BREAKING: STATE SPIED ON GREENS, MANA MOVEMENT, GREENPEACE & MĀORI

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On top of the mass surveillance powers the GCSB, SIS and Police have been given, we now know State Agencies used corporate spies to circumvent the law. Explosive new allegations are that State Agencies used corporate spies to spy on the Greens, the MANA Movement, Greenpeace and Māori…

Damning report confirms Government agencies used private investigators for spying
State Services Commissioner Peter Hughes has issued a damning report into the use of private investigators by government agencies, calling the actions of some “an affront to democracy” and laying a complaint with police in one instance.

Hughes detailed a list of breaches of the State Service Code of Conduct, including potentially illegal recordings of insurance claimants, public sector employees accessing the New Zealand Transport Agency database for private investigation firm Thompson and Clark, paying for informants and spying on the Green Party and iwi.

Hughes today released his 80-page report into the use of external security consultants today. The inquiry was sparked by revelations of government agencies including Southern Response, MBIE, the SIS and Ministry for Primary Industries.

He took responsibility for what had occurred, as head of State Services. “I apologise unreservedly to those individuals whose privacy has been intruded on by state servants or their contractors.”

…this is the first time we are now hearing State Agencies spied on the Greens, Greenpeace, the MANA Movement and Māori…

He was scathing in his criticism of government agencies’ actions against New Zealanders exercising their democratic rights through TCIL reporting on the activities of groups such as Greenpeace, the Green Party, the Mana Movement and some Northland East Coast and Taranaki iwi groups., which he said were treated as a “security threat”.

…the enemy of the people is the State. Never forget that.

I predict these pieces of filth will get away with this, just like every State Agency gets away with it, we will now see just how controlled this Government is by their Ministries by the total inability to do anything.

The sleepy hobbits of Muddle Nu Zilind are always told that new spying powers are needed to stop terrorists or organised crime, but time and time and time again, the so called ‘enemy’ are environmentalists, social justice groups, Māori and the Greens.

What a surprise this scathing report of the State spying on the people is released a couple of weeks before Christmas. Seeing as we have light weight infotainment at 7pm instead of current affairs, this will quickly slip under the radar.

It is not until we get a radical political movement into power that we will be able to dismantle the Police State and see justice.

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Fuck them. Fuck them all!

19 COMMENTS

  1. The only surprise is that State Services Commissioner Peter Hughes managed to write what he wrote given that we are owned by Rothschild, administered by the United Nations and controlled from Israel. IMO of course.

    Why didn’t they spy on Labour?

    • “Why didn’t they spy on Labour?” Because there is no difference between Labour and National, Helena.

  2. Use of spies to evade approaching legal actions? Fits with the picture of ACC using contractors to spy-timidate outraged “clients”.

    Because the spying is the bullying. It’s an extension of the bullying culture and the disrespecting and belittling of individual rights.

  3. The 5% threshold should be lowered to three percent. And half a percent lower for every buckshot excuse some cunt can come up with.

    • The Privacy Commissioner is another dishonest, lying piece of crap, to be honest. I know of people having been shat on by his Office and himself, not doing much at all about serious enough breaches of the Privacy Principles.

      Like other watch-dogs, that man is a hypocrite and in the pocket of the establishment. His job is treated by himself, as former practising lawyer, a bit like a semi retirement kind of position, great to ease himself into a well paid retirement one day soon.

      Add the HDC and the Ombudsmen, they are all arrogant ‘experts’ who know every loophole in the law, and who operate under statutes offering endless discretion to do nothing much at all, and you know how appalling the affairs in this hopeless country is.

      Sadly the majority Sleepy Hobbits never bother to go that far and deal with such ‘commissioners’, so they never learn what BS goes on. With this news, there will be a bit of hand wringing, but once the paper has been shuffled to and fro a bit, things will carry on as usual, they will in the various ministries and departments only make sure, they will not get caught out so easily again.

  4. Well said Martyn

    “no domestic spying”–John Key, yes there bloody was and is, and it is largely directed at people exercising their democratic rights of freedom of speech, assembly and association

    the “enemy within” is the top echelon of the state sector, a rats nest of neo liberals, the NZSIS and deep state has long been there, but the grafting on of commercial imperative to state security, means the snooping sector has had huge budget increases, and huge grants of largely unaccountable power via legislation

  5. Where is the actual report – is it not on-line yet, I want to look at it. What department hired Thompson & Clark to spy on Mana and the Green party. Filthy bastards!

  6. You must understand this is all for your own good sleepy hobbits, mr, key and the us war machine told us so. Anyway back to serious stuff, i blame THE RUSSIANS.

  7. What I have found striking is how the media so far have not even once told us which Government(s) were involved in this scandal. Is this a National only thing, or have Governments from both sides been doing this for ages? If so, for how long? If it’s just National (or mostly National), why not explicitly say so, as opposed to “the Government”?

