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VINCE SEIMER ARRESTED: IS NEW ZEALAND GOING FASCIST, TOO?
By Penny Bright
10 November 2009
What is happening to Vince Siemer makes me ashamed to be a New Zealander.
Vince has just been arrested at his home, and has been taken by Police Officers to the Auckland High Court.
Whether the matter will be heard today – or Vince will be held in custody overnight is at this stage unknown.
Vince refused to attend Court this morning, for reasons outlined in his
‘MEMORANDUM OF RESPONDENT IN PROTEST TO SHOW TRIAL’ which follows at the end of this email.
Seimer breached J Winkelmann’s ‘Court Order’ which says that the public are not allowed to be told that six out of nine of the land search warrants used by Police in the so-called ‘Tuhoe Terror Raids’ were found to be unlawful.
That’s right. New Zealand’s (in)famous “terror raids” were found to be unlawful. However, New Zealanders were forbidden from learning that fact.
The reason given was that public knowledge that the Police acted unlawfully would prejudice the defendants right to a fair trial.
What??!?!?
Believing in the public’s right to know this, Vince simply reported this fact on his website www.kiwisfirst.co.nz. Indeed, the story has gone out virally as well, and it is now common knowledge.
However, there is a vendetta against Seimer, and I proved it myself by not only spreading the story around myself, but in actually informing the authorities that I, too, broke the storyI have personally approached the Attorney-General, the Solicitor-General (TWICE), and Justice Winkelmann herself, with copies of evidence that prove I, too, have breached her ‘Court Order’.
They have done NOTHING about my breach of the same ‘Court Order’ for which the Solicitor-General wants to jail Vince Siemer.
I have sent out the same information as has Vince to ALL MPs, 170 members of the media (on at least three separate occasions), told people about Justice Winkelmann’s ’suppressed’ ruling on talkback on at at least four different occasions – but for me there have been NO consequences – although I have tried my hardest.
Why have I done this?
Because, like Vince Siemer, I passionately believe in FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION, and the public’s right to know about a judgment made in a public court of law.
Understandably, suppression orders can be made on NAMES of parties – but the decision itself?
HOW CAN SUCH A SUPPRESSION ORDER OF A JUDGMENT MADE IN A PUBLIC COURT BE LAWFUL??
Surely – if Judges want people to OBEY COURT ORDERS then these orders need to be BASED ON THE LAW????
WHAT LAW HAS VINCE SIEMER OR I BROKEN IN TELLING THE PUBLIC ABOUT J. WINKELMANN’S JUDGMENT?
Just because a Judge made that ’Court Order’ – would that make it LAWFUL?
What if Judges made Court Orders that Jewish people had to wear a ’star of David’?
Are we moving in New Zealand from ‘Nanny State’ towards a ‘Nazi State’?
Why also is J Winkelmann not ‘firing her own bullets’ on this matter?
If Vince Siemer is allegedly breaching HER Court Order – why has SHE not filed ‘contempt proceedings’ herself?
WHY has the Solicitor-General ‘trumped’ her in so doing?
Is this an outright abuse of power by the Solicitor-General?
Is this PERSECUTION rather than PROSECUTION of Vince Siemer by the Solicitor-General?
What is happening to Vince Siemer is a DISGRACE.
It requires the URGENT intervention of the ‘Highest Acting Law Officer in the Land’ – the Attorney-General, Chris Finlayson, to act in the ‘public interest’.
The simple solution?
The Attorney-General to intervene, in the ‘public interest’ and do whatever is necessary to lift J. Winkelmann’s ’suppression order.’
Then, logically, the ‘contempt of Court’ proceedings against Vince Siemer would have to be dropped.
Penny Bright
Media Spokesperson
Water Pressure Group
Judicially recognised ‘Public Watchdog’ on Metrowater, water and Auckland regional governance matters.
“Anti-corruption campaigner”.
PH (09) 846 9825
021 211 4 127
11 November 2009
UPDATE: Vince was released yesterday.
The defended hearing will be heard on
Monday 16th November 2009,
Auckland High Court, Waterloo Quadrant.
PROTEST outside High Court in support of Vince
9.30am – 10am.
10am defended hearing starts.
We need that Court room PACKED with those who support -
freedom of expression, the public’s right to know decisions made in a public Court, and against misuse of judicial power at the highest levels!
