Obtain motor vehicle ownership details - govt.nz - Connecting you to New Zealand central & local government services

Obtain motor vehicle ownership details - govt.nz - Connecting you to New Zealand central & local government services

Who owns that vehicle?

If a vehicle is sold in New Zealand, you can approach the Govenment Vehicle register and ensure it is owned by the seller selling the vehicle. The Government charges for this service.

If you end up buying a vehicle that was stolen during its history, you may end up losing the vehicle. The police should present an online license search where you put in both the persons' name, your own name and drivers license number, and the licence plate. It can then tell you if it is a valid transaction.

The current setup is rather silly, easily and cheaply remedied. Fixing it would make private sales of vehicles safer.

NZ Police : Services : E-crime Unit

NZ Police : Services : E-crime Unit

E-Crime and the New Zealand Police

The NZ Police are travelling around the internet finding forensic evidence of wrong doing. This raises a question, should evidence that amounts to a set of digital switch states, in themselves, constitute a crime or is "fraud" as we know it a redundant concept in the e-world? The attempt by police to somehow "sanitise" networked computers that carry intelligence, the communications of terrorists, means that arguments for laws to convict merely on the presence of evidence start to be won. This of course leaves open a gaping hole when it comes to the ease with which a person may be framed for a crime.

Police work in this regard is demanding but digitial evidence is indestructable. So keeping it is free. Storing it costs next to nothing. Locking it down with encryption is easy, and makes evidence of it (encrypting the date with the right algorithem can produce evidential artifacts that are impossible to fake). Evidence of where you have been has to become reliable. Credit Cards are a convenient form of accountability.

Police find evidence of and use the internet to investigate a crime to help find perpetrators of harm to others. A liberal policy toward pornography has led to the inevitable trails of greedy child pornographers. Emailing, blogging or just surfing on the internet leaves trails behind, and that does not mean it leaves trails behind only on your computer. People running pornographic based business on the internet are doing so with the blessing and consent of the State, now able to detect line-crossers that perpetuate evil toward other people. For the first time ritual abusers have been exposed. The law is there to protect children. Child abuse and slavery are the result of people who abuse others. Catching them requires reliable mechanisms.

Parole

The newish leader of the National Party recently announced a new Law and Order policy. Don Brash, possibly NZ's next PM is taking populist stands on just about everything, appealing to a narrowing of NZ opinion. The law and order policies are to eliminate Parole for violent offenders and increase jail terms with 2 billion being spent on housing an additional 3000 law breakers. Current prison population is about 6000. The cost to the taxpayer of living in a crime free world is already greater than what is spent on it. Will increasing prison populations have the effect of reducing crime or is that a false assumption?

But the elimination of parole will make matters worse for those caught in the new dragnet, those not guilty of major larceny or violence who will come under the forceful eyes of "top dogs" - unofficial ranks of priosoners usually equating to factors such as severity of crime or connections to organised crime.

With increased exposures to malign influences, reintegration of the mild criminal is made less likely.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Police to use under-18s to tackle alcohol crime

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Police to use under-18s to tackle alcohol crime

Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Court 'cannot rule on legality of war'

Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Court 'cannot rule on legality of war'

New Zealand News - NZ - Letter of sorrow gives little comfort to grieving family

Immigrants and Crime

There is a tendency to deny our new citizens the right to justice as we accept their crimes are without responsibility by making racially based judgements. In this article from the NZ Herald , New Zealand First law and order spokesperson, Ron Mark, accuses the Government if being indifferent to immigrant crime and called for immediate deportation of criminal overstayers.

In his version of the world, there are two classes of people. Real New Zealanders who deserve the services of the Department of Justice, and people who can be sent home, perhaps to escape responsibility for their actions. To class immigrants as improper citizens is to give them a conditional status insofar as responsibility is assigned. To deport criminals without proper inspection and decisive action may have been sensible once, but now we have to be more able to detain real criminals as processed by our justice system and release those without responsibility.

If language is a barrier, then deportation may well be an option of the Justice system but it is important for immigrant crime to be examined by a local jurisdiction.

Rules that naturally shove a "terrorist" back to their country of origin, contradict any "war on terror". Murder suspects and terrorists have more in common than immigrant status or nationality bestows insofar as a basis for National rejection.

