MANA leader Hone Harawira says response to the Supreme
Court's ruling from the Urewera fiasco is to suspend that
ruling and urgently ram legislation through making illegal
Police action legal.
"MANA says it is always a danger to
ram retrospective law through, especially if it is to hand
unquestioned power over to the Police force. The Supreme
Court found Police action of secretly filming citizens was
illegal. The Police force need to have their powers reigned
in, the solution is not for John Key to give them even more
unchecked power.
The Search and Surveillance Bill will
grant Police vast spying abilities on every NZer with them
able to plant cameras in homes with no judicial oversight.
That is not a democracy, that is the foundations of a Police
State."
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