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Ryan Bridge: Should we worry about extremism in NZ? · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Did you see the cops put out a handy warning
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  Speaker 1: for us all yesterday Hide Tell escape or is it
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  Speaker 1: hide escape Tell? Yes? The latter The spooks, their spies
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  Speaker 1: and Wellington reckon that extremist violence is a realistic possibility
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  Speaker 1: in this country. Now they've been saying this for some time,
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  Speaker 1: but yesterday you would have seen a news alert about
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  Speaker 1: this new campaign from police. It's what to do during
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  Speaker 1: an armed attack and a crowded place. Now you could think, well,
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  Speaker 1: maybe they're just being prepared, and that's good. Good to
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  Speaker 1: be prepared, better to know than not. But is there
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  Speaker 1: a little part of you that also thinks do they
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  Speaker 1: know something specific you know? Or are they following so
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  Speaker 1: many suspected terrorists or potential terrorists that they've maxed capacity
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  Speaker 1: and feel like it's time to inform the last line
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  Speaker 1: of defense or self defense US. It's one of those things.
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  Speaker 1: I was thinking about it last night after watching the news,
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  Speaker 1: and you wonder whether maybe I'm just being a bit paranoid,
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  Speaker 1: or is this so plain and obvious that everyone else
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  Speaker 1: assumes the same thing you had. Luigi Mangioni over the US.
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  Speaker 1: This is the young guy who hated insurance companies and
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  Speaker 1: assassinated a CEO in cold blood. Allegedly, you had Tyler
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  Speaker 1: Robinson over in the US again, he was in there.
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  Speaker 1: Another young guy strong Views allegedly took his granddad's gun
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  Speaker 1: to university to shoot and kill a guest speaker. They
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  Speaker 1: reckon hear the risk remains low, but the threat is growing.
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  Speaker 1: The most likely scenario would involve a lone actor radicalized
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  Speaker 1: online through dangerous ideology and grievances. And the cops said explicitly,
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  Speaker 1: this is you know, this is something that is just
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  Speaker 1: one click away. It's not hard to find. It's not
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  Speaker 1: like it's on some far flung corner of the internet. Now,
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  Speaker 1: given all of this, just think carefully about the stuff
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  Speaker 1: that is said on social media, about grievances and about
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  Speaker 1: extreme language, and the need to do something about it.
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  Speaker 1: A recent survey of business leaders he have found more
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  Speaker 1: we're worried about extreme as of than interest rates. And
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  Speaker 1: I think most reasonable kiwis if they're not, they should
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  Speaker 1: be as worried about it too. The cops' advice this
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  Speaker 1: week is an update on some similar stuff that they
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  Speaker 1: released after the mosque shootings. And you just hope, like
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  Speaker 1: hell that we can figure out as a society, figure
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  Speaker 1: out a way to talk and reason with one another
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  Speaker 1: before something happens as bad or worse than that. For
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