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Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Maori are being terrorised


Alt Tv/Fleet FM Breakfast News Comment
Maori are being terrorised
Hone Harawira used debate on a bill to amend whistleblower legislation as a platform to make strong arguments that Maori were being "terrorised". "Are these threats to Maori serious? Hell, yes," Mr Harawira said. "There is mounting frustration and anger right across the country by Maori genuinely aggrieved by the continued loss of lands, the denial of the Treaty, and now these raids, smashing into Maori homes and terrorising Maori communities," he said. "Of course Maori are bloody angry. Why wouldn't they be?" The police raids signalled that "the terrorism of the Maori community" had never ended and continued unabated, Mr Harawira said. Mr Dunne called the speech inflammatory and said it was "embittered, divisive and downright irrelevant". Harawira’s comments are true, if you were Maori, if you lived in the community that was swamped by ‘police ninjas’ you can understand the hurt and the fright without even mentioning the historical context, as far as Tuhoe are concerned, the only paramilitary groups running around threatening people are the Police. Which is why the cops had better have this in the bag, so low is their credibility that anything short of a smoking gun in terms of evidence is not going to be enough to restore public confidence in their actions. NZers have a default mechanism that automatically sets to the person getting pushed around, we don’t like it and it gets us defensive, which is exactly what Hone Harawira is articulating. Note however he doesn’t try and defend or negate the charges against those being held, which has become the tone of choice once people hear what the Police allege they have as evidence, in other news Jamie Lockett has been attacked in prison, and the inability of the Police to keep one of those charged inside suggests they don’t have the evidence to keep him after he was released on bail. There seem to be two groups of those arrested, those who were just radical and went to the camps, and those who plotted plans.

More sparks are expected as the Terrorism Suppression Amendment Bill is debated in Parliament this afternoon.

6 Comments:

At 24/10/07 11:43 am, Anonymous Anonymous said...

So 'whatsy' Dunne ( peter dunne ) with the big hair is calling Hone bitter, divisive and irrelevent.

Whatsy himself looked rather pissed and bitter last election night when he lost 80% of his party vote and lost most of his mp's.

His american backed bottem line of "no change to cannabis laws " has seen many thousands of young Nzers have bad dealings with the police and many others have had their doors kicked in by other "ninja' cops enforcing peter/whatsy dunnes 'bottem line'.


Drug laws were/are the training ground cops running around like paramilitary goon squads shitting on everyones rights .

 
At 24/10/07 11:45 am, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Drug laws were/are the training ground FOR cops running around like paramilitary goon squads shitting on everyones rights .

 
At 24/10/07 12:37 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said...

His american backed bottem line of "no change to cannabis laws " has seen many thousands of young Nzers have bad dealings with the police and many others have had their doors kicked in by other "ninja' cops enforcing peter/whatsy dunnes 'bottem line'. wow, so Peter Dunne is personally responsible for their being no change to cannabis laws? I didn't think he had that much power.

Drug laws were/are the training ground FOR cops running around like paramilitary goon squads shitting on everyones rights

Everyone's rights? Really? I haven't had my rights shat on by any police and I don't know any body else who's rights have been shit all over by police either. What rights of yours have the police ever shit all over?

 
At 24/10/07 12:55 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said...

In all my dealings with the police I've found them to be police and courteous. The way they react to you is contingent on whether they suspect you of a criminal offence and the attitude that you give back to them.

With the latter I figure its not so much a police issue but more of a male testosterone thing. If you act like a complete dick to some Maori/PI bouncer from south auckland it's pretty much guarenteed that you'll get the some reaction as you'd get from a policeman.

Maybe that's NZNatives problem that he acts like a dick to police and thus gets a 'negative reaction'. I don't know anybody who has been terrorized by ninja cops but then again must of the people I know don't go out of their way to be cunts to authority figures

 
At 24/10/07 7:17 pm, Blogger Jack said...

Everyone's rights? Really? I haven't had my rights shat on by any police and I don't know any body else who's rights have been shit all over by police either. What rights of yours have the police ever shit all over?

Count yourself lucky Anonymous

www.bentcops.org

 
At 25/10/07 10:08 am, Anonymous Anonymous said...

"No decent people want to join the pack of cocks with their own brand of gang culture complete with club house bars selling cheap piss to memebers"

Are you sure you making these comment's about Hated By Most? He's just about the only support you've got here.

 

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