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Who’s to blame for Maori guerillas training in the Urewera mountains? The NZ Herald’s John Roughan knows:
Whatever was happening in the Ureweras – serious plans or a shadow play – blame George Bush.
He’s serious.
(Via Bob D.)
I read the column. Oh My God. I’ve encountered a Weapons Grade Moron.
Other than the “blame bush” line, here’s the best line of the column.
> Despite the cache of weapons they collected in their raids this week, it is nearly impossible to believe anyone in this country would plan to kill for a political cause.
We will only understand people like Roughlin when we acknowledge that they adhere to a religious faith. Books like “The God Gene” argue that religion is primordially hard-wired into our brains. Abandon, oh, say, Christianity, and the gene will manifest itself elsewhere. Global Warmening for example, as Michael Crichton has so elequently spelled out.
http://www.perc.org/publications/articles/Crichtonspeech.php
Affiliated with Globowarm, in the same way that Protestantism and Catholicism are related, is Roughan’s multiculturalism, which says that NOTHING that is less than desireable can come from any source other than Western White Oppressors. Period. End of discussion. It only follows to discuss which particular WWO’s are responsible, and how they can be linked. To question this thesis is to question Christ’s divinity for an evangelical. There is simply no room for it, and heretical to do so.
Except that Christ’s divinity is in fact more logical and believable.
Poor Kiwis – they break their military alliance with the US, elect an anti-American prime minister, and yet evil American influences continue to infiltrate their secluded realm.
What are these people going to do in 15 months when they don’t have W to kick around any more?
Later in the article Roughan has the Understatement Of The Decade:
“The chainsaw taken to Auckland’s landmark [cutting the tree down on One Tree Hill] might not bear too much comparison to the attack on New York’s twin towers…”
Suffering from dandruff or halitosis? Can’t get a date? Maoris taking up arms? Blame George Bush!
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2007 10 21 at 12:16 PM • permalink
right under the stuffed moose head.
They have moose in New Squealand? Who knew?
Posted by rightwingprof on 2007 10 21 at 12:26 PM • permalink
I suppose that’s a fitting trophy, paco, but wouldn’t it be more satisfying to send this guy a check for $3.18 and sign it Karl Rove?
Anybody here live in D.C?
Now that would really get his conspiracy bonnet buzzing.
Cheaper, too. Of course there’s the matter of the letterhead…
Posted by zeppenwolf on 2007 10 21 at 12:34 PM • permalink
Despite the cache of weapons they collected in their raids this week, it is nearly impossible to believe anyone in this country would plan to kill for a political cause.
Let’s compare this thinking to that of a previous century:
Despite the special rail lines and the camps with buildings full of ovens, it is nearly impossible to believe anyone in this country would plan to wipe out an entire people.
Or this:
Despite making overt threats, constantly weirding people out, and collecting a small arsenal in the bedroom, it is nearly impossible to believe that anyone in this country would walk into a school and try to kill every student and teacher in sight.
Or this:
Despite the martyrdom rhetoric of the past eighty years, and the fifteen hundred years worth of violent history before that, it is nearly impossible to believe anyone anywhere would fly airplanes into buildings, killing themselves and everyone around them.
People like John Roughan become the first victims because of what they find impossible to believe.
Despite the cache of weapons they collected in their raids this week, it is nearly impossible to believe anyone in this country would plan to kill for a political cause.
Artki is right, Roughan is a weapons grade moron for this and the rest of his rant. But there’s another spin to this particualr point, demonstrative of the cognitive dissonance of many on the left.
If a political group of (at the very least) questionable nature can be “forgiven” for stockpiling weapons and ammo so that they would never use them, then Roughan just gave a moral trump card to people who believe in the right of individuals to keep and bear arms. After all, why would individuals plan to kill for political reasons?
I doubt that Roughan intended to do this, but it shows just how far Bush Derangement Syndrome™ will push people.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 10 21 at 12:58 PM • permalink
An adolescent fantasizer gets an influential job. Says about what I need to know about NZ.
Posted by Gary from Jersey on 2007 10 21 at 01:16 PM • permalink
I think the real root cause of Kiwi rage toward the US is the realization of how little they count. For anything. One thing self righteous twits hate is not being noticed.
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2007 10 21 at 01:22 PM • permalink
I’ll see your John Roughan and raise you Mariel Garza.
Re #9, Rebecca, that is very well said!
#16, thanks, paco! But you should have warned us about protecting our keyboards with that link to Mariel Garza; that twit makes Roughan look like Socrates.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 10 21 at 02:37 PM • permalink
“Truth is, Gore fits right in with the long list of Peace prize winners.”—Mariel Garza
You know, she’s right!
