Thursday, June 14, 2007
Putting the Mock in DeMockracy - Sms abuse at it's worst
You may have read my calls recently to regulate Mxit and Blogs. Now it's time to confess my abuse of another form of technology... The sms. You see I jump-started my party by sending out 6500 sms's to councillors across the country urging them to defect to my party. It's not that I don't care about the voters and the aspirations they had when they cast the votes electing the councillors I got to defect. I only care about power, getting it and keeping it. I am not sure who these people are and why they are defecting to the ID. Who knows what they stand for and what they have done? They can only stand for political treachery I suppose, which makes them perfect for my party. If you want to know what the party stands for? Well the 2007 policy conference provides two simple on several aspects of government which shows that the ID is for non readers and the shallow among us.
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Bloggie Hell!!!
Seems like I have been at it for longer than even I should care to admit!!! South African political leaders blog the election trail
Best Intentions Backfire
Sometimes I wish I could just hold my tongue for one moment. There I go and shoot my mouth off about Simon's case at the Cop shop and the lack of movement and what happens next? Well the story has reached the Mail and Guardian front page. There is no bad publicity they say! OK it was only up there for a moment, but the feeling of pride and glory filling my chest reminding me of the Arms Deal Corruption Exposure hey day were tempered by a twinge of sadness for the reality dawning on me - That I have achieved far greater publication of "Simon's defamatory story" than if I had just kept quiet? Oh so sorry for Simon - for sinking your "reputation". On further reflection I might actually be guilty of "publication" in the legal sense and Simon could claim from me. Where is my Silver Bullet and Magic Shield when I need it?
Parlaimentary priviledge - A silver bullet and magic shield
Oh - It is amazing... I can say what I want and not have to carry the can. There is a reason they have parlaimentary priviledge you know. It's to give the participants immunity and a feeling of being able to say and do as you please. It's to make Parlaiment a place where the participants can say what they really mean. Of course it's only inside parlaiment where the priviledge applies. I can't say it in the street or on my cellphone, but I can stand by my word and use my PRIVILEDGE.
This is going to be very useful because that Jayendra Naidoo fellow - He really wants his name cleared.... and I have both a silver bullet and a magic shield.
Cecil Burgess, an ID MP and De Lille's attorney, has since informed Naidoo that she will defend herself should he carry out the threat to sue; and reminded Naidoo's attorneys that De Lille's immunity under parliamentary privilege was "absolute" and "only subject to the rules of -parliament", while she had a "public duty" to raise such matters.
You can't sue me because I have immunity. I don't have to back up my allegations. If I had EVIDENCE you'd have been charged, but I intend to ride the Arms Deal Corruption Publicity all the way into the sunset. There is nothing better than to flog a horse like this... everyone cheers... "Corruption is BAD". It's like drugs and kiddie fiddlers with Mxit and bad bloggers. Something we can all agree needs attention.
I feel a bit like Harry Potter with my invisibility cloak. This is going to be so exciting! I wonder who'll win the costs?
This is going to be very useful because that Jayendra Naidoo fellow - He really wants his name cleared.... and I have both a silver bullet and a magic shield.
Cecil Burgess, an ID MP and De Lille's attorney, has since informed Naidoo that she will defend herself should he carry out the threat to sue; and reminded Naidoo's attorneys that De Lille's immunity under parliamentary privilege was "absolute" and "only subject to the rules of -parliament", while she had a "public duty" to raise such matters.
You can't sue me because I have immunity. I don't have to back up my allegations. If I had EVIDENCE you'd have been charged, but I intend to ride the Arms Deal Corruption Publicity all the way into the sunset. There is nothing better than to flog a horse like this... everyone cheers... "Corruption is BAD". It's like drugs and kiddie fiddlers with Mxit and bad bloggers. Something we can all agree needs attention.
I feel a bit like Harry Potter with my invisibility cloak. This is going to be so exciting! I wonder who'll win the costs?
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Eating My Words
They say home is where the heart is! Greetings all to my home. I am sorry I have been such a hyprocrite the last few days, but the other side of me only emerges here occasionally.
Firstly let me invite you to read a terribly inaccurate Independent Democrat press release : ‘I am a living example of fighting for freedom of speech’
‘I am a living example of fighting for freedom of speech. The first court case in the New South Africa for the right to freedom of speech was fought by me and won'
In sport they say that you are only as good as your last game.... which I lost. My hypocracy though allows me to have a convenienly short memory: De Lille book invaded HIV women's privacy, court finds More recently I ruined three people's lives by abusing my freedom of speech... yes I lost... and Justice Pius Langa wanted to award costs all the way back to the Joburg High Court - could you ever.