You don’t want NZ heading from ‘Nanny State’ – to ‘Nazi State’?
BE THERE!
Please help to spread the word!
Cheers!
Penny
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IN THE HIGH COURT OF NEW ZEALAND
AUCKLAND REGISTRY
No. CIV 2009 404 6747
BETWEEN SOLICITOR GENERAL OF N.Z.
Applicant
AND VINCENT ROSS SIEMER
Respondent
___________________________________________________________________
MEMORANDUM OF RESPONDENT IN PROTEST TO SHOW TRIAL
9 November 2009
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
PRESENTED FOR FILING BY V R SIEMER
27 Clansman Terrace
Gulf Harbour
AUCKLAND
Phone (09) 428 2121 Fax (09) 428 2521
MEMORANDUM OF RESPONDENT
9 November 2009
RECORDING:
1. The Registrar has refused to accept the Respondent’s legal filings. Every Judge involved has refused to address this incontrovertible evidence Registrar Tony Mortimer acted unlawfully [ http://www.blip.tv/file/2809913/ ] and the respondent being denied Court access as a result.
2. In this case where the Respondent’s liberty is at stake, Judge Patricia Courtney – a lawyer whom 4 sworn witnesses gave evidence had deliberately and unlawfully withheld intercepted documents posted to the respondent’s company – then made initial rulings in this case despite admittedly having nothing before her to rule on.
3. Judge Venning then refused to release the audio-record of this appearance before Courtney J. Venning and Keane JJ asserted Courtney’s certain conflict of interest was resolved by taking her off the case. Both Judges still upheld her spurious orders.
4. This is an alleged contempt prosecution for publicly disclosing the result of a Public Court Judgment by Winkelmann J in the massive “terrorist” debacle.
5. The accuracy, as well as the public interest and importance, of what the respondent published are common ground. They stand as proof the respondent’s actions are lawful.
6. IMPORTANT: Judge Winkelmann did not provide legal support for suppression of her judgment - AND SHE DID NOT initiated contempt. It is Solicitor General David Collins alone, using taxpayers’ funds, who is persecuting the respondent. Mr Collins alone claimed the publication poses a threat to the “accused terrorists” getting a fair trial. This is patently absurd. Winkelmann herself selectively read out in open Court – before TV news cameras – the very worst evidence from the publicly suppressed Police affidavit, so the Judge would be a hypocrite if she claimed as much.
7. Moreover, while the Crown were selling the need for the public to endorse broader powers to Police under the proposed Search and Surveillance Bill before Parliament, the Judges were concealing the very fact that Police and Judges had greatly abused their legal existing powers in the largest scale police raids in history. Most Kiwis do not know that even though the Police and Judges unlawfully abused their powers, the Evidence Act allows them to use the fruits of their unlawful searches and seizures.
8. Equally damning, this contempt prosecution exists only because S-G David Collins told Winkelmann J to amend her judgment last month – which she did.
9. For the last two years Court officers have been selectively issuing media releases in support of the prosecution of 20 New Zealand citizens – while simultaneously suppressing from the public the evidence that police and judicial officers have acted unlawfully. These are facts.
10. This propaganda extends to this prosecution, with the Court issuing a “press release” when it suits their prosecution, while suppressing Court judgments which show the Judges are acting unlawfully in preventing the respondent court access (see Keane J ruling of 2 November 2009).
11. This persecution by Collins on the public purse has gone on for 2+ years. This included unlawful attacks on the respondent’s media business and ordering a massive police raid on the respondent’s home and seizure of his business and personal property in 2008.
12. The respondent has a lawful right to defend himself, including evidence showing how David Collins – a non-party to the alleged contempt – has abused his public office and maliciously persecuted the respondent and the respondent’s family.
13. The respondent has a lawful right to cross-examine his accuser David Collins. He has the right in law to file a counterclaim and a defence. Courtney and Keane JJ have contravened law and the Court’s own rules 134 and 135 by preventing the Counterclaim being filed, then steamrolled orders before the respondent was able to enlist counsel.
14. The High Court last year ordered the respondent’s news “websites are to be unconditionally closed down…, failing which Mr Siemer will be committed to prison for six months on Friday.”[1] The respondent will resist this dangerous and flatly unlawful order until the day he dies.
