Scoop takes a pot-shot about comments on Robson
Media site Scoop has published an article on Robson's visit to Cuba. In it is a remark:
"Thankfully for Robson and Wendy Petrie [TVNZ News reader who recently holidayed in Cuba] there’s no penalty for visiting Cuba as a New Zealand citizen other than drawing the ire of extreme right wing bloggers."
That's strecthing the truth! My comments, and the comments on other blogs such as David Farrer's criticise his support for the Cuban justice system - not the fact that Matt Robson went there. I also criticised Cuba's Communist system - I pointed out that Cuba is crippled by government debt that will have to be repaid by Cubans long after Castro is gone.
However, I can't object to the extreme right wing comments - I am a radical free-marketeer and a moderate social liberterian! I do get upset when collectivists and social conservatives like Kyle Chapman and the National Front get called right-wing. After all Mussolini was a communist party member before breaking with them and founding a fascist party. (Sorry, I'm digressing)
Perhaps Mr Robson's support of The Wananga could also be questioned - I want to know if they did pay for him to go to Cuba? After all his original Newsletter says "Why am I in Cuba you ask? Because with representatives of Te Wananga o Aotearoa I have been at a UN conference on education and literacy attended by over 5000 delegates, many from Latin America."
Perhaps Ken Shirley might want to do some more digging?
UPDATE: Antartic Lemur has a really good article on this - read it here!
"Thankfully for Robson and Wendy Petrie [TVNZ News reader who recently holidayed in Cuba] there’s no penalty for visiting Cuba as a New Zealand citizen other than drawing the ire of extreme right wing bloggers."
That's strecthing the truth! My comments, and the comments on other blogs such as David Farrer's criticise his support for the Cuban justice system - not the fact that Matt Robson went there. I also criticised Cuba's Communist system - I pointed out that Cuba is crippled by government debt that will have to be repaid by Cubans long after Castro is gone.
However, I can't object to the extreme right wing comments - I am a radical free-marketeer and a moderate social liberterian! I do get upset when collectivists and social conservatives like Kyle Chapman and the National Front get called right-wing. After all Mussolini was a communist party member before breaking with them and founding a fascist party. (Sorry, I'm digressing)
Perhaps Mr Robson's support of The Wananga could also be questioned - I want to know if they did pay for him to go to Cuba? After all his original Newsletter says "Why am I in Cuba you ask? Because with representatives of Te Wananga o Aotearoa I have been at a UN conference on education and literacy attended by over 5000 delegates, many from Latin America."
Perhaps Ken Shirley might want to do some more digging?
UPDATE: Antartic Lemur has a really good article on this - read it here!
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