New Zealanders continue to support Terrorists!

Kia Ora,

Today was going to be a blog about where I see likely terrorist strike at the Commonwealth Games currently been staged in Delhi, India. But that will have to wait as yesterday again showed how people in New Zealand support terrorist activities in our own country.
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Of course there are the many who support organized crime in the guise of the terrorist groups commonly known as gangs. In reality they are terrorist groups. Nothing more, nothing less.

Then we have those who support the internationally recognized terrorist umbrella groups such as eco green type entities.

What I am talking about here though is the three terrorists who attacked the so called Waihopai Spy base near Blenheim.

Their actions are those of terrorists. As one radio DJ was heard to ask yesterday, when someone was trying to defend their actions, "what would New Zealanders be saying if these three were of Middle Eastern descent?"

Great question as it does not matter what their ethnic background is, it is their actions. These guys are terrorists & the jury got it very very wrong.

So now the government are looking to change the defence they used & now go after the three of them for damages.
"Terrorism": why the definition must be broad.(FORUM: ON TERRORISM): An article from: World Policy Journal
Their defence again was they believed they were right as their actions would save lives in Iraq(also known as colour of right). What a load of bollocks! It is extremely unlikely that any information gathered from a New Zealand site would have direct impact in Iraq.

In fact the only likely connections would of been myself & others ringing back to our families here whilst we worked in Iraq or Iraqis ringing their relations here when they found out we were Kiwis as happened on occassion.
Terrorism: definition, justification, and applications.(Terrorism. The Philosophical Issues )(Book review): An article from: Social Theory and Practice
Although the US has an unhealthy reliance on electronic intelligence, the best was gained by the age old fashion of what is now known as humanint.

The government could of easily brought in a few of us that had worked security in Iraq to comment on the highly unlikely circumstances of the site here picking up useful information.
Appendix B: definitions.(terrorism): An article from: CONPLAN - U.S. Government Interagency Domestic Terrorism Concept of Operations Plan
By destroying the envelope around one of the antenna's the only lives they really put in danger were those of New Zealanders.

Yet many New Zealanders continue to support the terrorist actions of these three men.

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You have to ask is Honesty really the best policy? Corruption is rife!

Kia Ora,

A conversation last week with a former police officer set me thinking. We were talking about the NZ police today & his comments echoed those of current long serving police officers. Techniques might of changed but in reality the basics of how to police never change. But he is always getting told by young officers he doesn't understand policing today.

Ten years ago it was normal for police to encourage you to report suspicious activity & responded to them as not only did it impact on crime, even if the reported activity wasn't as suspicious as first reported it put the police in the area & also had an impact on crime.

Compare that to today where a call to report suspicious activity more often than not you are treated as the criminal with the grilling you get on the phone & then it is unlikely a patrol will show up.

That is not the police on the beats fault as they are under resourced & undermanned, but there is also a focus on getting arrests as opposed to impacting on crime from above when talking to experienced officers.

Not helping their cause though is the corruption that is rife amongst New Zealand bureaucrats which means their favourite method of dealing with issues is do nothing.

My recent experiences with bureaucrats which came to a head in the last week show why they police have to deal with so many upset people.

Not to mention security guards who also due to the low wages in the NZ Security Industry are likely to be having to deal with some of those departments in their own life.

The old bureaucrats trick of focussing on a red herring, to the side of the real issues, is to the fore.
Corruption and Government: Causes, Consequences, and Reform
As someone who has been bluntly honest my whole life (apart from those few drunken episodes for which most of us are not caught) it galls me to see those who have no care for others getting ahead by dishonest endeavours backed by bureaucrats.

Gone is the bureaucrat whose goal in life was to make life simpler for their community & like soldiers, police etc knew what the word service actually meant.

People have said it happens in all countries where bureaucrats hold things up. But as an Australian said who immigrated to NZ to launch a business opportunity he saw, "Mate setting up a company was the easiest anywhere, but after that nothing but apathy."

