The Maintenance of Silence

Name: The Maintenance of Silence
Director: William Keddell
Genre: Drama
Released: 1985-07-16
Cast: Tony Drumm, Ray Castle, Mike Sloan, Anne Woollams, Mark Everton

1985 · 22 min · Drama

On November 18 1982, a 22-year old Aucklander, Neil Roberts, daubed a washroom wall with the graffiti slogan: ‘WE HAVE MAINTAINED A SILENCE CLOSELY RESEMBLING STUPIDITY’. He then placed a bomb outside the State Security Computer Centre at Whanganui where files are kept on all citizens. The bomb blew him to pieces.

Directed by William Keddell · Written by William Keddell

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