Category: Anti Mandate protests

That Wellington anti-mandate protest

It’s been going for a whole week now, and the police are getting frustrated because they can’t find a leader to talk to ‘negotiate’ with. This is somewhat disingenous of them as they have developed a habit of arresting leaders to nobble any protest.

There no real leaders (at least no visible ones) and it’s run by a consortium of groups who want broadly the same thing -end the mandates and restrictions.

An attempt to dislodge them last week failed mostly because they couldn’t get the protesters to get violent, which meant they ended up looking like the bad guys when the police themselves used excessive violence. In this day & age of phones & camera’s, it wasn’t a good look.

(A large segment of the crowd are from a Christian church not known for violence)

The protest has grown since then to about 5000. To put that in perspective, New Zealand only has about 2600 frontline police officers.

The Government has the media in their pocket and the official narrative is that they are neo’nazi’s, white supremiscist’s etc. all of these narratives instantly fall apart if you actually look at a photo of the crowd.

The protesters themselves are in good spirits thou and it’s become a bit of a music festival.

We have have routinely supporting them from afar in another city with pop up protests

The reaction from the passing traffic is typically 30% approval, 65% neutral, and 5% against, which tells me, we have a lot of support.

There are always rumours afoot thou, of whats likely to happen next.

In that regard we are fortunate that NZ trails behind other countries and we simply need to look at Canada or Victoria in Australia to see what happened there.

Thats it for now, I’m going down there next week to help out.

Cheers

A bit of an update

I had decided to take a break from protesting this week and did some overtime at work instead. The upheaval over covid in NZ is going to carry on for ages it seems, so I’m digging in, for the long run.

Brian Tamaki of the Destiny Church got arrested and released (again). They have been arresting any identifiable organisers after each protest.
The police strategy is obviously to neutralise key organisers of any protest’s.
However, I don’t think Brian cares if they actually send him to jail. This leaves the authorities with a bit of a dilemma, because jailing him could make him a martyr.

Meanwhile the Government is just getting more and arrogant by the day

https://www.tfrc.org.nz/post/now-this-government-is-just-flipping-the-bird

The new ‘Traffic light’ legislation to deal with covid was rushed thru parliament overnight and is going in effect starting Friday the 3rd december. It’s very badly thought out and has more holes and contradictions than you can poke a stick at.

It’s left a lot of people and businesses confused and dismayed, and with no idea whats actually allowed after 3 December when it comes into effect.

To summerise…
The new laws means that unvacinated people have less rights and privileges than the vaccinated, but it also means the vaccinated have to prove they have a current vaccination everytime they walk into a shop, and it’s up to the shop to police this, or they get a hefty fine.
It will be interesting what actually happens tomorrow then, when it comes into effect…

Confused? so are we…

A week of protests in NZ


Tuesday

I went to another protest on Tuesday. It turned out to be quite small, but then again, there were at least 2 other protests going on in Auckland at the same time. I think the protests around Auckland were smaller but more numerous because it was a work day and also that the police have been arresting organisers to take then out of the picture.

The anger is still out there, so the protests now tend to be more spontanous.

The major protest by far on Tuesday was outside parliament in Wellington. Accurate numbers are hard to come by, but it seems to have been about 10,000 to 15,000 people.
It’s notable that the media was harrassed by the crowd, as they are now seen as part of the problem with all the scaremongering they have done on behalf of the Government. (the government had paid them $55 million, but only if they meet certain ‘conditions’)

No members of parliament spoke to the assembled crowd. The reason given was “security issues”. To give you an idea how pathetic the excuse is -the organisations involved were….

Freedoms | The Freedoms & Rights Coalition (tfrc.org.nz) -This is run by a christian church with Brian Tamaki as it’s leader.

Destiny Church Auckland | Destiny Church -Brian Tamaki’s church

Voices for Freedom -This was founded by 3 women. They represent mostly nurses, teachers, midwives, etc in their battle against mandatory vaccines.

This day was significant because any nurses, teachers, midwives, etc, who aren’t vaccinated are going to lose their jobs, and these people made up the bulk of the demonstrators.

Wednesday and Thursday

The media and the government had been ignoring any protest’s so far, until Tuesday when the big demostration in Wellington caught them off guard.

Since then, various politians have been ‘revising’ what they have previously said on various issues, and ducking and diving. The media has been running with various narratives eg,-They were ‘domestic terrorists’ who ‘might’ have been armed.

These are known as ‘false flag’ operations and there were several attempts to regain and control the narrative throughout the week.

https://www.corbettreport.com/false-flags-and-the-dawn-of-bioterrorism/

Friday 2PM was the deadline for the protestors demands to be met.

Saturday arrived with nothing substantial from the Government apart from alluding to bad consequences.

It happened to be raining, and my daughters tennis got postponed, This meant we could all go to the great gridlock instead. The plan was to drive slowly on Aucklands motorways in a big block. There were so many of us, that we ended up in various blocks.

We had organised to lockup the motorway in both directions, which meant there was a sort of carnival atmosphere when we passed other demonstraters going the other way. It was a real cool atmosphere, and the kids were in the back making signs and putting them against the windows. It was raining quite heavy at times, and I was so caught up in the moment, I forgot to get some decent pictures….