Having been around the world abit the worst I have seen is here in New Zealand. In the Middle East I actually found their open use of back handers quite liberating as it got things done. You just hired a fixer, budgeted for it & gone on with things.

In NZ to offer money would offend but then the hold ups due to requirement for committees (always remembering a camel is a horse designed by a committee) make the whole thing untenable.

New Zealand likes to think it has the perfect governance model, but it doesn't. That is those in governance give direction to those bureaucrats who are to deliver. Having been in Governance roles where I was also the beneficiary has shown that more often than not those in governance roles are actually in tune with those who are supposed to benefit.

Unfortunately the bureaucrats assigned to deliver are more often than not on a different agenda(the TV programmes 'Yes, Minister' & 'Yes, Prime Minister' spring to mind) altogether. Or to quote Ronald Reagan "the scariest words someone can hear is, We are from the government & we are here to help" or words to that effect.

It is why I find the TV programme 'Under cover Boss' so refreshing as it shows those in governance or top management actually finding out what the issues actually are for their business.
Governance (Key Concepts)
Bureaucracy today is more about how inefficent you can be. That causes frustration which in turn causes people to get upset. More often than not the first person who has to deal with it is the lone security guard.

Compare that to organized crime in particular here in New Zealand the gangs who in their own way tend to look after their people. Those that are better at it have less issues & make the job of the police harder as no one will talk against those who have looked after them when things have been bad.

Leadership is not all about been loud or giving someone the 'bash' to keep them in line. People skills are the first thing bureaucrats need to learn.
Corporate Governance Best Practices: Strategies for Public, Private, and Not-for-Profit Organizations
Oh the comment in the title of this book about best Practice. First thing I know from having been on the shop floor as soon as anyone says it, on the floor everyone knows its not.

If the bureaucrats could get their act together there would be a lot less upset people, the country would be saved millions if not billions of dollars. As I have said to one government agency in this last week, "I could run ... better with my little finger." Not only that have better people skills.

Corruption is rife amongst our bureaucrats & it really makes you think "is it really worth it been honest?" You are already seeing bureaucratic corruption at its finest in the aftermath of the Christchurch Earthquake.

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Terrorist Raidss! Why do people feel they are picked on?

Kia Ora,

Well have been taking part in a forum where the discussion stemmed from the terrorist raids in the Tuhoe area here in New Zealand in the last few years.

For those that are not in NZ, what happened was after police surveillance, the NZ police raided an area where the Tuhoe Iwi(tribe) is based. From memory 17 were arrested country wide, only two really with connections to Tuhoe, but the community was raided with roads blocked off where the training had allegedly taken place. Most of those arrested were from eco green groups & one person even had an arab name, which in itself is not suspicous but when connected to terrorism things take a different slant.

The first thing to come out was people say the raids were wrong as the charges were thrown out & new ones under another act were drawn up.

That is not what really happened, the charges were thrown out as they were brought under the new Terrorism act which the judge pointed out was badly written.

That is what happens when politicians listen to bureaucrats who have no idea what they are talking about. By not knowing they were not ready & rushed through bad legislation.

The same is happening with the new security personnel bill. Though not rushed the bureaucrats have no idea what they are talking about, so have produced some finely written toilet paper which will be shown to be inadequate & then some very rushed bad replacement will come into force.

Next some are complaining that they were not connected with any terrorists (depends on whose definition as there are so many it can range from work place bullies right through to organized crime & groups such as Al Qaeada, eco greens, anti abortionists) & their children were targeted.

If you let gangs, terrorist organization or drugs & you keep your kids with you then you can not expect otherwise as distasteful as that might seem. Basically it is your fault for putting your children in that situation. Bad parenting & poor community responsbility, no matter what rights you have to grievance as Tuhoe genuienly do.

