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		<title>By: Jeff Mitchell</title>
		<link>http://ploughshares.org.nz/images/#comment-1370</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 20:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My letter to the chch press, sent on the 7th (today).

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Paying for the new dome at the Waihopai base is a simple matter. Let&#039;s
force the yanks to fix their own base. The yanks never do anything good
for us, and we ought to stop providing concessions in exchange for
nothing. There&#039;s little they can do if we tell them to shove it, so
let&#039;s stop bowing down to non-existent pressure.

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If someone claims I&#039;m &quot;anti-American&quot;, then I&#039;ll ask them how many American soldiers I have sent to their deaths, compared to Obama. Obamalini&#039;s hard-line regime has sent thousands of US service men and women to die, but I haven&#039;t forced a single one into Afghanistan&#039;s meat grinder. I guess the anti-American brigade is that entity in the White House.

By the way, why are we still in Afghanistan? Hamid Karzai is a mentally unstable election fraudster, and as of today, he has begun negotiations with terrorists. I thought that the &quot;free world&quot; didn&#039;t negotiate with terrorists?

Bottom line:

Let&#039;s take the blame away from activists and dump it on the real saboteurs - the ones who destroyed Iraq, along with its irreplaceable relics.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My letter to the chch press, sent on the 7th (today).</p>
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<p>Paying for the new dome at the Waihopai base is a simple matter. Let&#8217;s<br />
force the yanks to fix their own base. The yanks never do anything good<br />
for us, and we ought to stop providing concessions in exchange for<br />
nothing. There&#8217;s little they can do if we tell them to shove it, so<br />
let&#8217;s stop bowing down to non-existent pressure.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p>If someone claims I&#8217;m &#8220;anti-American&#8221;, then I&#8217;ll ask them how many American soldiers I have sent to their deaths, compared to Obama. Obamalini&#8217;s hard-line regime has sent thousands of US service men and women to die, but I haven&#8217;t forced a single one into Afghanistan&#8217;s meat grinder. I guess the anti-American brigade is that entity in the White House.</p>
<p>By the way, why are we still in Afghanistan? Hamid Karzai is a mentally unstable election fraudster, and as of today, he has begun negotiations with terrorists. I thought that the &#8220;free world&#8221; didn&#8217;t negotiate with terrorists?</p>
<p>Bottom line:</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s take the blame away from activists and dump it on the real saboteurs &#8211; the ones who destroyed Iraq, along with its irreplaceable relics.</p>
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		<title>By: Peter Murnane</title>
		<link>http://ploughshares.org.nz/images/#comment-1228</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Murnane]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greetings, John
Thanks for your comments.
You are right, we are Christians. 
But doesn&#039;t Jesus clearly say that we should love all people, forgiving enemies and doing to others what we would like them to do to us?
We are therefore strongly opposed to torture, weapons of mass destruction, the violent invasions of other people&#039;s homeland.
The war in Iraq involves all of the above. (Please do some research on depleted uranium weapons – try the CADU website. These have polluted Iraq forever, causing increases in deformed babies and cancers even in US and UK veterans)

What has this to do with the Waihopai base?
It is part of the USA-led system (called Platform, using Echelon software) that collects – illegally - massive amounts of communications: telephone conversations; emails etc from everyone. It all goes to the National Security Agency (NSA) in Fort Meade, Maryland. Since this is the main collecting system available to USA, by deduction, it is responsible for helping the invasion of Iraq.

In out trial we provided evidence that the system, including the NZ base, spied on UN nations who were about to vote for or against the invasion.that George Bush so much wanted. (Google the whistle-blower Katharine Gun)
Where else does USA get its information to capture the approx 1000 people whom it has sent (they call it “extraordinary rendition”) to be horribly tortured in “black sites” in Syria, Egypt, Lithuania, Poland etc.? I know a personal friend of Canadian citizen Maher Arar, who was kidnapped in 2002 by US agents while passing through JFK airport in New York, and spent 10 months being tortured in Syria. The Canadian government eventually paid him $10 million compensation, but who can “repair” that kind of damage?

