It sounds like the excited fever dream of the rightest of right-wing bloggers: peace activists, greenies and Maori rights agitators training together in secret terrorist camps plotting to blow up and murder the innocent!
Except that was pretty much the story the police told of their unprecedented raid today.
Melanie Jones’ original article said that “peace” groups were implicated – her quote marks. This is gone from the newest version, but for most of the day this comment remained. Is there a fake peace group in New Zealand? Or a peace group that has so lost its way that it thinks armed terror is legitimate? Of everything that came out today, this bit was the most mind-boggling to me.
Judging by the number of times people found this blog by searching on their name, it seems a high-profile peace campaigner was one of the arrested parties. I’ve never met them but find it hard to believe they would be smuggling grenades into a remote camp or participating in weapons training there.
But I could be wrong. Something’s definitely up. I await more information.
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Elsewhere, Salon has an article calling for the abolition of the US electoral college. This has been a longstanding interest of mine. Electoral reform is perhaps the most important battle that progressive movements need to fight – check out the article if this stuff gets you thinking too.
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hey morgan!!
HOw have you been up to?
Everything´s going cool here, studying, teaching, working, couldn´t be better, jaja
I´ve been geeting deeper into SHIHAD music lately and it really rocks!! About the movie I´m glad to tell you that we still have to wait for 8 more months untill it is realeased..
Morgan, I hope you can reply this message, I´ve been wondering if my kiwi friend is still alive??=] take care man!
cheers,
Cain
How bizarre, how bizarre, how bizarre.
You should check out VM’s book; it’s in Unity.
Yes, something’s definitely up. But forgive me if I don’t automatically trust that the cops are doing the right thing here. There’s a smell of a potential misuse of the Terrorism Suppression Act here – laws like that aren’t just there to “make things easier” for the police.
NZ trust in the police force is currently at an all-time low, so if they’ve messed things up again this time there had better be some actual accountability for a change.
Or maybe there really is a terrorist uprising in New Zealand, and this isn’t some sort of local version of the 1990 Steve Jackson Games case.
Let’s wait and see what charges are actually proved, so far we haven’t even seen serious charges laid, let alone proved. Smells like a big fishing expedition, but my faith is somewhat greater in the NZ p*lice than in Australia’s corrupt blue gang after their back-down over Dr Haneef (from in-demand medical professional to evil terrorist and back in under a year!)
I’m waiting for the defence from Iti of “Tuhoe are not part of NZ, we never signed the treaty, the war is not over”.
As far as Melanie Jones goes, I’d be calling her a “journalist” from now on.
Cheers all.
Cain: good to hear from you! Check email.