Rik Tindall

The Press reports:

A key moment in Nazi Germany history is the inspiration for the “hatchet job” on Environment Canterbury (ECan), says regional councillor Rik Tindall. …

In a letter to the editors of The Press and the Timaru Herald, he says there is no “dysfunctionality” at ECan.

I can’t believe he said that with a straight face.

“The report attempts to inflagrate a Canterbury version of the 1933 Reichstag fire incident, to justify curtailment of democracy. New Zealanders should be very, very concerned as to the direction their country is taking,” he said.

“The unconscionably severe attack upon local democracy is simply a smokescreen to cover for … an asset and power grab by the most threatening of New Zealand forces.”

You expect comparing the Government to the Nazis from deranged anonymous trolls, not from elected Councillors. Anyone that hysterical should never have been elected in the first place, so I did a google on Mr Rik Tindall.

Turns out he is a senior Green Party activist:

A dedicated multiculturalist, I work to bring together the Greens and the Maori Party for leading New Zealand to the complete and spiritual sustainability we all seek, with social justice and economic wellbeing in ecological harmony.

Someone want to tell me what spiritual sustainability is? Is there some finite number of souls that we may use up?

Rik spent time in left and peace movements in the UK, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. In New Zealand he has been involved with Greenpeace; the Gulf Crisis Peace Committee of Otautahi/Christchurch; Health Service & Benefit Cut protest groups and an Education Action Group fighting fees in the early 1990’s; Paakaitore / Moutoa Gardens occupant in 1995; the Christchurch Polytechnic Students Association Executive and a fee protest bus tour to Parliament.

I love it that he includes travelling on a bus, in his CV.

Also remember how Rik claimed Ecan is not at all dysfunctional, well read this story:

Kane complained in August about “threatening” emails sent by Tindall.

Tindall’s email attack on his colleagues followed his unsuccessful bid to be elected as ECan’s representative on a Christchurch City Council climate change and sustainability working party.

Tindall then made a complaint about Kane, accusing her of leaking emails to The Press.

Details of his hysterical e-mails are here.

Emails forwarded to The Press show that as a result of not being elected to the working group, Tindall wrote to his colleagues saying he would “absolve myself of all and any responsibility for any loss of life in Canterbury that should happen to occur through deficiencies in civil defence and emergency management (CDEM) preparedness”.

So get this. He did not get elected to a CCC working party on cimate change, and his response is to declare this will somehow lead to people dying through lack of civil defence preparedness and he “absolves” himself of responsibility for the loss of life.

I can now understand why he made the Nazi comparisons – he is obviously prone to bouts of hysteria.