15. Misuse of official power is the very essence of tyranny. Reason suggests if the respondent was guilty of unlawful behaviour, Judges would not be denying him Court access and transparent justice. That the Court has refused to accept the respondent’s filings on the vague claim that they do not comply with proper form when seeking to commit him to prison is as diabolical as it is untrue and unlawful. This, and the fact that the Judges are demanding their orders in this prosecution be concealed from the public and the audio-transcripts of Courtney J’s malfeasance suppressed, prove the respondent’s position that New Zealand is under extreme threat from lawless judges is a correct one.
16. The respondent has too much respect for the rule of law to attend a show trial by New Zealand Judges intent on breaking the most indispensable laws. He has engaged Barrister Eugeny Orlov, but because the NZ Court has bankrupted the respondent, Judges cannot decide whether this is a criminal or civil proceeding and Mr Orlov is involved in a trial, legal aid has yet to be approved.
17. If sent to prison under these circumstances, the respondent will not take any food while awaiting an appeal. As the Court has hastily advanced S-G Collins’ persecution to deny the respondent counsel and defence, he may be required to advance his appeal from a prison cell under urgency. This is equally the case with the respondent’s appeal of the S-G’s previous persecution (SC48/2009), which is due to be heard by the Supreme Court on 9 December 2009. The law requires the respondent be permitted to take his computer and printer to prison for this purpose. The evidence of this legal requirement is attached. Aware that an appeal is imminent and another one is pending before the Supreme Court, directions from this Court to the prison officials requiring access to computer and legal authorities is required if the Judges imprison the respondent without a proper trial.
18. Irrespective of the Court’s intervention to conceal what is occurring, David Collins submissions in this persecution (dated 21 October but filed on 6 November 2009), and his previous persecution of the respondent in June 2008, establish an indelible record of the travesty which is common in the New Zealand Courts but not being reported by New Zealand media because they are either unaware due to the secretive nature of the NZ Court or fear the same fate.
__________________________
V. R. Siemer , respondent
Cc: Crown Law
[1] Minute of Full High Court Bench Chisholm and Gendall JJ, 31 July 2008 Solicitor General v Vince Siemer CIV2008 404 472
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“You don’t want NZ heading from ‘Nanny State’ – to ‘Nazi State’?”
Some people do – and it’s those people that everyone needs to start worrying about.
Many New Zealanders wanted to get so far away from the ‘nanny state’ (whatever the fu*k ‘nanny state’ is supposed to mean) that they didn’t see the ‘Nazi’ state coming.
All they cared about was their ‘Tax Cuts’, their mortgage, their own status, and their own bloody kids.
With the help of soulless fu*ks working in PR firms, they were lied to, misdirected, manipulated, and bribed
Hmm convince me more
Hi Ursula,
Did you mean the posted article or my last comment ?
.
well – I’ll try to answer you anyway
I don’t want to convince you of anything – just to present to
anyone information and opinions – because the act of doing
so is starting to feel like some kind of systemic defence
mechanism, if you take my meaning.
I was just pointing out a kind of personal frustration with the
on-going limitations of the two-party approach.
‘Nanny state’, ‘Helengrad’, and the highly reliable ‘Time
for Change’ or some such – were some of the many
catch-phrases bouncing around the email networks of
ambitious mid-decile types before the last election.
There’s a great quote from a long standing dead American
news teleprompter reader that says:
“Television News doesn’t tell you what to think.
Television news tells you what to think about.”
(having personally worked for television broadcasters
- this notion rings depressingly true).
This viral internet version of winning hearts and minds was no different.
This concerted e-push of information and misdirection was so very well organized and prolific to the degree that it rather overwhelmed the Labour Party’s version of online e-mailable perception twisting
- used widely in swaying and cluttering people’s
brains and ideas away from ‘what might really matter’
in order to sway people’s decisions that were happening on that day at the booth
(at least that’s what Clark believed during an interview with
her that I helped film shortly after the Labour Party lost the
last election).
I’m yet to be convinced that there is a huge amount of
difference between the reds and the blues
(although I know that there is some difference).
There’s just not a big enough point of difference when it comes to life-sucking decisions like privatisation where you sell local and national infrastructure to foreign multinationals
– for no other reason than that they want you to
– and that they will also pay you well if you do the deal.
