Can you say "conspiracy theory"?
Not content with constantly banging on in the many other fora available to him, from his radio show to the Council website to his own website to (some suspect) LawsWatch comments, the Diva is back polluting the Chronic letters page with his imagined conspiracies and trotting out the tired old "malcontents" line. Still, it makes a change to see the Diva doing his own dirty work for a change - his usual attack dog, Bob Walker, must be on holiday.
If simply disagreeing with someone else's point of view makes you a "malcontent", then the Diva himself is a professional malcontent - he gets paid to disagree with people who call up his radio show. It's a nonsense, of course, and would simply be a harmless rant if specific people weren't named in his letter.
The only conspiracy here is that the Chron has held back any anti-Diva letters received during the week and ran them in a block, presumably to support his conspiracy theories.
And the crime commited by these people who, unlike the Diva - who clearly was given a sneak preview of the block of letters from "malcontents" - have no opportunity to defend themselves? Why, they're "trying to influence the upcoming council by-election".
Nothing better illustrates how anti-democratic the Diva has become. The democratic process is all about trying to influence the outcome of elections, votes, and other functions of democracy.
Isn't that what the Baker Hogan billboards are all about? (even though advice of her connection with Vision is restricted to a postage-stamp sized logo in the top corner). Wasn't that what the manipulation of Taylor's resignation and scheduling of the buy election is all about?
If writing letters to the newspaper or leaving comments on a blog are actions that ought to be perceived as somehow shady or immoral, what then does that say about the rumoured links between, or approaches from, the Diva to the likes of Waitai, Anderson and Hunter-Bell?
Incidentally, in his book "The Malcontents" (subtitled "The best bitter, cynical, and satirical writing in the world") Joe Queenan includes works by Candide, Mark Twain, Flann O'Brien, Machiavelli and even de Sade. Not bad company to be keeping, Chron letter writers.
Now poison of a different kind. We don't usually devote blog space to the various computer viruses, worms, spyware etc that infect the Internet. But a vulnerability has been discovered in Windows that is so serious it warrants our (and your) attention.
All that's needed to trigger this vulnerability is for the user to open and email or visit a webpage with an "infected" WMF (a type of image) file on it. Nothing to download, no click required. The end result can be anything from a complete takeover of your PC to immediate and irreversible damage requiring a complete re-format of the hard drive.
Full details are on the respected ZDNet site, which includes a patch (Microsoft's "official" patch won't be out till next week). We value your visits here (yes, even you Mickey) and wouldn't like to lose you to a nasty infection.
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Thanks for that Rob but if a chick who's only been in Wanganui 2 years can beat you for Horizons then what chance do you think you'll have in 2007? I'm not being nasty but you lost in 95, got elected in 98, lost in 01 and then lost again on 04. Wouldn't it be better to take the hint and go and do something else?
As for Martin v Baker-Hogan - I think she would have beaten him and that's why he didn't stand. Twice Halberg champ v retired army chap.
An interesting post because I guess the mayor would have been entitled to think that the four letter writers were running a campaign if their letters all appeared on the same day. But it doesn't stop it being a conspiracy, does it, if they were run over 4 separate editions?
The only conspiracy going on in this town is policy setting and ad hoc voting Mickey and his diVision dwarves. Now that IS anti-democratic.
I think you're stretching it a bit to compare Tricky Mickey to Trickey Dickey.
After all, the only thing that brought Nixon down was a couple of competent reporters backed by gutsy newspaper management.
No chance of that happening in Wangas, is there?
Mickey said
As for Martin v Baker-Hogan - I think she would have beaten him and that's why he didn't stand.
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Dream on, Mickey. And just remember that your girlfriend's pathetic performance at Horizons is going to rub off on the diVision brand this buy-election.
Perhaps that's why you're being discreeet about Baker Hogan's party affiliation.
Poor Michael, with those evil malcontents conspiring against him. I heard that Matt Dutton put something in Michael's food, and that made him arrogant and abusive to everyone. And Carol Webb poisoned his pinot noir, and made him distort the facts, and Emma Camden snuck into Helen's office and swapped his 3-ply for sandpaper. And Jay Kuten used mind control techniques to make him imagine office equipment flying through the air.
Poor Michael.
Why doesn’t Mickey get Leo to write his letters for him if Bob Walker’s not around? That sandwichgate one of hers a couple of weeks back was a real doozy.
So what if she is a few sandwiches short of a Horizons picnic, the Chron’s readers deserve a laugh from time to time, and Dotty seems to have had her bottom smacked for exposing her inadequacies with the Professor Phard comedy.
And if you’re right about Bobbie Walker having a bit of a holiday, he deserves it after an exhausting and embarrassing year of running around yapping his head off for the Diva.
At least Baker-Hogan turns up and clocks in at DHB meetings (unlike Miss Lust MIA at Horizons) even if she doesn't stick around long or contribute much to the debate.
I think it's great Mickey's little letter in the paper, he loses more peoples respect every time he shows himself up to be a mean spirited public servant.
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