Citizens of Auckland, Wellington, Counties Manakau and the North Shore-Waitakere-Rodney area have been chosen as test subjects for trials starting in September of potentially lethal stun guns, Green Party Police Spokesperson Keith Locke says.
The near-doubling of the vote for Security and Intelligence in the Budget calls for an explanation now, and effective oversight of the security services afterwards, Green Party Security and Intelligence Spokesperson Keith Locke says.
Thursday's Budget should contain a significant increase in overseas development aid, Green Party Overseas Development Assistance Spokesperson Keith Locke says.
Latest revelations that the NSA keeps huge data banks on the phone calls and e-mails of ordinary US citizens should prompt the Government to review its involvement with the Waihopai spy base.
Police could be abetting an offence by dressing non-sworn officers in blue Police uniforms with police hats, the Green Party Police Spokesperson Keith Locke says.
The Green Party is calling for a broader general inquiry into Police use of pepper spray following the gratuitous pepper-spraying of a man on the ground outside Thursday's Fight-For-Life event.
Green Party MP Keith Locke has criticised national Civil Defence headquarters over slowness in letting the media know there was not a tsunami on the way.
Green MP Keith Locke has sent a letter of support to the New Zealander and Royal Air Force doctor Malcolm Kendall-Smith, who is being court-martialled today for not going back to Iraq.