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Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality

From next month on the New Zealand Police will be trialing taser stun guns. A taser is shaped like a hand gun but instead of bullets it delivers a 50,000volt electric shock to the victim. The trial will be held in Auckland’s three districts and Wellington and will involve approximately 90 staff, including frontline General Duties Branch officers and Armed Offenders Squad members. 188 people have died from being tasered by cops in North America between September 1999 and 8th August 2006.

The Campaign Against The Taser was launched in June and now has the support of many organisations (unions, artists , social justice and peace groups and revolutionary organisations). A march will take place in Auckland this Saturday, 19th August, 12noon, bottom of Queen st.

Links: Campaign Petition | Peace Movement Aotearoa | Porirua Against Taser Use Anywhere

03.09 Update: The taser trial has begun with a protest at parliament marking the occasion. [Report] The issue of Tasers is now before a Parliamentary Select Committee. [Submission]
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Several unions (the National Distribution Union, the Maritime Union, the Clothing, Laundry and Allied Workers Union, the Nurses Organisation, the Postal Workers Association and Unite) are supporting the campaign. National Distribution Union secretary Laila Harré said: "We have been led to believe that the Taser is a "less-than-lethal" alternative to a gun, when the truth of the matter is that police are not introducing the Taser as a substitute to lethal force at all," she said. "The Police want to use the Taser as a "more lethal" option than pepper spray and batons in situations that wouldn't otherwise call for lethal force. What we are seeing is the arming of the New Zealand Police by deception." The Council of Trade Unions is also behind the campaign.

PATUA (Porirua Against Taser Use Anywhere) was established two weeks ago to raise awareness in Porirua about the impending use of Tasers. The group fears that the first Taser deaths will occur in areas with high Maori and pacific populations. The group hopes to share its findings in forums with other anti taser groups. It is sharing the information with community based organisations in Porirua. PATUA is concerned that noone they have approached in Porirua is aware that Tasers are being brought to their community. [ About PATUA ]

Two members of that group also spoke at a well-attended public meeting in Wellington last week. Speaking were Sharon Clair (Vice President Maori, CTU, and NZ Nurses Organisation), Ruth Harrison (Chair Commissioner, Mental Health Commission), Michael Bott (Human rights barrister; Chairman, Council for Civil Liberties), Edwina Hughes (Coordinator, Peace Movement Aotearoa) and John Minto (Campaign Against The Taser).

The campaign group is thinking about a court case for which they will need money. [ Donate! ]

Supporting Organisations: Auckland Animal Action (AAA) | Citizens Against Privatisation | Clothing and Laundry Workers Union (CLAW) | Council of Trade Unions (NZCTU) | Equal Justice Project | Global Peace & Justice Auckland (GPJA) | GE Free Northland | Green Party of Aotearoa | The Howard League | Human Rights Foundation | National Distribution Union (NDU) | New Zealand College of Mental Health Nurses | Mangere East Community Learning Centre Maritime Union of New Zealand (MUNZ) | New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) | Radical Youth | Fresh Start/Rape Crisis, Kaitaia | Peace Movement Aotearoa | Postal Workers Association (PWA) | West Coast Unemployed & Workers Rights Centre Inc | Unite Union

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Articles on Aotearoa Indymedia
18.08 - Unions Slam Taser Trial
11.08 - Campaign Against The Taser Public Meeting
28.06 - Police Produce Misleading Statements on Tasers
03.06 - CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE TASER (CATT) LAUNCH/ MEETING
 
 
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Re: Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality

The government should make it like ..is it denmark?? where they dont have "prisons".they have like a rehab system.IT works!!
 

Re: Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality

yes
GOD HELP US.
(or fate or the universe or mother nature or karma)
 

Re: Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality

1st of all isnt alcohole ban by the council?
2nd of all.
untill the day that you or someone you love and care about gets a taste of what the corrupt police are really about.
you just carry on believing.
you go girl.or boy.
3rdly i am very happy to hear that you have not been harmed by the police-yet.
its not about hating the police.its about THE TRUTH.
people are victimised,criminalised,harrased.abused,assulted etc etc by the police every day.
and sorry to inform you they are not all bad evil harmful violent criminals.
the police waste alot of time on meaningless arrests.there is so much damage out there happening that the police are not getting to.
 

Re: Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck that Mike guy

weather YOU are a pig or not.I feel sorry for you the day you or someone you love(you know that word?) gets harmed from a taser.(if not assult of some sort)it is bound to happen in ones lifetime.
IGNORANT :)
 

Re: Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality

if your not a cop you should be one.if possible.
FACT.there are hundreds of incidents of unnesesary and uncalled for illegal and corruptactions the police have done that you will never know about or find out about.
 