To some eyes, New Zealand, it’s natural resources (like, for instance, water or cows)
and the harnessed energy of it’s people
(like, for instance, those little AA-batteries that Morpheus holds up in that movie, The Matrix)
– are only a resource to be usurped and owned by people that don’t live here.
And unpopular policy decisions
(as we can see when events unfold immeadiately following unpopular policy decisions made overseas)
may often require some kind of poorly thought out police action.
Fascism (my definition) is all the bad crap that happens at the
societal level and below
– once government and big business become so fused that they begin to overwhelmingly make policy and decisions in the interests only of themselves and each other.
And everyone else can go hang.
And when they have the poorly informed, well paid, brown shirted muscle – each with a fully busted moral compass – to help them to pull it off
– then all bets are off for a decent secure society here –
because everyone personally has something to lose.
(if you don’t know what I mean by this, then watch some 70 year old German footage from Germany when the Nazis were giving German society the brutal and unwanted death-camp makeover that followed the stunning PR campaign)
I’ve spoken to criminal lawyers in bars, that have told me
(sober)
that they have observed that some of our cops
(who have maybe personally forgotten their own Trentham oaths)
were (unofficially) deputiseing some of our nation’s gang members
– a la Los Angeles.
To these lawyers – to them, this was a new occurrence in the New Zealand experience.
Moving on, I know most New Zealanders care more about tax cuts than anything else,
because I once spent a week working at one of those heinous sweat-shop type telemarketing places on Nelson St,
where they pay you minimum wage and threaten your job security twice a day in a soulless attempt to increase your calls per hour.
I was asking randomly dialed New Zealanders all over New Zealand
– about who they were voting for in the upcoming Election, and why
– in order to help some undisclosed client-entity to try and find out ahead of time – who was going to win the next election.
One of my scripted questions on the screen in front of me was :
“What’s the most important issue for you in the upcoming election?”
Out of those Kiwis that didn’t abusively hang up their phone immediately, it was true that most people said that they didn’t know much about ‘politics and things’
– but 8 times out of ten,
those kiwis that possessed the ‘non-locally-observant’ gene replied:
‘tax cuts’.
Not very inspiring.
If you want to know the true meaning of soulless fu*ks working in PR firms,
then watch the Alastair Barry / Nicky Hagar doco ‘The Hollow Men’
for some good audio visual examples.
Just have a good paper bag handy.
These people have zero regard or respect for you or anyone you know,
and they will willingly attempt to manipulate you to accept huge falsehoods
(illustrated glaringly in that documentary
– as well as every time an elected New Zealand political party does a total 180 on its own election manifesto).
The size of the PR folks paychecks are matched only by their level of contempt that they have for the ‘public’.
And these PR types -suck- to bar-bee-que with.
Not exactly ‘up’ people – and ‘sincerity’ does not exactly figure big in their own plans for their own boring ascensions.
(IMOHO)
Cheers,
S
Thankyou!
I meant the article posted. If this is indeed true then it is a huge issue for our country. With more research I’m sure many people would be at the least, alarmed by the implications of this story. As much as I admire Ms Brights’ passion and action the story needs at least one other source of corroboration.
Scott: I found your reply to Ursula interesting and carefully read what you obviously put some time into writing.
It is my understanding that the internationalists are operating in a similar manner around the world as they consolidate their control over others.
I would expect your “two”-party system in NZ to be a joke, just like ours is in America.
That the globalists exercise enough control over your major media to persuade the general public to “vote” for their puppets and not take a chance on truly independent candidates (should one actually be running) because they stand “no chance of winning” and it will only “help the opposition candidate get elected”. Sound familiar? That’s the game they play here.
In a recent post from Lombeer, exposing the method of operation of Alex Search, he touched on another important aspect of how the globalists themselves operate, which is: turning as many of us against each other as possible. Sadly, I have witnessed this strategy working all too well here (in this country) as people fall right into the trap of blindly striking out at others instead of diligently finding out for themselves what is actually going on and (very important) who the enemy is.
The fog that so many are in as they lash out at those of us that try to bring the truth to them is not accidental.
Their anger is misdirected.
They tend to continue “electing” useless puppets and frontmen; but become very frustrated when these actors don’t live up to their campaign promises.
