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You are never too young to be regarded as a potential subversive, a Security Intelligence Service file shows.
Maire Leadbeater, now 63 and a long-time activist on peace issues, was an early target because of her Christchurch parents, Elsie and Jack Locke, who were prominent members of the New Zealand Communist Party and community activists.
Originally posted by MatterNot
Wow. I was one of those who was of the opinion that things like marching in a protest or being on ATS would not bring you to the attention of the "powers that be". After reading this I am wondering if I may be wrong. Or maybe I am just ignorant. Either way it was a shock to me that the SIS spy on ten year olds.
Originally posted by blueorder
Ironic though, her parents and bro being supporters of a system which would have made this sort of monitoring rather childlike and innocent!
Originally posted by MatterNot
Wow. I was one of those who was of the opinion that things like marching in a protest or being on ATS would not bring you to the attention of the "powers that be". After reading this I am wondering if I may be wrong. Or maybe I am just ignorant. Either way it was a shock to me that the SIS spy on ten year olds.
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Originally posted by KOGDOG
iro·ny The definition of irony, in the simplest form, is the difference between what someone would reasonably expect to happen and what actually does. Meaning that something that happens that you would not ever reasonably expect to happen is considered irony.
Living in a "free" nation... the USA although chock full of "irony" is more a "Kafkaesque" experience. The most dangerous deception is that which is not suspected to be what it is in fact is.
Irina Ratushinskaya a prominent Russian dissident, poet and writer of "Grey is the Color of Hope" observed upon leaving the Soviet Union that "it was easier to live in the SU because there they knew who the Devil was.... while in the West it was almost impossible to know". How "ironic"...... isn't it???
Originally posted by blueorder
It really wasnt better living in the SU than the west, no amount of relativism and quoting a woman, who makes such a statement, but spent 4 years in a labour camp for "anti soviet " agitation has just swelled the "irony" levels on this thread.