Enough of Spy Bills - it's past time for the pendulum to swing back the other way.

So far the spies have a carte blanche to commit crime and get away with it. Therefore we propose to create a policy restricting them from participating in certain acts and applying criminal penalties if they violate it.

1. "Spycops" - police and security agents who infiltrate political and activist movements using false or assumed identities - should be prohibited from engaging in sexual relationships with targets, activists, and others they encounter during the course of their work. Known cases include spycops in their 30s and 40s seducing activists as young as 16; covertly taking and circulating nude photographs of sleeping teenage activists; living/co-habitating with activists and multiple instances of fathering children with activists, all while pretending to be people that did not in actuality exist. (Web search "spycops" for international references, or "Thompson Clark Investigations Limited" for New Zealand-specific cases) The penalty for engaging in sexual relations that arise from acts of deliberate deception should be tantamount to criminal rape, as consent would most likely not be granted by their sexual partners, were they aware that it was an agent of the state that is targeting and sexually propositioning them.

2. Targeting on political grounds is prohibited under international law, it was prohibited in the original charters of the spy agencies, yet multiple police agencies openly state that they are tasked with infiltrating political movements on their Wikipedia pages and elsewhere. This is unacceptable. There must be steep consequences for using police powers for political reasons.

3. Entrapment is also supposed to be illegal but is a practice that is rife in both the police and private agencies. It is used to create pretexts with which to justify political targeting. ie. if they infiltrate an activism/political group and can 'prove' that they are engaged in some kind of criminal activity then it makes it look like it was OK to target that group in the first place. Where the criminal activity doesn't exist (which is almost always), there are attempts to incite criminal activity (entrapment). These attempts can include resourcing, instigating, facilitating and coordinating the illegal activity. (An example of this would be where a NZ spycop not only set up an illegal animal welfare action and implored other activists to attend but even invited media along to document the whole thing as it happened). This is completely in line with practices of the FBI and others who have long track records of jailing political targets by entrapping them into criminal acts. It is completely immoral and entrapment should be illegal across the board.

4. There are also numerous instances of journalists and activists having been referred to child services or mental health services by their political opposition. (Dirty Politics by Nicky Hager documents some examples of this but there are countless others). Therefore where child services or mental health services become engaged with someone who is politically engaged in activism, journalism or a related sphere, there must be a TRULY independent body appointed to review these cases and ensure that the referrals are not as a result of political interference and that any treatment or intervention received is both valid and in line with best practices/standard treatments for non-political cases

5. All police and private agencies should be restricted from inflicting bodily harm or physical interference upon the bodies of any person at any time except in the instance of legitimate self-defence.

6. There needs to be an outright ban on experimental weapons testing on human beings. Such as was raised by the disclosure that electronic weapons do exist and are "operationally feasible". No weapons that are not approved for public use and known https://decipheryou.com/2015/06/24/hacking-team-directed-energy-weapons-now-operationally-feasible/

7. Information warfare upon the NZ public must stop. It must be illegal for corporate or political interests to pay agents to assume false identities posing as members of the public and post online content in the favour of their employers. Any such propaganda must be clearly labelled as being paid advertising. Likewise, lobbyists who appear in media as 'experts' or 'opinion writers' must disclose in each program, show or article, who they are being paid by.
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Thoughts? :)