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FBI to open standalone office in Wellington (www.rnz.co.nz)
submitted 2 weeks ago by BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz to c/politics@lemmy.nz
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Oh great. Invite the gestapo arm of the fascist state right in. Also If you ever have some time read about the kind of evil person Kash Patel is. I can't believe we let people like that into our country.

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[–] Antigrav@mastodon.nz 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

@BalpeenHammer , yeah, wtf do we need a foreign county's secret agency office here?

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Because fascism was always the end goal of neoliberalism and conservatism.

[–] BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 weeks ago

FBI is supposed to operate inside of the US only AFIK. The CIA and NSA are the ones supposed to fuck us.

[–] Bort@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 weeks ago

They can fuck right off.

[–] Nanook@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Remember when China did this?

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Whilst I agree that the FBI opening an office here is bad.

This is in no way similar to what happened with the Chinese situation. Other than they are both "police" forces.

The Chinese situation was not a public opening; or even a low key one organised with our government. It was an extension of the Chinese surveillance state; not welcome here, as we didn't officially know about it.

I don't think it is a good idea for us to be allowing the FBI to setup offices here; it is being run out of their embassy...so they can kinda do what they want there.

[–] BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 weeks ago

Honestly at this stage I'd rather have the Chinese than the Trump goons.