The S-files

Mike Williams: Consistent to the Bitter End

Contra Celsum nominates Mike Williams, Labour Party President, for an S-Award, Class II.

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Seasoned political commentators, hard-bitten cynical journalists, are shaking their heads over Labour's latest “own goal” in trying to prove that opponent John Key had been engaged in shady, illegal currency deals over twenty years ago. Fran O'Sullivan neatly expresses the collective disbelief of her colleagues, when she writes:

Labour Party president Mike Williams must have been tired and emotional or greatly deluded to believe he was finally on the track of a “neutron bomb” which would blast National leader John Key’s election campaign into smithereens.

The upshot of Williams’ lunatic attempt to try and link Key with the notorious 1988 H-fee scam - when no such evidence has been uncovered - is that Labour is now (rightfully) scrambling to fight off accusations that it is more interested in launching smears against its opponents than fighting a fair election at a time of extreme international financial turbulence.

And again:

It is unfathomable that Williams and Labour’s taxpayer-funded “researchers” thought they would drive home a connection putting Key at the centre of this white-collar crime by uncovering evidence that had eluded the Australian National Crimes Authority’s forensic investigators.

If evidence existed linking Key to the transaction he would either have faced charges, or been subpoenaed to give evidence in the subsequent court cases against Jarrett and Hawkins. He wasn’t.

So, was Williams greatly deluded or tired and emotional? We firmly believe the former. Why? Because his behaviour (with the connivance and support of the Prime Minister, Pete Hodgson, and the ruling clique in the Labour apparatchik) is perfectly consistent. It is a consistent outworking of the deluded world-view of the left wing—and let us remember that the Clark years have been a manifestation of underlying radical left-wing orthodoxy, camouflaged with a patina of gradualism.

Williams was deluded in his attempt to find what no man had found before: that Key was a participant in an illegal foreign currency scam. But he was also acting consistently with the doctrinaire left-wing ideology.

John Key, a wealthy “rich prick” had made money dishonourably (according to Clark and her coterie) in that he had operated in “big business” circles. According to doctrinaire left wing ideology, the rich (“big business”) have become so only by distortion, graft, and corruption. Wealth is synonymous with exploitation, corruption, and greed.

This explains why Clark and her strategists have been so fixated upon Key's purported lack of honesty and integrity. They know for certain that he is a lying cheat—they just have not yet been able to prove it. But the evidence must be there, if you look hard enough. It has to be there because Key has to be corrupt. He could not have been successful and become wealthy otherwise.

So Clark, Williams, Hodgson and others believed they could find what other (less prescient and insightful) investigators could not. They knew for certain that Key was corrupt—their left-wing ideology placed this beyond a shadow of doubt—so all they had to do was put in the hard yards and they would be able to expose it. You understand, of course, that failure to find the evidence does not for one moment result in their distorted world-view being challenged. It only confirms it. The fact that no evidence of Key's corruption could be found serves to prove how truly corrupt he must be. The lying bastard has hidden the evidence even more cleverly that we had believed. He must be even more slippery and slimy than we had thought.

There is a corollary to this sociopathic, delusional world-view. Sure the rich are evil, manipulative, and corrupt. But if we, the holy, just, and good, the righteous doctrinaire true left-wing believers, can turn the tables and if we can manipulate the rich, and use their wealth for our own ends we are perfectly justified in doing so. Firstly, it only serves them right. Secondly, it is fighting fire with fire. Thirdly, we the denizens of the sanctimonious left, are by definition incorruptible. When we do it, it's OK. We do it for good, for society as a whole. Our exploitation is on behalf of the exploited, whereas rich pricks like John Key exploit for themselves.

Don Quixote tilted at windmills, imagining them to be monsters. His delusional actions were perfectly reasonable and understandable to himself. To the rest of the watching world, he was both a tragedy and a comedy.

Williams, Clark, and Hodgson—the dilapidated horse, the pathetic squire, and the self-deluded chivalric. Cast them as you please. They have played their parts well.

Mike Williams, Labour Party President, bagman for Helen Clark, doctrinaire left-wing socialist: S-Award, Class II, for actions that have been Stupid, Short Sighted and Stupefied