Ron Mark has a limited view of Justice and is burying his head in the sand. If a criminal wants to go out and kill people by irresponsible use of a vehicle, it is not a crime against New Zealand. It is a crime against humanity and it is our responsibility to deliver proper justice, be that prison or freedom, to offenders.

To force the problem to be exported is to lose the war on terror as criminals are returned to freedom and creates an impossible environment that forgives criminal actions proven as such by our quite expensive legal system.

More expensive than our politicians, the New Zealand First party founded on suspiciously racially motivated fundamentals. That, we, as New Zealanders should put ourselves ahead of immigrants. In a country populated only by immigrants, it is a little silly and self-important.

Ron Mark's use of the perjorative, "these people", is an instance of lumping together all immigrants as potentially instantly deportable. Good one, Ron. The trick is to bring criminals under jurisdiction and make friends with other Governments in the process.

Not give them the expensive problem of expedient Justice. Our legal system is the only tool that separates terrorists and criminals from the rest of us. That form of segregation protects its clients with a legal system to ensure that the innocent are not jailed. If you release the innocents, you will jail a greater percentage of the guilty, but when you start confusing the innocent with the guilty then justice has lost its way.

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Stateless Persons

Prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay facility in Cuba are being held outside of the protection of justice in a "lawless enclave". Over 600 men from 44 countries are being held without charge or access to American Courts.

Attorney John Gibbons said "it's been plain for 215 years" that people in federal detention may file petitions in U.S. courts.

Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist noted that the detainees are not on American soil, and asked how a judge in Washington is to deal with a case from Cuba.

Without U.S. judges overseeing due process, there would be no checks and balances on the president's power at Guatanamo, Justice Stephen Breyer commented. This open the way for Solicitor General Theodore Olson to claim it would be "remarkable" for the judiciary to start deciding where the U.S. could assert temporary control over foreign terroritory, such as military bases.

Should the President be empowered to conduct war outside of the agreed conventions of war? Actions that are external to the protection of law are properly deemed criminal. Leaving 600 people in this kind of confinement could not happen on U.S. soil and stopping this kind of executive justice is a justification for toppling dictators like Saddam Hussein.

Spacey 'sorry' over mugging claim - People - www.theage.com.au

Mugging?

Kevin Spacey runs into a London police station all cuts and bruises and said "I have been mugged!" and they take him to a hospital to be fixed up, but not before a London newspaper ran the story. Hollywood star mugged in London park at 4:30am.

In fact, Mr Spacey fell after chasing a kid who stole his mobile phone in a con. The Old Vic director got front page publicity and ended up with a spot on BBC radio to apologise publically "for lying" about being mugged.

Mr Spacey need not apologise. That a kid steals his mobile phone is a criminal act upon his person. That Mr Spacey was walking his dog at 4:30am in Central London may be asking for it, and his reaction may have more to do with his victimisation than the little criminal who has probably already kicked himself for selling the celebrity's phone for twenty quid. Lord knows, a tabloid newspaper would have given him thousands for it.

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Resignation

3rd Major Court Win For Ahmed Zaoui Inspector-General Resigns

Two High Court Judges have ruled that the Inspector General of Intelligence and Security (SIS) displayed apparent bias against Ahmed Zaoui and is disqualified from reviewing the refugees case.

Justices Salmon and Harrison said factors in the apparent bias case have led them to conclude that the inspector general, Laurie Greig, should stand aside from the review of Ahmed Zaouis case.

Prime Minister Helen Clark said today that following the High Court judgment issued today, the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security, Laurie Greig, has given written notice of his resignation to the Governor-General.

See the FreeZaoui.org.nz for more information about this landmark New Zealand case.

New Zealand News - NZ - Police to quiz 50 boys over CYF abuse claim

CYF Abuse Claims

Headlines about abuses in a CYF home have attracted police attention and investigation, as they must. CYF homes sometimes represent the taste of what is to come for the wayward young people who seek a career in crime.

The kids involved may be violent or extremely troublesome themselves. Controlling or teaching them real world values is an extraordinarily difficult task in a world that seems to reward wealth before effort, that seems to reward those who have versus those who admire those who have big flashy cars or sport the latest fashion trends in game boy expertise. Today's badge of honour costs a lot of money, and to fit in, children from low income homes are increasingly exposed to the dilemmas of life at an increasingly earlier age.

