While I applauded Labour's decision at the time to scrap titles, I do approve the choices of Helen Clark and Peter Jackson for service to New Zealand and film making respectively. They are both great people in their chosen fields, and great New Zealanders.
Peter will go on and make many more great films as producer or director, and Helen will continue at the United Nations. You may have noted I didn't say Sir Peter, because I find titles an anachronism. Peter Snell and Colin Meads should have recived their awards years ago in any case. Helen wouldn't have accepted being a "Dame" in any case, but in American parlance she was a great dame for sure!
Once John Key is overturned there will be a job for him at the World Bank, and a knighthood too I expect. They'll love his smile, if not his shallowness.
Happy New year Kiwis!
Showing posts with label knighthoods undeserved. Show all posts
Showing posts with label knighthoods undeserved. Show all posts
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Bob Jones just a crass, bigotted, biased, foolish old pensioner...
Bob Jones is a crass, bigotted, foolish old pensioner...
I don't accept the legitimacy of knighthoods for people like Bob Jones,Roger Brierley or Roger Douglas. - they only received their titles for making money and their service to capitalism and the market - not New Zealand society or the average Kiwi in the street. As a consequence their titles shouldn't be used.
Bob Jones is just a crass, bigotted, biased , foolish old pensioner who has never made a positive contribution to New Zealand society, except when he lives overseas. Just a wheeler, dealer devotee to the god of mammon and the free market.
I remember the reports years ago of him assaulting a traffic cop because he didn't appreciate being given a ticket by an idiotic traffic cop. Yeah right! And on state television we watched the aftermath of Bob Jones assaulting a television reporter because he interfered with Bob Jones'privacy. Jones hit him in the face and gave him a bloody nose.
The man was obviously out of control like some interbred pitbull, protected by his millions, which he will use to try and intimidate anybody that he, Jones, thinks is threatening him.
He always publicly insulted or put down those he disagreed with personally, or politically, or those lesser mortals that this Naenae College educated, punch drunk, third rated boxer considered. Such an example was his election campaign to bring about the downfall of the Robert Muldoon( another undeserved knighthood)National Government, not because he really supported the Labour Party.
I don't accept the legitimacy of knighthoods for people like Bob Jones,Roger Brierley or Roger Douglas. - they only received their titles for making money and their service to capitalism and the market - not New Zealand society or the average Kiwi in the street. As a consequence their titles shouldn't be used.
Bob Jones is just a crass, bigotted, biased , foolish old pensioner who has never made a positive contribution to New Zealand society, except when he lives overseas. Just a wheeler, dealer devotee to the god of mammon and the free market.
I remember the reports years ago of him assaulting a traffic cop because he didn't appreciate being given a ticket by an idiotic traffic cop. Yeah right! And on state television we watched the aftermath of Bob Jones assaulting a television reporter because he interfered with Bob Jones'privacy. Jones hit him in the face and gave him a bloody nose.
The man was obviously out of control like some interbred pitbull, protected by his millions, which he will use to try and intimidate anybody that he, Jones, thinks is threatening him.
He always publicly insulted or put down those he disagreed with personally, or politically, or those lesser mortals that this Naenae College educated, punch drunk, third rated boxer considered. Such an example was his election campaign to bring about the downfall of the Robert Muldoon( another undeserved knighthood)National Government, not because he really supported the Labour Party.
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