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The Terrorism Suppression Act 2002, brought in by Helen Clark’s Labour government, contains a number of wide provisions potentially criminalising support for legitimate national liberation movements and activism. The Act was discredited in the eyes of many of its initial supporters in 2007 when the Solicitor General described it as ‘unnecessarily complex and incoherent’, following his refusal to allow the Police to proceed with charges under the Act against the defendants in Operation 8 (the so-called ‘Urewera raids’). Yet the Act was never repealed. The legal ability of the state to apply the sections of the Act to those supporting international solidarity causes has increased over the past five years. John Key has used his power under s 22 of the Act to designate groups as ‘terrorist entities’ 19 times since 2010! From 2002 to 2008 Labour designated groups on the UN Lists of Al-Qaeda and Taliban-related Entities. National entered the territory of designating groups fighting for socialism (Communist Party of the Philippines and New People’s Army; the FARC and ELN of Colombia); and national liberation in the Middle East (such as the Palestinian Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade; the armed wing of Hamas and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). New Zealand’s terrorist designations list now resembles. . . full at: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/01/23/the-terrorism-suppression-act-since-2007/ Phil _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
