Winston as an Osama stooge? Hmmmmm.

[idb]

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0508/S00074.htm

This guy suggests that Peters is a threat to NZ's national security.....

NOTE: Paul G. Buchanan is the Director of the Working Group on Alternative Security Perspectives at the University of Auckland. He previously worked as a analyst and consultant for several U.S. security agencies and with irregular forces in Latin America.

....The second type of agent required is what Lenin called “useful fools”: those who can be manipulated—psychologically, politically or emotionally, playing on their own self-interest—in order to advance the terrorist cause..........

....Is there such a pawn in New Zealand?............

....there is an individual who, however unintentionally, serves as an Islamicist tool used to sow the seeds of domestic discontent...................

.....In the measure that he promotes culturally based hatred, he further alienates resident Muslims from the majority. Worse yet, he puts the fear of Islamic terrorism into the hearts of those who otherwise have little reason to worry about that threat to their physical security................................

.....this person furthers al-Qaeda’s objectives by sowing the seeds of anti-Muslim fear and antagonism in a country that historically has no quarrel with Islam or its adherents, and whose current foreign policy stance has bought it a measure of insurance from Islamicist attacks ...................................

.....In the measure that his views are reported in the Muslim world, he attracts the untoward interest of Islamicists eager to globally project historical grievances against the backdrop of unjust treatment in contemporary Western societies. Because he is embedded in political life and public consciousness, this man is the ultimate foolish tool: the more his views are aired, the more the country moves to a position of unwarranted polarity vis a vis Muslims at home and abroad. Considering this, it can be argued that electoral support for this individual is an indirect vote for an unnecessary clash of civilizations and, therefore, al-Qaeda...............................

.....New Zealand has a clear threat to its national security, in the guise of an MP who unconsciously, indirectly as it may be, advances the Islamicist extremist cause. That MP is the Right Honourable Member of Parliament from Tauranga, Leader of New Zealand First, Mr. Winston Peters.

[Lou Girardin]

And Buchanan couldn't be a tool of US interests?

[enigma51]

winston is a thread to himself

[idb]

And Buchanan couldn't be a tool of US interests?

Yes indeed, he could be.
Thinking it through a bit though (and taking a cynical view), wouldn't it serve the US's purposes if there were to be an actual or imagined Islamic (Al Quaeda) threat to NZ or any other Western country?

[Mooch]

This guy just ends up drawing more attention to terrorism, Is "he" making NZ more of a target by being here, links / knowledge with the US agency's etc. Who knows, maybe he's a spy searching for weapons of mass destruction in NZ.

[enigma51]

This guy just ends up drawing more attention to terrorism, Is "he" making NZ more of a target by being here, links / knowledge with the US agency's etc. Who knows, maybe he's a spy searching for weapons of mass destruction in NZ.

[placidfemme]

searching for weapons of mass destruction in NZ.

lol and those would be.... young drunks behind the wheel causing mass destruction

[Ghost Lemur]

Who knows, maybe he's a spy searching for weapons of mass destruction in NZ.

Unfortunately, unlike Iraq, the US never sold us any.