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]
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.
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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
Comments
Re: Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality
Re: Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality
GOD HELP US.
(or fate or the universe or mother nature or karma)
Re: Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality
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
IGNORANT :)
Re: Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality
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
Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality
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
Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality
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 ?
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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
Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality
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
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
Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality
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
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Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality
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
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
I personally support the police and praise their efforts in New Zealand.
Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality
Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality
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
Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality
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
Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality
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
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
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
www.nzherald.co.nz/section/media.cfm
600+ of them bought this year alone.
Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality
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
Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality
Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality
Re: Campaign Against The Taser - Fuck Police Brutality
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Fuck The Scum Bag Crims
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
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
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