Posts by Sonic
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Ah life, isn't it full of wonderful ironies?
However being called "intellectually lazy" by someone comparing this situation with 9/11 is one for the scrapbook I must say.
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I'm never happy about people wearing masks on a demo (how do you know who they are)
However given the context of police dawn raids nicking activists it is rather more understandable than usual eh?
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Danyl, I think your crystal ball that tells you what I might say in an alternative reality is acting up.
Better take it back to the shop mate.
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Lets look at an alternative scenario Kyle.
Guy gets busted for something, drugs or petty theft. The police say "these gentlemen from the security services" would like a word. The offer, keep us informed about the radicals and the charges go away, and there is a few bucks in it for you.
The nark then has a motive for keeping the information coming, making provocative statements hoping the targets run off their mouths in agreement.
I'm back in the Uk for the moment where it has just been discovered that one of the leading gangsters in Glasgow ran guns to the loyalist terrorists in Ireland while giving MI5 information on who was picking them up.
In returm he got immunity for prosecution while flodding the streets with herion.
His name was Arthur Thompson, look it up.
Thats how the secret state operates, I see no reason it is not the same in NZ.
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"Oh, and Mr Iti, please don't try to hide any of the guns or explosives we need for evidence,"
And what explosives did the seize?
May I venture it was a number between 0 and, er, zero?
They were watching these people every minute of every day, are you seriously trying to tell us that dawn raids were the only way to pick them up?
They could have lifted them at New World when they went shopping.
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"Fair enough, but I'm sure not everyone named on the arrest warrants would have been so accommodating"
Why not they are mostly all well known activists.
You could just announce that there was a planning meeting for a new Wellington bypass, and rounded them all up when they came to protest.
;)
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Insider, no offence but I grew up in that part of the world. No Journo ever phoned up Martin McGuinnes when he was chief of staff in the army council of of PIRA and told him he had heard there was an operation in the works.
The Journalist and his informant would be toast.
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Lambert, as Matt Macarten pointed out, if you wanted to talk to Tame Iti all you would have to do is either a) invite hime to the cop shop with his lawyer or B) wait until he was travelling and stop the car.
No need for dawn raids unless you were aiming for drama.
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Which makes me think Shep that this was not serious.
I doubt the IRA would have continued with an operation if the Belfast Telegraph had called up asking how it was progressing.
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Operation leaf, interesting you should mention that. Was that not the crazy notion that Police were bugging Maori activists?
Well we all know how silly an idea that turned out to be.
Oh hold on.