Does our society have a problem? Yes. Is this problem being addressed? CYFs was created to address these kinds of problems. Is it effective? Have we ever read of a success story of a child or family that CYFS has helped?

No, we read of the queue of 6,000 children waiting for CYFS services or intervention. 6,000 criminal debutantes in waiting or kids in abusive situations?

We read of CYFS failures. We read of the adminstration failures. We read about Coral Burrows. Her murder, but a coldhearted drug addicted step father highlighted a failure by CYFS. But it also highlighted a failure of police to control methamphetamine distribution. It also highlighted a failure inherent in our modern families where justice means violence and rights mean a right to abuse.

CYFS is not an evil organisation. How many case workers are superb or achieve in this unrewarding occupation of dealing with wayward children or "parents" who have no business being any where near children?

Future govenments in New Zealand will have to create a stronger CYFS regime with more talented staff. And address the problems that are creating a class of children who seem to reject social values at increasingly early ages.

A lack of moral consequence is the problem. Beating up children is not a moral consequence but a symptom of an over pressured social service hiring the wrong individuals. That it reflects on the entire department is devastating and very unfortunate.

New Zealand News - NZ - Police to quiz 50 boys over CYF abuse claim

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Anti Depressants

The FDA recently cautioned that those taking anti depressant drugs should be closely monitored for signs of worsening depression and suicidal thoughts.

Doctors prescribe anti depressants more widely than ever before, the modern equivalent of aspirin. The side effects of not following instructions with these drugs could be devastating for the patient. Playing with the chemicals involved in feeling okay like serotonin means that fluctuations in the absorbtion rate (due to patient vomiting, for example) could cause chemically induced bouts of more severe depression. It is also a feature of extreme depression that panic attacks and other forms of "unconscious behaviour" may interrupt the physical state of the individual. There may be an addiction factor involved, and management of children or teenagers on these drugs may prove difficult.

It may explain the increase in youth suicide rates. As we treat the cause directly, it becomes essential that it be done correctly. When it is not, acute disturbances may result in an increase in suicide episodes.

Our children were not prepared for this. We need to support and care for them.

New Zealand News - NZ - Child helpline desperate for funds

Youth Line in Trouble

A Child helpline which gets an average of 448 calls each day from worried children will be forced to close if it can't find new sponsorship within three weeks. It's annula costs were covered by corporate sponsors who pulled out last year. The service costs $850,000 per year to run.

Prominent Auckland criminal lawyer Marie Dyhrberg, a member of the fundraising committee, said it would be a tragedy to lose such a valuable service.

"We have got to keep it afloat because when it's lost, it's lost."

Scoop: Zaoui Lawyers Seek 'Objective Review' From PM

Scoop: Zaoui Lawyers Seek 'Objective Review' From PM

New Zealand News - - Why Ahmed Zaoui must be freed

New Zealand Herald -- Why Ahmed Zaoui must be freed

New Zealand News - - Zaoui's lawyers to quiz SIS watchdog

Zaoui - Second significant victory

Zaoui's lawyers struck with a second key victory with High Court permission granted to interrorgate the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security, Justice Laurie Grieg.

A Ritual Gone Fatally Wrong Puts Light on Masonic Secrecy

Suitable Defence for a Masonic Ritual Slaughter?

It reads like a grand case of secret society ritual gone awry but in fact it is a simple tragedy. It was indeed a sad moment in the passing of moments in the long life of accused guntotting Southside Masonic lodge member, 76 year old Albert Eid who "accidentally" shot and killed fellow lodger the 47 year old William James.

Weird spooky initiation rites and rituals the ultimate in secrecy seem all that is left for the public in any attempt to understand modern masonic organizations. Too much secrecy and soon even the more etablished membership are trying out new undocumented secret rituals, secret even from the rest of the entire membership, but perhaps writtein by a lowly scribe seven hundreds of years ago and privy only to a handful of senior initiates.

The man had a loaded gun in his trouser pocket most of the time, so was at any time a threat to anybody in his vicinity. The man was not accused of reckless behaviour, but second-degree manslaughter. Carrying a loaded gun in one's trouser is socially acceptable, in America, of course.

New Zealand News - NZ - Police optimistic in war against P

P Police Optimism

Figures on crime statistics reveal slowed growth ie P related drug crime, increasing just 1%, compared to a growth factor of nearly 30% the previous year.

