From oucj at qal.Berkeley.EDU Thu Apr 9 13:52:19 1998 From: oucj at qal.Berkeley.EDU (C. Jay Ou) Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 21:52:19 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [asia-apec 422] subscription In-Reply-To: <339F7330.72DE@hk.super.net> Message-ID: I haven't received anything in a while from Asia-Apec. Can I continue to receive messages and be subscribed? Thank you very much. Jay Ou From gattwd at corso.ch.planet.gen.nz Thu Apr 9 14:46:36 1998 From: gattwd at corso.ch.planet.gen.nz (Gatt Watchdog) Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1998 17:46:36 +1200 Subject: [asia-apec 423] Re: apec-L: SIS Booklet A Week Late For April Fool's Day - Break-in V In-Reply-To: Message-ID: >From owner-apecforum-l@netserver.web.net Wed Apr 8 12:01:23 1998 Received: by corso.ch.planet.gen.nz (1.65/waf) via UUCP; Wed, 08 Apr 98 12:15:27 +1200 for gattwd Received: from netserver.web.net (netserver.web.net [192.139.37.22]) by tofu.ch.planet.gen.nz (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA09869 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 12:01:23 +1200 (NZST) Received: by netserver.web.net via sendmail with stdio id for apecforum-l-outgoing; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 19:17:41 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #1 built 1996-Oct-8) Received: from tofu.ch.planet.gen.nz(really [202.37.112.1]) by netserver.web.net via sendmail with esmtp id for ; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 19:17:31 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #1 built 1996-Oct-8) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tofu.ch.planet.gen.nz (8.8.5/8.8.5) with UUCP id LAA09475 for apecforum-l@list.web.net; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 11:06:21 +1200 (NZST) Received: by corso.ch.planet.gen.nz (1.65/waf) via UUCP; Wed, 08 Apr 98 10:51:56 +1200 for apecforum-l@list.web.net To: shniad@sfu.ca, apecforum-l@netserver.web.net, clothing.union@clear.net.nz Cc: cw.smith@auckland.ac.nz, johnt@raumati.wn.planet.gen.nz, cafca@chch.planet.org.n Subject: apec-L: SIS Booklet A Week Late For April Fool's Day - Break-in Victim From: gattwd@corso.ch.planet.gen.nz (Gatt Watchdog) Comments: Gatt Watchdog Message-ID: Date: Wed, 08 Apr 98 10:46:41 +1200 Organization: PlaNet Gaia Otautahi Sender: owner-apecforum-l@netserver.web.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: apecforum-l@netserver.web.net GATT Watchdog PO Box 1905 Christchurch Aotearoa (New Zealand) MEDIA RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE USE 8 April 1998 SIS Booklet A Week Late For April Fool's Day - Break-in Victim "Today's release of the booklet "Security in New Zealand Today" by the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service is a defensive public relations exercise by an unaccountable government agency with a disreputable past desperately trying to justify its own existence", says Aziz Choudry, of fair trade coalition GATT Watchdog. "The Government is a week late in releasing this booklet - it has all the hallmarks of a weak and tasteless April Fool's Day joke." Mr Choudry launched civil proceedings against the SIS in the Christchurch High Court on February 13 after their bungled break-in at his Christchurch home in July 1996, just prior to the APEC Trade Ministers Meeting. He says "Security In New Zealand Today" is a cynical exercise to deflect criticism of the SIS as an anti-democratic, unaccountable spy agency. He does not believe that anyone with the capacity to think is likely to be taken in by the booklet's attempt to dispel the "myths" about the SIS. " "Security In New Zealand Today" is a glossy reiteration of the glib assurances made by politicians to critics who warned that the widened role of the SIS as defined in the 1996 Security Intelligence Service Amendment Act legitimised their work in spying on individuals and organisations within New Zealand involved in lawful political dissent." "At a time of cutbacks to health, education, welfare and other sectors, and with the end of the Cold War, the SIS are clearly struggling to justify their existence and their budgetary demands to both the government and the New Zealand public. It must be very stressful in the nervous nineties, now that the supposed "commie threat" has receded as fast as the hairlines of some SIS operatives to conjure up new wacko conspiracy theories in order to justify snooping on people like me engaged in social justice and development education work, and to explain expenses such as pork pies and Penthouse magazines". "In reality the public purse is paying for the SIS to potentially surveill or monitor anyone critical of government policy. This could include unions, academics who are critics of the free market, Maori working for tino rangatiratanga, and other organisations and individuals that the SIS can argue pose a threat to New Zealand's international or economic wellbeing or are somehow "subversive". "The existence of the SIS is one symptom of an unhealthy climate of intolerance of dissent which has grown in New Zealand" "It is unsurprising that the SIS releases this booklet. CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service) have a publicly accessible website for similar PR purposes no doubt. So does the CIA in the US. The SIS are just catching up with their counterparts overseas." "The SIS will no doubt be jockeying to play a big role around next year's APEC meetings, slated to be the biggest security operation in New Zealand history. The public should remember it was the SIS, with police complicity, who furtively broke into a GATT Watchdog member's house and played cloak and dagger games with a getaway vehicle registered to a fictitious company in Wellington, not so called "activists" or "protesters". GATT Watchdog was too busy working responsibly to educate and inform people about the human cost of free trade in a public forum to be interested in playing such clandestine games. The thinking person has far more to fear from the SIS than from so-called radicals and subversives - which often seem to be catch-all labels for anyone with the courage of their convictions to take a stand against the status quo." "As long as the SIS exists, anyone who clings to the notion that New Zealand is a democratic society in which all are free to express their views and opinions should think again." For further comment, contact Aziz Choudry, ph (03) 3662803 (w) From pspd at soback.kornet.nm.kr Sat Apr 11 16:09:21 1998 From: pspd at soback.kornet.nm.kr (PSPD) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 16:09:21 +0900 Subject: [asia-apec 424] Re: subscription References: Message-ID: <352F1721.6615D890@soback.kornet.nm.kr> Dear Jay Why did you send e-mail to us? Did you got it through PSPD address? According to the host of Asia-APec, no charge to subcribe to get the regular e-mail. Mikyuung From rmalc at laneta.apc.org Tue Apr 14 23:13:57 1998 From: rmalc at laneta.apc.org (RMALC) Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 14:13:57 +0000 Subject: [asia-apec 425] Re: subscription In-Reply-To: <352F1721.6615D890@soback.kornet.nm.kr> References: Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19980414141357.006cbb7c@laneta.apc.org> Dear Mikyuung. Just writing from Mexico to see if we're on your mailing list for email news. If not, could we possibly be included. Thanks. 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