At 12:15 on Thursday, hundreds of people gathered to march in support of 4 of the Urewera 17 prisoners, including Tame Iti, who were appearing in the Rotorua District Court.
"Flags, drums, banners and a passionate flow of over 700 kaumatua, pakeke, rangatahi and tamariki marched peacefully against the police anti-terror raids which began 15 October." -
TangataWhenua.com Also on Thursday afternoon, the home of 72 year old socialist Jimmy O'Dea, in Bastion Point, was raided by 8 carloads of Police [ Report ]. Jimmy has been a political activist for decades, and was one of the organisers of the union green ban on Bastion Point in the 1970s. Police deny this action was connected to the 'Operation 8' dawn raids but supporters are skeptical. [ Blogs 1 | 2 ]
In Sydney, around 50 people protested outside the New Zealand Consulate-General, with speakers from the local Aboriginal community, anarchists, Maori and socialists.
[ Photos ] On Tuesday independent film-maker Rongomai Bailey was released on bail and his name suppression lifted. On Thursday, another of the Urewera 17 prisoners was publicly named. 19 year old Omar Hamed, an active Indymedia volunteer, faces 3 charges of illegal posession under the Arms Act.
Two of the Wellington prisoners have now been moved to a remand prison in Auckland, where
Jamie Lockett was beaten, requiring treatment in hospital. The remaining two Wellington prisoners are still to be moved. The courts decisions to move prisoners from their home areas to remand prisons in Auckland has upset
family and friends, who will have to travel long distances to visit and support the prisoners indefinitely, if bail continues to be denied.
Updates
A letter from prison by Tame Iti has been made available by TangataWhenua.com. [ Te Reo Maori | English ]
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Re: Urewera 17 Update: Bail Denied, Another Police Raid, Another Activist Named, Wellington Activists Moved
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Re: Urewera 17 Update: Bail Denied, Another Police Raid, Another Activist Named, Wellington Activists Moved
It would be nice to hear what their contribution to society is, other than their constant bitching and play acting at how hard done by they are
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Background From Friends Of Wellington “Terror” Arrestees
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0710/S00321.htm
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Most of us work to support our family, ourselves and the others who can not work due to circumstance- I have no problem with this, we all need a hand up every now and then.
I do have a huge problem to paying taxes, that are used to supply benfits to people, who now find themselves before the courts on very serious charges and who never intend to work at anything other causing trouble
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Still if you can't do the time, don't commit the crime.
If they are arraigned on terrorism charges, then people using this site to support them are making themselves targets for the spooks
If they are convicted, then organizations for which they work <sic> at will also be targeted as fronts for a terrorist organization.
I'm surprised how many of you are treating this as a game, trust me it's no fun standing in the high court with a 10-15 year stretch looming in front of you
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You see the agenda here? Intimidation of radical activists. These people would love nothing better than a chilling effect against all radicals. It's not so farfetched to say that that is the agenda behind this whole affair, rather than just the agenda of the paid shill above.
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The followers of Martin Luther King and Ghandi, and closer to home the people of Parihaka, were accused of causing a lot of trouble. In a democracy there is a place for organised political movements outside of government. If you don't like that, maybe you should move to China where the free market 'communist' regime are suitably tough on trouble-makers.
Strypey
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I would love to know how you contribute to society.
Re: Re: Urewera 17 Update: Bail Denied, Another Police Raid, Another Activist Named, Wellington Activists Moved
raided in palmy.
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Re: Urewera 17 Update: Bail Denied, Another Police Raid, Another Activist Named, Wellington Activists Moved
Without any background knowledge about the group and the way they operate (which I find very important information!)I had a look at their website anyway. I must say that it is a good idea to listen more to Maori wisdom (as it says about people being connected to nature, here it was the water), since it states the same wisdom as scientific knowledge (e.g. and foremost, kwantumn fysics) is beginning to reveal to us, the general public as well.
Nonetheless I would start with the following question: what are members of a so-called peacefull movement doing with guns?
Re: Re: Urewera 17 Update: Bail Denied, Another Police Raid, Another Activist Named, Wellington Activists Moved
As per the police website: "There are probably between 700,000 and 1,000,000 firearms in New Zealand."
Police statistics show 8,447 MSSA (military-style semi-automatic) weapons and 3,606 restricted weapons were registered with them as of October this year.
Meaning that between 1/4 and 1/3rd of the country has guns. We have no context as to why they were using the guns, target practise, possum control (they were largely environmentalists), until the evidence is produced I'd say there are dozens of reasons why one might have a gun. And as I've said before in this post, the number of people charged with using the guns exceeds the actual number of firearms captured, which were all captured in the possession of one person. Meaning that just because a particular person held it and the police captured that on film, that is now judged as "possession", which means I've "possessed" many illegal things in my life then.
Re: Re: Re: Urewera 17 Update: Bail Denied, Another Police Raid, Another Activist Named, Wellington Activists Moved
I'm just saying, if I read about something that is happening/has happened, I want to know the details/context, so a full coverage in which questions and answers are included. Otherwise it's just poor journalism/reporting.