This reflects sustained campaigns by police to close over two hundred methamphetamine laboritories - 53 more than the previous year.

See New Zealand News - NZ - Police optimistic in war against P

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Speculation and the Crazies

A book claims that Ahmed Zaoui was a terrorist who plotted to kill soccer star David Beckham and others at the 1998 World Cup has drawn a sceptical response from a British expert, Professor Emile George Joffe who is a specialist on North African affairs.

However Joffe, who teaches at Cambridge University's Centre for International Studies, says there was "no evidence" to say Zaoui was in the GIA, let alone its leadership.

Zaoui was under house arrest in Switzerland leading up to the World Cup – and he was not among those arrested before the tournament.

Joffe believes Zaoui's alleged involvement was probably fabricated and fed to the book's author.

New Zealand News - Dialogue - Audrey Young: PM had to act to regain credibility

Immigration Minister Resigns

The Immigration Minister Lianne Dalziel resigned because she lost her credibility. She presided over an Immigration dept that drugged and deported a clearly victimised 16 year old girl and the heavy hand was seen as that of the Government's own. The polls are showing poor support for Helen Clark's handling of this, until now her efforts to deal to the flailing Minister for Immigration with her panic button values at the constant ready should a news of a terrorist leak onto our foreshores.

There is a credibility gap because it is not relevant. Ahmed Zaoui has been in prison for over a year and we wonder at the quality of the Government's decision making process in regards to protection of our national security. That is the leak in the boat, Helen Clark. It is good that Lianne Dalziel has gone, as she has been seen to go for the expedient course that does not fit with the human rights aspects of her job.

It would have been more character forming for this Government that is fast losing its grip on the meaning of power.

See New Zealand News - Dialogue - Audrey Young: PM had to act to regain credibility

Scoop: Lawyers Release Allegations Agaist Zaoui

Secret Government Information Contains Little

The revelation of the secret Government evidence against Ahmed Zaoui are the same allegations they have already stated. We believe the case is based on heresay evidence given in cases in Belguim and France as Lawyers Release Allegations Against Zaoui, it seems more and more that the interests being protected are political rather than security related. Not "pragmatic" but "expedient".

The Government has a responsibility of truth with the voter. It is a responsibility of sacred trust. Will the Minister honour her responsibility or be silenced by "overriding considerations in the National Interest".

Ahmed Zaoui is still behind bars.

letter to the editor

Letter to the Editor

My wife and I arrived in New Zealand in the early 1970s.We love this country and are proud to be Citizens, impressed by the warmth and generosity of New Zealanders, their laid-back approach to life, plus the freedom to be anyone, do anything here.

But two recent incidents have disturbed us and made us unsure of our faith in this Government. One, the intolerant treatment of Ahmed Zaoui. The other, the brutal deportation of the Sri Lankan girl handcuffed and apparently drugged. Of course we cannot be informed with all the facts that presumably the government is.

Both these unfortunate people decided to come to New Zealand to begin a new life, because they believed that this was one country that shows compassion and concern for humanity.

How wrong could they be. Instead, they have been treated disgracefully and in a manner that we can only describe as close to facism. In the Zaoui case it appears that the Government has been misinformed and has behaved with absolute arrogance from the start.

Come on New Zealand. Lobby this Government and show that we are a country that has true compassion.

Zaoui Latest

Former Algerian Counter Intelligence Officer Speaks in Support of Ahmed Zaoui The NZ Listener reports this week that Mohammed Samraoui, a former colonel in the Algerian DRS has said: "I am sure of [Zaoui's innocence] because I was personally involved in the campaign launched against the Islamist leaders in Europe, of which Zaoui was one, in order to discredit them, and to obtain their extradition to Algeria".

Courtesy Free Zaoui

IOL : UK sounds the alarm over effects of smoking

Early Signs

Submission

Way back when before anything started to go badly, I used to join the older kids behind the tennis courts for a smoke. Not drugs or anything, just good old cigs. And a huge crowd of 5th formers and so on gathered during lunch and the ground was covered with butts. The joke was the gay teacher who took delight in catching boys breaking the rules. The penalty for being caught was left off the end of the sentence.

The bell went and we all scampered back to class trying to hide the smell of smoke hot on our breath. I hated the taste of it, but something about it was enticing, it was breaking the rules and making authority seem impotent.

