Let’s look at all the legislation that has been passed to ‘protect’ us from ‘terrorism’ since the 10 years of the Urewera ‘terrorism’ case.
2007 – Terrorism Suppression Amendment Bill
2011 – SIS Amendment Bill
2012 – Search and Surveillance Bill
2013 – GCSB and Related Legislation Amendment Bill
2013 – Telecommunications Interception Capability and Security Bill
In an event that actually mirrored the original Tūhoe land confiscation, the State sent troops into Tūhoe land on the 15th October, 2007 on the pretence of hunting down a criminal. They illegally spied on and arrested and detained hundreds of people using trumped up charges of terrorism.
Helen Clark has always said she wasn’t aware of this, but that’s a lie. As the head of the SIS and GCSB, of course she was informed of such a delicate operation. Rather than challenge the bullshit case that it was, Clark allowed it to happen.
The Police had been told by the US to start looking inside post 9/11 for domestic terrorists, so off they hopped to find some monsters.
After blowing $14million on illegal surveillance, the Police had to try and make a big deal of the case and invaded Tūhoe land and illegally arrested and detained hundreds to create the sense that the case was far more damning than it really was.
In the end most of the evidence was thrown out because it was sourced illegally and the case fell over to a far lesser one of a few arms charges.
Now while I have always said that activists should never pick up guns and train with them, these activists were as much terrorists as I am. It was a trumped up case and an abuse of power.
How were the Police punished by John Key over their illegal spying when he became Prime Minister? Why he passed retrospective law to wipe their records clean and protect them from being arrested AND John Key gave them vast new search and surveillance powers that would allow them to erode civil liberties.
Feeling safe yet NZ?
This entire fiasco of a case was conducted to justify the spending of $14million and the Government, instead of punishing the Police for their ridiculous monster hunt, ended up letting them all off the hook with retrospective legislation and they gave the Police even more power, despite having proven that they couldn’t manage the huge powers they already have.
The fact that much of what I have written above may be absolutely new knowledge for many readers is proof of just how ignorant we are of what really happens in this country.
The lesson from the Urewera raids is the dangerous cocktail of unbridled Police security powers with no real checks and balances in place.
It isn’t the activists who were playing soldier in the mountains that should concern us, it’s the Police State that manufactured terrorism via agent provocateurs to justify budget blow outs that should concern us. It is the Police State that rather than being punished was rewarded with even more powers that should keep us up at night.
Ae, it’s amazing how powerful the deep state propaganda machine was. Even committed leftists were taken in at first…
https://tumeke.blogspot.co.nz/2007/10/hundreds-protest-raids-itis-case-moved.html
i was never taken in by it and always thought the police were wrong and the Labour Government was wrong!
…but there was a whipped up fevered pitch about terrorism at that time ( even although it was overseas) and it was translated into a domestic threat whipped up about Maori ‘terrorism’ for some reason
…I couldnt understand it. It was like a deliberately perpetuated virus let lose in New Zealand…and the armed forces were just itching to get in some practice against it
…I blame Don Brash for setting the racist climate….but Helen Clark should NEVER have been taken in by it!
it was a disgraceful episode in New Zealand history!
I recently visited a nearby town one night, and noted one of the new cameras at an intersection, supposedly to monitor traffic. The problem I found with that reasoning, is that the time I saw the camera, it was pointing down the street, AWAY from the intersection.
A little while ago, I got pinged for speeding. It was a fair cop, I had been speeding a little over the limit, but I decided to challenge it, asking for proof of my offense.
I was a bit stunned at the reply, which stated that “proof is not required for such offenses.”
Say what? I read that again, to make sure I had read correctly. Turns out I had read correctly.
Then was the statement that” I could challenge it in court, where the officer would testify of the offense. So, I can take this to court, where the issuing officer will testify -under oath- that he/she did in fact catch the vehicle I was driving exceeding the posted speed limit, WITHOUT HAVING A BAR OF PROOF TO BACK THE CLAIM UP. Not to mentio that’s it’s highly UNLIKELY that they would recll my case from however many others they booked between then and the court date.
Try going to the cops with a complaint WITHOUT evidence, and see how far you get.
Whether we want to belive it or not, we ARE in a Police state, and I can’t see Winston doing anything to change that.
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