War Games

Stupid Idiots

Shortly after 9/11 New Zealand passed its own anti-terrorism law, the Terrorism Suppression Act.  Its focus and intent was upon the threat of Islamic terrorists infiltrating into New Zealand and committing murder.  The passing of the law was a panic-stricken, rushed affair.  As is almost always the case, laws passed in haste produce decades of pain due to unforeseen adverse consequences.  NZ's anti-terror act is a dog's breakfast we are told. Even MP's are now publicly repenting of their sins in acting in such ill advised haste.

What the panic-stricken parliamentarians never considered in drafting the law was home-grown terrorists.  But that is what we got.  A raggle-taggle bunch of deluded utopians, filled with their own sense of moment and self-importance.  Military-style training camps for armed assaults and revolution in the remote Te Uruwera forest were conducted.  A network of left-wing radicals and anarchists was developed, with links throughout the country.

The police were on to it.