The US spy base is not just “someone else&#039;s property”... it is a part of the USA war machine. What kind of partners are we allowing to run it in our midst? 
To give only one example: In the year it was built, 1989, the USA was sponsoring and helping the Guatemalan government to torture tens of thousands of its own citizens, so that they could not speak or act against their cruel exploitation by US companies. (Try Wikipedia etc for The United Fruit Company [or US Fruit Company] I met one of those who were tortured; a Catholic sister whose only “crime” was to teach indigenous children their own language and culture. This might have helped them to discover their own dignity and to stand up for themselves. Such Christian “subversion” could not be tolerated. (Google: Sister Dianna Ortiz)

If you saw children trapped in a burning house, would you not break in to save them? Would you then be guilty of burglary?
In the same way, we cut through fences and deflated a dome concealing the instrument that helps all these processes. 
The eleven good New Zealanders on the jury decided that we were not guilty. They saw that we were trying to help New Zealanders wake up to how they are – unknowingly – assisting in crimes against humanity, because they are paying for this base in their back yard. Already – over 20 years - $500 million of NZ taxpayers&#039; money has been used to build and run this base, and it now costs us more than $40 million each year.

The governmental terrorism that it helps to happen, is having an enormous impact on the future of our worldwide human family.

I would value any further discussion of this matter.
Peace     Peter]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Greetings, John<br />
Thanks for your comments.<br />
You are right, we are Christians.<br />
But doesn&#8217;t Jesus clearly say that we should love all people, forgiving enemies and doing to others what we would like them to do to us?<br />
We are therefore strongly opposed to torture, weapons of mass destruction, the violent invasions of other people&#8217;s homeland.<br />
The war in Iraq involves all of the above. (Please do some research on depleted uranium weapons – try the CADU website. These have polluted Iraq forever, causing increases in deformed babies and cancers even in US and UK veterans)</p>
<p>What has this to do with the Waihopai base?<br />
It is part of the USA-led system (called Platform, using Echelon software) that collects – illegally &#8211; massive amounts of communications: telephone conversations; emails etc from everyone. It all goes to the National Security Agency (NSA) in Fort Meade, Maryland. Since this is the main collecting system available to USA, by deduction, it is responsible for helping the invasion of Iraq.</p>
<p>In out trial we provided evidence that the system, including the NZ base, spied on UN nations who were about to vote for or against the invasion.that George Bush so much wanted. (Google the whistle-blower Katharine Gun)<br />
Where else does USA get its information to capture the approx 1000 people whom it has sent (they call it “extraordinary rendition”) to be horribly tortured in “black sites” in Syria, Egypt, Lithuania, Poland etc.? I know a personal friend of Canadian citizen Maher Arar, who was kidnapped in 2002 by US agents while passing through JFK airport in New York, and spent 10 months being tortured in Syria. The Canadian government eventually paid him $10 million compensation, but who can “repair” that kind of damage?</p>
<p>The US spy base is not just “someone else&#8217;s property”&#8230; it is a part of the USA war machine. What kind of partners are we allowing to run it in our midst?<br />
To give only one example: In the year it was built, 1989, the USA was sponsoring and helping the Guatemalan government to torture tens of thousands of its own citizens, so that they could not speak or act against their cruel exploitation by US companies. (Try Wikipedia etc for The United Fruit Company [or US Fruit Company] I met one of those who were tortured; a Catholic sister whose only “crime” was to teach indigenous children their own language and culture. This might have helped them to discover their own dignity and to stand up for themselves. Such Christian “subversion” could not be tolerated. (Google: Sister Dianna Ortiz)</p>
<p>If you saw children trapped in a burning house, would you not break in to save them? Would you then be guilty of burglary?<br />
In the same way, we cut through fences and deflated a dome concealing the instrument that helps all these processes.<br />
The eleven good New Zealanders on the jury decided that we were not guilty. They saw that we were trying to help New Zealanders wake up to how they are – unknowingly – assisting in crimes against humanity, because they are paying for this base in their back yard. Already – over 20 years &#8211; $500 million of NZ taxpayers&#8217; money has been used to build and run this base, and it now costs us more than $40 million each year.</p>
<p>The governmental terrorism that it helps to happen, is having an enormous impact on the future of our worldwide human family.</p>
<p>I would value any further discussion of this matter.<br />
Peace     Peter</p>
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		<title>By: John Cox</title>
		<link>http://ploughshares.org.nz/images/#comment-1223</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Cox]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 05:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You three are, I am afraid, deluded.  Waihopai has nothing to do with American war crimes or imperialism.  It cannot in any way be linked with George W Bush&#039;s tyranny, nor that of his successor-in-crime Obama.