Re: Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality

I think you are wonderful Mike :)
 

Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality

Surely the police's (mis)behaviour is a reflection of society's social structure and that means that a large number of people are preprared to (mis)behave in the same way as the police.


The police behave in the same way as school bullies and they became bullies because of corporal pubishment in the family environment or elsewhere.

Saying I hate the police and I hate the Taser stun gun does not make one think about families that practice corporal punishment.
 

Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality

One thing I dont really understand and it would be great if someone would clear up for me is...What are you so afraid of,I mean I dont think the taser been given to police is a good idea infact I am against it but all it makes me want to do is not to get on the wrong side of the law, are you guys planning on going and fucking comitting crimes or something? I mean sure some innocent people might get hurt but thats life, I'm sure the majority of people that will get hurt by this will be violent criminals, If it makes policemens jobs easier and safer thats great, cause i dont fucking see you dealing with criminals putting yourself at risk all you do is fucing whine, protest and wear fucking mcshit t-shirts, Im sure there is a better way to deal with law enforcement and i dont like to think that taser will be used on our streets but i also dont like rapists on my streets or drug dealers or black power or mongrol mob. At least tasers might make criminals think twice or respect the police a bit, which by the way isnt a bad thing in my oppinion.... Well i'll stop there and let you guys have a fucking feild day pointing out spelling mistakes and preaching about human rights and shit.....
 

Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality

Welly ..
Does this mean that you support corporal punishment?

If you mean do I give my whole hearted support to a bunch of elitist bully boys .. then the answer is a resounding no ..

And no amount of official whitewash and a biased Police Complaints Authority will change that view.

They are not servants of the people they behave as though they are the tools of a repressive regime with a weird internal culture.

So let us wait for the inevitable first death from these monsterous weapons .. then the handwringing and the whitewash .. after the third death the media loses interest .. they know that.

If they want public support then it must be earnt with respect for how they carry out their public duties .. so far they have not being doing very well at all .. but its that elitist culture thing that holds the key .. do ya know what I mean ?
 

Re: Campaign Against The Taser

I think one other important point to note that hasn't been mentioned here is the black market sales of Taser's in the future. We've seen it with the guns, now we can probably guarantee it will happen with the Taser's if it hasn't happened overseas as yet. So guarantee that in a few weeks or months from now someone will think that this would be an ideal xmas present. Manufacturer's want to make their money - you can't tell me that there only customers for the Taser's will be the police.
 

Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality

What are your views about cops in Wellington that are against corporal punishment...

They actually exist? I'm yet to meet one. If you know of one please introduce me, and I also want to meet the Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.

Put a weapon in the hands of the police and they will use it, often with excessive force.
 

Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality

MF, I used to think the same as you. Man was I naive! My experience of the police is that they do whatever they need to do in order to maximise the amount of convictions they get - this is what 'doing their job' actually means. They lie, they cheat, they beat up peaceful and non-violent people, they arrest 'easy targets', they falsify evidence and their own testimonies. Does 'teaching people a lesson' mean that you condone the police breaking the law to use a device of torture, which is what a taser is?
 

Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality

I have to ask my self what Government is frightened of .. do they know something that we are not being informed about?

To put these weapons into the hands of people who are quite prepared to use pepper spray on a handcuffed man lying on the ground is the height of folly. Just watch the lies and the coverups when the first death occurs ..

Who was it that has authorised these trials? I think we need some official balls or boobs on a plate so we can see who it is that has the Bush/Blair/Howard/Olmert mind set.
 

Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality

Still the police do more better than they do worse. I don't blame them sometimes for being a bit over the top, especially with what they have to put up with.
The Taser or whatever it is would of been ideal in the weekend in Dunedin with all the half wit students recking the streets and all the police can do is stand round and watch and then the public ask why didn't they do anything?
I agree with MF, the police are only doing their job.
 

Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality

One only has to look at the UK and the USA to see where it all leads to .. Sheep always end up as wool and mutton .. that is their function in life is it not?
 

Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality

MF .. Only a Policeman would make such a remark .. as I said its that elitist culture thing.

The evidence of what happens when a bunch of people who appear to be above the law and of course make the law to suit themselves has been demonstrated time and time again in many nations around the world.

The NZ Police and contrary to that Police mouthpiece who can out propaganda an Israeli spin meister .. do not have a lily white reputation .. for example high ranking police officers litterally giving female detainees a taste of Kiwi.

