[Imc-aotearoa-ed] I hate the WTO!

[finn c.]

I hate the WTO!
by finn

The WTO is really evil, especially the (ex) Director Mike Moore.   He is responsible for further developing and implementing neo-liberal economic policy, which is seen by leftists around the world as a naaaaaaaasty way of making the rich richer, and screwing everybody else.

I can't believe that NZer's are letting him get a hip replacement in this country, after the way his right-wing buddies have screwed our health system. They must be stupid or something.

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Now we wouldn't hide that would we? I hope not anyway ;-)

> I felt it should be hidden because:
> 
> *    it openly identifies a person (Arnost Wratislaw) and then suggests 
> he should not receive a hip replacement operation.

I see no problem with this. I would see a problem if the story is bs - but I haven't seen any evidence of that. It doesn't send a good message to our publishers if we assume that they are lying by default eh? 

> *    It accuses the person of developing agent orange (generally 
> accepted as a naaaaaaasty chemical agent) used horribly by the `Allies' 
> against the Vietnamese, and it associates him with the Nazi's 
> (indirectly - through the grammar ``this is a disaster because this man 
> came here after wwii and developed the crap hitler was using on the jews 
> into agent orange'')

Maybe he did . . . I don't know. See above ;-)

> *    it contains several generic insults to NZers for no particular 
> reason, ``new zealanders dont give a damn'', ``would in fact much rather have 
> nazi war criminals being operated on than a sick nz kid'',
> ``as disgustingly greedy as kiwis are'', etc.

Yeah, but thats an opinion. Maybe if it was a whole article about how nzer's suck it would be different. I hardly feel insulted by the comment, but maybe thats cause I'm half-british :-)

> Sorry for the misleading reason given before - `violence' is not really 
> the issue here, rather , it is unjustified slander of a person and 
> people (Kiwi's). Depends on what standard we set for the site I guess, I 
> seem to be more conservative than others on this score in that I feel 
> our readers will turn off the site if we let it descend into posts with 
> personal abuse too much.

Yup, my concern is that if we take this off then we should be taking articles like my luverly piece off too. That would suck.

finn