{"id":953,"date":"2014-12-03T08:39:54","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T19:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=953"},"modified":"2014-12-03T08:39:54","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T19:39:54","slug":"john-keys-dotcom-brainfade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=953","title":{"rendered":"John Key\u2019s Dotcom brainfade"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Minto\"<\/a>\u00a0John Minto Mana vice president<\/p>\n

\"Johnkey\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The New Zealand government continues to crawl to the demands of US corporates with our crown lawyers seeking to have Kim Dotcom\u2019s bail revoked in a hearing at the Auckland District Court last Friday. (The hearing will continue this week)<\/p>\n

It\u2019s deeply embarrassing to have Meredith Connell lawyer Christine Gordon (acting for the New Zealand government) telling the hearing the United States wants the court to either send Dotcom back to prison or put an electronic bail system in place for him. So what? Why such servility to US requests?<\/p>\n

The case against Dotcom has always been about how far the New Zealand government would bend over backwards to assist US corporates in a case of alleged copyright infringement.<\/p>\n

And bend over double they did. The entire New Zealand state apparatus was put at the disposal of the US movie industry in the surreal attack on Dotcom\u2019s mansion in January 2012.<\/p>\n

Our own Hollywood imitator Peter Jackson could not have set a more dramatic scene with our spy agency the GCSB conducting covert illegal surveillance, dozens of police with camouflage gear, night vision goggles and automatic weapons, helicopters, searchlights and sirens.<\/p>\n

A scene from a dramatized attack on the headquarters of a Columbian drug cartel perhaps? No. Just the arrest of a New Zealand permanent resident wanted by US corporates to face civil charges.<\/p>\n

Like the Urewera raids where police and spy agencies spent up large from over-inflated \u201canti-terror\u201d budgets to dramatise a terrorist threat there was more state stupidity and outright bungling in the Dotcom case than any concern for New Zealand.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a situation where Hollywood is determined to make an example of Dotcom and deter others from running sites where possible copyright infringement could take place.<\/p>\n

Unlike other cloud storage and sharing sites like Google and Dropbox, Dotcom\u2019s Mega Upload cloud storage system was outside the control of the US corporate-approved sandpit where profits are circulated. So they went after Dotcom using Prime Minister John Key as their main man at the New Zealand end \u2013 someone ever keen to change our laws and throw tens of millions in taxpayer dollars into their back pockets.<\/p>\n

In light of Key\u2019s failures last week to recollect online conversations within 24 hours of them taking place it\u2019s worth a look back at Key\u2019s repeated denials he knew anything about Dotcom or the raid on his mansion beforehand.<\/p>\n

Remember the \u201cMoment of Truth\u201d email from Warner Brothers CEO Kevin Tsujihara which blew Key\u2019s denials out of the water?<\/p>\n

\"email\"<\/a><\/p>\n

When confronted with this email before the election Key\u2019s response was not to say the email was a fraud but to say he had \u201cno recollection of the conversation\u201d.<\/p>\n

This was clearly to be his long-planned line of defence to whatever the \u201cmoment of truth\u201d might reveal \u2013 just as it is now his well-practised response to anything which might cause him embarrassment.<\/p>\n

It was left to his friends at Warner Brothers to bail him out with the claim the email was a fake \u2013 duly taken up as gospel by the New Zealand Herald and the media generally and used to create the tsunami of negative publicity which engulfed the final days of the election campaign.<\/p>\n

Whatever one thinks of Dotcom he is the victim of New Zealand\u2019s state apparatus being misused for US corporate interests. The High Court questioned this intensively when the case for extradition was first brought to court. Let\u2019s hope the District Court does the same.<\/p>\n

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