Terrorism and thoughtcrime

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1. Tiger Mountain 1

   13 October 2014 at 7:24 am

   “Minority Report” http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181689/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
   was one of the earlier films to deal with “predictive law enforcement”.

   For those possibly familiar with it, I nominate ShonKey be placed in the equivalent of a “Pre-Cog” immersive tank to test this bs.
2. Janice 2

   13 October 2014 at 7:44 am

   JK says that there will be consultation with allies before it is decided how NZ can contribute to any international force. He reminds me of a kid with his hand up, clicking his fingers and saying “pick me, pick me, I am doing all the right things look at what I am doing, look at how much power I can exercise in NZ, the sheep love me”.
   • rawshark-yeshe 2.1

     13 October 2014 at 9:34 am

     Consultation with a full Parliament would be more useful. Bloody poodle he truly is.
3. One Anonymous Bloke 3

   13 October 2014 at 7:54 am

   Punishing people for things they haven’t done sounds like terrorism to me.
4. les 4

   13 October 2014 at 7:57 am

   its all about ‘unknown,unknowns’…Key can claim to have enforced an effective deterrent ,for crimes that have never been committed ,but would have been, if not for his caring foresight to protect the NZ public from the bogey man of the day.
5. SHG 5

   13 October 2014 at 8:03 am

   Options:

   a) vote National out of power peacefully
   b) overthrow the govt by force
   c) leave the country

   But what you’ll actually do:

   d) nothing
   • One Anonymous Bloke 5.1

     13 October 2014 at 8:27 am

     You don’t have to use force to overthrow a government.
   • Dialey 5.2

     13 October 2014 at 9:41 am

     e) Non-co-operation is a protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil….Non-co-operation with evil is as much a duty as co-operation with good.
     • Colonial Rawshark 5.2.1

       13 October 2014 at 10:09 am

       OAB and yourself have got it right. Peaceful civil resistance has been the key to undermining many a totalitarian government. Which NZ does not have, but certainly shows predilections towards.
       • Chooky Shark Smile 5.2.1.1

         13 October 2014 at 10:16 am

         CR +100
   • minrch 5.3

     13 October 2014 at 10:14 am

     “But what you’ll actually do:

     d) nothing”

     Gee whizz, lucky we have hardy men of action like youself SHG !

     pfffft…. 🙄
6. One Anonymous Bloke 6

   13 October 2014 at 8:28 am

   Meanwhile, in suburbia, mission-creep.

   Seventy-seven of the 151 councils who responded to a Freedom of Information request admitted using the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa) to crack down on “domestic waste, littering or fly-tipping offences” in the last three years.
   Last month The Sunday Telegraph disclosed that three-quarters of local authorities had used the act – which was introduced to help the police fight terrorism and crime in 2000 – to tackle minor misdemeanours.
   The Act allows public bodies – since expanded to include councils – to place residents and businesses under surveillance, trace telephone and email accounts and even send staff on undercover missions.
   Councils are also using the Act to tackle dog fouling, the unauthorised sale of pizzas and even the abuse of the blue badge scheme for disabled drivers.

   Who’s your Nanny now?
   • Colonial Rawshark 6.1

     13 October 2014 at 10:08 am

     In the UK there have been instances of school boards hiring PI’s to follow parents around photographing them, etc. Just outrageous deterioration of civil rights.

     And a chance for all the Little Hitlers our society breeds to have a turn at the wheel.
     • One Anonymous Bloke 6.1.1

       13 October 2014 at 10:54 am

       And for all the little monkeys to throw a spanner in.

       Ai Weiwei: surveillance camera blocker.

       Edit: How many of the individual items on the list of “you will needs” do I need to own before I’m guilty?
       • RedLogix 6.1.1.1

         13 October 2014 at 11:07 am

         Got it 🙂
       • wekarawshark 6.1.1.2

         13 October 2014 at 11:50 am

         better link I think http://www.designboom.com/art/ai-weiwei-surveillance-camera-blocker/

         OAB, I’m pretty sure you’re guilty just on the basis of things you say here on the standard.
         • One Anonymous Bloke 6.1.1.2.1

           13 October 2014 at 12:40 pm

           Don’t know what you’re talking about, I’m just cycling to a mate’s place to lend him my cherry-picker handle, and we’ll be having a bottle of wine.
7. travellerev 7

   13 October 2014 at 9:05 am

   David Cameron tells the UN that people who think that 9/11 was not done by 19 boozing, coke snorting, whoring “Muslims” and who think that 9/11 was used as an argument to start a crusade against Muslim countries all of whom accidentally happen to sit on large amounts of oil and other lootable assets are “non violent extremists”.

   Obama, Harper, Abbott, John Key and David Cameron are all using the beheading argument to take more freedom away from their populations while they are all preparing to take us to another stinking illegal war of aggression.

