A website labelling itself as "Revolutionary Anti Colonialism and Anti Capitalism," is pledging love and solidarity to all those arrested in police raids on Maori and environmental activists allegedly involved in para-military training camps.

It says treating indigenous people "with long standing and valid historical grievances" as terrorists is "bullshit". The site has links to others that talk of freedom fighters in the Tuhoe - Bay of Plenty area.

Three hundred armed police swooped-in across the country this morning, arresting at least 14 people after a year long operation targeting military-style training camps in the eastern Bay of Plenty. A stash of guns and a variety of other weapons were found. There are local rumours of a guerilla-style weapons training camp in an area at the end of Ruatoki North Rd in the Ureweras. It is a remote area, accessible only by horseback.

Police say at this stage those arrested have been charged with firearms offences. It will be some time before police decide whether to also lay charges under the Terrorism Suppression Act.

Tame Iti is one of two people arrested in the Bay of Plenty, and is believed to be appearing in the Rotorua District Court this afternoon on firearms and weapons charges.

Six people were arrested in Auckland - five men and a woman. Four have appeared in Auckland District Court on numerous charges, including being in possession of a shot-gun, rifle, military-style semi-automatic and molotov cocktails.

Four people have been arrested in Wellington. The two women and two men were granted name suppression in the Wellington District Court. They are also facing a raft of firearms charges, including possession of molotov cocktails, rifles, shotguns and semi-automatic military style weapons. The Wellington arrests follow a raid on a well known environmental activist headquarters in the capital this morning. Supporters packed the public gallery for the appearance, waving to the accused.

One person was arrested in Hamilton and another in Palmerston North. Although a search warrant was executed in Christchurch, no arrests were made.

Police still have roadblocks in Ruatoki and Taneatua, which are two eastern Bay of Plenty towns where several homes were raided by police early this morning.

A Taneatua resident says his son was arrested during one of the raids. He says he was greeted with a gun pointing at his face when he opened his door to police at 4.45am this morning. A lawyer has advised him not to talk to the media about the charges laid against his son. However he stresses that the guns found in his home are hunting rifles. He says it is normal for the area, which is known for its pig hunting.

Police Commissioner Howard Broad says he deemed the risk to public safety to be enough to warrant the action. He says police assessed the operation and determined that now was the appropriate time to terminate it, by raiding the camps. Mr Broad says the police action is ongoing and there could be further arrests.

Prime Minister Helen Clark says the Government was briefed last week about the military style training camps and knew the raids and arrests were going to be made today. She is refusing to be drawn into the issue, but says the fact that training camps were there are all is "odd, to say the least".