It was twenty five years later that I finally managed to stop doing it.

I thought it was free will that allowed me to smoke. It was not. It was a form of enslavement that only became apparent long after the nicotine hunger was satisfied in my body. The reasons to satisfy that hunger became convincing arguments that what my family was telling me was all wrong.

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In the press: IOL : UK sounds the alarm over effects of smoking

New Zealand Herald - Latest News

Child Crime

Children under the age of 14 can not be brought to justice for committing crimes. In this story the father of the boy has been charged with receiving stolen goods because he used vouchers that the boy allegedly stole. This boy of 13 has admitted 12 burglaries and stolen four vehicles in the past couple of months.

Parents who suffer a child that commits crimes should know that the child may be caught by police but may not be charged or held and must be returned to the parents. If the parents are party to the crime, the child's age is no protection. It would seem the right thing to do is to try and return stolen property to its rightful owner, but this should be done with the police.

One story we can relay in a similar case was where a parent took the underage thief to a police station and returned the stolen goods. In this way the child was given an example of responsible behaviour. The police said that returning goods in this way was "very unusual". The parent said that statement was discouraging. Do we as a society still believe that a criminal act is okay so long as you do not get caught? Or was returning it the right thing to do?

There is room for parents to be confused both by the application of the law, and the confusion that may result from not being able to accept that their children are breaking into houses or committing crimes.

Scotsman.com News - Latest News - Atkins' Widow Accuses Opponents over Obesity Report

Dirty Tricks

The Widow of Dr Robert Aitkins is considering legal action over the release of medical records about her weight before he died.

Amid ongoing controversy about his low-carbohydrate, high protein diet a group called the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine obtained Dr Atkins' pathology report and passed it to the Wall Street Journal.

The discussion of a patient's medical history is a no-go area, and for a "Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine" to publish an individual's medical history to attack his radical diet theory is simply and diabolically wrong.

They are making fools of themselves.

Dr Aitkens, the writer and Dr Aitkens, the body are hardly the same thing. For them to attack the writer for his health is politics at its worst. The Physicians Committee's members can not have taken any Hippocratic Oath to consider publishing a medical history to attack a person.

People are very prone to misunderstand the rationale behind the propaganda. Healthy hearts across America would remove a lot of money and fear from the medical profession who are very aware that no quick fix is going to make everyone healthy.

Dr Aitken's diet can also be interpreted as a philosophy about the body.

Fast food plus sugar will cause heart disease. He was addressing the next generation of obese Americans who may live 10 - 20 years less on average due to the increased stress on the heart.

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Forensic Bullet Evidence

In this case, forensic bullet evidence is called into question, and if bullet evidence is questionable, it could reduce criminal liability in cases of shooting effectively by calling into question cases of shooting proven by foresic bullet evidence.

New Zealand News - NZ - 'P' epidemic: Forensic labs can't keep up

A question of evidence

The growing case load of methamphetamine cases is backlogging in NZ courts as forensic labs can't keep up with the case load and the drug detection agency ESR wants to "streamline" the evidential reporting standards required.

Cases are cited where accused may have to go on a waiting list for a trial due to lab evidence not yet being processed.

The growth of methamphetamine laboratory charges is startling, from 9 in 2000 to 180 last year. This is dwarfed by an estimated 300 cases for the first six months this year. The police campaign to stamp out P labs is led by a media driven public perception that it must be stamped out. There is no question that it should.

Lawyers were warning of case backlogs in courts last year as the police responded to the huge growth industry. The trouble with the backlog is that prisons will fill with the guilty and the innocent. By the time the trials commence the innocent will not be as innocent as when they were caught up in the swoop.

Cases the police are prosecuting may become more liable to objections of injustice, and so the guilty may walk free. Urgent attention to the mismatch between Government Depts is necessary. It is a train wreak. Someone needs to pay attention to the train lines and signals rather than just emptying out the bodies from crushed carriages.

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ABCNEWS.com : Annan Warns of Narrow Focus on Terrorism

ABCNEWS.com : Annan Warns of Narrow Focus on Terrorism

Fighting Fire

Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General, warns that fighting terrorism could worsen global tensions and is a threat to human rights. We have seen examples in the New Zealand Court. The Ahmed Zaoui case has received much press attention as a human rights issue and test of the New Zealand version of "Homeland Security" laws.

