Police anti-terror squad spies on protest groups

Shame rob I hope you die in a gutter

"Gilchrist says he was by then increasingly unhappy about his police informer role and refused. He told the story of that recruitment attempt to the Star-Times, but did not, at that time, reveal the full extent of his double life."

Absolute bullshit. He revealed the Thompson and Clark investigation to throw attention away from himself. It's a classic bait and switch technique used in social engineering - if you're a spy, you reveal another, and thus secure your place.

I was hell suspicious of him when I read that article earlier this year, but since so many years had gone by at that stage I scratched my head and thought, 'that can't be true'.

Rob all I can say is that you got what you deserved you fucking scum bag.

aka -=Balaclava=-
aka ZeroAlpha (head of Armed Offenders Squad)

I hope Rob wasnt on the dole, cause $600 a week is a bit more than the allowed extra income.

his current email addresses shoudl be removed from any and all email lists
his known current email addresses
balaclava@xtra.co.nz
zeroalpha@xtra.co.nz
anarchist@xtra.co.nz

he runs a website: www.nzscanners.org.nz

Wonder how much this case had to do with all the in-fighting that's been going on recently. It seems Rob's taskmasters were taking an interest in people's sexual relationships and factions.

Contrary to the SST, 3 News claimed he'd described the allegations as "pure fabirication".

http://www.3news.co.nz/Video/Locke-calls-for-inquiry-into-police-spying-...

It's strange that an organisation many of whose members are trained and regularly use force should spend so much time and money spying on good peaceful people just in case they should do exactly what ?

It's strange that a cop here can chase a car driven by a paralytic drunk who's identity is known at 160kmh on the wrong side of State Highway One on a Friday night into the path of an oncoming car maiming two innocent women and absolutely nothing happens.

It's strange that a real Christchurch anarchist should die in his bed following a premature discharge from hospital and absolutely nothing happens.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

Your weasel pigshit, Rob-don't ever cross my path

What the SIG seems to be is a carbon-copy of the German Governments 'Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution' or Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz.

Their mission is to apparently monitor extremists and paramilitary groups that pose a potential threat to Germany's national interests. Even though extensive intelligence resources have been devoted to monitoring and destroying Neo-Nazi groups that are banned under German law, since Sept 12 2001 terror attacks in the US, Verfassungsschutz have gained themselves a serious obsession with leftest activist groups.

Verfassungsschutz main tasks have been bugging, infiltration and collecting publications of various groups. In fact one of the groups targetted by Verfassungsschutz is Indymedia.

But mostly they spend their time targetting left wing political parties.

How does that compare to NZ, well we dont have any left wing political parties of any substance other than the Greens. This country also has an Indymedia, Maori activists and tribes seeking autonomy, Animal Rights campaigners, environmental campaigners and some fractured factionalised socialist groups.

So it comes as no big surprise that the NZ Special Investigation Group although tasked with tracking links between overseas terrorist groups and their supporters in this country, has in fact mirrored the exact tactics and focusses of the nationalist fascist Verfassungsschutz and HAS gone after the groups mentioned, has, and is currently monitoring the activities of these groups.

According to a friend of mine who was privvy to the 50 plus thousand pages of garbage collated by the SIG in operation 8, they used that operation to investigate every left leaning organisation in this country. Even Kohanga Reo.

This S.I.G group represents the face of fascism and activists must respond to this threat to our civil and human rights that are being abused and stripped away by this group.

Operation 8 is just one of several constructed operations being conducted on the activities of left leaning activists.

It is time to put naivities aside and take action to sure up security and to acknowledge that the days of relatively safe overt activism and safety of being a member of an activist group are being brought to a close in this country by fascist nationalistic intelligence groups like the SIG.

They have extended their powers of spying by painting us as potential terrorists and using that image to seek further interception abilities, and powers to 'name' groups as terrorist in nature.

The institution of the police have stepped over a line where there is no going back from.

Activist communities need to wake up and see the new reality created by these fearful state puppets, and make wholesale changes to security to meet that challenge and mitigate the risk created by these Special Investigation Group type state sponsored stazi police.

To continue along the same path as we are now is to live in an illusion and is unsafe for anyone living in that illusion.

Well if there are 3 ex-army anarchists in this country, that is three more narks we should be watching. I don''t accept anyone who is happy to learn how to kill civilians canbe trusted in the movement - root them out!

"He won't need to get a job because he is on a benefit for damage he did to his back when he was killing Iraqi's during Gulf War in the SAS."

- The SST article clearly covers this - he was never in the NZ Army despite the different stories he told people. He may have been in the territorials.

- John A.

The SIG were formed after a long line of increased police lust for power. It began back in the 70s when they began to assume the roles of anti-terrorism that were the responsibility of the NZ Army/SAS.

