Threat to contaminate baby formula with 1080 poison

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#166349 10-Mar-2015 15:55

Background: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/rural-business-agriculture-farming/news/article.cfm?c_id=16&objectid=11414980

Maybe I have my cynical hat on today, but it seems odd they would announce this now, seeing as they have known about it since November.

Is this potentially a pretext to justification to domestic communications monitoring by a government who seem to be fighting off increasingly damaging evidence they are doing just that?

The timing just seems a little - convenient?

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#1254787 10-Mar-2015 17:07

Remember though, the blackmailer said they would let the public know. Maybe something more has come through (that we don't know about) regarding a deadline for the release of this information, and this has triggered a scramble to save embarrassment?

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#1254814 10-Mar-2015 17:34

Jobins asked a question, one that came up when things were blown out of proportion by a sensationalistic move by NZ Police.

He never denied the police should investigate and never said the threat was not a serious one.

He is curious about the timing which coincides with the current political events regarding security.

Instead a bunch of you decide to attack him personally.

Pull your heads in folks.

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#1254880 10-Mar-2015 19:32

My take on this.
- Someone made a threat that had a set date for action (end March)
- Police (and Govt.) assessed the likelyhood of it being real as low, AND they had 4months to investigate/verify.
- There was no immediate need to notify the public
- Publicity about this would only be negative on a wider economic scale (not every country reacts to these things the way NZers do)
- Industry notified, and testing regime put in place
- Plan to notify public, if necessary, prior to threat date (when govt. and industry have credible evidence to support claim is false)
- Someone leaks some detail to media, forcing govt. into a media event
- Now govt. and industry are in the 'damned if you do-damned if they don't' media mixture
- NZ looses.... we just need to see the duration of that and the impact