Mark Heywood reckoned that the "it was particularly important because it was brought by the poorest of the poor ... it indicates that the poorest of the poor should trust the Constitution and legal processes" That's right - I fought the poorest of the poor all the way through to the Constitutional Court, because I could not accept that revealing their HIV status to the public would ruin their lives - how stupid I was. Kinda tough on the three women who have had to carry that legal burden all this time. Whew - am I glad it wasn't me! R35 000 each and costs. Hah - hardly worth the effort. I should remind Simon of that.
That reminds me of what the one woman who sued me said "My life has been totally ruined. It is no longer worth living. I lost my boyfriend, I lost my home, I lost my furniture. There is nothing more to live for." What I don't understand is why this woman would pour thinners over herself and set herself alight..
I suppose that getting R35 000 out of a R200 000 claim makes you think that you won. Think again! It's only 17.5% of your claim - and by the time the attorneys and advocates have dropped off their accounts you'll be penniless again. And the ConCourt didn't even tell me I had to apologise - like you had hoped for... I don't know what good an apology would have been good for when I have ruined your life?
And back to my press release: 'Is there not a way, without dismissing the concept of blogging and MXit, to make sure that when people are defamed or slandered, they are able to take the same action to which they are entitled when it happens in print and electronic media?’
I must admit that as the Chancellor of the Durban Institute of Technology I may not seem all that tech savvy, but you will understand that my excuse is that like Danisa Baloyi it's a bit of a non executive position. I don't actually have to know about technolology.. and how the internet works... and what blogging actually is... and how come we haven't been able to track down the man who said those nasty things about Simon! It's a bit absurd that Simon's not going to get paid for his defamation of character - like I have had to stick my hand in my pocket in the last month - and I didn't even mean to ruin those women's lives! It's not fair I tell you.
So to the women whose lives I ruined - the rules need to be bent when I don't like the outcome! I hear that the Chinese are the ones to talk to!
As your leader in abuse of Freedom of Expression and destroyer of Privacy I trust you will be able to turn the usual blind eye for my own indiscretions.
(Parody? Truth for the Public Benefit? Unfair Comment?)
Firstly let me invite you to read a terribly inaccurate Independent Democrat press release : ‘I am a living example of fighting for freedom of speech’
‘I am a living example of fighting for freedom of speech. The first court case in the New South Africa for the right to freedom of speech was fought by me and won'
In sport they say that you are only as good as your last game.... which I lost. My hypocracy though allows me to have a convenienly short memory: De Lille book invaded HIV women's privacy, court finds More recently I ruined three people's lives by abusing my freedom of speech... yes I lost... and Justice Pius Langa wanted to award costs all the way back to the Joburg High Court - could you ever.
Mark Heywood reckoned that the "it was particularly important because it was brought by the poorest of the poor ... it indicates that the poorest of the poor should trust the Constitution and legal processes" That's right - I fought the poorest of the poor all the way through to the Constitutional Court, because I could not accept that revealing their HIV status to the public would ruin their lives - how stupid I was. Kinda tough on the three women who have had to carry that legal burden all this time. Whew - am I glad it wasn't me! R35 000 each and costs. Hah - hardly worth the effort. I should remind Simon of that.
That reminds me of what the one woman who sued me said "My life has been totally ruined. It is no longer worth living. I lost my boyfriend, I lost my home, I lost my furniture. There is nothing more to live for." What I don't understand is why this woman would pour thinners over herself and set herself alight..I suppose that getting R35 000 out of a R200 000 claim makes you think that you won. Think again! It's only 17.5% of your claim - and by the time the attorneys and advocates have dropped off their accounts you'll be penniless again. And the ConCourt didn't even tell me I had to apologise - like you had hoped for... I don't know what good an apology would have been good for when I have ruined your life?
And back to my press release: 'Is there not a way, without dismissing the concept of blogging and MXit, to make sure that when people are defamed or slandered, they are able to take the same action to which they are entitled when it happens in print and electronic media?’
I must admit that as the Chancellor of the Durban Institute of Technology I may not seem all that tech savvy, but you will understand that my excuse is that like Danisa Baloyi it's a bit of a non executive position. I don't actually have to know about technolology.. and how the internet works... and what blogging actually is... and how come we haven't been able to track down the man who said those nasty things about Simon! It's a bit absurd that Simon's not going to get paid for his defamation of character - like I have had to stick my hand in my pocket in the last month - and I didn't even mean to ruin those women's lives! It's not fair I tell you.
So to the women whose lives I ruined - the rules need to be bent when I don't like the outcome! I hear that the Chinese are the ones to talk to!
As your leader in abuse of Freedom of Expression and destroyer of Privacy I trust you will be able to turn the usual blind eye for my own indiscretions.
(Parody? Truth for the Public Benefit? Unfair Comment?)
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