   You’d almost think they meet in little backrooms and plan the next step together. But that would be conspiring and we all know that never happens. Our governments are our own, voted in by us and we have sovereignty and our governments have our best interest at heart and they would never ever conspire against us. That is just ridiculous conspiracy theoretic thinking.
   • Jones 7.1

     13 October 2014 at 1:19 pm

     Mhmm… a little backroom at Bilderberg.
   • Fred 7.2

     14 October 2014 at 11:04 am

     http://aotearoaawiderperspective.wordpress.com/2014/10/13/911-mysteries-and-30-years-of-war-john-key-wants-you-to-shut-up/
   • Fred 7.3

     14 October 2014 at 12:20 pm

     The ridiculous thing is: How can anyone really believe that the basic laws of physics were somehow suspended for one day, in one country, in one city, for three highrise buildings?

     http://www.globalresearch.ca/obedience-to-authority-why-do-good-people-become-silent-when-faced-with-facts-which-disprove-the-official-911-story
     • Te Reo Putake 7.3.1

       14 October 2014 at 12:29 pm

       Dunno, Fred, you’d probably have to ask 9/11 truthers why they believe that. To paraphrase Scotty, ye cannae change the laws of physics. The buildings came down exactly as would be expected in the circumstances and entirely in line with the laws of physics.
       • Fred 7.3.1.1

         14 October 2014 at 12:56 pm

         And what laws of physics would that be Te Reo Putake? Certainly not the laws of physics I learnt – or even basic common sense laws..
8. fisiani 8

   13 October 2014 at 9:10 am

   The problem for some people posting here is that there are a few really bad people in New Zealand who need to be stopped from doing really bad things. Not many but enough to be of concern. Opposing such sensible security measures is one of the many extremist reasons that the Left got such a thrashing. Time surely to rethink the notion that everything that National proposes is always bad. Note how Andrew Little , David Parker and Grant Robertson are not wading into this.
   • mac1 8.1

     13 October 2014 at 9:31 am

     Fisiani, notice how people don’t need to hear from Little, Parker and Robertson or other Labour leaders in order to make up their own minds or know what to think? Notice how some commenters here don’t need Crosby/Texter, Whale Oil, David Farrer or the Prime Minister’s office to give them their thoughts for the day? Notice how some commenters believe in adulation that the PM walks on water, and does not ‘wade’ in the murky outflow below the effluent outlet of money, power and politics?

     I’m old enough to remember Holyoake’s ‘guns for butter’ as a reason to get involved in South East Asia. Then the ‘wisdom’ of the time was that that was a holy crusade against communism, and the domino theory was the great thinking of the time.

     We all know how wrong that was. The only thing left about that disgraceful episode is to have the Government apologise to the peoples of South East Asia. Yeah right.
   • Draco T Bastard 8.2

     13 October 2014 at 9:47 am

     there are a few really bad people in New Zealand who need to be stopped from doing really bad things.

     Yeah, there are – the present government.
     • Chooky Shark Smile 8.2.1

       13 October 2014 at 10:17 am

       DTB…+100
   • One Anonymous Bloke 8.3

     13 October 2014 at 9:53 am

     Nanny Fisiani, your rank hypocrisy is showing.
   • vto 8.4

     13 October 2014 at 10:41 am

     ” is that there are a few really bad people in New Zealand who need to be stopped from doing really bad things”

     Yes, no different from any other year in the last ten thousand years or more. There have always been really bad people. There are no more really bad people than before ffs.

     fail
     • Draco T Bastard 8.4.1

       13 October 2014 at 12:07 pm

       +1
   • minrch 8.5

     13 October 2014 at 10:45 am

     cmon Fizz why dont you take some personal responsibility for looking after yourself

     Making me pay for your protection via my tax $ is just theft isnt it?
   • wekarawshark 8.6

     13 October 2014 at 11:52 am

     We already have legislation for stopping really bad people from doing really bad things.
9. djp 9

   13 October 2014 at 9:20 am

   As a libertarian nutbar. I endorse this message
10. les 10

    13 October 2014 at 9:21 am

    ‘ few really bad people in New Zealand who need to be stopped from doing really bad things. Not many but enough to be…’ are you serious?As if these measures will make an ounce of difference to preventing ‘really bad people from doing bad things’!
11. hoom 11

    13 October 2014 at 9:25 am

    If we are going to ban people from going overseas to fight in wars it should be an equal sided ban.

    Ie it should ban kiwis from going overseas to be mercenaries/PMC/security contractors to the same extent.
    • Descendant Of Sssmith 11.1

      13 October 2014 at 7:46 pm

      Though if we ban them from going overseas doesn’t that increase the likelihood of them doing something here?
12. Matthew Hooton 12

    13 October 2014 at 9:31 am

    By your definition of “thoughtcrime”, shouldn’t this section also be removed from the Crimes Act 1961: http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1961/0043/latest/DLM330794.html?search=sw_096be8ed80e0c070_conspiracy_25_se&p=1&sr=6 ?

    And also http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1961/0043/latest/DLM329326.html?search=sw_096be8ed80e0c070_conspiracy_25_se&p=1&sr=5 ?

    Having said that, don’t these sections already cover someone planning to go to kill people or commit other crimes as part of ISIS?