When the State starts to take prisoners, a de facto state of war exists. It is the definition of what is legal that shifts, the Law shifts to accomodate new positions, and in the process tramples on human rights. It changes nothing, except the level of intrusion that the State may use to fight hidden enemies.

Political evolution is a slow process. War evolves too quickly for adequately or carefully crafted legislation. It may need an expiry date.

We must ask if we live in a world more sensitive to potential atrocity?

Next, we must ask, is this sensitivity eliciting responses that are not well evolved with only short term benefit.

The freedom enjoyed by Western countries has been reduced by edict in response to terrorism. Without the terrorism, Western Governemnts could not achieve such authority.

So one must wonder, what is the point of terrorism? To bring the Western countries into a state of seige.

Do we then accept that the state of seige becomes a way of life, rather than a response to a specific danger?

We have to wonder, if we had a real terrorist in New Zealand prison, if our laws encourage future terrorist atrocity or prevent them?

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stuff.co.nz | Children forced to work | Sweatshop conditions

Children are being forced to work in New Zealand in sweatshop conditions. Is it a failure of education or the result of entrenched poverty?

Mercenary Work in Iraq

Secret Police are signing up for security work in Iraq.

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OpED - The Role of Police

Police are more prone to go for an arrest when they have a probable cause to investigate and in the course of their investigation they are confronted by an offence, or evidence of an offence.

One hopes that in the majority of cases, where a criminal act has taken life or damaged lives, and the police have done their job right, guilty verdicts are more common, and those convicted of a crime go to jail. That way we believe works, and since we believe it works, we ought to do it right.

Society pays a huge amount to protect us from killers. We judge and imprison those we charge, but by enforcing violence against those the law seeks to exclude, society faces its own trial. Society must be good, and society must be effective to be any good. Therefore it is necessary for the police to be effective rather than formidable.

The mind of a person who is prepared to take other lives is not the life that is oppressed when the police become overly zealous in their persuit of solutions to crimes that can not be solved. It is every life. The police have an utterly significant role to play in the balance of things we call a moral society. When they do it right, evil may be thwarted from harming others.

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Security

On line Banking Scam

Some NZ & Australian bank customers have been the victims of a scam that takes advantage of weaknesses in their firewall and security settings.

False job advertisements appeared on recruitment sites. The advertisements were from fictitious overseas companies that sought people to receive funds and forward them to an overseas recipient.

A 'trojan' or virus program was copied into the victim's computer, either through emails or web surfing. The virus program captured and sent keystrokes along with bank access numbers and passwords. The scammers then could access the customer?s accounts to transfer funds to one of the people ?employed? through the false job advertisements.

In the third part of the scam the person employed through the false job advertisement was asked to transfer the funds to the overseas account of the scam perpetrator.

If an offer seems too good to be true, it probably is.

If you are offered payment to transfer funds, be wary that there may be fraudulent activity involved and that there are risks associated, including the possibility of criminal charges.

(this information was extracted in part from a Bank website in New Zealand). See also the article on the NZ Police website below.

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Drink Driver Stalkers

Police are targeting drink drivers by following them, and visiting them to warn them that they will be caught.

Apparently some drink drive offenders can not give up their addiction to being behind the wheel, even after their driving licence has been suspended.

Targeted Police enforcement may seem intrusive. But if it saves lives, it may be the better option as it is "quite within the law". It takes a lot of fines and enforcement to convince a culture that demands "real blokes" demonstrate their value by continuing to drink and drive after society has told them they are putting lives at risk.

People who do not respect our driving laws threaten the lives of our children, our parents and our selves. But is this the best solution to the problem? Is it pushing the police into a style of policing (concentration on repeat offenders) that may divert resources insofar as detection and response go? How quick can the police respond to a burgulary? Faster in the places a repeat drink driver lives.

Those affected need only give their cars away to a friend, and ask them, in exchange

NZ Police News : Internet banking - money transfer scam warning

NZ Police News : Internet banking - money transfer scam warning

Have you been approached by Internet scam artists? Most probably, you have. Most probably their letter was carefully worded (and often mispelled) to exact a psychogical drama of doubt and luck that seems ever so unlikely, but what if, what if it were real?

