Former Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Palmer has implicitly endorsed my trenchant criticism of former Governor-General Dame Silvia Cartwright. He was seen on TV One's 6 o'clock News on 23 August 2006 (and can be seen also at http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411368/819964 ) describing the role of Governors-General as follows, in the context of the appointment of her successor:

"They must be above politics," says constitutional lawyer and former Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer. "They've got to be a unity symbol for the whole of New Zealand and for them to make utterances of a political sort which can be misinterpreted will cause only trouble."

There was no example of such utterances in the article on that page, and Palmer said it with a huge grin, so it can plausibly be taken as a reference to my (former) webpage about Dame Silvia, which the Wellington District Law Society criticised me for writing. Sir Geoffrey seems to react to my writings with (kindly) amusement, as I experienced once before, when I came across him in the street, after I had criticised him for referring to fathers' protests as "making a fuss.".

I must emphasise that this is the first reference (however oblique) that I have seen made by anyone in the legal system to Cartwright's behaviour, which typifies the habitual gross negligence of said legal system where the need for criticism of the misdeeds (however gross and constitutionally important) of women is concerned. It is precisely this pathological chivalry as regards criticising women that made it necessary for me to write a webpage couched in such strong terms. We can't possibly have sexual equality if one sex (i.e. the female sex) is simply not criticised or sanctioned when it misbehaves.

This is what I wrote on that webpage:

"You always give the impression of being a complete airhead, but your latest corruption of your constitutional role of neutrality demonstrates your incompetence, and you should resign forthwith !

A Member of Parliament has already once complained of your politicising of your role (see the page: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?ObjectID=2349338 ) , and now you have chosen Waitangi Day, one of your highest-profile public appearances, to demonstrate your stupidity and sexism.

• You are incompetent, firstly, because even your own website says: "One of the distinctive features of our type of democracy – constitutional monarchy – is that our Head of State is non-partisan," and "The Governor-General is regarded as a symbol of national unity and leadership." You do not even know how to act within your own job-description. You are partisan, and you are a symbol only of the unprofessionality, stupidity and sexism of many modern New Zealand women.

• You are incompetent and sexist, secondly, because, as a former judge, you should realise that you should hear both sides of an issue and balance them, before pronouncing judgement. In what was taken by the media as an obvious reference to marae protocoll (See: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10009845 ), you referred to "customs that seek to limit the participation of women." The Feminism that that statement springs from is itself an argument for limiting the role of women outside the home, because of the sheer stupidity that it represents -- see: femlawyr.html . The first thing guests to a Maori marae hear is the sound of women (only women) chanting the Karakia* of welcome. Did you complain that men do not take part in this aspect of the ritual ? Of course, not ! You are grossly sexist, and totally blind to any disadvantage that men suffer in society. If only women chant the karakia*, it is obviously arguable that this should be balanced by something that only men do -- e.g. making speeches on the marae.

• In addition, you parasite on the blood of dead and crippled men, women have formed the majority of the electorate since the late 19th century, since when there have been two World Wars that this electorate has forced New Zealand to participate in -- killing and maiming almost zero women -- but thousands of men. You spoiled, self-indulgent bitches show no gratitude, nor any willingness to either shoulder the burdens of citizenship or take a back seat.

• You are racist, bacause it is none of your business to comment publicly -- especially negatively -- on the customs of another race.

• You are a symbol of the Cartwright report into an aspect of women's health, and you are notorious for having joined the victorious feminists in a celebration afterwards -- dashing any appearance of neutrality. New Zealand now has two state-funded screening programmes for women's health, and nothing for men's health. Meanwhile, women are living longer and longer, and voting in greater and greater numbers in this Feminazi dictatorship of ours !

Resign, you bitch ! You make me vomit !!"

 

* Actually, I should have written karanga, instead of karakia.

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