Guilty until proven innocent

"Millions of dollars in assets have been seized from an Auckland woman even though she faces no criminal charges."

"The restraining order made under the Criminal Proceeds (Recovery) Act means she cannot sell or control any of the property.

The law essentially forces someone to prove how an asset was paid for, even if they are acquitted or criminal charges are not laid.

These cases are determined by the civil level of proof, the "balance of probabilities", rather than the much higher criminal evidential threshold of "beyond reasonable doubt"."

Guilty until proven innocent it seems!!

'Millions' of Kiwis bombard banned child-porn websites

Kiwis bombard banned child-porn websites
http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/9435784/Kiwis-bombard-banned-child-porn-websites

24 Nov 2013
"Millions of Kiwis are bombarding blacklisted child-sex-abuse sites to request access to illegal videos and photos."

'Millions' of kiwis, really?  Since New Zealand has an approximate population of 4 million, what this article is trying to tell us is that over half of the New Zealand population 'BOMBard' child-porn sites.  

 

Kiri Campbell

  http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10907338
2 Aug 2013
"The woman whose supporters forced the Hawera District Court to temporarily close plead guilty to fraud charges this week."


http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/9242705/Millionare-ripped-off-firms-with-bogus-cheques


4 Oct 2013 - Last updatd
"A political protester who fraudulently paid $15 million into her bank account has been sentenced to 200 hours' community work.

Hawera woman Kiri Campbell, 32, ripped off Taranaki businesses by almost $65,000 by using cheques from closed bank accounts to pay for cars, furniture and groceries."

...

"Campbell is part of the One Peoples' Public Trust who see themselves as "Freemen on the land", and believe individuals have to agree to be subject to government and statute law and are otherwise only held to their own version of common law. They see the banking system as corrupt.
The movement began in the United States in the 1970s and spread to Europe.

The FBI's website shows "Freemen" or "sovereign citizens" are considered a domestic terrorist movement in the US"

WINZ

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11158863

18 Nov 2013
"Work and Income New Zealand has apologised to a woman with a debilitating medical condition for placing her on a benefit requiring her to find work.

Carolyn Gane was denied a supported living payment, previously known as an invalid's benefit, despite having her GP's recommendation and was instead placed on jobseeker support, previously known as the sickness benefit."


http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11162371

25 Nov 2013
"Imagine having just $8 to feed your family for a week after all the bills are paid - for one single mother that's the reality of being on a benefit after she was made redundant three years ago."


http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11231804
Bennett accused of 'cheap publicity stunt' over beneficiary trips
4 Apr 2013
"Beneficiary advocates say Social Development Minister Paula Bennett is unfairly trying to paint beneficiaries as extravagant after she disclosed how many had benefits suspended for unapproved trips abroad."

Video game triggers AOS callout

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/9408377/Video-game-triggers-AOS-callout

"Two teenagers at the centre of an armed police callout in Palmerston North were firing guns in a PlayStation game, only to be confronted with the real thing outside their house.

Hamiora Canterbury and Zane Lafaiki, both 18, were caught in the middle of an Armed Offenders Squad callout in Highbury yesterday.
The pair were playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare on their PlayStation, a combat-based video game, when armed police circled the Somerset Cres house calling for them to come out with their hands up"

....

"Police arrested a woman at the house when she was found to be wanted on another matter, Stavropoulos said."


How convenient a woman was arrested at that house also, I wonder if pretexts are used to justify the search of homes without warrants.  May or may not be in this case, but i do wonder if pretexts are used.

Cannibus

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/global-drug-survey/9401534/Cannabis-trumps-drink

15 Nov 2013
"Many New Zealanders are turning to cannabis as an alternative to alcohol, which might explain why we are among the highest users in the world, a medical anthropologist says.
According to the Ministry of Health's most recent New Zealand Alcohol and Drug Use Survey, one in seven New Zealand adults will have used cannabis in the past year"

Fisherman challenges motor laws

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503450&objectid=11073521

31 Aug 2012

"Whangarei fisherman Marc Pawley is refusing to pay his motor vehicle registration and licence fee because he argues the laws of New Zealand do not apply to him.
The 53-year-old has received infringement notices on four separate occasions when stopped by police who discovered he had registered his Nissan Terrano to himself until December 21, 2012 and manufactured his own registration plate

...

