I get sooooo cross when I read anything that Key says.
"If I wholesale blatantly flout the law as Prime Minister I'm never going to survive anyway."
That's such a twisted (and effective, it seems) way of convincing people that he hasn't been involved in any wrong-doing.
Let us not forget his statement on the GCSB bill that allowed sweeping powers for the spy agency (under his control) [1].
"All they can do is protect you, so it's against malware or a virus. ... On your computer at home you almost certainly have Norton Antivirus...that is exactly what that is, at a much higher level."
Slippery doesn't even begin to describe the character of John Key.
>Last month, Auckland man Shane Warbrooke put in an OIA request to the prime minister's office, asking for "any evidence to disprove the theory that Mr John Key is in fact a David Icke style shapeshifting reptilian alien ushering humanity towards enslavement".
>"To the best of my knowledge, no. Having been asked that question directly, I've taken the unusual step of not only seeing a doctor but a vet, and both have confirmed I'm not a reptile," a smiling Mr Key said today.
>"So I'm certainly not a reptile. I've never been in a spaceship, never been in outer space, and my tongue's not overly long either."
I guess one could argue this isn't Mass" surveillance since it was targeting specific nations. I don't agree, just that words can be twisted in hindsight to alter meaning.
"Look, it's not Mass Surveilance, we are only spying on all communications of a few of our neighbour countries. It's not like we were spying on the whole world"
I hope I'm not the only one who thinks that excuse would sound ridiculous. You can always say "I didn't do A because from now on I'm defining A so narrow that it doesn't include what I did", but that's not how language works.
"If I wholesale blatantly flout the law as Prime Minister I'm never going to survive anyway."
That's such a twisted (and effective, it seems) way of convincing people that he hasn't been involved in any wrong-doing.
Let us not forget his statement on the GCSB bill that allowed sweeping powers for the spy agency (under his control) [1].
"All they can do is protect you, so it's against malware or a virus. ... On your computer at home you almost certainly have Norton Antivirus...that is exactly what that is, at a much higher level."
Slippery doesn't even begin to describe the character of John Key.
[1] http://www.3news.co.nz/tvshows/campbelllive/john-key-defends... (from 8:00 in the video)