More on the 1080 poisoning false flag

My letter was read out on Radio NZ this morning:

"No mystery as to what the government could gain from making the 1080 infant formula poisoning scare public.

It coincided with the release of highly-damaging Edward Snowden revelations about NZ spying on its trading partners"

I wrote about this yesterday - 350.org's Big Lie

Little gain in going public with 1080 threat - analyst

A product-tampering and extortion analyst is questioning why the Government has gone public about the threat to poison infant formula with the pesticide 1080.

Two letters sent in November, one to Fonterra and the other to Federated Farmers, threatened the poisoning unless aerial drops of 1080 to control pests ceased by the end of this month.

Prime Minister John Key said the decision to go public was advised by New Zealand officials after a number of media inquiries.

"The overall decision was made by myself and a senior group of ministers a long time ago," he said.

"That was because I thought, once you got to the point at which the threat date went beyond that, a), we have a good story to tell, very confident about the safety of the product, b), I think we owe it to consumers to say, look, just be a bit more vigilant because this is out there."

He conceded there were reasons not to go public - like encouraging people who carry out those sorts of acts.

He said, on balance, it was decided the public should be told.

But extortion analyst from the global risk-management company Red24 Shane Russell said it was hard to see what the Government was gaining by going public.

"You don't believe there's any risk at the moment so you're going to presumably damage sales of dairy products and it would seem to me to be to be an encouragement to others that all you need to do it send a letter and look at the chaos you can create."

She said 90 percent of these sorts of threats turned out to be hoaxes and that going public with the threat was not a course of action her group would advise.

"You have to ask what you are gaining by going public in this way, you're not actually protecting the public, because if this guy or group are serious about carrying out this threat there is nothing to stop them."

Trade Minister Tim Groser believed the infant formula contamination threat has been handled extremely well.

He said the threat was keep quiet until now to give the Government extra time to prepare.

"Precisely to give us time to put extra layers of defence in place, to work with regulatory authorities in other countries to give them assurances and i must say that strategy so far has worked extremely well.

Police said they had been receiving information from the public about the threat, but were asking people for more help by watching social media

They revealed this week they had spent more than three months investigating the threat

Following the threat, the Government made it illegal for anyone to possess high purity 1080 without the appropriate approval.

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