A verdict is expected today."


It would be interesting to find out what the verdict was, i noticed they didn't seem to publish that, i assume it went his way.

Spying New Zealand

Spying seems to be the big thing lately, I find it disturbing that with the exposure of all the illegal spying on citizens going on around the world, that these pieces of legislation are being passed to make their actions legal.  Like committing theft, getting caught and then passing legislation to make theft legal.


http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/6625136/Search-and-Surveillance-Bill-passes

23 Mar 2012
"Opposition parties say New Zealand has been turned into a "police state" after Parliament last night narrowly passed the Government's controversial Search and Surveillance Bill.
Parliament last night passed by the Bill by 61 votes to 57."


http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/9364767/Spying-bill-passes-into-law

5 Nov 2013
"New legislation to ensure all electronic communications can be exposed to the scrutiny of spy agencies has passed into law.

The technical Telecommunications Interception Capability and Security Bill will compel telecommunication firms to assist intelligence agencies in intercepting and decrypting phone calls, texts and emails"


http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11151966

5 Nov 2013
"Controversial new telecommunications security legislation is now the law of the land.
The Telecommunications Interceptions and Security Capability Bill has just passed its third and final reading In Parliament by 61 votes to 57."


http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11151986

6 Nov 2013
"The second half of the Government's rejig of spying laws passed its third reading yesterday as the Opposition warned that New Zealand was moving in the opposite direction to the rest of the world by granting spy agencies more powers."


http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/9389926/Rebecca-Kitteridge-to-head-SIS

12 Nov 2013
"Secretary of the Cabinet and Clerk of the Executive Council Rebecca Kitteridge has been appointed to the position of Director of Security for the Security Intelligence Service (SIS). 
Prime Minister John Key announced the appointment this morning, saying Kitteridge was a "highly respected and professional" public servant."


http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/9406956/Next-spy-boss-seen-as-principled

16 Nov 2013
"When Rebecca Kitteridge was named New Zealand's next spy boss she is said to have asked if the job came with an Aston Martin.

That is the private face of the woman who, according to those who know her, has a wicked wit, isn't afraid of staring down prime ministers if that is required of her, and is also a devoted mum who – for the record – drives a somewhat more modest Mazda Demio"


http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/9442391/Spying-leaks-may-include-NZ-Key

26 Nov 2013
"Prime Minister John Key says it's possible US whistleblower Edward Snowden has documents on New Zealand's spying activities"


http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11171475

12 Dec 2013

"A backpacker coming home for Christmas had every bit of electronic equipment stripped from him at the airport.

A Customs officer at Auckland International Airport took law graduate Sam Blackman's two smartphones, iPad, an external hard drive and laptop - and demanded his passwords."


http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/9659666/State-will-know-everything-about-you

29 Jan 2014

"Departing privacy commissioner Marie Shroff has warned the state will soon know nearly everything about you, even after you are dead and gone.

Giving her valedictory speech in Wellington yesterday, she also argued for stronger oversight of our spy agencies and bigger legal teeth for the small privacy watchdog."


http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/9756743/Spies-mum-over-US-cash-questions

24 Feb 2014

"The Government's spy agencies have refused to tell Parliament's intelligence and security committee if they receive funding from the United States."


http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/9766176/Kiwi-spies-taught-online-tricks

26 Feb 2014

"Kiwi spooks were briefed on setting honey traps and internet "dirty tricks" to "control, infiltrate, manipulate, and warp" online discourse, documents leaked by Edward Snowden reveal."


http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/9768676/Spies-learn-sex-and-misinformation

27 Feb 2014

"A secret unit of British spies trained Kiwis how to be ‘‘cyber magicians,’’ using sex, misinformation and psychological tactics to control the internet.
 
Documents leaked by journalist Glen Greenwald, through US whistleblower Edward Snowden, show Government Communications Security Bureau agents were briefed by counterparts from the ultra-secret Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group. "


http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11217797

11 Mar 2014

"NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden says the United States' spy agency has helped find or create loopholes in New Zealand law to enable widespread spying."