Posts by Russell Brown
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Well, the SKS rifle is semi-automatic, but quite plausibly a deer hunting weapon.
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Oh, and One News had this on Lockett:
The 46-year-old, who has been in the public eye before for providing security to failed Auckland businessman Mark Lyon, says he is seeking private prosecutions against a number of public servants later this week.
A search warrant was also been executed on another south Auckland address where Lockett has been receiving life coaching and is involved with a Maori sovereignty group that has issued him with a new birth certificate.
He certainly seems a strange guy. He's suing the police for $100 million for letting Mark Lyon evict him from a property he was occupying.
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Ask yourself this. If the police really thought when they were catching up with crazed Maori Leftist Greenie Animal lovers, that these people were really dangerous terra-ists why did they take a TV3 crew with them.
Apart from the fact they may have been injured by stray bullets or suicide bombers, if the danger was that great and these people were so pervasive in our society how did they know TV3 news hadn't been infiltrated by the alleged terra-ists?
Well gee, if the cops had been conniving to embed a 3 News operative, I'm really not sure they'd have picked a freelance cameraman for Sunrise. And wouldn't they have brought along, like, a reporter?
The truth is this: the camerman was going to work at TV3, nearby the Abel Smith Street house, saw the cops en route, grabbed his camera, and got a few pictures. What TV3 had in its clip was basically the extent of it.
So on one hand we have furious news speculation and on the other, wild conspiracy theorising. Clearly, it's going to be a long week.
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Therefore its not about them, it's about us. This is State Terrorism creating a climate of fear. To remove support from the Maori Party & the Greens, & gain support from NZ Firster as strong against grugs. It is purely to get a 4th Term for the Labour Govt.
This is a criminally cynical machavallian horror.
This isn't Kiwiblog. Best wait a bit before declaring an evil Liabour conspiracy, huh?
Given what's already in the public domain (and pending tomorrow's reporting) it seems more likely that a few people who happened to have contact with much wider networks may have been having crazy thoughts.
I do agree with I/S that there are questions to be asked about the Tuhoe operation, and what happens to the evidence collected today.
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The Herald is touting its lead for tomorrow:
Two hunters alerted police to the presence of armed men in camouflage in the Ureweras after stumbling into their camp, the Herald can reveal.
Police today arrested 17 people in nationwide raids linked to alleged weapons training camps in the Bay of Plenty.
The story of what the hunters saw - to be reported exclusively in Tuesday's New Zealand Herald - forms part of the background to an extensive investigation by 300 police including the specialist police anti-terrorist unit.
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Che's right. There's no support for any uprising or sectarian conflict. There's nothing going on at present for those people to arise out of. There might be sufficient disgruntlement amongst some Maori for a bunch to go over the edge, but once you list environmental and peace activists in the mix, I'm really dubious.
I think sectarian conflict's a red herring, but there are certainly precedents for much smaller groups of activists killing and hurting others.
Animal Rights groups with fire bombs for example, and the Earth Liberation Front with even more firebombs. The Unabomber, who killed 23 people, was an anarcho-primtivist who had writings published by Green Anarchy magazine.
Then you've got Timothy McVeigh and Eric Rudolph, a survivalist nutter and a Christian terrorist respectively. So it can happen.
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From another forum:
one of the cyber-hori items was:
Army camo / camoflauge pants XXXXL
Fattest terrorist ever.
Lol.
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And a request for MSM folks: Perhaps you could delcare a moratorium on throwing around terms like 'terror raids' and 'terrorist threats' at least until charges alleging any such thing are laid. I've given up hoping that the distinction between a charge and conviction means anything any more.
So far as I can tell, no has used the phrase "terrorist threat" in a report today, so no need for a moratorium on that.
Or "terror raid" either -- the reports all refer to "anti-terror raids", which isn't unreasonable, given the legislation invoked.
I think TV3's work today has been bloody good, actually.
One News, relying on "sources" making unprovable claims, not so much. OTOH, if I had a source saying that a "threat" against the Prime Minister sparked the action, I think I'd struggle to keep it out of my 6pm news bulletin.
It's shaping up as amazing story that someone's going to come out of poorly.
Ron Mark's still a fuckwit though.
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The Trade Me record for another one of those arrested, hunt4life, lists heaps of transactions for things like ammunition, an "SAS SDU Level 4 Body Armor Tactical Assault Vest" etc, all but four of them purchases, settled promptly. Somebody who knows what this stuff is might want to take a look.
The guy certainly has a good rep as a trader.
The only one arrested in Auckland who doesn't have name suppression is Jamie Lockett, Mark Lyon's former minder. It just gets weirder!
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Anyway, let's hope the Police have some steak under the sizzle because cases involving alleged 'terrorist' have a nasty habit of falling apart faster than candy floss in a monsoon.
I followed some links from the blog I referenced above, and does seem that there are people who support the idea of armed resistance in theory. What emerges is another matter, but I'd probably like to know if my neighbour was stashing semi-automatics and molotovs.
OTOH, I can also imagine "molotov cocktails" meaning rags, bottles and petrol being found in the same general area.
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