[nativestudies-l] Re: Maori issues - Letter to Attorney General - will you sign?

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Subject: FW: -[Tino Rangatiratanga]- Letter to Attorney General - will you
sign?
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 23:56:58 +1200


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From: jbminto at xtra.co.nz
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 21:30:14 +1300
Subject: -[Tino Rangatiratanga]- Letter to Attorney General - will you sign?








Kia ora Koutou,
The letter pasted below is to be sent to the Attorney General on Wednesday
evening this week. We hope by then to have a large number of organisations
and individuals having signed the letter. We will also be requesting  the
Attorney General to receive a delegation later this week from the
organisations listed.

Please let us know urgently if you are able to sign either as an
individual or on behalf of your organisation and if you would be available
to take part in the delegation. Please email your responses to-
jbminto at xtra.co.nz or mike at unite.org.nz

Please feel free to forward this to others who may like to sign.
Regards,
John Minto
Mike Treen
for Global Peace and Justice Auckland



7 November 2007

Rt Hon Michael Cullen
Attorney General
Parliament Buildings
Wellington

Dear Michael,
Re Terrorism Suppression Act 2002

We the undersigned organisations and individuals are requesting you use
the power delegated to you under the Terrorism Suppression Act 2002 to
decline to lay charges under this legislation in relation to those
arrested last month by police in the so-called �anti-terror� raids.

There is widespread concern and mistrust of the anti-terror legislation
across the New Zealand community. These laws are seen by many to have been
passed not so much to meet our obligations to the United Nations Security
Council but to sanction greater use of state powers of surveillance and
control over those involved in political dissent.

We believe it would be a very damaging development for the New Zealand
government to approve use of this legislation in the current environment.
We risk changing the very character of the country in a situation where
there are very sensitive political issues involved.

All the police allegations of illegal activity are already covered under
existing New Zealand laws. This existing legislation can be applied
without anti-terror provisions being invoked.

We urge you to act with sensitivity and understanding of the nature of our
democracy.

Yours sincerely,


John Minto and Bronwen Summers
Phone 0064 9 8463173
Fax: 0064 9 8463 176
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