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Are you ready folks? 2021 is the year when the NZ Free Speech vs Hate Speech debate explodes, destroying friendships, cancelling half the country and abusing the remaining rest. Alliances will be torn asunder, political debate will never be the same and a level of toxicity will seep into public discourse that will ensure a polarisation unseen in NZ. When the insanity of what is about to be released is over and the wasted political landscape despoiled, not one New Zealander will be safer from white supremacy terrorism and the only winner will be ACT. So how the hell did we get here, what the h...

Intelligence agencies' failures highlighted but no accountability sought Phil Pennington © RNZ / Sam Rillstone Several key security and intelligence agencies failed to do their counter-terrorism job well, or at all, but there remains no way of holding them to account. This is revealed in the report of the Royal Commission into the 15 March 2019 mosque terrorist attacks. The commission's overall conclusion was that no one dropped the ball; its assigning of limited accountability for the many failings before the attack has upset the Muslim community. It has also upset a histor...

ROBERT KITCHIN/STUFF Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern delivers a summary of the findings of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Terrorist Attack on Christchurch Mosques. (Video first published in December 2020) EXPLAINER: Natural hazards such as earthquakes, biosecurity intrusions like the Queensland fruit fly, and pandemics such as Covid-19 are obvious and known threats to New Zealanders. Domestic terrorism and violent extremism were less understood, before ripping into the public’s consciousness with the terror attack on March 15, 2019. But who was responsible for this ignorance? The...

Don't be afraid to see what you see. >> and don't be afraid to say it. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> if you see it, say it, they say at the train statio >> well, facts are fas, and when you get a lot of experts agreeing on the facts, sometimes they're wrong. but when you get 17 intelligence agencies agreeing on something -- i used to be on the intelligence board. i always voted no, so it wouldn't always be 17-0. when you get all of them agreeing on something, that's rare. that's unusual. trump would have been so much better off saying, yeah, that's what happened. i had nothing to do with it. let's find...

Transitions who said that transition people need clearances in order to lock at the fbi background reports. the transition people need to read the reports. these authorities say there are other ways that the president could give a clearance if he were serving as an adviser or put him on the intelligence board and many of them have business interests in the government. there seem to be no show stoppers. >> his kids would run the business, but he did not tell us that his kids could get security clearance. we will find out how the public responds to that if it does