Posted on 05/13/2019 9:53:26 AM PDT by TigerClaws
New Zealanders are receiving home visits from police to check on their political views, with one individual claiming that authorities asked him if he supported Donald Trump.
The visits are taking place as a response to March’s Christchurch mosque massacre.
In one clip, armed police arrive at a man’s home on Sunday morning to question him in relation to his political beliefs.
“The reason we’re here, basically it’s down to the recent events in Christchurch, with the shooting there, a number of people have been identified who we’ve been asked to go and speak to, so you’re one of those people,” says the officer.
The man is happy to talk to the cops, but they refuse to do so on camera and eventually leave.
In a separate clip, another man relates the story of how he was visited by armed police (again on a Sunday morning) because he makes YouTube videos criticizing mass migration.
The man’s wife and daughter, who were both upset by the experience, were also interviewed by police.
“I was asked if I was a Trump supporter, I was asked if I was a racist and have I got any ethnic minority friends,” said the man, who runs a YouTuber channel called Cross the Rubicon, adding that police also quizzed him on whether he owned guns.
Within a week, police returned to the house – 15 of them this time – closing off the entire street – to again interrogate him on his political views.
“They’re trying to force me to shut my mouth and to keep it shut,” the man said.
He also warns that governments are exploiting the mosque shooting to deplatform conservatives.
One wonders whether random Muslims receive home visits from police after Islamic terror attacks. Unlikely.
To the ears of someone who speaks the language, referring to the Sturmabteilung or the Schutzstaffel as the "Sturmschutz" is about as painful as calling the "Minute Men" of the American Revolutionary War the "Quicky Guys."
He also thanked me for pointing out his mistake.
Regards,
It's spelled "Stasi," and is the slang phrase for "Ministerium für Staatssicherheit" or "Staatssicherheitsdienst."
Regards,
Thanks for the correction. I realized my spelling error shortly after.
But I hope you still see the analogy I was trying to make.
If anything, the Stasi had nothing on the supposedly democratic states of today in terms of surveillance and intimidation.
Great, I scanned this thread looking for people who live or did live in New Zealand.
From what I’ve seen, there’s a core of people of solid stock in NZ. The toughest rugby teams of the world live in NZ.
Then again, their chief competitors live in Ireland, and Ireland doesn’t seem very conservative-friendly.
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