Crown lawyers are asking the three judges deciding the case of lockdown legality to play politics. That’s grubby, definitely, and corrupt, probably.
The suspicion arises of political finger-dipping in our High Court with Crown Law urging Justices Thomas, Venning and Ellis to consider the “unintended consequences” of their decision, and further, to reserve their judgement.
This can have no other meaning than an attempt to politicise the judicial process by delaying any repercussions until after the election. That’s not on; it amounts to an attempted manipulation of our court system to the sitting government’s advantage.
Our Glorious Leader had the opportunity to de-politicise the COVID response, and indeed was urged to do so on March 6th by our public health officials, who warned that any responses:
“should not be entirely a health sector decision. It should require a full societal perspective (eg, as held by the Prime Minister and Cabinet – potentially with input from all Ministers). There is a potential case for involving all the key leaders of all political parties so that there is multi-party support for the final decision. This is an approach NZ has previously taken with war-time cross-party Cabinets (eg, in the First World War). Indeed, this approach may be particularly important for NZ since 2020 is an election year and the need to avoid partisan point-scoring is particularly high.”
Ardern chose to ignore that advice. Not only did she choose to ignore it, but she milked COVID for all it was worth with her ridiculous slogans, cliches and shibboleths — “hard and early”, “single source of truth”, “test, test, test”, “team of five million” — and one-girl-band daily COVID updates running an election campaign off the back of a national emergency.
She chose a partisan approach and benefited from any successes gained. She gloated and lapped up applause like a diva. Now that it’s about to explode in negative headlines, it is not for our three justices to shield her from the “unintended consequences” of her own selfish actions.
“Know us by our deeds”, she said, and that’s fine, m’lady, but so should ye “Be judged by your deeds”, without political manipulation of the judicial process.
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