Delamere Sucks Up To Tyrants
Sunday, 8 August 1999, 12:02 am
Press Release: Libertarianz Party
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Libertarianz
Deputy Leader Richard McGrath says his stomach churned as he
read the speech given by John Delamare in China last night.
"I am disgusted to find a representative of our semi-free
country offering moral support to the bloodthirsty tyrants
of Tiananmen Square".
Dr McGrath rejects Delamere's claim
that there is only one China, and that New Zealand is proud
to be her friend. "I speak for all my party, in saying we do
not want any part of the torture, show trials and inhumane
punishment dealt out to political dissenters in communist
China."
"Unlike the amoral Mr Delamere, most New
Zealanders are appalled by the reports of repression and
brutality that emerge from China," says McGrath. "I am
outraged," added McGrath, "that a politician from here is
sucking up to the same people who sent in army tanks to
crush students. Ask yourself what sort of person would want
to suck up to these
murderers?"
ENDS
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