On assassinations, I hadn't realized how many presidential assassinations and attempts have been carried out in the USA.
In New Zealand, we have had no political assassinations or attempts on prime ministers or members of the government, and not even many criminal assassinations.
There have been two political murders: clerk.parliament.govt.nz
The French government terrorist attack on the Rainbow Warrior while it was tied up to the wharf in Auckland harbour and people were on board. I believe that was with the complicity of the USA and British governments [to show New Zealand what they'd get with their anti-noocular laws - with friends like that, who needs enemies]. As it was an act of war, the French terrorists should have been shot, not given a holiday in Hao.
Ernie Abbott was murdered for being associated with unionism. He moved a suitcase in the hallway and it exploded, killing him.
Foaming at the mouth, murderously rabid right wingers have done the murders:
<The argument being advanced so far in the debate by several speakers, including the last, is that we live in a new era of terrorism. Unfortunately, Ron Mark basically said that if the Greens were affected by terrorism, they would think differently from how they do. I thought I would start at that point. Just over 20 years ago, on 27 March 1984, I was living in Wellington, and was on my way down the Petone motorway to go to a meeting of the Wellington Trades Council, where I was a delegate from the railway workers union. On my car radio I heard about a bombing at the Wellington Trades Hall. One of the people I expected to see at that meeting was the caretaker of the hall, Ernie Abbott, whom I knew well and talked to a lot. When I arrived at the meeting, I heard that he had been blown up by a terrorist bomb.
The second incident—there have been only two terrorist incidents in New Zealand over the last few decades—occurred on 10 July 1985. Friends of mine had come in on the Rainbow Warrior. They were active in the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Movement, and I knew that other friends of mine were visiting the Rainbow Warrior. I was living in Auckland at that time, and when I heard that there had been a bomb on the Rainbow Warrior I was very fearful for their safety. So the idea that people in this House, and myself in particular, are not aware of the problems of terrorism and of its effects on those closest to us is quite wrong. I think what needs to be borne in mind is that those two incidents of terrorism were terrorist acts against left-wing and progressive people. The idea that people of my political persuasion are not on the receiving end of those things and do not understand them is completely wrong. >
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