In recent history there have been enough examples of children been used to carryout or assist terrorist attacks or activities. Vietnam children throwing grenades at vehicles or laying improvised IED's, South Africa kids throwing grenades into vehicles (participants in both have told me how hard it was to shoot towards children to keep them away), Northern Ireland people of all ages placing improvised IED's with magnets against vehicles used by security forces.
Whose terrorism? A classroom activity enlists students in defining terrorism and then applying their definitions to world events.: An article from: Radical Teacher
Whilst working in Iraq knowing this we were looking for the IED's & grenades. In Afghanistan it has been taken a step further with children been used as suicide bombers (so far apparently unsuccessful).

On a lessor level children are often used to carryout criminal activity on behalf of their parents or other adults. Only today a report came out of a 12 year old selling drugs at school on behalf of family.

In this situation in particular Maori have this habit of defending those issues which are destroying us as a people. Gangs/terrorism drug use, child abuse, domestic violence & the list goes on.
Terrorism: definition, justification, and applications.(Terrorism. The Philosophical Issues )(Book review): An article from: Social Theory and Practice
People such as police do not find it easy to point firearms at children as many of them are fathers, but like going into a hostage rescue situation you have to treat everyone as a terrorist until you are sure otherwise.

If I remember properly at the time the police also detained a school bus. Funny thing is when acting as enemy party on one exercise we used a school bus to elude friendly forces to move to a new area of operations. We train to learn from those sort of experiences.

On another exercise the enemy party stole a military ambulance & managed to use it to eliminate some high ranking officials. Rest of exercise & since Ambulances have got a good going over at least by NZ forcs.

In Iraq on more than one occasion insurgents used ambulance to good effect & there was always the rumour of a fire engine fitted as a suicide bomb.

Instead of complaining they should say, "why did we get targeted?" & What can we do to ensure it doesn't happen again?"

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Crime & Terrorism to rise!

Kia Ora,

In an earlier blog I titled it crime is to rise. At the time I wrote that the expected coming economic crisis will result in a rise of crime.



Well today I received an economic update email from Robert Kiyosaki & guess what. Being an ex Vietnam Veteran he sees the same & the rise of terrorism.

In fact he labels many of the current criminal activities in the US & the wider world as Terrorism.

Same as I & many of us with experience in the NZ security industry label many of the crimes here in NZ & here in Christchurch the boy racer community.

Then he mentions the first US citizen as a suicide bomber who recently detonated in Somalia.

His point was one I have being trying to make in my blogs. As the economy worsens, so will crime.



But not only will crime worsen but the conditions eventuate from which Terrorism recruits.

So as the situation is expected to worsen, say for example the boy racers will become more extreme, there was a letter to the editor in todays 'Press' in which a young male threatens to organize basically a fight back by the young ones 'harassed' by the police.

You don't get harrassed if you aren't breaking the law.

Already classed by many as Terrorists, their actions are liable to worsen.

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Why is Christchurch so Violent when there is no reason for it?

Kia Ora,

Well an another interesting weekend, which took a violent turn I hadn't planned on.

Recently I have being working on using social media as part of my marketing plan for my company & the new service.



That has meant as readers will have noticed the use of video I have taken & youtube.

This has meant I have being out looking for crime/suspicious or dangerous activity to video.

On Saturday night, finding something wasn't working as it should be (which would cost me during the later incident) took my vehicle to look for the items needed, but that late at night it was a task too far.

But what I did observe was a boy racer van full of females pull up outside a school & go into I would say use it as a toilet whilst one threw their empty bottles across the road, people leaving a party to be seen about an hour later still leaving, blocking a major road at one part with a vehicle & running onto the road, causing traffic to break sharply.

The police were rung & attended promptly. Funny how the party suddenly dispersed in a more orderly fashion.



I then decided to procide with my original plan to set up whilst waiting for any calls to video the people using the railway lines as a very dangerous short cut not to mention trespassing. Was getting set & could hear talking & noise. Realized it was coming from other side of structure I was set up on so went to have a look. Suddenly more moise then two males rung across the road, jump into a car hidden nearby & take off. It appears they had being in a car wreckers steling parts for their car.

As I stood off the side talking to police on phone about it a number of other boy racers slowed to look in at same spot but then left at speed on seeing someone there.



