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    Quote Originally Posted by SPman View Post
    I'll just jab this wound again........

    The abortion of justice that is the Ahmed Zaoui case began yesterday in a trail as farcical as it is unjust. Ahmed Zaoui, a democratically elected politician in Algeria who fled his country after the French supported a military coup against his Government is on trial in a secret case where he will face secret evidence that he can not defend himself against. As red necked talkback NZ howl that a dirty Muslim is allowed in the country and they hop up and down about the taxpayer money spent they of course never mention that secret evidence from the French (the only government to have actually committed a terrorist attack on our shores) is being used in a secret trial that should make every N Zer deeply ashamed of their legal system. This abortion of Justice continues today, God Defend NZ.
    1)get over it
    2)kick the fucker out
    3) kick the rest out too

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shadows View Post
    I don't believe the government would risk the bad press generated by the situation unless they had a damned good reason to bypass "normal" legal process for the sake of national security.

    Nobody seems to realise that the reason that the Rainbow Warrior thing stands out in people's minds so much and is always used as an example of terrorism on our soil is because it was the only time anybody actually managed to carry out something like that. For that reason I think we should have a bit more faith in our intelligence services.

    I say that all of those sandal wearing poncho draped hairy armpitted lesbian vegetarian professional student anti-smacking bill supporting neighbourhood watch group organising do gooders, that insist on living on, and forcing upon every body else, a set of idealogical bullshit values derived from some fantasy world, who protest for the sake of protesting without any real factual knowledge of the situation at hand should just fuck off.

    Bring out the tear gas and rubber bullets!
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    OK - as Helen Clark tries to explain
    "It's not a court it's a review of a security risk certificate. Obviously it involves the use of classified information and that is properly done outside what would be the procedures of a court," said the PM.
    There's just one problem: it's not true. The current "open" hearings do not involve any classified information at all. If they did, Zaoui and his lawyers would not be allowed to attend. Instead, the SIS and the government are hiding behind secrecy, and using it to prevent any independent assessment of the evidence or the fairness of the process. And in a society which supposedly respects human rights, that is simply unacceptable.

    The whole situation is a Kafka-esque parody that is chilling in it's implications of what the NZ gov believes it can do, regardless of laws and basic human rights.

    If the concept of a "hearing", held in secret, with the defendant not being allowed to know what the charge is, or what the evidence is and unable to defend himself seems like a good idea, then the Gulags, Gitmos and all the other oppressive instruments of control being used around the world must be acceptable to the populace and, if that is the case, NZ is not the place it once was or is anything like, most reasonable people would expect.

    Given the steady erosion of the Justice system as well, then, it's hardly surprising!
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    Quote Originally Posted by SPman View Post

    If the concept of a "hearing", held in secret, with the defendant not being allowed to know what the charge is, or
    Family court.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim2 View Post
    Family court.
    Too bloody right. I was dragged through that as a kid, and so was my sister after that. If your a guy and going to the family court, your the enemy

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    Quote Originally Posted by SPman View Post
    If the concept of a "hearing", held in secret, with the defendant not being allowed to know what the charge is, or what the evidence is and unable to defend himself seems like a good idea, then the Gulags, Gitmos and all the other oppressive instruments of control being used around the world must be acceptable to the populace and, if that is the case, NZ is not the place it once was or is anything like, most reasonable people would expect.

    Given the steady erosion of the Justice system as well, then, it's hardly surprising!
    And people wonder why I'm bitter!
    I spose you have to be from a pacific Island and need dialisis/oxygen/taxpayer funded medical care to be welcomed here.
    If what A.Z. has been through doesnt give him refugee status then wtf does?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Goblin View Post
    And people wonder why I'm bitter!
    I spose you have to be from a pacific Island and need dialisis/oxygen/taxpayer funded medical care to be welcomed here.
    If what A.Z. has been through doesnt give him refugee status then wtf does?

    A REAL passport for a start!

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    Quote Originally Posted by jimbo600 View Post
    Fuck him. He flushed his documents down the head on the way here. Should have been sent back on the next plane.

    And like some others say he can leave at any time.

