This chapter paints Cameron Slater in a worse light than the previous one. He worked with National Party activist Aaron Bhatnagar to hack into the Labour Party's donor list and then to release the information. Does anyone remember the News of the World controversy in which hacking wasn't looked upon favourably? Well, this is on the same scale.
It's actually worse to be honest. Cameron Slater and Aaron Bhatnagar are maliciously targeting the Labour Party. It is one thing to fight for the party you support. It is another to openly try to sabotage them through corrupt means. And that's what Slater and Bhatnagar were trying to do.
The worst thing about all of this isn't so much that they were hacking, though thought's pretty bad. The worst thing is they were pleased with themselves and didn't see anything wrong with this on an ethical level. The worst thing is that they were proud of themselves and the worst thing is that Slater is close friends with the now, former, Justice Minister Judith Collins.
To lay it out for you, Bhatnagar and Slater are criminals who have obtained information that isn't theirs through criminal means and I don't know about you, but I don't look too kindly upon that and Slater must be investigated by the police and possibly fined or even receive a light jail sentence.
The other bad part of this mess is that the New Zealand media hasn't gone into specific details about what's in the book and so the public, while they're rightfully disgusted, they're not disgusted at the right people, and the last thing the media in NZ should be doing is cosying up to a criminal, but then again, they've got a record in doing that - Kim Dot Com and now Cameron Slater. It seems to be in the good books of the NZ media you have to be a criminal.
Further blogs to come as I get further into the book.
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