After setting myself up there in case someone showed up, but once it started to rain decided to go back to base.

As I headed back heard boy racers back by Sockburn Roundabout then "CRASH". Having a medkit on me I headed back.

First thing I see is a camper van parked in Nga Mahi Road with the occupants looking in shock. Then the boy racers were back so moving to a position to possibly video any actions to see a car airborne over the top of Sockburn Overbridge, then head off down Blenheim road.

As they had appeared to have gone, was heading back when burnouts start about 100 metres down Blenheim road & first one car then the other head towards the roundabout & drift around it.

Got to a position in time to video second vehicle loose control on the drift & snap off the giveway sign (or what was left of it as looking later it appears that was the first crash as well, so makes it look like vehicles were stolen in the way they were treating them).



To get that video had had to step out into a little into the open & a third vehicle seen me, they then told the first two who took off.

Only they hadn't taken off they doubled back, parked on Main south road & come across to see if I was still there. I was further along walking behind the bushes towards the way they had come & was about to head home when I head a voice & see two people on the footpath.

From there it went very quick & one came through then the other & said "give us the f..... camera" of course they got a "f... off", but these guys were going to do what they wanted. Was hit a glancing blow by the first guy & same by the second before a third tried to tackle me. We struggled until we hit the ground then the kicks went in. thanks to my bodyarmour & back pack they took most of the punishment, but got a few in the head as well.

Contary to conventional advice I hung onto the camera as it had the evidence, but it restricted my ability to fight back. What I did do was wrestle & struggle in amongst kicks to get out onto foot path/road so cars could see. Once there people began to ring the police in particular the young lady who hung around in her car, which was much appreciated.



At that point the camera broke & they ran with part of it, I chased but they had taken off in their parked cars before I could get their regostrations.

The police were great considering there is not much to go on & because of swelling on the side of my head, I went by ambulance to the hospital.

Whilst waiting there (head injuries it is just a matter of observation really in a very busy emergency room) I was actually despite all the blood, the least injured of those assaulted that night.

It seemed a night that is too common in Christchurch with mindless violence. Each incident spoken off whilst we waited for treatment consisted of groups setting on one person.

Most of it the reason why I felt safer in Baghdad than I do in Christchurch is there is no actual reason & the violence is so random.

The boy racers do it because they think you have no right of interferring with their fun.



There is no real excuse for it. As an American soldier said on another issue "I can understand why the Iraqis are upset with me & if it was my country I would be doing the same, but...." well the but here is what reason do our youth have to beat people up (not talking about me here as it goes with the territory if things go wrong), destroy businesses with mindless destruction.

There have being developments on this front though that will come to light later & a review of how I do this has meant some changes are in place, but it will never make it completely safe.

Even during the time I have being in the NZ Security Industry, where most criminals when caught in the act, didn't try to make it personal, it is not always the gangs but just our run of the mill youths that have become our biggest problem & most violent group.

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Are New Zealand Judges in touch with the Real World?

Kia Ora,

That head line is what people often ask after some of the sentences handed down for crimes.  At times the judges are constrained  by laws or previous decisions. But sometimes you do have to wonder?

I base that on a judges comments when he sentenced a 'gang' member yesterday.

The judge in this case said "gang culture is against NZ culture".

When the Judge & I were growing up that was probably true, but not in todays NZ were the gangsta culture prevails.

You see it all the time, people wearing their colours & others pressured to have colours of one type or another.

I have head some say it is only Maori or Pacific Island issue with the youngsters

following the L.A. gangsta culture.

That is not true though. If you are involved with dealing with youngsters you will see people from all races trying to be a part of the gangsta culture with the way they dress, act & speak.

Coming from the background of a shearing gang (no pun intended) then the NZ army I am not un used to swearing, but their is a time & place.

Not todays youngsters & if you want to get their attention then you better be prepared to swear because they will not take notice otherwise.

Part of that gangsta culture is the use or carrying of weapons & as the Christchurch police recently commented virtually everyone they arrest these days is at least carrying a knife.

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