New Zealand is set to update sedition and espionage laws, making these as harsh as those of other Western states that are now gearing up for war with Russia and China.
I haven’t read Maire Leadbeater’s recent book on state surveillance in Aotearoa yet but the cruel irony of this bill is that it’s designed by our own oligarchs at the behest of the US warmongers to stop working class people challenging their power over us. Both Maire’s parents and her brother were life long victims of state surveillance and repression. https://www.pottonandburton.co.nz/product/the-enemy-within/
I’ve an SIS file of my own, I’ve never asked for or seen a copy but reference to it in other comrades files is evidence enough. My crimes include opposition to capitalism, the Vietnam war, the slaughter of thousands of Chileans, South Africans, Palestinians, organising resistance to the privatisation of public transport, building worker controlled unionism, supporting Tinorangatiratanga for tangatawhenua, among other anti-social behaviour.
In the 1951 lockout of waterfront workers- not coincidentally at the same time as the U.S. invasion of Korea and worldwide McCarthyism, it was a crime to feed unionists families, to print communist newspapers.
It can and does happen here. No one knows better than yourself Mick. Your courage and resolve in fighting back is a flag to the fightback we all must share in. No one’s coming to save us. Kia kaha.
What a joke. The is the colonialist regime talking. The same people who will do anything they are ordered to do by London, Washington and Canberra, and will do nothing which does not meet with approval from the aforesaid foreign capitals. The regime is on borrowed time, there is nothing that its foreign masters can do to prolong its detestable existence, and we have no need of foreign helpers to bring it to a fit end. Therefore the Crimes (Countering Foreign Interference) Amendment Bill is just a waste of Parliament's time.
I haven’t read Maire Leadbeater’s recent book on state surveillance in Aotearoa yet but the cruel irony of this bill is that it’s designed by our own oligarchs at the behest of the US warmongers to stop working class people challenging their power over us. Both Maire’s parents and her brother were life long victims of state surveillance and repression. https://www.pottonandburton.co.nz/product/the-enemy-within/
I’ve an SIS file of my own, I’ve never asked for or seen a copy but reference to it in other comrades files is evidence enough. My crimes include opposition to capitalism, the Vietnam war, the slaughter of thousands of Chileans, South Africans, Palestinians, organising resistance to the privatisation of public transport, building worker controlled unionism, supporting Tinorangatiratanga for tangatawhenua, among other anti-social behaviour.
In the 1951 lockout of waterfront workers- not coincidentally at the same time as the U.S. invasion of Korea and worldwide McCarthyism, it was a crime to feed unionists families, to print communist newspapers.
It can and does happen here. No one knows better than yourself Mick. Your courage and resolve in fighting back is a flag to the fightback we all must share in. No one’s coming to save us. Kia kaha.
What a joke. The is the colonialist regime talking. The same people who will do anything they are ordered to do by London, Washington and Canberra, and will do nothing which does not meet with approval from the aforesaid foreign capitals. The regime is on borrowed time, there is nothing that its foreign masters can do to prolong its detestable existence, and we have no need of foreign helpers to bring it to a fit end. Therefore the Crimes (Countering Foreign Interference) Amendment Bill is just a waste of Parliament's time.
Music to the ears of RNZ and fellow liberal establishment travellers.
Of course, it’s not just here in Aotearoa:
https://open.substack.com/pub/normalislandnews/p/us-appeals-court-upholds-tiktok-ban?r=d56cc&utm_medium=ios