$2,500! What a kick in the belly. I don't understand why he was not ordered to pay her legal fees and then double that amount for using the justice system to continually harass her. Appalling.
As someone going through something very similar to Rachel, what this man has done is such an awful act of violence against women, he has made it so women won’t want to come forward and unfortunately today people still think they won’t be believed or they won’t be supported and he has just reinforced this, a court should have stepped in years ago to stop him rather than allow his abuse to continue!
From my experiences I hate to say it but I’d tell anyone thinking of reporting to think twice and contact outside support first and I hate that so much, I never thought I’d think like this but how women continuously fight against this system is beyond me, it’s exhausting and I know I wouldn’t survive ten years of it, Rachel is so so strong and I admire her so much
$2500? TWENTY FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS??!!! What kind of anti feminist, woman hating, victim shaming, rape encouraging fuckery is this? It’s not even a slap on the wrist it’s a gentle and tender stroke. I am Jack’s raging bile duct. I’m increasingly concerned about NZs justice system. It’s so, soooooooo flawed.
BTW Do you happen to know what that weasely little man is doing these days out of interest? Furthering his personal wealth? Troubling other women??
thank you buckaroo david i have been very busy lately and had very little times to sit down and READ something and this was first thing i sat down and had a good read with. this is a very important post of self reflection and i appreciate it very much.
Yep, if victims speak up they just better be damn rich or get lost - that's the message from this and yep I completely agree DF, Rachel is a total hero and I will give to any trust around to help her with her legal fees. I will do that for ANYONE who needs support to fight this crap. Go you, for putting this out there - much like CC decided he should put himself 'out' there lmao. The man is a total arsewipe. My daughter and a Uni colleague, way back when he was just getting into politics, decided to work for him and deliver pamphlets (it was a paid gig coz he did not have that much voluntary support, lol). Their first jaunt out they read what was in the pamphlets and their first and only stop was a big rubbish skip in the suburban shopping centre nearby. They took the money as well (was only one day's cheap pay) but only because, by refusing it, they would have to tell him what they had done and they were worried he would do more than not pay them. No doubt he would have, with his narcissistic litigious rich man tendences. I say this now because it is well past the time that he CAN do a damn thing about it. I confess - I told both girls they were legends and supported their choice to take the money and protect themselves. I am even more supportive of that choice now after I saw what happened to Rachel. He could afford it, the $120 bucks - and he deserves to be personally placed in that rubbish skip, IMO.
I don’t often go into your posts knowing what to expect, but this one was even more unpredictable than usual! I agree with you, I thought the entire sauna sequence was absolutely hilarious, and I actually agreed with Colin’s perspective on that, too; what’s the harm in having a little fun with things? From that next news clip, and the amount of controversy they’re alluding to, you would think that you had pulled a Sacha Baron Cohen on him!
Poor Rachel, being put in that position of having no choice to defend herself legally, but not having even a fraction of the power or finance of Colin Craig. This is exactly how so many sexual harassment and assault cases by politicians get swept under the rug. She really is a hero for going through with it all, despite endless hurdles. She is unbelievably strong to go through all of this regardless, but especially under such public scrutiny. I certainly admire her!
Urgh. URGH. She is a fucking heroine. And Craig is a callous creep and a monster. Although I do have to give him begrudging respect for being able to keep robotically and nasally droning on whilst you were dissolving in a puddle next to him. I would have followed up the sauna interview with a DNA test, cause I'm sure you have heard the stories about the reptilians... ;-)
Jokes aside, thanks for coming out and 'repenting' for your part in giving him a platform. You didn't know, you went for a fun gag. Even had you reached out to Rachel beforehand, I bet ya she would have honoured the confidentiality agreement. But it just shows how well-meaning or light attempts to satirise a monster still give that monster a platform and help to normalise them.
And that is my biggest issue with this, and so many of your other stories (and society in general): We haven't dealt with any of the many structural, systemic, toxic -isms that we are all completely blind to cause we are surrounded by them, societally. Now that some of the younger and more liberal among us finally 'woke' up, the fascists have weaponised wokeness and 'cancel culture' (even though they, like Colin has shown here, are the biggest cancellers of anyone who could attempt to dethrone their white male supremacy status). What's worse is when you combine the dark triad or even just malignant narcissism, money and privilege - we are still watching with amazement the orange nuclear blast fallout tear apart the richest and most powerful country on earth.
And yet, we, collectively as a society, the mainstream media, even academia are so completely ignorant to the destructive power of malignant personality disorders and instead celebrate and empower those who have no shame, no fear of consequences, and no empathy. I wish they'd taken all his money and given it to Rachel and his many other (undoubtedly) victims out there who were too afraid speaking out after watching her go through that.
David, you made a mistake and you are owning it and now championing the true hero - Rachel :) (donation ✅)
Colin is revolting and deluded and can't accept he basically is a walking mistake. All the shitty components of an entitled white male rolled into one self absorbed, lying in a meadow, loser. Rachel will always be the winner because she is not wrecked (fucking yay!) and she has fought the bravest fight to show others you can. Incredible. Legal system allowing him to abuse the system like this - awful and definitely needs review. Amazing woman fighting for what is right- just the best and let's rally and make sure the financial burden is not one she needs to carry into the future!
