2007 is a long time ago. The idea of dealing with an ideological crime in NZ was shocking. I had dealt with the police unit previously in a case involving the fraudulent use of a stolen Israeli passport. At the time relations were strained between NZ and Israel due to two Mossad agents operating on NZ passports. Something like that anyway. The passport was possibly stolen within Israel. Hence the unit. Closest to spooks in the coppers. They deal with national security and transnational crime. I was suspicious that they had edited my client's interview. As it was there were three trials. The third jury could not agree. The client was acquitted. The point of all this is when the same group orchestrated the Urewera raids I knew what they were like. They were indoctrinated. The idea that the people they were looking to charge had a single ideology was silly. That interception warrants could have been connected to the Suppression of Terrorism Act in those circumstances was wrong. That's where NZ goes wrong. The fetish with terrorism gets in the way. Planning murder whether it's one victim or many should be an offence that can be sheeted home to an individual just as conspiracy to murder can be sheeted home to a group. Let's not give these people what they want. A badge of terror. They are mass murderers.
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