advice’
is update which any competent minister would be expected to know via the
collection of acolytes loitering in the Beehive – looking for something to do
to justify their jobs.
Question for
the reader:
Does a series
of txts from police HQ to the Minister, suggest that the relationship might be
a little more than, Operations Command separated from Policy Promulgator?
I would
conclude: A FINE LINE.
Read the
Herald justification and make your own call.
Ross Meurant, graduate in politics both at university and as a Member of Parliament; formerly police inspector in charge of Auckland spies; currently Honorary Consul for an African state, Trustee and CEO of Russian owned commercial assets in New Zealand and has international business interests.
(2) https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2021/09/michael-bassett-media-greedies.html
(3) Ibid.
3 comments:
I would not trust the present minister of police in this government to do anything. You just have to watch her performances in the house at question time to realise that she is in way over her head. Her attitude that she listens to maori and pasifika opinions when making policy decisions says it all.
If Andrew Coster is dealing with her personally he is living dangerously. If the shit hits the fan she will just throw him under the bus.
That, by the way, applies to every one of the present ministers. That they are in over their head and that they will sacrifice staff to cover their arses.
A few years ago, a USA President had a sign on his desk that said,
"The buck stops here" I think it may have been Nixon.
Maybe we could get some made and gift one to each member of parliament,
including the PM.
It was Truman. So why did the Minister even need to know this, The self-proclaimed "Bishop" is a crim like hundreds of others being processed.
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