Satellite protest
PA Wellington A mock satellite dish reared up among the people sunbathing on the grass at Parliament yesterday as part of an AntiBases Campaign protest against the proposed Waihopai satellite station near Blenheim. The group was using the 4m-wide model to highlight what it said was the illegality of the Waihopai base and the unaccountability of.- the
Government Communications Security Bureau, which will run it. A spokesman, Mr Fergus Wheeler, said the display gave members of Parliament an opportunity to find out what the G.C.S.B. was really up to. “M.P.s need to take an informed look at New Zealand's intelligence needs,” he said. “Waihopai is not only highly objectionable from a civil liberties and New
Zealand’s sovereignty points of view, but it is also a misappropriation of intelligence money,” he said. The Anti-Bases Campaign’s public information caravan was also at Parliament yesterday, providing information on both the G.C.S.B. and the Waihopai base. The caravan is travelling around the country and is in Wellington this week.
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