Kick & Bear Witness: Bail Hearings On Now For Terrorist Camp Accused On East Cape Of New Zealand!!

[althecat]

Dear DU GD,

* Update 4 (3.50pm NZT - 8.50pm PDT)* - "Operation 8": First "Terrorist" Bail Decision Expected At 4.15pm - Full Coverage

Images + Breaking News - Scoop is reporting live from the District Courts in Wellington and Auckland today where bail hearings are underway for at around 10 so-called "Terrorist" activists - four in Wellington and (estimated) seven in Auckland. Julie Webb-Pullman who has recently returned to NZ from Mexico is in Wellington and Joseph Barratt is in Auckland. More >>. See also... Police Fail To Account For All 17 "Terror" Accused

As many of you know I have publishing reports on US politics - election reform issues in particular - from NZ for several years.

This week we have experienced some events which we probably never expected to experience.

Above are links to live coverage from me and my team downunder of today's bail hearings for 11 activists arrested in Wellington and Auckland on Monday on the basis of evidence obtained using "Terrorist Suppression Act" warrants. They allegedly attended a series of activist camps in the bush where they learned paramilitary techniques.

However given that many of them are actually anti-war activists the official story seems extremely thin. Add in the fact that the "Terrorist Suppression Act" which allows the NZ equivalent of extraordinary wiretapping powers was never supposed to be used against New Zealanders in New Zealand. Clearly it has been.

Frankly it is an outrage.

On Tuesday our police force signed up to a "Terrorist Database" agreement with yours on the day after these arrests. There is no known connection between the events but it seems the creep of fascism has extended all the way across the Pacific.

According to the mother of one of the accused terrorists who I spoke to by phone last night - a young woman - her daughter has spent her life protecting the lives of blowflies and spiders from family members. The charges are ridiculous.

The attacks on "NZ Maori Activists" have led to a massive demonstration today outside a police station in Whakatane. You will find this in web news reports. And video of it will be up on Scoop soon and I will link it below.

Today DU GD I ask for a favour.

I would appreciate some attention on these events in your country - bearing witness. This crap needs to stop...

Please Kick and Reccommend this and express solidarity....

Regards
Alastair Thompson

[PDJane]

1. You betcha.

We all have to bear witness, and to revolt. This is the shut down of free societies, and it's coming fast.

[althecat]

2. NewsFlash: Bail Refused For All "Terror" Suspects - 5.05pm

This is not good news....

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Bail has been refused for four "Terrorist" defendants in Wellington. Name suppression is maintained for all accused and reasons for the decision and submissions have also been suppressed.

Scoop will provide a full report of events later this evening.

The four Wellington accused - two men and two women - have all had their cases transferred to Auckland where they are due to reappear on 1st November.

In Auckland bail has also been refused for all "Terrorist' defendants. One defendant's name - Jamie Beattie Lockett - was made public on Tuesday. The name of one other accused Rawiri Iti the nephew of Tame Iti has been made public.

Rawiri Iti was the only one who was able to have a bail application heard today.

One defendant wished to have his bail considered but due to a lack of time has had it adjourned till next Tuesday.

Judge Josephine Bouchier refused name suppression to four of the defendants, however they have appealed to the High Court and interim suppression has been allowed through till Thursday next week when an appeal will be considered.

Meanwhile in the Bay of Plenty, Whakatane, a demonstration of over 1000 people has disbursed after making their objections clear to this week's police operation outside the Police Station.

[althecat]

3. Well thats a "whole heap" of solidarity right there....

:)

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Damn this disease is spreading

terror is now being used by elites world wide...

[althecat]

6. Seems that way indeed...

[althecat]

7. Narconews - Zapatista Activists Among Those Imprisoned In NZ

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0710/S00285.htm
&
http://www.narconews.com/Issue47/article2843.html

Pro-Zapatista Activists Among Those Imprisoned In New Zealand Crackdown


Using New Anti-Terror Laws, Police Target Indigenous and Supporters Across the Country

By Julie Webb-Pullman
Special to The Narco News Bulletin
October 17, 2007
WELLINGTON: Two hundred people today demonstrated outside the Wellington District Court in New Zealand, to protest Monday’s detention of four Wellingtonians, the first under the country’s new Terrorism Suppression Act. Two peace activists compas from the Wellington Zapatista Support Committee are amongst these supposed “terrorists” – both of whom have been active in Oaxaca and Chiapas in the last year supporting the struggles in Mexico, and fundraising in New Zealand for health services for Zapatista communities.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. kick

[althecat]

8. An expat Kiwi in Canada expresses a view...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0710/S00294.htm
This Average Kiwi Bloke Has Had Enough…

Aziz Choudry, 19 October 2007
As an ordinary average Kiwi bloke watching the events of the past few days in Aotearoa from Canada, I have felt both a sense of déjà vu and strong parallels between the two places. My outrage at the actions of the New Zealand Police and their political masters, and the way in which media feeding-frenzies and sensationalism has ensured that the words "terror" and "Maori" get bandied hysterically throughout the country and the globe, is tempered with a sense of how pathetically predictable this operation has been.

More...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0710/S00294.htm

[eppur_se_muova]

9. That sign is partly wrong. Activism IS terrorism to authoritarians.

Nothing frightens them more than people standing up, sounding off, and demanding accountability.

[althecat]

10. Tis now the morning after.. and solidarity is still encouraged...

This is going to go on for a few weeks at least (and if they do not drop the charges) for more than a year.