    If so, that might make the idea of further legislation redundant.
    • One Anonymous Bloke 12.1

      13 October 2014 at 9:48 am

      Boarding a plane is not evidence of anything in the way that, say, buying a gun or paying someone you believe to be a contract killer, or supplying an address to people discussing murder, are.
    • hoom 12.2

      13 October 2014 at 9:56 am

      Well thats pretty much the point.

      (nearly) All of the previous ‘anti-terror’ legislation has had public justifications already clearly covered by existing laws.

      The new laws then introduce unjustified impingement on domestic human rights/privacy etc.
      • One Anonymous Bloke 12.2.1

        13 October 2014 at 10:02 am

        Haven’t you heard? Those existing laws are ineffective, it’s too hard to get a conviction. Top line advice says it isn’t straightforward. It might be too late to bring our laws into line with other countries, and other meaningless weasel gibberish.
        • Murray Rawshark 12.2.1.1

          14 October 2014 at 12:52 am

          “it’s too hard to get a conviction” usually means the investigating agencies are incompetent, and/or the accused was innocent. Unsuccessfully prosecuting innocents should not be used to give control agencies more power.
13. cogito 13

    13 October 2014 at 9:33 am

    Meanwhile mindless kiwi sheeple look the other way.

    What will it take for kiwis to wake up and take a stand?

    Key is poison.
14. Psycho Milt 14

    13 October 2014 at 10:39 am

    Graeme Edgeler points out in this post that going off to fight for ISIS is already illegal under our existing ridiculously BoR-hostile anti-terrorist legislation. As usual, you’re left wondering whether the people running the country have passed so many fucking laws they can’t remember what’s in them any more, or whether they’re weasels with an agenda distinctly unfriendly to our civil liberties. Personally, my money’s on ‘weasels with an agenda.’
    • One Anonymous Bloke 14.1

      13 October 2014 at 10:48 am

      Geddis (on morning report) points out that while joining IS is illegal, fighting alongside them isn’t.

      Sloppy weasels in a hurry.
    • Draco T Bastard 14.2

      13 October 2014 at 12:14 pm

      As usual, you’re left wondering whether the people running the country have passed so many fucking laws they can’t remember what’s in them any more

      I’m not – I know damn well that they can’t and that we end up with bad and conflicting laws because of it.

      or whether they’re weasels with an agenda distinctly unfriendly to our civil liberties.

      In this case I don’t think it’s either/or but both.
15. adam 15

    13 October 2014 at 11:02 am

    IN a world of manipulation and lies – the worst part of our overly authoritarian government. Yes, yes I know it’s an elected dictatorship – ie: what most will settle for as a democracy.

    But the reality, our parents and grandparents had more freedoms – we seem to be happy to let one slip away after another. If you think freedom is the ability to buy a galaxy over an apple – then move along.

    But back to the post – I’m pretty sure Mr Key would have called the Spanish Republic a den of terrorist, and Franco the saviour of traditional freedoms. And if we’d had in place laws which would have prohibited people from volunteering (So much for self reliance or my favourite right wing double speak – freedom of choice) then this gentleman – Dr Douglas Jolly would not have gone, and many, many more lives would have been lost in world war two and after.

    Have a look, have a read – a socialist and a hero to boot. But, in this day and age – a terrorist.

    http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/people/douglas-jolly
    • One Anonymous Bloke 15.1

      13 October 2014 at 11:07 am

      Prof. Geddis on Morning Report raised exactly this point: the list of “terrorist” organisations is maintained by the UN; getting on it is a highly politicised process.
      • adam 15.1.1

        13 October 2014 at 12:05 pm

        I’d be tempted to call the UN an enabler of that process. It’s like the elites have truly gone crazy, including those inclined to be sympathetic to working people.
16. Ad 16

    13 October 2014 at 11:54 am

    Key’s hand is forced by the Australian measures already announced.
    New Zealand is already an immigrataion back door into Australia, and Key knows he needs to shut it fast.

    My problem is with Key’s proposals for engagement in Syria and Iraq. Very similar to the “quagmire” problem written so extensively about Vietnam, by answering policy questions about engagement options:

    – what is the definitive effect we are seeking to achieve?
    – how much will it cost NZ, in $$, in reputation, in trade, etc?
    – why – very succinctly – are we doing it?
    – what is our mandate, and our mission scope?
    – what’s the worst that could happen, and what’s most likely?
    – how long is this going to take?
    And finally, of course,
    – how do we eventually get out of it, with the maximum effect and dignity intact?

    Beyond the semantic shifts, I want to see this real debate.

    Would be great to have a functioning opposition right now.
17. coaster 17

    13 October 2014 at 3:57 pm

    How are they going to know if you are going to become a fighter?. Unless there is wholesale spying on all nzlanders, but we all know this doesnt happen.
18. Instauration 18

    14 October 2014 at 9:29 pm

    Why NZ in a list of only 20 ?
    And who specifically was there ?
    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/14/obama-meets-foreign-military-chiefs-isis-strategy
    “Representatives from Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates were expected to attend.”

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