Especially since I'm from antoher country. I am really interested and if there is injustice and people rise up against this I could be all for that, but if I don't know the facts I can not even begin to form an opinion, if I would, it would be stupidity.
So context like even let's say 10% of Kiwi's own guns mostly to kill overpopulation of rodents and the people arrested have shot their share in their lifetime (just a fictional example)- that would serve the purpose.
If I won't listen to those in power and believe what they tell me without research of my own and then making up my own mind, I would be a hypocrite and stupid to not do this in other circumstances. A free mind needs to exercise in order to remain free!
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What does that say about this site I wonder? And you should!
An idealist at soul, heart and mind
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An idealist at soul, heart and mind
Re: Urewera 17 Update: Bail Denied, Another Police Raid, Another Activist Named, Wellington Activists Moved
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LIBERATE ALL DOLPHINS AND FISH,
LET GO ALL BEES,
MEATEATERS SHOULD GET A JOLLY WONDERFUL SMACKING,
THERE WILL BE NO NAVANA UNTIL ALL ANIMALS ARE ROMAING UNINHIBITED, RELESED FROM EVERY WHIP AND CHAINS!!!
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Re: Urewera 17 Update: Bail Denied, Another Police Raid, Another Activist Named, Wellington Activists Moved
If you are taking a benefit i.e, you have your hand out, then you’re not contributing; education, health, infrastructure, treaty settlements, elderly care etc. Why should you have a voice, and why do you have access to social serviced that you have not earned.- it’s sic
As for white collar crime, good on them, if they are smart enough to get away with it. After all you’re too smart to work; the difference is you’re legally allowed to be a parasite.
And for those Maori feebly attempting too embrace the Celtic belief systems, of their most recent forefathers the trick is, abandon the affairs of man .if you want to connect with the universe, our ancestors, the three worlds – it lies in your ability to form a “gees” with that part of your environment that allows you too see- involving yourself in the affairs of man will blind you <sic> “how can you hear what the birds have to say, if all you can hear is people talking”
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It seems the activists are no more than parasites living off the backs of the workers
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What white collar crime?- you haven’t got a clue what it even is;. It’s just a slogan shouted by benefit bludgers in an attempt to justify their disgusting abuses of the welfare system
Just because you march up and down the street at the bequest of your wealthy masters does not justify your existence-
The system was created, to keep the labour goverment in power- they are buying votes with benefits- the are responsible for funding radicals and home grown terrorists
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Re: Urewera 17 Update: Bail Denied, Another Police Raid, Another Activist Named, Wellington Activists Moved
And if family and friends camped out in front of where these 17 are held, and if some even announced a hunger strike...this would begin to be resolved at a pace other than that set by the police or court authorities and the press, both domestic and foreign, would see that this is far from a 'terror' operation.
Re: Urewera 17 Update: Bail Denied, Another Police Raid, Another Activist Named, Wellington Activists Moved
wow what an idiot. DowAgroSciences has commited lots of white collar crime and people DIED from it and continue to DIE from it.
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Again what white collar crime, you are being evasive- what has DowAgroSciences done that is criminal and who has died.- or are you just chanting slogans that have no substance in an attempt to justify your contemptuous existence
I see that the wellington hospital trust is reduced to begging- yet if the money was ripped from those "bloody racist filths" hands then we would not have shortages of funding.
The government keeps holding back monies so they can pay off lazy radical scum and in doing so buy votes
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Taxes are taking the food out of the mouths of hard working, honest Kiwis’, who struggle everyday just to make ends meet. How dare the government support benefit bludgers like Tame, it is a crime against society. His own mother says he has never worked, all the rest of the family have good jobs but him. How can you be so fat, have children etc and not have any means of supporting yourself- it is an outrage, a fraud perpetrated against the workers.
It’s a shame you radical, narrow minded hypocrites don’t cotton on that your part of the problem and nothing to do with a solution- you should help save the planet and kill yourselves
mztnptgf
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Stalin Fart
Slime Shitter
Drone Hive
Nazi Land
Dear Mrs Slime Shitter,
things have gone from bad to worse since you were elected to govern naziland in November 1999. You attempted to appease the US by accepting their proposal that naziland adopt 'anti-terror laws' after 9/11. This policy was immediately enacted to prosecute Bruce Hubbard who, 6 months earlier, had posted an email to the US embassy in Wellington stating US involvement in international terrorism and the establishment of 72 capitalist dictatorships.
It wasn't long ago you referred to yourself as a 'social-democrat', yet I am convinced this in untenable in light of your actions since November 1999. Your reluctance to ensure a democratic process for the 17 arrested on October 15th exposes your desire not to annoy white middle naziland right before elections. Your desire to remain Slime Shitter reflects the ambition for power you have had since you were 15 years.
Mrs Stalin Fart - all you have effectively done since November 1999 is ensure that wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few while shrouding your policies in a veil of democracy. Your latest inactions however diminish your ability to hide the repressive measures you never stopped using as the majority of naziland - those who have less to lose - begin to see your role with greater clarity.
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