Instead of facing the phoniness of it all, most tend to take out their frustration on their independently minded countrymen (and women) who separate themselves from the lies and expose the hijacked system rather than getting sucked into it.
In America, the internationalists have their electronic voting machines to insure that the public votes correctly. Nothing is left to “chance”. Even if a larger number of us boycotted the fake elections, they could maintain the illusion of a greater turnout at the polls by tweaking their machines and presenting the phony figures via the major media that they control through the secret societies that high-level major media executives are members of.
The neoconservatives in talk radio play their part, badgering their listeners to vote for the internationalist’s puppet in the Republican tee shirt, and not “waste their vote” on a third party candidate. Their colleagues on the fake left likewise prop up an equally bad choice as they inflate the image of the globalist’s minion posing as a Democrat. The neoconservatives in talk radio on the “right” and their comrades on the political “left” unite with the major media in deceiving the American people about 9/11.
The internationalists created the “nanny state” in America as a way to increase the size and scope of government beyond the intent of the Constitution which (as I understand the Document) limits the size of government. The Democrats claim to want to treat laborers fairly and provide for those facing hardship. The Republicans claim to be for low taxation, but the globalists among them increase the size of government themselves, which requires (sooner or later) more taxes.
True conservatives desire a small government and very low taxation. Many of the Republicans are not true conservatives but actually collectivists aiding and abetting the globalist agenda and doing their part to bury this nation economically. As long as Democrats and Republicans work hand in hand to implement a globalist agenda, there will be people across the nation facing hardship basically brought on by internationalist policies enacted by these underminers of our freedoms.
They are working together to destroy jobs in America that pay a living wage. Criminals in their ranks brought us the $4 a gallon gasoline prices in the summer of 2008. After the “election” the price of gasoline dropped to $1.50 a gallon for a short time. The world economy had to pushed into a catastrophic state by the greed and design of these people before we could see the preposterous price of gasoline and home heating fuel deflated. Many lost their homes, not because they “overextended themselves” but because it was designed that way by thieves that orchestrated the rapid increase of gasoline, home heating fuel, the cost of transporting food, and ultimately the cost of food itself at the market.
How much of the “bailout” money ended up being showered upon the “speculators” that triggered the crisis in the first place?
Most of the “bailout” money was nothing more than a transfer of wealth. All planned (most likely) before George W. Bush or Barack Obama were “elected” to office. It was, and is, a very effective way to further enrich already very wealthy people; while enslaving future generations to a “debt” they had nothing to say about. Most people who appreciate a website like Uncensored consider this criminal activity.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A9X_8flGeM
“Most of the “bailout” money was nothing more than a transfer of wealth. All planned (most likely) before George W. Bush or Barack Obama were “elected” to office. It was, and is, a very effective way to further enrich already very wealthy people; while enslaving future generations to a “debt” they had nothing to say about. Most people who appreciate a website like Uncensored consider this criminal activity.”
Couldn’t agree more.
And most New Zealanders who believe only what they read in the Herald or only what they watch on One News
– wouldn’t know a gosh darn thing about it.
Or even worse – believe it to be happening unavoidably or occuring naturally.
http://www.examiner.com/x-18425-LA-County-Nonpartisan-Examiner~y2009m11d12-Financial-expert-Gerald-Celente-American-public-losing-everything-to-fascist-oligarchs
Ursala in relation to Operation 8 as it has now known to have been called,
the allegations initially aimed at not only Tuhoe but other minor protest groups here in New Zealand was and is still nothing short of a TOTAL abuse of LAW.
The press release on the Day the operation was terminated was almost comical.Napalm,sniper rifles training camps etc. was sold to the public in an attempt to smooth the way. You can find the rest in the net.
If you believe that our system of law is strong and good just look at who it is copied from, the English.This is the same country whose police force executed a innocence Electrician on a Subway tube because “they thought he was a terrorist”. To date not one meber who fired into the body of that poor man has been charged.
The only charged was brought under Safety laws against the Commissioner of Police in that District.
Note also what the ‘Crown’ does to people who tilt at them, Rob Moody another solicitor for one for standing up for the Berrymans.
In Vince’s case I think they will make every effort bleed him dry financially and emotionally.
Good luck Vince.