White supremacy and racism are the biggest pandemics we face in this country, and yet the Crown has weaponised fears around terrorism to target and vilify tangata whenua and have used anti-terror laws to criminalise our people, as we saw with the Urewera raids. As I know from first-hand experience, there is a culture among the State sector of harassing and intimidating Māori, environmental campaigners, and really just about anyone who pushes policies that seek to undo the harm of the colonial capitalist State.