Anti-Bases Campaign SaysTerrorist Attack Report Confirms Need To:
Abolish GCSB; Close Waihopai Spy Base; & Get Out Of Five Eyes
One monotonously expressed
defence of the Waihopai spy base (operated by the NZ Government
Communications Security Bureau - GCSB) is that it defends NZ from
terrorists.
No, it doesn’t.
That was dramatically shown on
March 15th, 2019,
when a
fascist white foreign (Australian)
terrorist murdered 51 people at the two mosques in Christchurch and
attempted to murder 40 more.
The GCSB totally missed the worst
act of terrorism on NZ soil.
It was two country cops that ended
the mass murderer’s rampage; the
spies
were conspicuous by their absence
throughout the whole thing.
That is because Waihopai and the
GCSB define “terrorists” as per the instructions of their Five Eyes
biggest Big Brother, the US National Security Agency (NSA) and the
American “war in terror” in countries like Afghanistan and Iraq.
They spied on the victims, not the
perpetrators.
They spied on the community of the
murdered, not the murderer.
They turned a blind eye to the
real terrorists already here.
The GCSB's reason for existence is
electronic spying, both international and domestic (it has been legal
to spy on New Zealanders since the Key government legalised the
previously illegal practice).
Brenton Tarrant was a foreigner
living in New Zealand, whose whole life was lived online in the
racist, fascist, murderous backwaters of the Internet.
Our electronic spies were
oblivious to him.
They were too busy being the most
junior Eye of the Five Eyes, doing the bidding of their Big
Brothers.
Which begs the question – if this
spy base and the GCSB can’t even protect us from terrorists, what
useful purpose do they serve?
Certainly nothing for the NZ
people.
For more than 30 years Waihopai
has been NZ’s most significant contribution to Washington’s global
effort to dominate the world.
And for more than 30 years the
Anti-Bases Campaign has protested at Waihopai, calling for its
closure.
We will be there
again on Saturday January 30.
Murray Horton
Secretary/Organiser Anti-Bases Campaign.