What's on the tape ?

c) it was by all definitions a private conversation else you would claim that people are able to be recorded and broadcast in any public setting.

you kow whats retarded - political parties rorting our elctoral system to game it




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Sorry but it is



Sorry but it isn't

Without John Key national are like labour.

Shit behaviour by the media basically who are now effectively trying to blackmail him into releasing info that was collected wrongly.

Im sure its nothing too bad but it will probably sound quite rude.

The question is does the not knowing make it worse? My guess it is only people who already hate him that are getting upset over this.

A lawyer representing victims of the News of the World phone hacking scandal has weighed into New Zealand’s ‘teapot tape’ debate, defending the secret recording as “good journalism”.
Mark Lewis represents the family of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler along with others who claim their phones were hacked by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.
He says the recorded conversation between Prime Minister John Key and ACT candidate John Banks should be made public.
“There is a difference between the News of the World hacking into someone's phone to find out private information and seemingly - whether accidental or on purpose - effectively a journalist investigating some political statement,” he says.
“That's something that is in the public interest and sounds like it should be reported without the unfavourable comparison to what was clearly a criminal act.”

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Mr Lewis says it would be different if the teapot tape recorded a private conversation unrelated to the election.
“Something to do with the Prime Minister's health or his family situation… that really is nothing to do with anybody. If it's actually to do with how the country is governed then that's good journalism.”


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He says Mr Key’s comparison to News of the World tactics was a “cheap shot” with little relevance to the British scandal.
An accurate parallel, he says, was former Prime Minister Gordon Brown who was inadvertently picked up on the campaign trail by a Sky News microphone describing a woman as “bigoted”.
“[He] carried on talking without realising he was still wired up to a microphone and saying something that might or might not have cost him the election.”
Rather than filing a police complaint, Mr Brown apologised to the woman and her family.
Mr Lewis says under English law the release of the tea tape would be very unlikely to lead to a prosecution. In fact he says the police “wouldn’t bother to open a file”.


Read more: http://www.3news.co.nz/News-of-the-World-victims-lawyer-calls-for-release-of-teapot-tape/tabid/419/articleID/232827/Default.aspx#ixzz1dkCiBo4e

and this ^

Fuck I reckon... the policy is just incredibly lame electioneering and will do nothing to get people into jobs (or reduce drug use for that matter)

so what was on the tape exactly?
Winnie knows!
how come Winnie knows?

hahahahaha this thing just keeps getting better

Another thing that has pissed me off that someone just reminded me of:

"I just think it's repulsive Key used a family's trauma over their suicidal son as an analogy, and then has refused to apologise to them."

Except it wasn't a real family he was talking about, it was just a hypothetical thing he made up, wasn't it?

He stood by his comments comparing the recording to News of the World tactics and his comments earlier in the week about how, if he consented to the publishing of the tape, it could in some circumstances lead to suicide.

But Mr Key did not repeat his suicide comments today saying only that "it would lead to bad outcomes".

In response to a claim that suicide support groups have found his comments offensive and asked for an apology Mr Key said "I feel very strongly about the principle involved."

RNZ are to be served a search warrent within the next 48 hrs but have said they will refuse and legally fight it

I dont understand why he would militantly turn on the media, the people who have made his shit shine so much

It's like campaign 101.

National has huge support for one of its most draconian new law and order policies - the power to keep someone in prison after serving his or her sentence if the prisoner is deemed dangerous enough.

more right