Bloggers for freedom of speech in Fiji
Eagle-eyed viewers might have briefly spotted the NZBC home page on TV3 News last night. We’re proud to be associated with this initiative, driven largely by David Haywood from an idea by Tze Ming Mok. As well as our friends at Public Address, the bloggers of Just Left, Kiwiblog, No Right Turn and Spanblather also support the action. We’ve agreed to publish guest articles by Fijian bloggers and provide hosting, if required, as has Scoop. Since Sunday, when the press release was issued, the military regime in Fiji has apparently announced it will no longer be trying to track down anonymous bloggers. But they will still take them in for questioning if they “happen to come across them”. The story has been picked up by other New Zealand bloggers, as well as the Fijian media, prompting a certain “Sparrow of Other” to label us (in a comment since removed by the moderator) “the ultra left wing and the gay squad of NZ”, claiming we’ve become “embroiled” in an area that does not concern us:
“They best keep their vile ideological filth in NZ and not spawn it across the seas, fiji can well do without. Their sick mentality is to conjoin with other groups that share their warped ideology.”Now that’s what we call free speech. It may be the first time Mr Farrar has been accused of being ultra left wing, if not the first time NZBC has been called a “gay squad” (I told the DG those tote bags were a bad idea). Fijian bloggers undeterred by our warped ideology and vile ideological filth can email the NZBC here.
posted by Chris Bell at 2:26 PM
10 Comments:
Mr Farrar ius regularly lambasted for being a pinko socialist by a Mr Redbaiter.
I suppose Sparrow of Other might just be an internet troll, but that would spoil the jokes.
Hmm ... sounds like a line from a certain Bowie song:
"We are the gay squad and we're coming to town. Beep beep!"
... and apparently there are some very scary monsters in Fiji these days.
(To quote another lyric from the same album: "To be insulted by these fascists / it's so degrading.")
Admit it, Dave: it was the words "vile ideological filth" that brought you here, wasn't it? We knew you wouldn't object to our sick mentality.
If we weren't being so indolent and had been posting some Mixed Lollies lately (Rob! Where are you?) we'd have linked to your fabulous item about the British judge who didn't know what a website is:
http://tinyurl.com/2grq2p
Hurry on over to Ocelopotamus, everyone. It's great.
As a matter of fact, I think you should make "vile ideological filth" NZBC's new tag line. It could only drive traffic up.
Oh, and thanks much for the link to my post. It is indeed very important for people to educate themselves about the kite-flying spider-boxes, and Ocelopotamus is doing its humble best to facilitate that learning.
Gay Squad? Impossible. Stephen Stratford only owns two pairs of shoes.
You may wonder how Mrs Smith knows the contents of my wardrobe - I couldn't possibly comment - but she is right.
Owning only two pairs of shoes makes me the token bloke here at NZBC. The others are, frankly, metrosexuals.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Much as I hate to contradict a man with only two pairs of shoes to his name, Stephen, there is absolutely no way Mr O'Neill could accurately be labelled metrosexual.
Spies report the DG cut quite the swathe at a cocktail evening for the Computerworld Excellence Awards. Goodness, guests murmured as Mr O’Neill worked the room in a chalkstripe suit equal parts banker and gansta, those years in Sydney really sharpened his wardrobe. He ‘fessed up after the formalities: Working Style. Purchased for A$25 from St Vincent de Paul.
And even then he had to be talked into it.
St Vincent de Paul... wasn't he once patternmaker to Vivienne Westwood? He must have forgotten to erase the chalk this time.
The DG's such a class act.
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