  8. When NZ joined the 5 Eyes is when it was effectively sold out to the U.S. Empire Fourth Reich.We now have our very own DEEP STATE connected to the U.S. DEEP STATE. We are no longer in control. Our democracy is assurped. Does Grovelling Jacinda look like she is in control of anything but the next photo opportunity?! Our news media marches in lockstep with our Masters in the 5 U.S.media supercorporations. U.S. laws have become extra-territorial,applying to all residents of the planet. Its called Fascism !!!

    • Jacinda has been seized upon, in order to act states-woman-like, she is forced to tow the line and more or less do as she is told (etiquette, tradition, the law, due process in the government sector).

      She has been allowed a little bit of leeway with talking about child poverty, and to hand out a few bits here and there, to keep the waves from getting too choppy, nothing more or less.

      Seeing how she performs in the House these days, I reckon, she has got it and learned the lesson. She is part of the establishment now, as that is what being PM requires her to be.

      Her home is NZ Inc, she has little alternatives at this stage, perhaps after running the government a few years, she may get another job at the UN one day.

  9. The Deep State exposed, I suppose, having its tentacles reach into your private sphere, while exercising what used to be called ‘rights’, also printed in laws, but meaning little, as I have learned myself over the years.

    To the Deep State and its corporate business allies the following applies:
    Greens: Irresponsible, loopy, dangerous, subversive extremists, endangering economic, strategic and political stability.
    Mana: Extremist, irresponsible, dangerous, subversive political activists, endangering economic, strategic and political stability.
    Greenpeace: Extreme environmental activists, showing a streak of high irresponsibility, endangering economic, strategic and political stability.
    Maori and ALL other activists: Pockets of extremist, dangerous, potentially violent, irresponsible, partly insane individuals and small groups of radical, subversive elements, endagnering economic, strategic and political stability.

    Hence:
    Must be watched, eaves dropped on, infiltrated and taken out of action, before any economic, strategic and political damage of ANY sorts can be caused.

    Motto and Mission:
    First we come after the above, tomorrow it will be Labour and NZ First Party voters, so get chilled, shut up, fall in line and do as a good Sleepy Hobbit would do.

    If you feel an urge to get ‘active’, get a job (unless you do not already have one), go to work, work HARD, switch off the brain, work more, study to be able to work more, and when time for ‘leisure’ and entertainment comes, go to the malls and shop until you drop, or spend your energy on constructive DIY jobs at home, or within your community.

    Got it?

    I hope so, or ELSE!

  10. MiBE and immigration, and, in particular – contracted migrant Labour and those who questions the ethics of providers

    The nail in the coffin for the National Party

  11. So who else have these government agencies been spying on – you, me, who knows. The SSC’s report is scathing but what is going to come out of it? We will get the same old response from people in those agencies saying they have tightened up processes and give assurances that all our private information is protected and we can carry on living knowing that we are safe!!! Well we aren’t and what about the marginalised and poor – you can bet dollars for donuts they will continue to be spied on and bullied by agencies including cops who have access to those agencies data bases.

    I see the obligatory resignation from the head of Southern Response but really? What is that going to prove? What about the lowlife managers and staff in that outfit that recommended, authorised or signed off on hiring T&C. What happens to them? Oh that’s right, nothing.

    And the SSC has lodged a complaint with the Police to investigate T&C yet cops were working with T&C over fifteen years. What sort of information were they accessing and passing on? Who is going to investigate those crooked cops.

    And then there is NZTA – the agency that failed to keep a check on dodgy WOF places. All it says is that it has tightened up its audit processes but typical of that and other government departments, like MBIE, it does not take the action that is needed to be taken – get rid of the rotten employees and management that is letting all this happen.

    In the end, out of all of this there is just one symbolic resignation which means nothing. The remaining rotten to the core pestilent rats will remain in their jobs; the police will not investigate their own and will squirm having to investigate T&C because the principals of that toxic outfit are ex-cops; and the remaining agencies that have been exposed will go tut tut and continue as normal – to harass.

    • On TV news they also mentioned MSD in the report, but other news are hardly mentioning MSD or WINZ.

      I know of appalling stuff going on at WINZ, they have not improved at all, besides of claims they are taking a friendlier, more concerned approach. There are still security guards everywhere. Once anybody raises her or his voice, they come and step up to the person to ‘caution’ them, or else.

      Single beneficiaries also seem to be singled out, if they collaborate with AAAP and other activists or advocates, or even go to the media. Their applications and reviews may for some strange reason lie on file for weeks, and suddenly they get a letter that their benefit is stopped, allegedly for not handing stuff in.

      This country is at times friendly on the surface, behind the scenes, especially in businesses and government departments, there is lots of nastiness and vindictiveness.

      And spying and narking is a favorite past time of many Kiwis, hidden often behind the ‘neighbourhood watch’ label.

      Dare be different and challenge some people, they will make sure you will be stabbed in the back.

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