From New Hampshire to the New Zealand Bush: How Not to Run an Insurgency
October 15th, 2007What do Ed and Elaine Brown and Tame Iti have in common?
Their groups were infiltrated, compromised, watched, recorded, left, right, up, down and otherwise by state security services from beginning to end.
Via: Stuff:
So far at least 12 people have appeared in court, facing charges under the Firearms Act and have been remanded in custody.
Those arrested appeared in district courts in Wellington, Rotorua, Palmerston North, Hamilton and Auckland.
Maori, environmental and political activists were targeted by the raids, which began in the early hours of this morning.
Dozens of Armed Offender Squad and secret Special Tactics Group officers were this afternoon in place around Ruatoki, about 15 kilometres south of Whakatane, along with a large number of uniformed and plain clothed police.
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Firearms were seized and Mr Broad said the raids resulted from an investigation into suspected weapons training camps held over the past year in the Eastern Bay of Plenty.
A high level secret government group based out of Prime Minister Helen Clark’s office has been involved in the unprecedented operation.
The search warrants were carried out under the Firearms Act and the Terrorism Suppression Act.
Today is the first time New Zealand police have used the powers conferred on them by the Terrorism Suppression Act, which came into force in 2002.
During television coverage of the raids tonight, TV One News reported it understood there had been “a threat” to the safety of Prime Minister Helen Clark.
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Fairfax Media understands the top secret Officials Committee for Domestic and External Security Coordination met at the Beehive earlier this month to hear what was planned for today.
Known as ODESC, the group is chaired by the prime minister and makes high-level decisions on terrorism, security, intelligence and civil defence issues.
It includes the heads of the police and the Defence Force as well as other government departments and agencies.
The Sunday Star Times’ Melanie Jones reports that this morning’s arrests are the culmination of months of work by a specialist police anti-terror unit which has hundreds of hours of recordings from bugged conversations, video surveillance, and tapped cellphone calls and texts.
Police have video of military-style training with live ammunition in camps deep in the Urewera mountain ranges and expected to find machine guns and grenades during their raids
Campaigners from various Maori sovereignty, environmental and “peace” groups are implicated.
Police units infiltrated the training camps during months of investigation – sometimes being within metres of those firing live rounds.
Investigators believe although the groups were training together, they were each planning to hit targets related to their own interests although all the hits would be co-ordinated to cause maximum chaos and stretching police resources across the country.
good to see that our skeptical press is not just regurgitating all this govt propaganda like tame lap dogs, eh?
because we all know that if it’s in the paper or on tv it must be true.
lesson number one for trev and sheila public:
don’t vote for the greens or maoris, they’re tearists.
all for our own good. of course. national security , you see.
So this is how Helen Clark is going to get her 4th term is it?
This sucks. Rednecks and white farmers in New Zealand have been whispering fearfully about things like this for years now so they’ll be loving it. I’m not sure how much I believe, 17 people sounds pathetically small and the idea that Tame Iti is involved makes me laugh. He’s an attentions seeking artist but he fits the bill for this sort of thing because he looks like a freak. Are they going to make him into NZ’s version of Osama bin Laden for God’s sake.
The thing is, wherever this fits on the scale from total false flag opp to genuine event the PTB are going to use this to separate us from one another. Personally if NZ turns into a fascist state like the US is the only people who are going to stand up for themselves are the Maori. White people here are so brainwashed it’s not funny.
I notice the article says the judge booted the media out at one point because he was worried about the ‘scant’ level of information against Iti and one other person.
What a crap start to the day for me
I forgot to add:
“Maori, environmental and political activists”
what a convenient collection of ‘radicals’. Like the billboard says; Yeah right.
This Terrorism Suppression Act appears to be an excellent excuse to harass groups that espouse unpopular views. I read in a nzherald.co.nz article that a Wellington man’s house was raided (complete with broken window). The man runs a free bicycle repair shop. But note how the reporter digs around and “discovers” something damning about this man — he’s an anarchist! gasp. We can’t have those types running around in a free society, eh?
From:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10469938&
Buchanan said he had not been involved in any training camps.
He would not say whether he was involved with Greenpeace or any other environmental group, but the Herald found he is a member of Aotearoa Anarchists and has written a pamphlet entitled Anarchy: The Transmogrification of Everyday Life.
In 2001 he was arrested as anti-globalisation protests flared at the G8 protests in Genoa, Italy and he claimed that he was badly beaten by police.
yeah pookie,
we’re back to “thought crimes” again.
it used to be “communism” but now it is anything
“radical”.
nz is a VERY provincial, parochial place. the small-town conservative mindset pervades everything. this is recently overlaid with a sensationalist murdoch-inspired press.
“if you’re different, watch out!” is the number one message.
if i wanted to psycho-analyse, i’d say that the “ordinary” people subconsciously realise that their consumer-binge culture is utterly fcuked but they don’t have a clue what to do instead. so this subconscious fear is leading to more and more lashing out at anyone they perceive as threatening/exposing their wonderful/fcuked consumerist heaven/hell.
cognative dissonance for dummies?
whadya reckon?
I can’t claim to know what kind of email these radical terrorists (snark) whores were using. But let me give any wanna-be a clue: DON”T USE COMCAST IF YOU WANT TO COMMUNICATE WITH YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS AT ARMS WHETHER IN HEART AND MIND OR OTHERWISE. COMCAST IS CENSORING EMAILS. 3 test cases FOR ME are proving positive for censorship.
Info in emails that were censored concerned gold purchases; bond flim flam scheme INFORMATION from Cryptogon and information from Earthlink re antivirus software. None of these communications were in my screened emails.
This was posted today on whatreallyhappened.com. Old article. VERY RELEVAnt TO ME!
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0716-20.htm
i’LL BE BACK. NOT FROM MY USUAL CENSORSHIP ACCOUNT.
Apparently there is legislation before parliament at the moment that will bring NZ into line with overseas anti-terror legislation.
The government is currently insisting that it is merely a coincidence.
Words fail me.
Oh, just wait for it: “Pandemic Avian Flu” or whatever the F they’re going to call the excuse.
https://cryptogon.com/2006_07_09_blogarchive.html#115249482608736895