Her once-promising political career now in tatters, former Green Party MP Golriz Ghahraman endured another blow this afternoon as she stood in an Auckland courtroom to be sentenced for shoplifting nearly $9000 worth of retail items from high-end stores.
Judge June Jelas denied the 43-year-old former barrister’s request for a discharge without conviction, decreasing her odds of being allowed to revive her legal career after a seven-year hiatus prompted by her ascension to Parliament.
Ghahraman, who was allowed to sit in the courtroom gallery rather than the dock, lowered her eyes and looked towards a supporter as the decision was announced.
The judge imposed fines totalling $1600 and court costs of $260. Supervision was not imposed.
NZ Herald
The harshest part of her sentencing is that she now has a conviction entered against her name, probably meaning an end to any desire on her part to go back lawyering on behalf of genocidaires.
But cop this lot from her interview with the clown John Campbell at TVNZ:
Ghahraman told TVNZ this afternoon she shoplifted because she wanted to get out of politics.
“The self-sabotage was to get out,” she said.
“If I’d actually sat down and processed the fact that I needed to get out, I would have done things differently and that is my great regret. Like, to have actually caused other people stress and harm, because I couldn’t stop and go, ‘well, actually, if there’s something wrong with you, get help or quit’, which is what I should have done.”
She told TVNZ she didn’t get joy out of the crimes.
“It was just shame, shame, the whole time.”
She said she knew she was heading towards self-destruction.
”What the hell was I doing? I wasn’t unaware that I was doing something bad.”
NZ Herald
It would’ve been very easy to get out without stealing – don’t stand in the last election.
Yeah right, so she couldn’t just resign, like a normal person?
This is just a continuation of her pathological need to tell fibs, from her claims of being shelled in Mashhad, 900km from the border with Iraq, and a city that was never attacked during the Iran-Iraq War, to her embellished CV, to her happy photo standing next to a Rwandan genocidaire.
It is self-serving rubbish and just more pathetic excuses.
But in her soppy interview with pearl clutching and hand wringing John Campbell she said something incredible.
“I have a tendency to build a house then burn it down.”
Golriz Ghahraman
Who would EVER employ her after that?
Cam Slater is a New Zealand-based blogger, best known for his role in Dirty Politics and publishing the Whale Oil Beef Hooked blog, which operated from 2005 until it closed in 2019. Cam blogs regularly on the BFD - where this article was sourced.
7 comments:
On the employment issue (last sentence) I think we all know who will employ her with her enhanced reputation.
Another example of justifying bad behaviour by calling it a desperate plea for help. And John Campbell likes nothing better than a Left-wing luvvie who bares their soul.
I mean, what a great idea! Shoplift...multiple times, until you get caught. Then be publicly shamed and humiliated. And all because she wanted to get out of politics?
If she was so desperate why not make sure she got caught in the first shop, rather than cover it up and keep repeating the crime? Or just confess on her first attempt?
Total BS! Any sympathy we may have had for GG has just evaporated, along with her legal career.
Lucky she didn't do the crime back in her native Iran. She'd probably have lost a hand. And, as for the Palestinian scarf in court...more phoney virtue signalling from someone who struggles to tell the truth while lecturing everyone else about what's right.
Don't worry about GG, Ardern will no doubt find her a high-paying job. Did I read somewhere that GG intends to go to UK ? Will they let her in, she being a convicted criminal.
Check Waikanae Watch today to see a comparison of of our tiers (tears ?) of "justice". This judge should never have been allowed to preside over her trial and sentencing.
Just another nail in the coffin of justice. The Lady of the Scales of Justice is leaning over evermore. Which falls first: the Scales of Justice or the Leaning Tower of Pisa ?
I feel like ram raiding a shop to avoid going to school. I feel like having another baby because I don't want to find work. I feel like going on the jobseeker benefit since I have PTSD ........ This is the standard rationalization we have in society today. All self destructive and yet rewarded.
So - she stole approx $9000 worth of goods, and got fined $1600 !!
This looks like a potentially promising business venture.
At least her claim to be traumatized by a conflict 900 km away is more creditable than Maori claiming to be traumatized by a conflict 170 years ago.
if a member of parliament is not behind bars for stealing, what kind of a message are we giving out as a society? of course cutting off her hand (like they would have done in her country of birth) might be a bit extreme, but surely letting her off with a fine followed by a lucrative interview deal hardly qualifies as a deterrent or justice!
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