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Deconstructing Headlines · Martyn Bradbury · Most Recent Blogs

Wait, What? NZ Spies & cops need MORE terrorism powers? Really? After all that mass surveillance?
ByMartyn Bradbury 11 November 2018

This is a deeply concerning slide towards huge Police State powers with no ability to reign them in and not even a rational explanation as to why we should keep feeding them with more and more intrusive search and surveillance powers.

Who is the threat? Extremists or the Deep State?

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Martyn Bradbury · Most Recent Blogs · Setting the Agenda

EXCLUSIVE: My case against a secret NZ Police investigation that breached my privacy and my civil rights
ByMartyn Bradbury 28 August 2017

It’s not important to like or dislike my work, but I think we can all agree that allowing the Police to conduct secret investigations into activists and political bloggers that then damage their reputation negatively based on spurious grounds isn’t acceptable in a liberal democracy.

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Deconstructing Headlines · Martyn Bradbury · Most Recent Blogs

So why are the NZ Police taking a sudden interest in Euthanasia campaigners?
ByMartyn Bradbury 26 October 2016

Targeting Euthanasia campaigners is a training exercise as our Police State starts flexing its new found muscles.

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