Glorious. All that can be said.
Brenda? Not PYM Brenda? But truly said, NZ alone protested against that war, not out of fear of conscription, but purely on ethics and morality. And Peter of Oz... good comprehension. There is a movement based on those principles, which you can access through html://www.oziz4oziz.com/
The world needs more great men like this, who make a stand for morals and for values like freedom and decency. The founding fathers of the USA and of our countries would be turning in their graves if they saw what was being done in their name, war crimes, terrorism and murder of innocents. The war in iraq/afghanistan and the war on terror is an absolute joke, and anyone who thinks its not is seriously misinformed or brainwashed close to the point of insanity. Peanut butter allergies, deer accidents, and lightning strikes kill more than terrorists each year, and yet politicians create a context where we need to lose our rights and freedoms because of it: rubbish. Believing politicians and supporting a moronicly corrupt two party system is like feeding yourself poison Governments have killed at least 200 million in the last 100 years, with untold amounts of suffering, pain and enslavement caused also. We need to shift the focus to eliminating the mass brainwashing of the people, and start taking real action towards living in harmony with the environment and each other. We are the government not politicians, and in certain cases such as this one, we need to allow our morals and values compass to dictate what the law is in doing right, because many politicians are following their compass of corruption and malice in taking away what is good in this world
Good on you guys.....more ought to be doing this sort of thing..... bring them all down!!!!!
We, the protesters of NZ have always known it was US run.Way back when the vietnam war was in progress, we knew.Power to the People. I applaud those men, they made everyone aware...
To me America should have no spy base in New Zealand spying on us,you think we are under communist rule and who say these people can be in our country??Who are they spying for??Why should these knob heads be checking our people out??Everybody know's 911 was an inside job,so i suggest the U.S.A should look at its domocratic situation and that we as New Zealand tell these spies where to go,Of course the brainwashed people of this country dont see these people as a problem,but must of us kiwis do,Troy for freedom.
To a writer who called Waihopai spy protestors 'loony'. Sir, you and your editorial board should be made to pick your way through the remains of a terror raid by America or Israel who have used lunatic mad drones on civilians. General Eisenhower ordered such tours on Germans who lived near Nazi concentration camps and proclaimed no knowledge of the horror within them. He also warned bleakly of the future horror of the American military-industrial complex let loose on the world. Your essay, March 20 2010,is just awful. Shallow and nasty like a mother's boy pouting over a housekeeping infraction. Toughen up! Stop being loony collaborator. Resign! I do not subscribe to "the war on terror" unless it is to war on that demonic evil sick immoral war that America now wages.You should look up "The Pink Swastika" a book on nazis which explains why they could be so callously mad and sadistically cruel. The "Prussians of the South Pacific" my country men alarm me now -loony letters- fruity almost gay bleatings.. eg the 3 prisoners had 'poor dress sense' and many concerns about plastic being hurt. Gay violent junk food media is turning kiwi men into squeally girly nazi drips and lunatic dangerous.
This is ridiculous. They are vandals are have committed a very serious crime. Acquitting them on the basis that they thought it was right is wrong. I'm sure the law wouldn't allow someone to kill a pedophile or murderer and get away with it, even though that would be protecting other peoples lives. Also I seriously doubt that NZ is contributing to the US war. If it is then, According to their logic they are endangering NZ because they put it on the newspapers! Iraq wouldn't have even thought that it was happening but now they will. This means that either way what they did was wrong and they deserve to be punished.
The US spy satellite network, Echelon, has conducted industrial espionage according to a European Parliament report. Douglas thinks it may help combat international crime & the drug trade but he should read "The Politics of Heroin" by Prof Alfred McCoy which adduces all the evidence of CIA drug trafficking in SE Asia. It's no accident that opium production in Afghanistan skyrocketed since NATO's arrival. Some claim the narcotics trade, by pushing dollars through US banks, kept them afloat during the GFC. The CIA is involved now in the drug wars in Juarez, Mexico. Waihopi like Australia's Pine Gap, serves the dominant interest of the US global empire. If we want to be safe from terrorism let us conduct a humanistic foreign policy and stop the slaughter of innocents!
This is a trial and verdict that will be celebrated in our history books later this century, just as Rosa Parks' protest action in Montgomery, USA is regarded as a turning-point in U.S. history. it takes courage to initiate such a protest, and a conviction stronger than simply following a bad tradition. Well done!