Ex-MP to face suppression charges

Ex National party MP Tau Henare, The New Zealand Police today charged Henare but he has yet to remove the tweet from his twitter feed. Three cheers for a man with a big sense of justice and even bigger  balls, and a big thumbs down to the suck-holes within New Zealand’s MSM and Parliament, gutless slime-balls who continued to conceal anything that would have had the whole of New Zealand screaming “justice for Helmsley’

Ex National party MP Tau Henare will be in the court dock tomorrow on charges of breaching suppression for tweeting the name of ex All-Black, rugby thug and MP Graham Thorne who pleaded guilty in 2012 to performing an indecent act against Otago women Louise Helmsley in 2011 but Thorne was later, on appeal, discharged without conviction and granted permanent name suppression by an obviously compromised and very friendly court.

Mr Henare is due to appear before a district court tomorrow morning on charges of knowingly breaching suppression orders under the Criminal Procedure Act.

According to the New Zealand Herald’s Claire Trevett the offence is punishable by up to 6 months imprisonment or a fine of up to $100,000 for knowingly or recklessly publishing a name, address, occupation, or other information in breach of a suppression order.

Claire seems herself to have been reckless in neglecting to inform her readers that such penalties, as noted by Trevitt actually include penalties for corporate offenders such as the media, are a complete joke and are not applicable in Henare’s case. After all Whale Oil blogger Cameron Slater has been charged with the exact same offending in the very recent past, naming sex offenders, eight seperate counts to be exact.

Slater of course rightly received little more than a slap on the wrist with a wet bus ticket; a $750.00 fine per count. Any variation from that sentencing precedent will likely be viewed as highly suspicious by a now very angry public, and of course immediately appealed by Henare.

Offences relating to breach of suppression provisions and orders

211 Offences and penalties

(1) Every person commits an offence who knowingly or recklessly publishes any name, address, occupation, or other information in breach of a suppression order or in breach of any of sections 201, 203, and 204.

(2) Every person commits an offence who publishes any name, address, occupation, or other information in breach of a suppression order or in breach of any of sections 201, 203, and 204.

(3) Subsection (2) does not apply to a person who hosts material on websites or other electronic retrieval systems that can be accessed by a user unless the specific information has been placed or entered on the site or system by that person.

(4) A person who commits an offence against subsection (1) is liable on conviction,—

(a) in the case of an individual, to a term of imprisonment not exceeding 6 months:
(b) in the case of a body corporate, to a fine not exceeding $100,000.

(5) A person who commits an offence against subsection (2) is liable on conviction,—

(a) in the case of an individual, to a fine not exceeding $25,000:
(b) in the case of a body corporate, to a fine not exceeding $50,000.

(6) In a prosecution for an offence against subsection (2), it is not necessary for the prosecution to prove that the defendant intended to commit an offence.

Source: New Zealand Criminal Proceedure Act 2011 (Reprint as at 1 January 2014)

The former MP tweeted the man’s name last month. The tweet has not been deleted from his feed. LF suspects there is a good reason why Henare has not pulled the tweet, the clue being in that Henare tweet appears to have been defending another sportsman. Of course Henare was far from the first to name Thorne, Australian and various other international websites such as Lauda Finem and the “human headline” Derryn Hinch had exposed Thorne’s identity months earlier, information that was readilly available to anyone looking.

Again according to the New Zealand Herald Henare was not returning calls from police flunkies, the mainstream media. LF suspects because Henare knew that they would be too gutless to actually print his name, thus there was no point in answering the phone.

A bent Police officer however did confirm the charge had been laid and that Mr Henare would appear in court, but would not comment further or allow his name to be used as he may have been subjected to public ridicule and condemnation.

The Thorne case has now attracted significant negative attention and a public backlash which the MSM has so far attempted, under instructions from their police handlers, to play down. In 2012.

Seems Grahame Thorne has a reputation for more than his ball “handling” skills.

Louise Helmsley applied and succeeded in having her own name suppression set aside in October this year. She then spoke out about the case, pushing for the man’s suppression to also be lifted, a request that has fallen on deaf ears, and here we all were thinking that justice was only supposed to be blind, it seems that its also deaf and ever so fucking dumb.