Rachel is a warrior, so impressed with how she has stood up for herself. He is an awful, creepy man, so frustrating that a pest like that has endless funds to put towards legal harassment. The only bright side is that he is highly unlikely to ever have a future in politics in NZ and as such won’t have the profile and platform he seeks…..but Trump taught us you can’t count anything out, I desperately hope he fades into obscurity.
I honestly don't think you can be too hard on yourself about this one bro. If anything you just increased the group of people that thought he was bizarre. I remember his party and politics at the time (think I read one of those pamphlets that another commenter was talking about) and I found him to be a bit of a joke, I didn't agree with his politics and the Conservative party seemed like they weren't going to get anywhere politically? Craig seems like he would have imploded in some way eventually, that your segment was the catalyst is maybe hard to take but it seems inevitable that he'd alienate everyone and trash his political career spectacularly. The thing that I CAN NOT STAND is his grandstanding through our legal system! Did you read what his reason for appeal was? He didn't think the JUDGE UNDERSTOOD some random law in his case! He thought he was doing new Zealand a favour by teaching idiot judges how to do their job in future! And he thinks he's ACHIEVED THAT! Grrr.
Anyway, I'm off to donate to Rachel's trust. I think it's disgusting that victims of harassment can become bankrupted by their rich bully! What the actual f**k?
Colin is a clueless sociopath. I also interviewed him in 2013, a couple of years before you. I asked him to tell me a joke. He told me a blonde woman joke. Rachel (a blonde woman) was in the room.
Have donated to Rach too. Stay strong hero.
On platforming terrible people: there’s so much work to be done here with journalists to get them to understand that by reporting on certain things it gives jerks power and credibility and even worse a recruiting tool.
Hey David, the $2,500 relates only to this application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court by Craig, and doesn't relate to costs in other courts or other cases. I'm sure Rachel MacGregor will still have lost a lot of money regardless (including on the Supreme Court application) but it's a bit misleading to compare it to her overall costs figure of $300,000.
$2,500! What a kick in the belly. I don't understand why he was not ordered to pay her legal fees and then double that amount for using the justice system to continually harass her. Appalling.
As someone going through something very similar to Rachel, what this man has done is such an awful act of violence against women, he has made it so women won’t want to come forward and unfortunately today people still think they won’t be believed or they won’t be supported and he has just reinforced this, a court should have stepped in years ago to stop him rather than allow his abuse to continue!
From my experiences I hate to say it but I’d tell anyone thinking of reporting to think twice and contact outside support first and I hate that so much, I never thought I’d think like this but how women continuously fight against this system is beyond me, it’s exhausting and I know I wouldn’t survive ten years of it, Rachel is so so strong and I admire her so much
$2500? TWENTY FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS??!!! What kind of anti feminist, woman hating, victim shaming, rape encouraging fuckery is this? It’s not even a slap on the wrist it’s a gentle and tender stroke. I am Jack’s raging bile duct. I’m increasingly concerned about NZs justice system. It’s so, soooooooo flawed.
BTW Do you happen to know what that weasely little man is doing these days out of interest? Furthering his personal wealth? Troubling other women??
thank you buckaroo david i have been very busy lately and had very little times to sit down and READ something and this was first thing i sat down and had a good read with. this is a very important post of self reflection and i appreciate it very much.
Yep, if victims speak up they just better be damn rich or get lost - that's the message from this and yep I completely agree DF, Rachel is a total hero and I will give to any trust around to help her with her legal fees. I will do that for ANYONE who needs support to fight this crap. Go you, for putting this out there - much like CC decided he should put himself 'out' there lmao. The man is a total arsewipe. My daughter and a Uni colleague, way back when he was just getting into politics, decided to work for him and deliver pamphlets (it was a paid gig coz he did not have that much voluntary support, lol). Their first jaunt out they read what was in the pamphlets and their first and only stop was a big rubbish skip in the suburban shopping centre nearby. They took the money as well (was only one day's cheap pay) but only because, by refusing it, they would have to tell him what they had done and they were worried he would do more than not pay them. No doubt he would have, with his narcissistic litigious rich man tendences. I say this now because it is well past the time that he CAN do a damn thing about it. I confess - I told both girls they were legends and supported their choice to take the money and protect themselves. I am even more supportive of that choice now after I saw what happened to Rachel. He could afford it, the $120 bucks - and he deserves to be personally placed in that rubbish skip, IMO.
I don’t often go into your posts knowing what to expect, but this one was even more unpredictable than usual! I agree with you, I thought the entire sauna sequence was absolutely hilarious, and I actually agreed with Colin’s perspective on that, too; what’s the harm in having a little fun with things? From that next news clip, and the amount of controversy they’re alluding to, you would think that you had pulled a Sacha Baron Cohen on him!
