I
see statists of every hue, from Left to Right, deservedly up in arms about this appalling piece reported today:
A senior Customs official told colleagues in charge of highly personal information they could earn "brownie points" if they passed secrets to the FBI.The offer was made by a Customs executive whose job was to oversee one of the organisation's most sensitive units.[Snip]The unit prompted privacy fears when it opened as the first outside the United States to actively harvest massive amounts of information from everybody arriving at or leaving New Zealand.Prime Minister John Key opened it saying: "Anyone who is innocent has nothing to fear."Just weeks after it opened, Mr Davis wrote to Immigration NZ's intelligence unit, which also holds highly personal information, telling staff there of the FBI's interest in the internet tycoon Kim Dotcom.In an email released under the Official Information Act, Mr Davis told an Immigration NZ intelligence officer that Customs' Washington liaison was after information about Dotcom.
This
was that email:
Continuing:
At the time of the request, no New Zealand agency had formally been engaged under legal assistance laws with the US. Dotcom's status at the time was the same as any other public citizen.A spokeswoman for Customs refused to comment on the email. She also refused to say if any information was passed to the FBI by Customs.She also refused to say whether doing so would have been legal - and again refused to comment when asked to clarify the law regarding sharing information with the United States.
Trouble
is, as far as the complaining statists are concerned, there’s an elephant in
the room, sitting atop every taxpayer, and its equipped with every sort of
privacy busting law and the technology to carry out its mandate: it’s called variously IRD, or IRS, HMRC, whatever. It’s the tax
surveillance state, built upon a population having no privacy,
nor any individual a right to be left alone. This was the only outcome
possible from the minute state dictatorians, looking down on us from their fortresses
of legislation, decided they could better spend your money than you can, and by
bribes to their electorates, and promises no one could keep, usurped for themselves a fraudulent morality to do
so.
And
it’s the true one world state: no conspiracy theories here. New Zealand has
double tax agreements with every major jurisdiction: US, UK, most countries in
Europe, Asia, Africa and South America. Those double tax agreements have two
aspects to them: to determine in any instance which country has the right to
tax, but also, as importantly, to
implement the legal sanction of information swapping between the taxing
authorities.
New
Zealand has even signed up, as the world has, to an appalling tax agreement
with the US called FATCA under which every New Zealand financial institution
must by law pimp the private financial information of every US citizen banking
with them to the IRS, on sanction of penalty. Even US citizens whom have never
lived, nor are likely to, in the US. This surveillance paid for not by the US,
but by the Kiwi bank user.
So
for those who damn Customs in this story, as you should, because what’s
happened here is disgusting, where is your protest against the taxing
authorities and their unparalleled intrusions daily into our lives, our bank
accounts, our wallets, and their virtually unfettered swapping of information about ourselves?
It’s
the fatal contradiction, and hypocrisy, of those who have chained us to this theocracy of state; especially the Left, whose belief in
the theft of redistribution has necessitated the abandonment of our privacy before state officials, and then each other. This Customs brief is merely a side show, bureaucrats such as
these, upon the sanction won to run the tax surveillance state, live in a culture where
privacy from the state is unknown to them. Why would you be surprised at their casual disregard for an individual's private information? I wasn’t.
When
will we wake up and take back the free West which has been voted away from us
by a tyranny of the majority seeking a free lunch that is only served up along
the road to our serfdom?
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