This lead to the formation of Armed Offender Squads, then Special Tactical Group squads which were elite units hand picked from AOS units.

To add to that they also started to run their own intelligence operations and did very badly at it, and have never ever did well at it due to their lack of training and previous police criminal investigation backgrounds to most intelligence officers.

They also took over the roles of anti-terror squads from the SAS in the 80s.

By the 90s the police had set up their own police intelligence section and assumed many of the operations that would have went to other government intelligence depts.

Then came the E-Crimes unit, threat assessment unit and finally units like the Special Investigation Group.

To tie them all together with a little big of cohesian, the Combined Threat Assessment Group was formed.

This ongoing development and assumption of powers over NZ citizens began a long time ago and has stretched through many Governments.

To be fair on the National Government, they have payed the least attention to the reports produced by the likes of SIG type units, Bolger himself, while being a middle right plonker, was famous for binning fear-mongering reports from such agencies.

The police intelligence groups have never been any good at intelligence gathering and intelligence operations.

They are seen by every other intelligence gathering groups like the military ones as rank amateurs so its no surprise that they are using such amateuristic techniques as seen in this latest expose.

Verfassungsschutz is a good description of the police Special Investigation Group. They are identical in every way including the missuse of their powers of investigation.

I'm ex-Army also, all the Int Geeks read Chomsky. After 9/11 everyone was reading Chomsky & everyone was against the invasion of Iraq & believed the UN when they said there were no WMDs (cause he used them on the Kurds already).
Another timely reminder the cops are fools and pervs.

The sst article raises another question as to why it was Gilchrist who was approached by thompson & clark to spy on the save happy valley campaign for the corporates. The only answer I can think of to this is that the police have given the name of their infiltrator (Gilchrist) to this private investigation company. If this is true it raises a further question of what other information about activist groups the police are sharing with the corporates.

Good riddance. Now can we focus on doing something useful that will encourage people to get active in their workplaces and communities instead of focusing on a dismal event that makes the activist community look like a place riddled with intrigue, deceit and negativity?

Cheers

Sam Buchanan

you know what ,ive got a mind to make a placard go down to my local cop shop and picket it! and use my RIGHT to protest and if the turds try and question me i will use my right to remain silent ! I really am sick of the way the police do things in Aotearoa ..

Good riddance. Now can we focus on doing something useful that will encourage people to get active in their workplaces and communities instead of focusing on a dismal event that makes the activist community look like a place riddled with intrigue, deceit and negativity?

Cheers

Sam Buchanan

Hugo Chavez was a soldier. Not all armed services folk are reactionary or clowns.

"We can swear at Rob all we like but it's never going to change the fact that the state will always be interested in groups or individuals that challenge the system. This anger could be directed into nation-wide protest, which would be far more effective than calling Rob names."

I agree. Surveillance and spying of so-called left-wing groups and activitsts has been going on for a long time. There is a long history of it in this land, and it goes back to when the first police appeared with Hobson. It didn't just spring afresh after 9/11. The SIG have been around for awhile. The problem is finding the proof, but it is out there.

One ex-cop, Andy Bell, published his autobiogrpahy last year. In it he talks how he went undercover to infiltrate the anti-apartheid movement in the late '70s. He slept his way into a position of power in the movement.

Another ex-cop, Tom Lewis, in his book talks about how part of his job in CIS was to amass intelligence info on known anti-royalists, trade unionists, and activists. He kept a tab on 'terrorists' back in the '80s

The SIS have asked workmates to spy on their co-workers.

We all just need to live with a healthy awareness that the State is watching.

Don't be too carried away with the Rob thing, it is only a divert of a possible mass reaction to the government's bulldozer approach to labour organisation, production and social distribution.

There are bugs everywhere in your homes too...

Mr Key is a coward. Why? Because his economic system is based on a socialist exploitation of humanity; anti smacking bill, fines for parents for their children's truancy, and more to be enforced early next year. The latter alone can collect for the government $1 trillion dollars on any day!

He has regulated against bio developments including biofuels and IT research in favour of oppressing the poor with revenue collection policies as his major economic system.

The smiling assasin is looking at the face of those poor children and their parents, tells me that he's worse than a coward!

I wonder if his law applies to him considering the ability of his targets as defenceless?
See...

http://dimpost.wordpress.com/

Left wing activists targeted by the police in an ongoing and controversial domestic intelligence operation have reported that they are ‘greatly relieved’ that information about their massive conspiracy to defraud the Social Welfare Department was not passed on to police by paid informer Rob Gilchrist.