We all have wondered about Nigerian scam artists offering a substantial percentage of twenty something million US dollars. We vaguely guess there must be something wrong with it. Nobody is about to give away 2 million dollars. The catch? Most have a little sentence about "expenses". You are required to supply a bank account or credit card. And guess what? There is no twenty six million dollars.

New Zealand Police are warning of an internet scam that sends its target money, from which a commission is taken as the remainder is forwarded to another account.

This is a method of money laundering and if you do it, you could be charged with money laundering, a specific offence under the crimes act.

National e-crime Lab Manager Maarten Kleintjes says, anyone who is being offered a percentage for just passing on funds through Internet banking should be very suspicious and notify Police straight away of who is trying to recruit them. They should also inform their bank. Police also want to hear from anyone who has already been recruited and is waiting for their first transfer (email to: banking.scam@e-crime.govt.nz).

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Child Porn Ring Broken

US Agents have taken down an international child pornography ring that operated on the internet. So far those arrested are members or subscribers to the porn ring that operated from Florida and Belarus

Those detained, along with nine others, were charged with possessing or receiving child pornography and ordered to appear in court. Some face up to 20 years in prison and fines of up to $250,000 if convicted.

Officials said none of those arrested were charged with physical abuse or with taking the photographs on the sites.

See Reuters |U.S. Agents Smash Global Internet Child Porn Ring Thu January 15, 2004 05:18 PM ET

Supreme Court Roundup: Justices Allow Policy of Silence on 9/11 Detainees

Supreme Court Roundup: Justices Allow Policy of Silence on 9/11 Detainees

Fair Justice for All

Except for those the Government arrests on terrorism charges. Now that makes a lot of sense. Now there are two types of criminals, the one's that arise from your society, and those that you believe rise from an opposing faith. The latter is a mockery of the concept of a prisoner of war. Detention without trial was part of what was wrong with the Communist regimes of the USSR.

How the US Government trusts itself not to make errors by arresting the innocent, and all the more worrying, not bringing to light with the searing torch of justice, the possible crimes of these people. How it thinks it should flout its own laws and conventions as it has redefined the enemy, not as a state that affords protection to its own, but as a conspiracy of non-humans without rights?

See also The War on Terror vs The Rule of Law

4NI - Northern Ireland On The Internet

Pornography on the Internet and Child Abuse

In UK, the NCH, a children's charity group, claimed that internet use has promoted child abuse because of a massive increase in convictions since 1988.

The fact that criminals are being caught, whereas previously, they could use manipulation and a shield of disbelief to keep their activities secret. They used to get away with crimes on children.

The modern environment appears to be removing more paedophiles from society. The internet is not causing the sickness, it is most likely that they were subjected to abuse as children, but the internet provides a "safer" option to act out their disease.

In the old environment of closed doors and secrets that paedophiles only had to leave town in order to remain anonymous.

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Maori Language Awareness

New Zealand culture stems from the language of its people. Much of the wisdom of our land is tied into stories, stories in Te Maori as well as English. The lanaguage is only as valuable as there are large numbers of speakers. Language is basic to thought. Eliminating Maori thinking from our cultural makeup would not be the best thing for cultural growth.

We need common threads and a basis of strong national identify. Look how the Maori language has already been hugely successful every time the All Blacks do the Haka. It makes us internationally noticable, ferocious, in your face, interesting to the rest of the world.

That universal skill with Maori language serves our national pride better if we all understand it in all its spirit and meaning.

If the All Blacks were to try a wee Square Dance I am sure we would feel collectively confused as a nation. Teaching our kids Maori is perhaps the best way to replace racism with national pride.

English/Maori speakers form a multicultural society. Exclusion is the occlusion of National identify. We add value to our language by speaking it. Other languages could become an option in place of Maori after two years effort learning to speak the language of the other remaining people of New Zealand.

New Zealand News - NZ - Tragic end after horror ordeals

Tragic end after horror ordeals

An Afgani refugee, Rahmatullah Qambari, 23, in New Zealand met an unfortunate end unable to keep grip in a river that was deeper than he thought. It is a sad end for one, but in hands of nature he could not receive the protection of society in time. A sad note to a noble life who was at least given a life-line. A target for crackdowns, Qambari fled Taleban controlled Afganistan in a boat that capsized and was rescued at sea.

NEWS.com.au

16 survivors, 50,000 dead

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For more information on the Ahmed Zaoui case see freezaoui.org.nz