Comments on Cactus Kate: Defending Winnie

Dear Cactus,Are there not lawyers on the dark side...

2008-07-30T21:05:00.000+12:00

Dear Cactus,

Are there not lawyers on the dark side who make their fees by breaking open trust deeds?

[Or] if janet bloggs has 100 000k paid to her lawyer via a trust set up by moneybags bloggs, and moneybags is on record that it was the intention of giving that money to the trust was to pay this bill, wouldn't IRD see that as income and disestablish the trust regardless of the deed?

Intersting analysis Kate - will any NZ journo have...

2008-07-30T20:44:00.000+12:00

Intersting analysis Kate - will any NZ journo have the nous to follow it through? We live in hope!

Good luck getting Winston to be frank about the Sp...

2008-07-30T20:24:00.000+12:00

Good luck getting Winston to be frank about the Spencer Trust. Some mothers do 'ave 'em.

In the Court of Public Opinion elegant legal inter...

2008-07-30T15:59:00.000+12:00

In the Court of Public Opinion elegant legal interpretations matter not a jot.

If it looks like a rort and it smells like a rort then to the great unwashed it is a rort.

Ethics and morals have no connection with the law never have never will how sad too bad.

All Winnies got to do is con another .8% on the baisi of the latest poll and hes back in the House and in control of the Gumint.

Wonderful thing this MMP 5% can control the other 95%
gd

You're speaking from "lawyer land" here CK and it'...

2008-07-30T14:12:00.000+12:00

You're speaking from "lawyer land" here CK and it's right next door to "La-la land." Another slick, charismatic lawyer once tried to wriggle out of an equally embarrassing predicament by saying "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is." Bill Clinton didn't do all that well with that slippery line of argument either.
The most important question, and it badly needs asking, is "How is it that there are still people stupid enough to consider voting for this blatant manipulative HYPOCRITE?"