‘We would have been totally busted,’ admitted Aro Valley resident Jules Fletcher, a 43 year old sickness beneficiary and tactical intelligence officer of the two man revolutionary cell ‘Tino-rangatiratanga People’s Global Jihad for Social and Environmental Justice Now!’.

Fletcher - who goes by the revolutionary code-name ‘ Field Commander Zhou’ - runs a large and complex operation to defraud the Department of Social Welfare by collecting benefit checks for over a dozen false identities. Fletcher explained that the estimated $180,000 a year he obtains from the scam is used to ‘bring down the system from within’, although he admitted that much of the cash has been spent on expensive instruments and recording equipment for his folk/hip-hop band ‘Colorless Green Ideas’ in which Fletcher plays bass guitar.

‘We don’t practice much any more though.’ He admitted, something police already knew as Gilchrist covertly supplied them with extensive information about the band’s rehearsal schedule, song lyrics and musical influences as well as accounts of fights between Gilchrist and his lead singer, fellow anarchist Anu Singh, who is an accomplice in the benefit scam operation as well as the Editor of Bakunin’s Hymen, a magazine devoted to human sexuality and the destruction of the market economy.

Rob Gilchrist has forwarded police over three hundred issues of Bakunin’s Hymen to his employers in the secretive police Special Investigations Group (SIG).

‘Rob also knows where our [marijuana] plantation is,’ Singh said. ‘But he helped me plant this years bud so it makes sense he’d keep his mouth shut about that. It’s cool that he didn’t blow our WINS scam though.’

SIG Detective-Inspector Sean Gibson-Whyte is understood to be leading the investigation into Tino-rangatiratanga People’s Global Jihad for Social and Environmental Justice Now! and admits that the loss of Gilchrist as an informer has dealt a blow to the ongoing surveillance operation.

‘We have been reduced to reading Mr Fletcher’s blog, watching his web-cam, listening to his telephone calls with Mr Singh and installing listening devices in their homes and cars,’ Gibson-Whyte admitted ruefully.

Detective Gibson-Whyte is no stranger to set-backs: an experienced officer with a Masters Degree in criminal law, he spent nine years investigating gangs and organised crime in New Zealand and Asia Pacific and headed up a multi-country task-force to investigate the smuggling of amphetamine precursors from South East Asia before being pulled from the case to head up the inquiry into the Tino-rangatiratanga People’s Global Jihad for Social and Environmental Justice Now! task-force.

Other activists informed on by Gilchrist have expressed surprise and relief about the selective nature of his informing.

‘Rob sent the stasi pigs cell-phone pictures he took of my ‘PanArchy’ performance art installation but he hasn’t told them anything about the time I got wasted, broke into my ex-girlfriends flat and trashed the whole house,’ said Project for Total Human Genocide co-founder and environmental activist Jenny McCormak. The anonymous, Hawera based spokesperson for Sendero Luminoso Aotearoa has expressed gratitude that Gilchrist did not reveal details of her activities manufacturing and distributing the class A drug Ecstasy, although his information about the group has prompted the SIG to draft eleven more detectives into the task-force to adequately monitor the upcoming anti-patriarchy rave scheduled for new years eve.

‘These officers have been sourced from organised crime units and will bring extensive expertise and experience to this crucial investigation,’ Gibson-Whyte announced.

Detective Gibson-Whyte himself will not be attending the rave as he is committed to reading all of Jules Fletcher’s 12,000 page political manifesto, secretly forwarded to him by Rob Gilchrist in July of 2007.

‘I invented my own language free of political hegemony, so it might take him a while to read,’ Fletcher said. ‘I think its worth it though.’

‘I hope it blows his fucking mind.’

The manifesto is publically available for download on Mr Fletchers website, www.tino-rangatiratangapeoplesglobaljihadforsocialandenvironmentaljustic....

"Well, if you told me you were drowning
I would not lend a hand
Ive seen your face before my friend
But I dont know if you know who I am
Well, I was there and I saw what you did
I saw it with my own two eyes
So you can wipe off the grin,
I know where you've been
Its all been a pack of lies..."
- Phil Collins.

I've always hated Phil Collins & that particularly nasty little song.

I do appreciate the humour though, Phil Collins and all.

Michael

Could someone print T-Shirts with Robs face and his Cylon number.

Good call on the Cylons look like us, very good.

"The S.I.G should be investigated and disbanded since it has not, since its inception, carried out its myndated objectives. To investigate terrorism and threats to national security.

All it has done since 2004 is investigate activists and try to make veiled connections between al qaeda and the Maori Sovereignty Movement TO WHICH IT FAILED MISERABLY."

But this has been going on since before 2004.

Maybe some people should refuse to pay taxes until the SIG is disbanded. the court cases would be interesting..