Protesters with boltcutters and pointy sticks deflate one of the Waihopai domes

[jrandom]

NZ Herald story link.

Personally, I deplore the extreme naughtiness of vandalising Government property, but, well...

Y'know...

The protestors do make a good point vis-a-vis the our Government's potential secretive involvement with regimes that its electorate doesn't support.

Anyway, quite frankly, this is hilarious. Even if the saboteurs had no justifiable political agenda, it'd be worth it for the lulz. Obviously little old NZ still takes a fairly relaxed approach in terms of 'lethal force authorised' protection around sensitive installations. God bless.

(You wouldn't want to try a stunt like this on in the good ol' USA, would you!)

[Ixion]

That's Dominicans f' y'. Go the God Botherers.

The protestors do make a good point vis-a-vis the our Government's potential secretive involvement with regimes that its electorate doesn't support.

So, on the same basis , we justify taking a cutoff wheel/digger/gas axe/shaped charge to the cheesecutters? After all that's another example of our Government's potential secretive involvement with regimes that its electorate doesn't support. Transit, to wit.

[ManDownUnder]

ha ha ha!!!! I Love it.

High tech secret squirrel security stuff designed to outwit baddies far far away, the very pinnacle of NZ's security contribution to world peace beaten by...

By what?? Pointy sticks? LOLOL

It reminds me of the scene in one of the old Star Wars trilogy where the Ewoks took on the Empire's fighting machines with log etc... classic!

[Lias]

Pity we no longer have the death penalty for treason. I'd happily have them hanged by the neck until dead for sabotage.

That being said there is some serious lulz value in it, and major egg on aunty helens face.

[Swoop]

Confucious say "Balloon like girl's virginity. One prick, all gone!"

[jrandom]

So, on the same basis , we justify taking a cutoff wheel/digger/gas axe/shaped charge to the cheesecutters?

Well; a slightly different basis, and one closer to home.

Yes, I'd support sabotaging the cheesecutters as an ethical statement of protest, if it truly seemed that more civilised approaches were being ignored.

[scumdog]

NZ Herald story link.

Personally, I deplore the extreme naughtiness of vandalising Government property, but, well...

Y'know...

The protestors do make a good point vis-a-vis the our Government's potential secretive involvement with regimes that its electorate doesn't support.

Anyway, quite frankly, this is hilarious. Even if the saboteurs had no justifiable political agenda, it'd be worth it for the lulz. Obviously little old NZ still takes a fairly relaxed approach in terms of 'lethal force authorised' protection around sensitive installations. God bless.

(You wouldn't want to try a stunt like this on in the good ol' USA, would you!)

Haven't the losers that do this sort of crap got a job to go to?

Or a motorbike they should be riding or something worthwhile??

[Ixion]

Haven't the losers that do this sort of crap got a job to go to?

Or a motorbike they should be riding or something worthwhile??

Well, I suppose that one of them , at least, could say that sort of crap *is* his job. You work from The Man. He works for The Boss Man.

[scumdog]

Well, I suppose that one of them , at least, could say that sort of crap *is* his job. You work from The Man. He works for The Boss Man.

The Boss Man who pays him to do this stuff...???

[Ixion]

Yep. That's the one. No worries about moths, or rust, either.

[ManDownUnder]

Haven't the losers that do this sort of crap got a job to go to?

Or a motorbike they should be riding or something worthwhile??

I'd say the answer is something like a resounding NO.

[Swoop]

If we are down to "just one dome", does this now place us at the same level as England?
They call theirs "The Millenium Dome". Both have smeg-all inside!

[FJRider]

Haven't the losers that do this sort of crap got a job to go to?

Or a motorbike they should be riding or something worthwhile??

It would seem NOT.


There are more SECRET installations around, just people just dont know what they're looking at

[Forest]

I don't think the radomes actually have a technical purpose. They just stop folks from seeing what satellites the dishes are pointed at.

This protest was symbolic - if they wanted to disrupt operations then a stick of dynamite would have been far more effective.

[Hitcher]

Deranged, delusional, paranoid, conspiracy theorists shit me to tears. Particularly when they indulge in senseless vandalism or worse to make a point, whatever that is. I hope that the SIS continues to use National Radio to intercept their thoughts.