The
police state in New Zealand
Police Corruption
Facebook comments by Russel Malcolm
40 years on, right in our faces NZ Police corruption of the worst kind, its a never ending growing list of murders rapes, beatings, setup, cover-ups, drug dealing, False arrests, Political raids.
The
image above is from a police raid of the sort of the notorious
Urewera raids of 2007.
However,
I have my own story to relate.
I have to be purposefully vague as to
location and idendities but I can assure you that this is going on –
in New Zealand.
The
13 year old son of someone I know has practically been accused of
terrorism based on unproved hearsay. This goes on his record and our
friend is trying to have it removed.
The
story, very briefly is that in a discussion with a school counselor
our subject said that someone in the school was planning to build a
pipe bomb and ‘take some of the teachers out’
Instead
of trying to sort it out, or make further inquiries, the counsellor
decided to blow the whistle.
The
next thing was the police were banging on the door of our friend in
the middle of the night and the school decides to expel – all this
based on the hearsay of another teenager who was probably scared
shitless of the police.
All
the charges – and they went, it transpired into their own record,
were based on hearsay. Our friend’s boy was never able to to tell
his own story or to challenge that of others who had inmplicated.
And
yet this is on his record which goes to the next school and will
follow him around wherever he goes.
This
is a 13-year-old boy and unless there is strong action taken this has
the potential to ruin his life.
In
Stalinist Russia (the worst regime I can think of outside of Hitler’s
Germany) children were encouraged to inform on their teachers and
parents. In our own “democratic” fascist state teachers are
mandated to spy on and inform on CHILDREN.
I know this to be the case in Britain
I know this to be the case in Britain
Facebook comments by Russel Malcolm
40 years on, right in our faces NZ Police corruption of the worst kind, its a never ending growing list of murders rapes, beatings, setup, cover-ups, drug dealing, False arrests, Political raids.
Incompetence
to deeply entrenched organised crime, and those in power need those
of you who say its only a few bad ones to keep spouting that shit.
Those who say that are the traitors to our society. Its keeps the
illusion going.
Arthur
was eventually cleared by independent investigation due to the
actions of good people unselfishly fighting for justice, we dont even
have that element in our society any more. If we do its rare and
police attack them with vengeance, again without any accountability.
Do
a simple exercise start with ten cops, one commits a crime harming
another person. two cops coverup for him, the rest know its going on
and do nothing. ...........Which ones are of a high enough integrity
to be Police?
The
courts cover form them, Judges are compromised, Media print what the
system wants us to think we know.
This
is not a rare event, its everyday practice, covered only the soothing
weasel words coming in press release from Police and Police
association which is a political pressure group established to look
after cops. Trying to con us in emotion words of how they care. If
they did care this would not be going on.
Arthur
Allan Thomas has condemned a soon to be released police inquiry into
the Crewe murders as a mockery and a "cover up" following
the police's defence of the man who led the original investigation.
At
a rare public appearance this morning Mr Thomas, who was twice
convicted and then pardoned in the murders of Jeanette and Harvey
Crewe in 1970, said police were "protecting their own".
"It's
a shame that we have this system of cover up," Mr Thomas told
the media and members of the public at Pukekawa Hall.
Police brutality
In New Zealand the police investigate themselves with the 'Independent Police Complaints Commission
Police brutality
In New Zealand the police investigate themselves with the 'Independent Police Complaints Commission
Police
have agreed to pay a Southland farmer $14,000 in damages and costs
after armed officers entered his property without permission and, in
a resulting tussle, pepper-sprayed him, punched him in the face and
Tasered him while he was handcuffed.
Court
and police documents say three constables, from Invercargill and
Bluff, arrived at the Greenhills farm of Corey Vreugdenhil on March
18 last year to investigate a complaint of intimidation laid by his
neighbour, Les Cooper.
The
two men have a history of confrontation.
The
officers entered the property carrying Glock pistols, M4
semi-automatic rifles, pepper spray, Tasers and batons. When they
approached Vreugdenhil's house he told them to "f . . . off".
A
constable then told Vreugdenhil he was under arrest for "speaking
threateningly".
He
replied he had done nothing wrong and again told them to "f . .
. off".
They
remained at the property and entered his house where a tussle took
place.
Vreugdenhil
was pepper-sprayed and wrestled to the ground. He was subsequently
Tasered and punched in the face when, police statements say, he
attempted to pull a Glock pistol out of an officer's holster.
Vreugdenhil
has this week denied trying to grab the pistol.
A
constable's statement describes how he looked down and saw
Vreugdenhil holding the grip of another constable's Glock pistol. The
officer's face "looked frantic and he was trying to break
Vreugdenhil's grip on his pistol", the statement says.
After
the tussle, Vreugdenhil was taken to the Invercargill police station,
seen by a doctor, held in the cells overnight and released on bail
the next day.
Among
Vreugdenhil's injuries were wounds from the Taser prongs and wounds
to his nose, wrists, shoulder and painful eyes from the pepper spray.
A
memorandum before the courts for Vreugdenhil says police later
acknowledged that their presence at the property and the subsequent
arrest was unlawful.
Police
withdrew charges alleging Vreugdenhil had assaulted police and
resisted arrest.
Another
charge Vreugdenhil faced for threatening to injure his neighbour, Les
Cooper, was also dropped.
The
memorandum says the three officers had no grounds to remain on Mr
Vreugdenhil's property or enter his house.
"Police
acknowledge they were clearly told to leave the premises and the
defendant clearly revoked their implied licence to remain. Thereafter
they were trespassers."
Police
this month, in correspondence to Vreugdenhil, agreed to pay him
$10,000 in damages, $4000 in costs and write him a letter
acknowledging they had breached his rights.
He
said yesterday he had not yet received that letter.
Southland
area commander Inspector Lane Todd, in correspondence to Vreugdenhil
dated February 27, says his complaint about the police handling of
the matter was reported to the Independent Police Conduct Authority.
"The
investigator has concluded that the attending constables technically
have failed to leave your address at the time you directed them to,"
the letter says.
"After
legal advice was sought, the investigator further concluded that this
in effect was a civil trespass. The investigator however concluded
that the attending officers were acting in good faith and had the
honest belief that their actions were justified and within the law."
Todd's
letter says he has spoken to the constables involved, "and I
have reminded them of the legal requirements in incidents of this
nature".
Yesterday,
Todd told The Southland Times that police were now finalising the
settlement agreement with Vreugdenhil. An independent investigation
into the incident had been completed and was with the Independent
Police Conduct Authority for review, he said.
"Until
all matters have been finalised and reviewed it is not appropriate
for police to make any further comments at this time."
Agents
from New Zealand’s national police force ransacked the home of a
prominent independent journalist earlier this month who was
collaborating with The Intercept on stories from the NSA archive
furnished by Edward Snowden. The stated purpose of the 10-hour police
raid was to identify the source for allegations that the reporter,
Nicky Hager, recently published in a book that caused a major
political firestorm and led to the resignation of a top government
minister.
But
in seizing all the paper files and electronic devices in Hager’s
home, the authorities may have also taken source material concerning
other unrelated stories that Hager was pursuing. Recognizing the
severity of the threat posed to press freedoms from this raid, the
Freedom of the Press Foundation today announced a global campaign to
raise funds for Hager’s legal defense
The Kim Dotcom raids
The response of the government has been to retrospectively justifuy and legalise their actions, including the spying by its external intelligence arm, the GCSB, on New Zealanders
Here is the 2014 Moment of Truth with Kim Dotcom, Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, Julian Assange et.al.
Finally here is a documentary on the Urewera raids of 2007
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