Nicky Hager displays Police destroyed evidence – but the stain still remains
The outrageous abuse of Police power to illegally search Nicky’s house and steal his property has ended with the Police being forced to destroy the evidence they held (although based on how the Police acted in this case do any of us really believe they didn’t breach that and look at the material?).
The true scope of Police harassment directed at Nicky Hager should send a deep chill through each and every NZer.
What we are witnessing in real time is a growing Police State with all the casual fascism of a book burning around a BBQ.
The Police have understood the deep negative egalitarian anti-intellectualism that infects the NZ psyche. The desire to hold the powerful to account is perceived by this culturally cringed rump of NZ as being a smart arsed stirrer who simply by their ability to string together a coherent question makes them a target for ‘oh-you-think-you’re-smarter-than-me’ styled resentment.
The cops know this and know that their extraordinary harassment of Hager will be ignored by the mainstream media and will be seen as just desserts by rump NZers who still think the biggest issue with Dirty Politics is that Hager used stolen e-mails.
Let’s just recap what has been revealed by TDB with what was revealed in the Court case…
Detectives investigating the Dirty Politics hacker Rawshark sought the banking, telephone and travel records of author and journalist Nicky Hager without any search order or other legal power.
Court records show Westpac – the government’s banker for 26 years – handed over “almost 10 months of transactions from Mr Hager’s three accounts” at the request of detectives investigating the hacking of Whale Oil blogger Cameron Slater’s email and social media accounts.
Other companies that were asked for Hager’s private details told police to come back with a court order, which would have legally obliged them to surrender the information.
…this is clear evidence of the NZ Police bullying and threatening companies with adverse legal ramifications if they don’t hand over information on a journalist who had embarrassed the Government – note, not one bloody search order or warrant has been signed, just the NZ Police using threats. This is just scratching the surface, as The Daily Blog revealed in July last year, this practise of threatening banks means that the banks themselves then use this request as a black mark against the persons credit rating. By the Police threatening Westpac, Westpac responds by putting a black mark against Hager’s credit rating.
Unbelievable.
On top of that, we had Nicky Hager himself tell NZ during last years Table Talk…
Most interesting was the new fact that Nicky Hager stated that the Police had tried to arrest him and had attempted to tap his phone rather than just raid his house for evidence on who hacked Cameron Slater.
Just consider that for a moment. The Police weren’t really looking for evidence as to the identity of RawShark, they were actually trying to arrest Hager and attempted to spy on him after he humiliates the Government. A Journalist targeted by the police for highlighting unethical behaviour by the Government and no other media outlet even pick up on this new revelation.
…this is the biggest story of the year and yet the bloody Bachelor or Max Key gets more attention.
We have all the maturity of a can of coke. This story should lead the news and its ramifications to our democracy examined and explained, instead we get sport, product placement, petty social media shaming and property speculation porn.
Let’s hope there isn’t ever another war we have to ever fight, most sleepy hobbits in muddle earth would have no idea what they are fighting for.
Well done Martyn. Nicky Hagar should receive an award from the government for his patriotism instead he is subject to this sort of crap. He is Sir N Hagar in my book
Exactly, Bomber and Ike.Right did out in the end, but should never have happened in a democratic country.
IKE says ” … He is Sir N Hagar in my book.”
Sir Nicky Hager! No way Ike! Nicky is a man of too much decency, honesty and honour to be insulted by a knighthood.
That title belongs to the corporate and political criminal band of bullies, reprobates, liars, cheats, deceivers, thieves and perverts, none of which Nicky could ever amount to if he lived to be 150!
Such a sad sight to see Nicky on his knees reclaiming and packing away his broken possessions.
The Police just do not learn from their mistakes that horrifically impacts others in this country. Do any of us trust most of their apologies ? Hell no because they are part of the police state that is being funded and set up to control the masses when they revolt and surely they will and are all over the world.
Nicky Hager is a saint in our eyes and a very intelligent man of integrity and we hope he goes after a hefty settlement over this kind of abuse and stressful chaos brought on by our pathetic police state we have to endure now.
Voters – wake up and get yourselves educated. Our leader condones this kind of military police insanity and he has to go ===>>> ASAP.
He is a photo – op ; ego maniac — so out of touch with the people and environment in this country.
Puppet Bitch for the criminal corporate elite and the monarchy and banksters who should be in prison.
To Nicky – many ! many ! of us have supported you and stood by you though you may not be aware of it.
We hope that justice will be yours someday and that you and your family can heal from these horrific experiences. Our apologies for having this kind of elitist “out of touch” govt. that hurts people more than contributing to well-being and peace.
Martyn & Nicky,
We must set up a portal on TDB for us to insert our contributions leading up to the 2017 election, and exposing yet more “Kiwi corruption” events to feed into Nicky Hagar’s next book.
We need Nicky to prepare a written dossier book leading up to the next election that outlines how National/Act will attempt to subvert the course of justice to hold a free democratic election free of any further dirty politics elections.
First should be Nicky’s illegal police raid and the lack of any police action to seal the 9th floor of the beehive after the PM’s office was implicated in the passing of stolen files?
Listening to the interview on Checkpoint, he described the scene of the officer responsible for the case landing something like 100 blows on the computer and various devices onto which they’d copied the material stolen from Hager… it might sound morbid, but I really want to know what implement they used to inflict those blows. Police baton? Cricket bat?
Either way, there might have been less brutal, symbolic ways to dispose of those devices…
Yes Pigman,
They could have just handed the stuff all to Nicky instead of hitting the hard drive with a hammer for at least 213 times Nicky said he counted.
Talk about over the top!!
i think it was an ordinary hammer with a yellow handle
+100 Hager should be NZer of the Year!
The police should avoid being pulled into political cronyism in the future and avoid being embarrassed by being used for political purposes by friends of Key.
I guess that is what the increased SIS and GCSB powers are for. Turning NZ into a police state with a separate political police force for politicians pet peeves.
+100
Yep – should never have happened – it should of been the crooks in the beehive that were arrested.
its corruption of the highest order real banana republic stuff or life on planet key
there should be mass protest action outside police stations around the country
Would Nicky Hager have ever published anything.Would we be nuclear free , have universal suffrage or gay rights if governments of the time had had the powers of surveillance the present lot have.
Martyn. Get over Max Key FFS.
It does get rather difficult when the media relentlessly keep exposing the public to him, whether he wants it or not. Making the trashy veins of MediaWorks is one thing, but Max Key making the six o clock news? FFS
Being groomed as the new Jonkey someday as Justin Trudeau
This country has gone to the dogs in the last 40 years, cronyism is alive and well, God Help NZ?
Labour, NZ First, Greens, coalition combination can save NZ Jack.
So we need to push these parties to work together to align themselves so they show NZ voters as a credible “Government in Waiting.”