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Peter Thiel Acquires NZ Citizenship and Large Property

posted by on Friday January 27 2017, @04:01AM   Printer-friendly
from the the-ancestral-hobbit-homeland dept.

NewNic writes:

During their investigation of the purchase of a large estate in New Zealand by Peter Thiel, Matt Nippert and Anne Gibson, reporters for The New Zealand Herald, noticed that certain processes required by the Overseas Investment Act had not been followed. The explanation: Peter Thiel is a NZ citizen and hence wasn't required to follow the procedures for an overseas investment.

If Thiel is so sure that Trump will deliver, why does he need a bolt hole and more importantly, citizenship in another country?

The New York Times adds:

One question being asked was why Mr. Thiel became a New Zealander in 2011. Close behind that was how it happened.

If you like New Zealand enough to want to become a citizen, the country's Internal Affairs Department noted on Wednesday, one requirement is "to have been physically in New Zealand for a minimum of 1,350 days in the five years preceding the citizenship application." Another requirement is that you "continue to reside" there after becoming a citizen.

Mr. Thiel, 49, does not appear to have done either.

[...] If Mr. Thiel was not a resident in New Zealand for the necessary amount of time, an exception must have been made. The government has not responded to questions about whether that happened and, if so, what the reason was.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 27 2017, @09:53PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 27 2017, @09:53PM (#459728)

    Heh, I love seeing other people bitchslap that fool. I'm not perfect, sue me :P

  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday January 28 2017, @12:10AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday January 28 2017, @12:10AM (#459765) Journal

    Heh, I love seeing other people bitchslap that fool. I'm not perfect, sue me :P

    You do realize at this point, I'm deliberately using the term to get more links on that list? And funny that you should mention "bitchslapping". The whole point behind the "obvious rebuttal" is that people aren't thinking about the obvious a lot. You'll see plenty of that in those links.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 28 2017, @01:33AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 28 2017, @01:33AM (#459784)

      Nah. What you fail to realize is that whenever you call something obvious all you are doing is telling the world that your brain is stuck in a rut. That you are unable to overcome a pathetic ideology that has cemented itself into your belief system so strongly that you would assert the sky is 'obviously' purple and be confused when no one agreed with you.

      In other words every time you say something is "obvious" what you are really says is "I am an idiot."

      That's why people play the drinking game - your lack of self-awareness is so strong that there is no point in engaging with you, you are incapable of arguing in good faith, so instead we drink.