August 22, 2013
GCSB law fishy
Labour MP Shane Jones says the passing of the GCSB Bill shows a rot at the head of Government.
The bill giving the Government Communications Security Agency power to spy on New Zealand residents and citizens was passed by two votes last night.
Labour leader David Shearer contributed to the debate by bringing two dead snapper into the house, a reference to John Key’s claim New Zealanders were more concerned about cuts in bag limits than in whether they were being spied on.
Mr Jones says while the fish weren’t fresh, they were less fishy than the Prime Minister’s demand that people trust him nothing will go wrong.
"That’s a hopeless level of accountability and quite frankly if there is something that will prove to be rotten, then believe you me when our old people have that saying ‘ki te pire haere te ika, timata mai i te upoko, I think what we’re seeing here is that John Key has allowed this rot to come into our apparatus of our constitutional makeup, without a doubt.
Shane Jones says the new law gives broad and unchecked powers to a bureaucracy that has proven in the recent past that they are not good stewards of the public interest.
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