Green MP Keith Locke says a police infiltrator’s disruption of an anti-GE protester’s court case against the Police reinforces the case for an independent Commission of Inquiry into the activities of the Police Special Investigation Group.
Green MP Keith Locke says Police Commissioner Howard Broad’s reasons for planting agents in protest groups only makes matters worse.
“It is unacceptable for Mr. Broad to treat legitimate protest groups as breeding grounds for dangerous criminals, thereby justifying police infiltration,” said Mr. Locke, the Party’s Police spokesperson.
Green MP Keith Locke is calling for an inquiry into the Police Special Investigation Group following evidence it is planting paid informants in legitimate protest groups.
Green Party MP Keith Locke says New Zealand still has several human rights challenges 60 years after it signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Tomorrow, December 10, is the Universal Declaration’s 60th anniversary.
Green Party Defence Spokesperson Keith Locke welcomes Prime Minister John Key’s unequivocal rejection of an air strike force.
"An air strike capability is not necessary for our key defence tasks, which are peacekeeping and protecting the economic zones of New Zealand and our Pacific Island neighbours," Mr Locke says.
National’s foreign policy, announced yesterday, fails to properly address the needs of the most oppressed people in the world, the Green Party says.
“Human rights don’t get a mention anywhere in the policy, despite grave violations in many countries,” Green Party Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Keith Locke says.
The Green Party Population Policy does not seek in any way to influence the number of children New Zealanders should have, as could be taken from a TV3 news item tonight. “One sentence in the policy has been wrongly interpreted to mean the Green Party are putting pressure on parents to have fewer children,” Green Party MP Keith Locke says.
Anti-immigration feeling has no place in the Green party Immigration and Population policies released today, Green MP Keith Locke says.
“Our policy is the opposite of Winston Peters’,” the Party’s Immigration Spokesperson Keith Locke says.