Comments on: SIS saw Keith Locke as a threat since he was a child – who is the real threat here?

By: Nick J

Nick J — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 01:03:31 +0000

Both SIS and GCSB are post Cold War relics. As MJOLNIR says time to disband them and retire their entire personnel.

The reason you don’t rebuild with old staff from the former agencies is that the culture comes with the people, and it needs refreshing.

By: Mjolnir

Mjolnir — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 06:49:22 +0000

Time to disband both the SIS and GCSB. we’ve had two acts of modern day terrorism, the Trades Hall bombing, and the Rainbow Warrior bombing. Neither were prevented by our so-called “intelligence agencies”. Their ONE JOB was to uncover such plots and they fucked it up. Funding them hundreds of millions of dollars is a gross waste of our tax dollars.

By: Lucy

Lucy — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 00:08:08 +0000

But Keith is the son of Elsie Locke so of course they were spying on him as a child. My mother was also part of the Communist group into the late 50’s so I remember clicks on the line growing up. In the early eighties there was a directive about Communists not being followed and spied on. So from that point it was legally questionable.

By: RED BUZZARD

RED BUZZARD — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 21:03:32 +0000

If gentleman Keith Locke was a regarded a ‘threat’ for the SIS then who wasn’t?

This is what makes the SIS a laughing stock.

And raises the serious question do NZers need protection from the SIS?

However good their past mistakes are exposed and they have fronted up and it is now out in the open.

By: John W

John W — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 09:36:34 +0000

The SIS and GCSB are effectively agents for power structures outside of NZ.

john key is transparently directed within the arrangement, as we have seen in the results of his back room deals.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 08:16:37 +0000

Like any large organization the SIS has good days and bad days. Seeing as China and America want to sit us down all the time for cyber breaches, I’d say SIS is incompetent. But are they under reconstruction? Or are they making up excuses? Or are they getting on with the job of making improvements? Hard to tell.

We’ll probably never know when SIS is having a good day. All though there’s those small matters of foreign political donations. Vote rigging, and in general sub par elections held around the pacific. So when the SIS is having a good day, democracy in general is having a good day.