Thread: First Helicopter Company pulls The Pin On The Tahr Cull

Originally Posted by zarathustra

Sounds a bit too 'conspiracy theorist' to be pragmatic.

Remember the 1080 poisoning blackmail threats? And how the media went for the throat of the anti-1080 crowd, calling them lunatics and all. And in the end it was businessman from the poison industry itself who just wanted to get more business for feratox.

Police said the public should come forward with information about people they know with strong feelings about 1080...

A blackmail threat to poison baby formula is a form of "eco-terrorism", says New Zealand's prime minister John Key...

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=11593570

And look at this poor couple, flowers and a card after they'd been targetted by the cops...

They were caught up in the inquiry after police focused on anti-1080 protesters as the source of the threat to put the poisonous pesticide into milk powder. For months, the Kleines were targeted by an undercover police officer, had their home secretly searched and were eventually put through hours of questioning by detectives. Documents show police were so convinced that one senior detective swore on oath: "I believe Rolf Kleine is the author of the threatening letters that were sent to Fonterra and Federated Farmers on 26 November 2014."