. Yasser Arafat
. Kofi Anan
. Le Duc Tho
. UN “Peacekeeping” forces
. Jimmy Carter
. Mikhail Gorbachev
. Mohamed ElBaradei
. Rigoberta Menchú
etc.Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2007 10 21 at 02:40 PM • permalink
Just when I think BDS can’t possibly unhinge lefties any more than it already has, some libtard like Roughan steps up to the mat and moves the door further from the jamb. Props to Bush, though, for being able to wreck minds on the opposite side of the globe: I think that must qualify as a superpower of some kind.
Some photoshop whiz want to take a crack at W as a superhero with BDS on his chest?
Gobsmacking stupidity on display in that article.
Gobsmacking… it’s just fun to say.
John Dolan, an American who had been teaching in New Zealand (and who is by no means a Bush-lover), nailed the attitude of certain segments of Kiwi society right after 9-11:
That was the funniest part: the way in which pious NZ lefties who run in vegan dyke circles were suddenly cheering on the Taliban. Who would have known they shared so many beliefs? They don’t, of course. They share only an evil glee in seeing the tall poppies fall.
“Tall poppies” is an important NZ idiom. It comes from a proverb of theirs, “The tall poppy gets the chop.” In other words, anyone who stands out, does too well, outdistances the herd, is evil. So when Atta and friends staged their airshow in Manhattan, it was like a dream come true for resentful NZers. They were actually seeing the fall of the tallest poppies in the world. They watched it over and over again, couldn’t get enough of it. And every one wrote letters to the editors of their local newspapers, always beginning with the obligatory “Some of my best friends are Americans…” before going into victory dances over the sexually-exciting sight of those vast American rods collapsing on themselves.
http://old.exile.ru/2001-November-01/dont_make_me_wear_that_damn_flag.html
You guys just don’t get it. If Bush had just taken care of Afghanistan, and left it at that, we would still recognize that all this terrorism stuff is just a bunch of malcontents acting out. The fact that it takes thousands upon thousands of dollars, organization, and state sponsorship to accomplish is just Bush having fascist delusions.
The ability of the human mind to deceive itself seems unlimited–perhaps right up to the moment when the knife completes its pathway through the neck.
#21: Well, until Col. Milquetoast drops by, here’s one version of Bush Man and his Derangement Ray!!
He didn’t blame Israel!? An oversight?
Posted by Honkie Hammer on 2007 10 21 at 06:29 PM • permalink
<A href=”http://aotearoa.wellington.net.nz/he/tame.html”Tame Iti</a> had travelled to China in the 1970’s and is a great fan of the Black Panther movement. His grand plan includes siezing control of land to build a “Tuhoe Nation”. This would entail removing farmers from their land and forcing whites to live under Maori customs.
Sounds a bit like that naughty man in Zimbabwe. Note that “Pakeha” is a racist term, meaning “white pig” or similar and is used even in the media in New Zealand.
Wunce were warriors…..usually uz udiuts!!!
As for the tall poppies, they certainly turned on the rugby people, especially those who run the game.
What do you call 15 blokes sitting around watching the World Cup semis on TV…. the All BlacksThey rely on their isolation to protect them, and it may work for a while….As the world falls into barbarism, the country mav need discovering again. Can’t see the greens producing another Abel Tasman or James Cook, wonder why……..
As usual when I read things like this, my flabber is gasted. Somehow EVERYTHING is Bush’s fault. I’ve said it before. If an asteroid were to hit Earth tomorrow, it would be blamed on George Bush. And global warming.
Posted by MikeTheLibrarian on 2007 10 21 at 07:00 PM • permalink
Well, he gave that evil alien dictator, Dick Chaney, a high level position in his government. That’ll help, right?
Posted by MikeTheLibrarian on 2007 10 21 at 07:35 PM • permalink
#21 here
Posted by Col. Milquetoast on 2007 10 21 at 07:58 PM • permalink
Achillea, “burnt penis” sounds like a NZ variation of scrotal inflation.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 10 22 at 01:00 AM • permalink
In other words, this JR guy refuses to believe EVIDENCE.
Posted by carpefraise on 2007 10 22 at 08:41 PM • permalink
Brilliant summing-up and great comparisons.
Posted by carpefraise on 2007 10 22 at 08:43 PM • permalink
This is my nomination for the all-time “Blame Bush Award”. Well done, John! Your prize will look great on the mantel, right under the stuffed moose head.