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New Zealand is a democratic country in which freedom of expression, conscience, religious freedom and free speech are valued. Any legislative change will need to impinge on these as little
as possible, but people need to be safe here. Regardless of how big and well-resourced security agencies are, overseas experience has shown that individual actors, or small tightly
integrated groups can _slip through any security filter_. It is simply impossible to monitor people’s thoughts, intentions, sayings and social media accounts so closely that every signal
that someone might be planning to carry out an attack is seen. Australian media suggestions of an “_intelligence failure_” are useful to a point. But the fact that at least one of the
Christchurch offenders left Australia a short time ago and was not on any watch-list of concern in Australia, where police and intelligence powers are much more comprehensive, demonstrates
this is a very difficult failure to guard against.
