Friends and family members who question Covid-19 mandates, including mandatory vaccines, should be reported to authorities as potential “terrorists,” the New Zealand government says.
The New Zealand Security Intelligence Service put out a bulletin stating that anyone with dissident political views has been “radicalized” and asks the public to report their friends and family members if they question government narratives.
“So it could be the Covid measures the government took, or it could be other policies that are interpreted as infringing on rights, and it’s sometimes what I describe as a ‘hot mess’ of ideologies and beliefs fueled by ‘conspiracy theories,'” intelligence chief Rebecca Kitteridge told media.
The bulletin brings to mind the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security document leaked to Infowars in 2009 that demonized gun owners as “extremists.”
“Many rightwing extremist groups perceive recent gun control legislation as a threat to their right to bear arms and in response have increased weapons and ammunition stockpiling, as well as renewed participation in paramilitary training exercises,” the document stated. “Such activity, combined with a heightened level of extremist paranoia, has the potential to facilitate criminal activity and violence.”
Likewise, in 2009, the Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) published a report claiming that people who like libertarian political candidates such as Ron Paul and Bob Barr were also potential “domestic terrorists.”
The MIAC report was part of an effort by DHS to “collect, evaluate, analyze, and disseminate information and intelligence” on libertarians and constitutionalists, including Second Amendment advocates.