The question between Kent Parker and Vic Purkiss

Predictably, Kent Parker is celebrating another 'victory'. In his normal style of misinterpretation he convinces himself that something is achieved when in fact something is lost. This 'state of mind' goes right back to when he was going to complete a petition with 20,000 signatures and present it to the Minister of Justice. After 3 years nothing gained on that front. Similarly, he told the world that Joe Karam would never sue  him, 2 years later and Kent is on his last legs heading toward a trial he can't possibly win and shutting out the fact that Trade Me, a fully resourced and financially powerful defendant in a similar action by Karam, apologised and settled.

There's no doubt Parker is delusional. If we needed a reminder we saw it on TV on Monday night, a 'musical protest' outside the High Court to an audience of none but for the delight of those that had confirmed what a nutter he has revealed himself to be. This was the man who was going to contest the election with a new party, a man with such 'deep' insight he can't connect that people remember all the things he has said he will do and achieve which over time he lets gradually slip off the table when a new 'venture' takes his fancy. The radio show last year where the host treated Kent like a fool but to which Kent remained blissfully unaware. We've been told about a concert tour last Xmas that never eventuated. Also how Kent claimed a victory last year in the litigation but this year admitted he had no idea of what he was doing earlier. We've seen him criticised for his lack of defence and Court Room nous by a High Court Judge year and then this year claim the same criticism against Karam as Kent endlessly reinvents the wheel.

So nothing new there. Kent deeper in it and still oblivious to reality, taking his own reading on the proceedings and being apparently unaware, or incapable, of understanding the reality that he's in a net of his own design. But suddenly the question between Parker and Purkiss emerges. Parker has acknowledged that Vic Purkiss is considering his situation with a view to settlement. One could observe that Purkiss has finally seen that the 'Emperor' has no clothes, is on the bridge of a sinking ship in a titanic storm and in blissful ignorance casting all others, including Vic, to perilous risk while playing a guitar.

If Purkiss has the common sense and guts to settle he should be applauded for that. His priorities can never have been over an old man he never met, or a spinner from Palmerston North, but to his family. Kent led Purkiss into the risky situation that he's in now. Purkiss was obviously unaware of the gravity of his situation and simply fed on the apparent insanity of Parker and the stirring of the witches of the hate-sites, those such as Curran and OBrien and others who were always supportive of others stupid enough to take risks to the applause of those who kept to the shadows. I recall on the radio show Vic saying that they were over the 'full bladder' scenario - something that had been significant to the misinformed in their persecution of David Bain. To me that was a positive sign that Purkiss had the ability to reason beyond the propaganda shoved down his neck by some ex cops and their media pals. There has always in the Bain case been time to consider in depth every point of debate, indeed there had always been plenty of time to consider all aspects of the case and evidence before the man was even charged. The stable door is open and the horse has fled, escaped into the truth of reasoning and logic all power to Vic Purkiss if he follows.