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# Faces of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/faces-of-the-day-75/
- Published: 2021-07-06T18:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-07-07T11:10:10.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Censorship, Crime, Featured, Free Speech, Law, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:54

National leader **Judith Collins** has defended award-winning journalist **Rachel Stewart** after the NZ Police removed her firearms, licence and ammunition after receiving a complaint because of an allegedly “threatening tweet”.

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Award-winning Journalist Rachel Stewart has been defended by National leader Judith Collins. Image credit The BFD.

> police said they “consider threatening any form of violence against a person and exhibiting any form of hatred, as well as non-compliance with the Arms Act 1983, to be inconsistent with the criteria of a fit and proper person”.

> \[…\] it wasn’t a death threat, it was an unwise comment, but there was no intention around it,” Collins said.   
>  
> “I am actually really shocked to see people like Rachel Stewart being criminalised under the current regime and when I was Minister of Police I expected police to actually get on and deal with criminals instead of cuddling up to gangs and not taking out people like Rachel Stewart.”  
>  
> Newshub

If the NZ police’s bar is low enough to include sarcastic or black humour like Stewart’s as hate speech, we should all be very worried.

> Ardern’s government is intending to give the NZ Police the power to decide what is hate speech and what isn’t.

It is terrifying that they will have the power to **“know it when they see it”** without there being any objective or clearly measurable way for we plebs to know whether or not our free speech has crossed their completely subjective line.

[To read the article in full go here.](https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/07/national-leader-judith-collins-speaks-up-for-columnist-rachel-stewart-stripped-of-her-guns-over-threatening-tweet.html?ref=goodoil.news) Comment on it on *The BFD.*