Poor Rachel, being put in that position of having no choice to defend herself legally, but not having even a fraction of the power or finance of Colin Craig. This is exactly how so many sexual harassment and assault cases by politicians get swept under the rug. She really is a hero for going through with it all, despite endless hurdles. She is unbelievably strong to go through all of this regardless, but especially under such public scrutiny. I certainly admire her!
Urgh. URGH. She is a fucking heroine. And Craig is a callous creep and a monster. Although I do have to give him begrudging respect for being able to keep robotically and nasally droning on whilst you were dissolving in a puddle next to him. I would have followed up the sauna interview with a DNA test, cause I'm sure you have heard the stories about the reptilians... ;-)
Jokes aside, thanks for coming out and 'repenting' for your part in giving him a platform. You didn't know, you went for a fun gag. Even had you reached out to Rachel beforehand, I bet ya she would have honoured the confidentiality agreement. But it just shows how well-meaning or light attempts to satirise a monster still give that monster a platform and help to normalise them.
And that is my biggest issue with this, and so many of your other stories (and society in general): We haven't dealt with any of the many structural, systemic, toxic -isms that we are all completely blind to cause we are surrounded by them, societally. Now that some of the younger and more liberal among us finally 'woke' up, the fascists have weaponised wokeness and 'cancel culture' (even though they, like Colin has shown here, are the biggest cancellers of anyone who could attempt to dethrone their white male supremacy status). What's worse is when you combine the dark triad or even just malignant narcissism, money and privilege - we are still watching with amazement the orange nuclear blast fallout tear apart the richest and most powerful country on earth.
And yet, we, collectively as a society, the mainstream media, even academia are so completely ignorant to the destructive power of malignant personality disorders and instead celebrate and empower those who have no shame, no fear of consequences, and no empathy. I wish they'd taken all his money and given it to Rachel and his many other (undoubtedly) victims out there who were too afraid speaking out after watching her go through that.
I also just wrote about the toxic issue of everyday sexism and how all of us are so blind to it - with my own mea culpa: https://medium.com/@DrSeaRotmann/why-did-it-take-me-38-years-to-understand-sexism-even-though-it-happened-to-me-every-day-375f8850eead
David, you made a mistake and you are owning it and now championing the true hero - Rachel :) (donation ✅)
Colin is revolting and deluded and can't accept he basically is a walking mistake. All the shitty components of an entitled white male rolled into one self absorbed, lying in a meadow, loser. Rachel will always be the winner because she is not wrecked (fucking yay!) and she has fought the bravest fight to show others you can. Incredible. Legal system allowing him to abuse the system like this - awful and definitely needs review. Amazing woman fighting for what is right- just the best and let's rally and make sure the financial burden is not one she needs to carry into the future!
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Yes, she is a hero. But Craig is a sad little man and deserved nothing but disdain.
Donated. The fact that he brings all the court proceedings and Rachel has to pay costs makes me sick.
Rachel is a warrior, so impressed with how she has stood up for herself. He is an awful, creepy man, so frustrating that a pest like that has endless funds to put towards legal harassment. The only bright side is that he is highly unlikely to ever have a future in politics in NZ and as such won’t have the profile and platform he seeks…..but Trump taught us you can’t count anything out, I desperately hope he fades into obscurity.
I honestly don't think you can be too hard on yourself about this one bro. If anything you just increased the group of people that thought he was bizarre. I remember his party and politics at the time (think I read one of those pamphlets that another commenter was talking about) and I found him to be a bit of a joke, I didn't agree with his politics and the Conservative party seemed like they weren't going to get anywhere politically? Craig seems like he would have imploded in some way eventually, that your segment was the catalyst is maybe hard to take but it seems inevitable that he'd alienate everyone and trash his political career spectacularly. The thing that I CAN NOT STAND is his grandstanding through our legal system! Did you read what his reason for appeal was? He didn't think the JUDGE UNDERSTOOD some random law in his case! He thought he was doing new Zealand a favour by teaching idiot judges how to do their job in future! And he thinks he's ACHIEVED THAT! Grrr.
Anyway, I'm off to donate to Rachel's trust. I think it's disgusting that victims of harassment can become bankrupted by their rich bully! What the actual f**k?
I loved the piece and I think the Sauna story truly exposed the hypocrisy of this monster and was excellent journalism.
Colin is a clueless sociopath. I also interviewed him in 2013, a couple of years before you. I asked him to tell me a joke. He told me a blonde woman joke. Rachel (a blonde woman) was in the room.
Have donated to Rach too. Stay strong hero.
On platforming terrible people: there’s so much work to be done here with journalists to get them to understand that by reporting on certain things it gives jerks power and credibility and even worse a recruiting tool.
What is it with Craigs
Hey David, the $2,500 relates only to this application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court by Craig, and doesn't relate to costs in other courts or other cases. I'm sure Rachel MacGregor will still have lost a lot of money regardless (including on the Supreme Court application) but it's a bit misleading to compare it to her overall costs figure of $300,000.