{"id":9516,"date":"2016-08-06T11:13:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T22:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=9516"},"modified":"2016-08-08T21:42:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T08:42:34","slug":"helen-clark-doubles-down-and-refuses-to-apologise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=9516","title":{"rendered":"Helen Clark doubles down and refuses to apologise"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"avatr\"<\/a>\u00a0Joe Trinder<\/p>\n

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Monday, October 15, 2007, during the 5th Labour Government,\u00a0the Police Armed offenders and the Police special tactics group invaded the township of Ruatoki in the Urewera\u00a0forest. The New Zealand Police had invoked the Terrorism Suppression Act \u00a0and\u00a0turned a small New Zealand township into\u00a0a war zone. The Police arrested 17 people under the Act.Of the \u00a013 arrested the Supreme Court threw out the charges. The alleged Terrorist cell turned out to\u00a0be a paranoid conspiracy theory trumped up by Police and many years later Police Commissioner\u00a0Mike Bush made a formal apology in person to the victims of the raids.<\/p>\n

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Police Special Tactics Group armed with M4 Armalite colt rifles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Urewera forest has been attacked twice prior to 2007 . The first invasion was on 4th May 1880 when 100 Armed Constabulary invaded to hunt down the prophet Te Kooti conducting a scorched earth campaign destroying\u00a0crops and burning down homes. The second invasion was on 2nd April \u00a01916, Police Commissioner John Cullen attacked the Urewera to arrest Prophet Rua Kenana on trumped up charges of sedition\u00a0for this comment during WW1 “The Germans will win. Any money I have I will give to the Germans. The English are no good. They have two laws. One for the M\u0101ori and one for the P\u0101keh\u0101. When the Germans win I am going to be king here. I will be king of the M\u0101ori and of the P\u0101keh\u0101.”<\/em> Rua Kenana received 1-year imprisonment.<\/p>\n

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Prophet Rua Kenana arrested for sedition.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Recently in a facebook discussion I accused Ms. Clark of being an incompetent Prime Minister for being complicit in the invasion of Ruatoki and Ms. Clark\u00a0responded.<\/p>\n

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Ms. Clark has avoided blame that she didn’t\u00a0sign any order to invade but failed to mention briefings from Police before the invasion, that would have taken some political willpower on her behalf to proceed . Although the Police have constabulary independence from \u00a0government, the fact the New Zealand Police conducted military operations and lay siege\u00a0to a New Zealand township armed with high-powered assault rifles and didn’t consult the Prime Minister of the day seems\u00a0far-fetched.<\/p>\n

The 5th Labour government introduced the Terrorism suppression\u00a0Act 2002 and Prime Minister Helen Clark could have requested Police commissioner\u00a0Howard Broad use discretion and prosecute under the Arms Act 1983. Instead, Ms. Clark \u00a0stood by while Police conducted a paranoid anti-terrorism raid that lead New Zealanders to suspect their fellow countrymen\u00a0of being terrorists.<\/p>\n

Ms. Clark was also the minister of the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) and the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS\u00a0) that would have provided the Prime Minister with intelligence reports on any domestic terrorist threats to national security.<\/p>\n

The 2007 invasion being the 3rd military raid into the Urewera by the New Zealand Police or its predecessor\u00a0the\u00a0Armed Constabulary it seems unrealistic the 2007 invasion was not influenced by Government when previous invasions were at the request of the Government.<\/p>\n

If Helen Clark wants M\u0101ori to take her bid for the Secretary-General for the United Nations seriously she should avoid doubling down and make a genuine apology over the foreshore and seabed and the Terror raids of 2007 before continuing\u00a0her bid to become the next secretary-general of the United Nations and one of the most powerful people on earth.<\/p>\n

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Documentary on the 2007 terrorist raids here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Joe Trinder Monday, October 15, 2007, during the 5th Labour Government,\u00a0the Police Armed offenders and the Police special tactics group invaded the township of Ruatoki in the Urewera\u00a0forest. The New Zealand Police had invoked the Terrorism Suppression Act \u00a0and\u00a0turned a small New Zealand township into\u00a0a war zone. The Police arrested 17 people under the Act.Of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9516"}],"version-history":[{"count":99,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9624,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9516\/revisions\/9624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}