By: Barry Soper | Friday, November 02, 2012 6:00 AM

There's no accounting for behaviour outside of Parliament, we live in a society where we jealously guard our right to speak freely.

Unfortunately it seems on the cyber highway that freedom at times is taken too far which is probably why the thought of even cruising it is an anathema to the likes of Parliament's Father Bear Lockjaw Smith who recently sniffed at the rather innocent word glossy, seeing it as a bit unparliamentary or undignified.

The Speaker would have been mortified then if he'd clicked into Twitter the other day and saw the exchange between one of the former grizzlies in the bear pit and the twits who follow him on Twitter.

Stuart Nash, the former Labour MP and the leader's former chief of staff, made a comment that probably many have felt but would have more sense that to say it on a public forum.

Nash reckons the man accused of killing two-year-old JJ Lawrence, who's alleged to have given him cannabis and punched him so hard that it split his liver and spleen, should be shot and he said he'd happily pull the trigger.

Some twits tweeted that he was either drunk or nuts while another Left-wing blogger said it was nice to know that a senior Labour person is a murderous thug.

Nash became gnarly, telling one of his critics that it was an irony being called stupid by him.

Cyber world's a nasty old place, morons and can say anything they like about anyone they dislike, usually hiding behind a pseudonym.

But the real irony in this cyberspace clash of the keyboards is that Nash is the great-great grandson of New Zealand's oldest ever Prime Minister Walter Nash who took over the reigns of power at the tender age of 76.

That's not ironic, but it is somewhat ironic that it was the Nash Government that suspended the death penalty in the late 1950s which was abolished a few years later when he was Labour leader!