If you were Christians you could not justify violence and vandalism you have committed.

If you were Christians you would not lie, and claim that you have no assets.

I could go on, but it serves no useful purpose.  I do however have one suggestion - get real jobs.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You three are, I am afraid, deluded.  Waihopai has nothing to do with American war crimes or imperialism.  It cannot in any way be linked with George W Bush&#8217;s tyranny, nor that of his successor-in-crime Obama.</p>
<p>If you were Christians you could not justify violence and vandalism you have committed.</p>
<p>If you were Christians you would not lie, and claim that you have no assets.</p>
<p>I could go on, but it serves no useful purpose.  I do however have one suggestion &#8211; get real jobs.</p>
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		<title>By: World Freeman Society</title>
		<link>http://ploughshares.org.nz/images/#comment-1220</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[World Freeman Society]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 23:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a very interesting topic which our Society has been watching very carefully. We believe you men are most definitely on the right path, and the use of a Claim of Right most interesting indeed. If you are unaware of us, then by all means please visit the site, we have the beginnings of a New Zealand Chapter and are denying consent to be governed on mass, globally.
The document we use to do this is a Claim of Right, and even more interesting the Government here in NZ wants to get rid of the Claim of Right and Lawful Excuse from the Crimes Act 1961.
We are one step away from being New Zimbabwe folks.
Peace and Namaste.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a very interesting topic which our Society has been watching very carefully. We believe you men are most definitely on the right path, and the use of a Claim of Right most interesting indeed. If you are unaware of us, then by all means please visit the site, we have the beginnings of a New Zealand Chapter and are denying consent to be governed on mass, globally.<br />
The document we use to do this is a Claim of Right, and even more interesting the Government here in NZ wants to get rid of the Claim of Right and Lawful Excuse from the Crimes Act 1961.<br />
We are one step away from being New Zimbabwe folks.<br />
Peace and Namaste.</p>
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		<title>By: Ruth Alley</title>
		<link>http://ploughshares.org.nz/images/#comment-1207</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruth Alley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Made my day here in London where we could do with people like you to chip away at our appalling involvment in the carnage in Iraq and Afghanistan. 
Non violent direct action badly needed  at British Foreign Office.  So good to hear of people like you addressing what&#039;s going on thier own back yard. Wish you all well.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Made my day here in London where we could do with people like you to chip away at our appalling involvment in the carnage in Iraq and Afghanistan.<br />
Non violent direct action badly needed  at British Foreign Office.  So good to hear of people like you addressing what&#8217;s going on thier own back yard. Wish you all well.</p>
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		<title>By: Victor Hansen</title>
		<link>http://ploughshares.org.nz/images/#comment-1206</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Victor Hansen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good on ya. Stand up on behalf of all the uneducated sheep out there. Theres a LOT.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good on ya. Stand up on behalf of all the uneducated sheep out there. Theres a LOT.</p>
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		<title>By: Brian van Dam</title>
		<link>http://ploughshares.org.nz/images/#comment-1205</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brian van Dam]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kia Ora Fr Peter, Sam and Adrian,

I&#039;m thrilled the wonderful jury and judge have acquitted you all on all charges!!! The power of prayer and God&#039;s love has been revealed in a small part of the world.

