Police Must Stop Unlawful Training
Commissioner Coster,
RE: Unlawful Hate Speech Training for NZ Police
NZ Police officers are currently receiving compulsory training designed to help them detect ‘hate speech’ and ‘hate crimes.’
Examples of such ‘offences’ in the training material include the statements, ‘There are only two genders’, ‘Kiwi Not Iwi’ and perhaps the most perplexing of all, ‘Free Speech’.
Hate crime laws do not exist in NZ. 'Hate speech' is very narrowly defined in the Human Rights Act. However, the examples presented to officers in this case are not only highly prejudicial, but should be self-evidently legal.
‘Free of expression’ is a right enshrined in our Bill of Rights Act. ‘Kiwi Not Iwi’ formed the campaign slogan of the National Party in 2005. To invert this fundamental right by presenting it as criminal is outrageous and suggests a deliberate politicisation of NZ Police under your leadership. Senior officers have contacted us alarmed by these unjustified moves within their ranks.
If this training is implemented as per the module’s own instructions to ‘Recognise, Record, and Respond’, law enforcement in this instance would be enforcing laws which do not exist!
NZ Police exercise authority according to the doctrine of ‘policing by consent.’ Such extra-judicial activism defies this fundamental public mandate by showing a callous disregard for the Sovereignty of Parliament as sole author of NZ law.
We call on you to cease this training immediately.
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Sandra Christensen signed 2024-08-09 11:00:04 +1200
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Antonio Ganz signed 2024-08-09 10:31:41 +1200
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Winona Taylor signed 2024-08-09 09:59:57 +1200We can’t let them win this. We need to push back.
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Frieda Lanser signed 2024-08-09 09:53:05 +1200
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Georgina Cane signed 2024-08-09 09:19:10 +1200This is.completely & utterly ridiculous. Luvon Government is following in the heels of where Labour left off.we the people have a God Given right to verbally express ourselves, not to have Government & Police telling us what we can & can’t say ..
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Belinda Goldfinch signed 2024-08-09 09:15:33 +1200
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Armin Ziegler signed 2024-08-09 09:14:33 +1200I agree fully with the content of this petition but also warn of seriously negative consequences if the process of recording and acting on denunciation by known or unidentified accusers becomes a permissible process. This needs to stop altogether. Freedom of speech is important for healthy debates and an open society.
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Phillip Andrews signed 2024-08-09 08:54:30 +1200
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Katy Hopkinson signed 2024-08-09 08:48:16 +1200
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Michelle Brackebush signed 2024-08-09 08:32:44 +1200The interpretation of Hate Speech will be ambiguous: An individual/groups meaning on a comment may not be “hate speech” at all, but merely speech they “hate”.
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Joe Wheeler signed 2024-08-09 08:28:52 +1200
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Edward Hogg signed 2024-08-09 08:21:32 +1200
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