[Truerepublican]

Good point Verbatim. Where was our Government when the French resorted to terrorism on Auckland harbour in 1985? Was it regarded as an attack on the US??? No because we were so worried that the rest of the world might catch the NZ disease and say no to nuclear armed warships in their ports. Well that hasn't happened. Maybe it is time to rethink things re New Zealand - who in words, deeds and blood has proved that is as staunch an ally as any other country. Lets formalize things so we are once more allies rather than friends and so that next time someone tries to bully our allies downunder we can repay some of the Kiwi generosity. We don't need to involve the Aussies. Given their recent treachery in seeking to exclude NZ from a free trade agreement with the US I suspect they are as pleased that ANZUS is now a bilateral deal as some of my ultra red-neck countrymen commenting on this issue.

[Hamish Price]

Greetings...

I think you forgot to mention that right at the time when the CIA was plotting the downfall of the Whitlam government in Australia, they also assassinated our Prime Minister, Norman Kirk, who was about to change allegiances to the USSR...

Oh, and how about how the CIA, having rigged the New Zealand ballot and got the National Party elected in 1975, continued to punish New Zealanders by imposing that covert mole, Rob Muldoon, on us for nine years?

But the conspiracy doesn't end there. In Michael Wall's excellent documentary text, Museum Street, he states that the CIA secretly planned the downfall fo Erebus, that New Zealand-CIA agents killed Pope John Paul I, and that they trained the Man on the Grassy Knoll to take out Kennedy somewhere north of Auckland.

Oh, and the greatest conspiracy of all? That CIA stands for "Central Intelligence Agency". Just between you, me and the fencepost, mate, it really stands for "Conspiracy Is Alive"...