You have given marvellous testimony to the need for peace and the action required to bring it about. Let&#039;s hope the war machine&#039;s spy base is shut down as soon as possible.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kia Ora Fr Peter, Sam and Adrian,</p>
<p>I&#8217;m thrilled the wonderful jury and judge have acquitted you all on all charges!!! The power of prayer and God&#8217;s love has been revealed in a small part of the world.</p>
<p>You have given marvellous testimony to the need for peace and the action required to bring it about. Let&#8217;s hope the war machine&#8217;s spy base is shut down as soon as possible.</p>
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		<title>By: Adrienne Thompson</title>
		<link>http://ploughshares.org.nz/images/#comment-1204</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adrienne Thompson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#039;t stop smiling. &quot;The kingdom of God is ... justice, peace and joy in the Holy spirit. &quot; Adi, Sam and Peter have demonstrated God&#039;s rule , by actively contradicting the powers of injustice, war and despair.And as a result all of us have had a glimpse of God&#039;s kingdom. Thanks guys. Thanks be to God.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can&#8217;t stop smiling. &#8220;The kingdom of God is &#8230; justice, peace and joy in the Holy spirit. &#8221; Adi, Sam and Peter have demonstrated God&#8217;s rule , by actively contradicting the powers of injustice, war and despair.And as a result all of us have had a glimpse of God&#8217;s kingdom. Thanks guys. Thanks be to God.</p>
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		<title>By: Jeff Mitchell</title>
		<link>http://ploughshares.org.nz/images/#comment-1203</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Mitchell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;m not that surprised at the trial outcome, because the holocaust in Iraq was horrific, and obviously fighting it is nothing in comparison to mass murder and territorial expansion. At the moment, I don&#039;t think that the world is doing enough to avoid a war with Iran.

Some people call me &quot;biased&quot; and &quot;anti-American&quot;, but I&#039;m actually pro-America! The war on terror is wasting all of their money, thereby reducing them to third-world status - I&#039;m just trying to help! America was a great idea for a country, but now it has been hijacked by parasites: the military-industrial-complex, the CIA, and of course, the Wall Street establishment.

We need to help our American friends by ending the war and restoring their once free republic. Modern day America now resembles Hitler&#039;s Germany, which is unacceptable. Obama and the whole Bush administration should be trialled and thrown in prison.

If anyone wants to help then send me an email: jeff@nz911truth.org]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m not that surprised at the trial outcome, because the holocaust in Iraq was horrific, and obviously fighting it is nothing in comparison to mass murder and territorial expansion. At the moment, I don&#8217;t think that the world is doing enough to avoid a war with Iran.</p>
<p>Some people call me &#8220;biased&#8221; and &#8220;anti-American&#8221;, but I&#8217;m actually pro-America! The war on terror is wasting all of their money, thereby reducing them to third-world status &#8211; I&#8217;m just trying to help! America was a great idea for a country, but now it has been hijacked by parasites: the military-industrial-complex, the CIA, and of course, the Wall Street establishment.</p>
<p>We need to help our American friends by ending the war and restoring their once free republic. Modern day America now resembles Hitler&#8217;s Germany, which is unacceptable. Obama and the whole Bush administration should be trialled and thrown in prison.</p>
<p>If anyone wants to help then send me an email: <a href="mailto:jeff@nz911truth.org">jeff@nz911truth.org</a></p>
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		<title>By: Tess Rooney</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tess Rooney]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;m so pleased you have been acquitted. May Our Lord Jesus Christ keep you and bless you as you actively live the Gospel. 

God bless &amp; ave Maria,

Tess]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m so pleased you have been acquitted. May Our Lord Jesus Christ keep you and bless you as you actively live the Gospel. </p>
<p>God bless &amp; ave Maria,</p>
<p>Tess</p>
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