by Selwyn Manning

Armed Indonesian security agents attending APEC in Auckland have drawn a warning from the Green Party.

It is calling for all Indonesian surity officers to be unarmed while here for the APEC leader’s summit meetings over the next week.

The Greens cite evidence placed before the Royal Canadian mounted Police public complaints inquiry into APEC 1997 in Vancouver, as good reason for Indonesian security to be placed under strict controls.

A Canadian police officer had to physically restrain one Indonesian guard who threatened to draw a firearm on protesters.

Green Party spokesman Keith Locke says this shows the safety of APEC demonstrators will be put at risk and to prevent this, the Government needs to take a stand.

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>