    Takes the piss out of all the other real refugees that are waiting overseas to get granted refugee status.
    Far from being illegal, such actions by refugees have been legal under international law for nearly half a century. For good reason. “A refugee whose departure from their country of origin is usually a flight, is rarely in a position to comply with the requirements for legal entry [ie passport and visa] into the country of refuge.”
    Obviously, the right to claim asylum does not deliver an automatic right of entry. In judging each case on its merits though, the courts have underlined that the use of false documentation should not penalise genuine refugees, which Zaoui has been declared to be by the New Zealand authorities. “Escape from persecution has long been characterised by subterfuge and false passports,” the senior British justice Simon Brown wrote in the Uxbridge case in 2001 : ”Self evidently, the UN provides immunity for genuine refugees whose quest for asylum reasonably involves them breaching the law.” Dictators, after all, are not renowned for issuing travel visas to political opponents, and waving them goodbye at the airport.
    “- He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by geoffm View Post
    Correct meif Iam wrong, but wasn't he living in malaysia for 3 years with his family, with no problems? Why not apply for citizenship there?
    He can go back there any time he wants, we have paid millions of dollars to his lawyers already. Sod 'im
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    New Zealand has now issued a security certificate against Zaoui, severely limiting the few travel options he had. Malaysia was already unsafe – which is why he left in the first place – because the Algerian junta was lobbying them for Zaoui’s expulsion, back into their tender mercies.
    “- He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by WasPhantom View Post
    It is not a secret trial. He is not held in New Zealand against his will (i.e. he can leave the country at any time). It is a review of his security status by the head of the NZSIS. It is NOT a secret trial.
    OK - not a secret trial, just a review of his status, held in secret, with "evidence" provided by the SIS which isn't being made available to the accused (for he is being accused), with no right of rebuttal. A trial in all but name! And he is held in NZ - he is on the equivalent of severely restricted parole.
    Even worse are the 4 people held in prison without charge,who are refusing to sign the travel documents that would deport them back to their "own countries" and certain death - although the government have been assured that, no, of course they won't be killed if they are returned, despite all the evidence to the contrary!

    People and governments make me sick!
    “- He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by SPman View Post
    Far from being illegal, such actions by refugees have been legal under international law for nearly half a century. For good reason. “A refugee whose departure from their country of origin is usually a flight, is rarely in a position to comply with the requirements for legal entry [ie passport and visa] into the country of refuge.”
    Obviously, the right to claim asylum does not deliver an automatic right of entry. In judging each case on its merits though, the courts have underlined that the use of false documentation should not penalise genuine refugees, which Zaoui has been declared to be by the New Zealand authorities. “Escape from persecution has long been characterised by subterfuge and false passports,” the senior British justice Simon Brown wrote in the Uxbridge case in 2001 : ”Self evidently, the UN provides immunity for genuine refugees whose quest for asylum reasonably involves them breaching the law.” Dictators, after all, are not renowned for issuing travel visas to political opponents, and waving them goodbye at the airport.
    Yeah I suppose being part of an extremist Islamic group that assassinated the
    Algerian president would make you bit of a refugee wouldn't it.

    Wake up dude. There are baddies in the world and they want in here and will massage the system to do so. Will NZ suffer if he's given the boot? Nah didn't think so. Will NZ suffer if he stays? Maybe, even probably.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jimbo600 View Post
    Yeah I suppose being part of an extremist Islamic group that assassinated the
    Algerian president would make you bit of a refugee wouldn't it.

    Wake up dude. There are baddies in the world and they want in here and will massage the system to do so. Will NZ suffer if he's given the boot? Nah didn't think so. Will NZ suffer if he stays? Maybe, even probably.
    Yep, fuck him. The guy was originally held in custody as a security risk, and should the government not been able to hold him any longer on those grounds, (which was costing the tax payer a fuckin fortune), and they still had doubts, kick the prick out!

    Why is it our problem the guy cant go back where he came from?

    I'd give him the boot just for his book of poetry, heard one of them on Campbell live, it was shit!

    Subject some other bleeding heart country to it I say.

    Fuck the PC bullshit, look out for number one.

    I'd also like to say again, that if this post has offended anyone, eat my excriment and get buggered.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SPman View Post
    People and governments make me sick!
    People who get on a soapbox over issues like this make me sick.

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    Quote Originally Posted by doc View Post
    I'm sure I there is nowhere in the world you could enter illegally and then get so much support to fight the system that is trying to evict you.
    In most if not all of the democratic in the world you would. It's part of the UN charter on asylum .

    You think it's bad here - you should take a look at the UK, there are literally tens of thousands of asylum seekers there. Most of whom either end up in govt funded homes on the welfare, or in detention centers. All of then entitled to legal aid.

    And don't start me on the freaking eastern European parasites. Grrrr.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Drew View Post
    I'd give him the boot just for his book of poetry, heard one of them on Campbell live, it was shit!
    Poetry too? Well fuck me all to hell.

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    On a French hit list
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    And I'm taking the piss
    Now I should get the gist
    And fuck off back to where I came from.
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