Day 29, later evening

Socialists hate being proven wrong.

Voluntary socialists would rather be proven wrong if that's where the collective peace lies.
During times of psychological distress, Voluntary socialists long to be proven wrong.
This longing sometimes becomes an ache. Always, it's a distraction you could do without.
It's all part of the tyrant's desire to wear us down.

 

Michael?
Prove me wrong, or resign.

If I became your mayor, I would campaign for your resignation as a forerunner to demanding Paula Penfold's.

You ought to have been reporting on various covid matters a long time ago, Fallow.

And you ought to be reporting on my movements.
Have you found out what they are yet?

And now I'm remembering.
This is dim, and as true as faintly pastel blue was the colour of today's sky.

When I needed you to report on the Church harassment, you wouldn't and you wouldn't. You caused me to doubt whether my motives truly were for the public good.
Hell, Michael - that gunk was dreadful and it never ended, it was never ending. They kept that up for years! Who in their right mind would want that in the public domain?
Me, that's who. I loved my community.
The only way I could hold true was to tell you that I would never allow you to have anything of public interest from me again.

 

Then, when Ludlow, Bailey and Thompson bullied me, I reneged.
Again, I put our community above my need for fairness and asked you to take a look. 
You ignored.

 

So, you cannot report on my movements so far as it depends upon my cooperation, unless I renege again - and unless, of course, you have something desirable from Stuff's point of view.

 

Why is the little criminal journo reporting nothing on the various candidates everyone knows you would love to vilify?

 

With the Church issue, you gave out the impression that it was too tricky to report in a safe way.
I knew that was codswallap.

In the last while, you have been atrocious toward New Zealanders.
Absolutely diabolical and evil minded.

 

I cannot stand Stuff's guts.
This is a Rizzi deal, and that is very serious.

 

The other day when you requested a response to Sir Tim's pulling out of the mayoral campaign, you specifically said that you were asking each candidate to respond. Where's the article?

 

You had better not come to my home Fallow.
You could become the first man whom I kick in the balls.

Why is it that I'm seeing Aldridge's and Rizzi's faces right there?
That would be a trinity of your hard luck.

 

Soper, you too.
You were the boldest at the Youth Forum for over riding the organisers' right to decide how to proceed with a particular issue. You got your way, of course.

 

Over riding.
Getting your own way.
Oh, that'll be because you're practising strong leadership, and because you're the sort who knows (you being in all the pertinent special places), terrible stories of racism, and of course because that sort of thing could never escalate on your watch could it.

 

Lisa Tou McNaughton -
Didn't you keep your own council at Teachers' College like I did in the same place and time?
Did I hear you last night also bemoaning the awful racism in Southland?
Certainly, all I ever hear from you is how special everybody is.
Lisa, get a grip.

 

I really really hope that the public see you Socialists for what you are.

 

Keep snooping Stuff.
Spend our money.

It's hard to find dirt on a fifth generation Southlander I suppose, especially when you're the sick minds who persistently prevent the clingable from taking flight. 

 
I'm trying to be as belligerent as I can!
For the sake of my community.

Socialists get easy money for designer problems they're dreaming up for the next generation.
Oh, but healing hakas will save the day.
Our social favourites just need longer in office so they can do their Socialism better next time. They didn't push hard enough for unity last time. They need to be bolder and braver. Once they've conquered, then good will happen.

Have you seen Ludlow's intentions for better rules around standards of behaviour?

If I can show the clear divide between the minority and the Majority in New Zealand by the deliberate creating of a few more personal enemies, I would over the moon.

 

The best advice I ever received was from a seventeen year old, about three years ago.

"You're supposed to face your fears, not your hurts."