| Monday, October 01, 2012 6:00 AM

There could have been an easy answer for Kim Dotcom when he so publicly celebrated being given permanent residency in God's Own.

If he was really so enthusiastic about his new found home, thanks to the stacks of cash be brought with him, he could have spent a bit of it changing his name to Kim Dotco Dotnz and then no one would have been in any doubt.

Certainly our spies wouldn't have had to ask the cops what his status was and we wouldn't have the prospect this week of them investigating a complaint that was of their own making. It was the cops after all who gave the spies a bum steer on whether they were allowed to spy on the Kiwi German, who may have Finnish citizenship.

Perhaps that's why Big Gezza Brownlee was reluctant to apologise to the Finnish angry birds when he caused offence, he knew they'd planted the troublesome Dotcom in our midst even if the Prime Minister didn't.

The Greens have called in the cops saying no one's above the law and if it's been broken, as everyone seems to accept, the lawbreakers should be brought to book with the Kermits saying it's no different to the infamous teapot tape. State Homie John Key complained bitterly during the election campaign which saw the cops raiding media offices for the tape to gather evidence against the cameraman who left the recording device on the tea table.

No charges were laid basically because it couldn't be established that the recording was left there deliberately.

The illegal snooping on Dotcom was but they'll have to prove an eavesdropping device was used and given that the Government's spy bureau makes the Exclusive Brethren look like an open book, chances of us knowing are about as likely as Dotcom is of changing his name.

But there's a remote possibility. He was after all born Kim Schmitz and only changed his name to pay homage to the technology that made him a millionaire.

But then again Dotco Dotnz's unlikely to increase his wealth!

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