It’s the men in black

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1. the sprout 1

   1 April 2009 at 1:49 pm

   exactly.
   i guess they’ve got to “justify” their enormous, vitually unaccountable budget somehow.
2. Brett Dale 2

   1 April 2009 at 2:02 pm

   So no security at all huh??? Im not sure how much they want in their budget, but even a small country such as ours should be on the lookout.

   If Keith Locke had his way, every web blogger would be monitored just in case they dare to criticize communism.

   [lprent: Brett examines his rectum for more cutting insights. Sure can’t substantiate it.

   The SIS on the other hand have been monitoring Keith Locke since he was a kid. Perhaps they should have been looking at Richard Worth…]
   • Ari 2.1

     1 April 2009 at 4:46 pm

     Being on the lookout is not the same as being told our property will be stolen, our intelligence compromised, and our government is going to be ousted if we don’t pay up on time.

     This is about the culture of panic in the SIS, not whether we should have security and intelligence services at all.
3. BLiP 3

   1 April 2009 at 2:23 pm

   Never ceases to surprise me that those who do most damage to our nation and society (i.e., Richardson, Douglas, Birch. Fay, Ritchwite and the National Party) are never considered a threat.
   • the sprout 3.1

     1 April 2009 at 2:42 pm

     indeed BLiP, they get knighthoods instead
     • ripp0 3.1.1

       1 April 2009 at 8:35 pm

       knighthoods ehhh?

       And just when I fort they was for a hole-in-the-head. Deliberate one, self-determined one… et cetera.

       see me (click) if yer dare..
4. Matthew Pilott 4

   1 April 2009 at 3:24 pm

   What is their budget?

   I think it would be foolish to discount the SIS and the GCSB, thouhg the recenttly exposed actions of the former haven’t done them any favours.

   I like the catch-22 in the article – “The report for the year to June 2008, tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, gives no details of the threats the country faces or where they come from.

   It says those details have been omitted for security reasons.”

   ‘There are bad things out there but we can’t tell you about them’.

   So all we know is that they have protected us from the nefarious actions of various environmental and activist groups. I know some silly Righties (Dale, take a bow) might fund that a viable target, but we’re an open democracy and there’s really no cause to spy on them. I’d be equally unimpressed if they spied on the EMA or Business Roundtable.

   And yet that can’t tell us what they really contribute.
   • Ag 4.1

     1 April 2009 at 6:02 pm

     I don’t know about you, but I am quite happy to take the supposed risk involved in abolishing the SIS.
5. QoT 5

   1 April 2009 at 4:13 pm

   Jesus, Guest poster, it’s not like finding hippies in Aro Valley is fuckin’ easy or anything! And spotting people interested in Maori sovereignty in the Ureweras can be really hard on cloudy days! Especially if they’re not wearing fluorescent vests, the sneaky bastards.
6. Akldnut 6

   1 April 2009 at 6:11 pm

   Ok I admit it, My daughters the cat and I are secretly plotting the overthrow of the NZ govt (to start with) on our way to total world domination.
   I can’t tell you where or when it’s going to happen cause then I’d have to kill you but be very, very scared cause we’re out there!!!!

   Captcha: revenue in – hahaha appropriate

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