Mass raid stuns veteran unionist
The New Zealand Herald says: Jimmy O’Dea, a 72-year-old socialist worker and veteran trade unionist, with has prostate cancer who has been protesting against the “anti-terror” raids had his own home searched by police yesterday over an alleged kidnapping.
Jimmy O’Dea says:“I was at home with my wife and kid and my dog started barking. I thought someone was there so I went out and I couldn’t believe it – there were police everywhere. “I said, ‘Are you the anti-terrorist searchers?’ and they ummed and ahhhed. They said, ‘We have got to search your house’ and they showed me the warrant and said, ‘You better read it’.”
The Police say: The warrant was in relation to another man who was arrested on Tuesday after his own home was searched. The arrested man had given Mr O’Dea’s address on his bail form so police had sought a new warrant and searched the property looking for evidence of the kidnapping.
Guest Commentator and Fugitive Dr. Richard Kimble says:It wasn’t me. It was the man with one nut!
Cliff Notes’ News Commentary Team says: Note to self, if we ever get mistaken for a terrorist, we’ll be sure to point the finger at random people from our past towards whom we still bear a grudge and claim they were part of the scheme, just to we can see the Police toss their house. Apparently that’s what’s good in the streets.