Do you really advocate that people like this need such lethal weapons? unless of course its to terrorise the population and stop them from making peaceful protests?

Because the reality is this .. stopped any time .. any where and for any reason and failing to comply one could end up dead ..

Is that what you really want? Do you really want to be part of a society that just keeps building more prisons? I understand perfectly that it is good for police business .. the surveillance and the fancy salaries .. twice the amount of the Auckland median .. but if you are a policeman perhaps you do .. as I said morons without an ounce of man management skills .. God protect us from what is coming.
 

Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality

Does this mean that you support corporal punishment?
 

Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality

Thankyou!!!!!! That's exactly what I was trying to say.
 

Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality

Great! Show this site to more people and they will know not to mess with police!!!!
 

Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality

I would also go as far as to say that any Police candidate needs to undergo rigourous psychiatric screening before being accepted for training.

The power and control thing is very much in evidence when they are defied in any way .. like pepper spraying handcuffed people on the ground .. I mean it does not instil respect .. does it and have ya seen how some of them swagger around when they have a holster on the hip .. talk about Wyatt Earp. Some of them obviously need their heads read.
 

Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality

I do not trust the police, the man.
My experience shows that the man in blue is more of a instigator provocatuer of violence then peace maker.
Armed with these so called non lethal weapons rednek
pigs brown ones 2 - power tripping fuckfaces,are more likely to use this on the poorer people of the community with impunity(c how poa'as get their kiks).
Where does the responsibility lay when a person dies at the hand of the police using peppersray or
the taser, - compensation BOLLOCKS!
Its fuck the policeman who did it and some, like eye for an eye.
(only applies to the softcocks poa'as) not the genuine caring .1 in ten person in blue.
Like the scientist who cares their product does no harm the promoters of these weapons that is the manufacturers and police should first try them,followed by all their own.
I tell u beware!
I will take it upon myself to met my own justice upon those if one of my own passes away due to misadventure at the hands of the pig.
 

Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality

Pretty simple really. If people started behaving more and more bans were put on alcohol then the police would have no need for these kind of weapons. But until people understand what they can and cannot do I hope this weapon the Taser might actually teach people a lesson. Peolpe are let off too lightly in New Zealand. The police are only doing their job as instructed. "Fuck Police" is a very harsh comment. New Zealand finds it hard to get new police and train them. It's no wonder when all they get is bad comments about the way they do their job. I would say that most people who have read this article would of sometime in their lives called up or needed police at some stage.
I personally support the police and praise their efforts in New Zealand.
 

Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality

What are your views about cops in Wellington that are against corporal punishment.
 

Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality

C3PO LOL

May I suggest a Marketing slogan ..

Dont be Jerked get Even .. Mains charger and batteries not included.
 

Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck that Mike guy

Fuck mike tazers are good for the police stop posting stuff you geek
 

Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality

I mean sure some innocent people might get hurt but thats life, I'm sure the majority of people that will get hurt by this will be violent criminals,

yeah Right...
here's a dead story for you Mr Cheese..

mildgreens.blogspot.com/2006/08/man-dies-after-being-tasered-by-police.html
 

Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality

Drop your knickers or I will give you a taste of Tazer.
 

Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality

MF .. if people started behaving more ? Behaving more what ?

For example .. do you actually support the pepper spraying of a handcuffed man lying on the ground?

And if you want to bring alcohol into it .. then methinks we could start with the Police canteens where a lot of the elitist behaviour takes root in the bonding rituals.

Lets make a proper start and do something about the glaring injustices which are so much in evidence .. When alcohol is being consumed to the excess and at an annually increasing rate .. I personally feel that is a reflection on the increasing levels of stress suffered by the population at large.

Social injustice cannot be solved by black gloved steel baton wielding bully boys and girls armed with pepper spray .. I notice that they are all for the potentially lethal Taser .. but of course using one of those costs less than educating some of these morons in correct methodology and a little psychology ..

The theory is that the police are the servants of the people not their masters ..
 

Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality

Further .. there exists a great chasm between those that form the bottom of the heap and upon which society stands ..

Yes the behaviour of a few leaves much to be desired and some of the bizzare behaviour exhibted can be attributed to our medical men and women with the prescription drugs .. the anti-depressants and the like .. with the catch 22 of there is no scientific evidence mantra ..

Authority arse lickers never yet won a liberty .. and neither will a Taser .. all it does is to increase resentment .. and the building of more prisons and raises the baying of the renta crowd .. lockem up the brutes and throw away the key!

It would be more profitable to examine the roots of the overall social malaise and do something to correct it .. but no .. priviledge always resorts to repression and yet more repression to maintain the exploitation and the greed ..
 

Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality

"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience.

Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running and robbing the country. That's our problem.":

Howard Zinn, from 'Failure to Quit'
 

Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality

while were fighting to stop the taser, they slipped in with the bushmaster m-16assault rifles
www.nzherald.co.nz/section/media.cfm

600+ of them bought this year alone.
 

Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality

Cheese and MF ..

would it not be better to tackle the social injustices and conditions that lie at the root of lawlessness ?

Why kiss the hands and feet of those that would scourge you ? There is something shameful in giving oneself up to bondage to feel a little safer .. because thats the easy way out and relieves one of the responsibility for self and a duty to ones fellow man.

Perhaps if you put aside the fear next time you look at a bikie or black power member and try to understand the reasons ..

All of those weapons cost a great deal of money not to mention the structure to maintain those weapons .. how much more productive it would be to put that money into something worth while.
 

Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality

Okay people get killed by tasers once in a while, But buses kill people too, do you want to outlaw them? No, because they do more god than bad like police officers. Also for the person who wrote Mr Cheese, Cheese is my first name.
 

Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality

Seeing the police with guns and soon the taser makes me feel a whole lot safer to be honest.
 

Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality

The only thing I can say to you is the writing is on the wall and they are introducing the stun gun ... ask a slaughter house worker how they do it ... Baaaa Baaaa Bah!
 

Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality

If anyone is planning action against the taser in Welly, plz drop me an email for a korero. Potaua (potaua (at) gmail.com)
 

Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality

why don't all the pathetic people who oppose the taser get out on the streets and deal with those who are violent and behave like animals. I suppose your approach would be to hug them while they are in a violent "p" frenzy. I can't believe how small minded some people are.
 

Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality

why don't all the pathetic people who oppose the taser get out on the streets and deal with those who are violent and behave like animals. I suppose your approach would be to hug them while they are in a violent "p" frenzy. I can't believe how small minded some people are.
 

Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality

why don't all the pathetic people who oppose the taser get out on the streets and deal with those who are violent and behave like animals. I suppose your approach would be to hug them while they are in a violent "p" frenzy. I can't believe how small minded some people are.
 

Fuck The Scum Bag Crims

You people need to grow the fuck up. Unless you have intentions to committ crimes against society or are involved in illegal activites already you have nothing to fear. Just stay the right side of the law.

So far this year over 2000 police officers have been assulted by fuck wits that you guys are standing up for. One policewoman had her head smashed in with a wheel rim.

People of New Zealand need to realise that we dont live in a perfect society. Violent crimes are on the increase and are the highest they have ever been. These devices have been put into action to make the society, that you hold so dear, a safer place. Who cares if a few scum bag criminals hit their head or even die as the result of a good shock. These people that deserve this type of thing are the ones who are likely to go on to rape or murder your parents, children or friends. Hopefully through the use of this device it will deter the youth of the nations from committing such violent acts.

If I ever had to make the distinction between choosing a 9mm Glock or a 50,000 volt taser I know what I would chose in a instant! The Taser! As painful as it would be and I might hurt myself from hitting my head I can tell you from experience that the damage done would be no where near as bad as a 9mm bullet slamming into my body at approximately 1500 metres per second. Bear in mind as well that when a Policeperson draws their service pistol and takes aim, under the circumstances they are trained to aim for the critical mass i.e. anywhere from the waist to the shoulders. Due to the low muzzle velocity of the weapon the slug actually fragmentates on bone etc and causes major internal bleeding and destroys organs. This is why Tasers have been introduced into NZ.

I think you all need to grow up and stop being so fucking PC. Criminals in many other countries such as France have almost no human rights and here in NZ we seem to treat them better than law abiding honest citizens.

Infact I support the move for Prison officers to be fitted with similar devices to subdue unruly inmates. God knows that they fucking deserve a shock to the system to get them to pull their heads in.
 

Re: Fuck The Scum Bag Crims

Rock on. Some of you long haired faggots need to take a walk in a cops shoes for a while and deal with some of the situations they do.

Example from auckland the year before last.

Iraqi immigrant stabbing his wife in the neck with a carving knife......Shot in the head and killed by police to save the womens life... Had the cop had a tazer the iraqi man would be getting the care that he needs not turning to fertiliser like he is. That woman lost a husband and the world lost a man who could have held the cure to cancer........I say we've left it to long to introduce them
 

Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality

you guys are such gay lame god damn hippies
 

Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality

I agree, you guys are such retarded hippies
 

Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality

Has anyone thought about the right for Police to defend themselves against violent offenders??
 

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