Another view on todays events..
The rally planned for Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, aka Posie Parker, in Wellington tomorrow has been cancelled following the shameful assault on free speech in Auckland today. The threat of violence was too great and the New Zealand Police are either too gutless or too politicised to guarantee the speaker’s safety.The enemies of free speech have won…
The battle for free speech won’t be won by hiding in the shadows
The Rainbow crowd had tried unsuccessfully with court action to stop Kellie-Jay Keen (Posie Parker) from coming into the country, so they set out to make as much noise and disruption as possible to shut her down, when she went to speak at Albert park near Auckland’s university.
Eventually, the Police had to rescue her after she was attacked by a protester with a bottle of possibly tomato sauce.
It was a noisy and rowdy affair, and it was hard to work out which side was which. The rainbow crowd appeared to be mostly university students. The older people amongst them were mostly their parents. Most of their signs were confusing and didn’t make sense with what they were doing. Some of their signs said ‘peace and love’, while they were doing the opposite..
So, in summary, a Womens empowerment event was effectively cancelled by the rainbow crowd.
The other event in town was Hannah Tamaki’s, Vision NZ party at Aotea square, which was near the other protest.
This was a typical Destiny church type event and was well organised, controlled, and they were on message. It was a quiet event, but then things changed quickly…
After Kellie-Jay had left the scene, the rainbow protesters arrived at Vision’s event. however, this event was well attended by the Man-Up organisation, which is a group of rather staunch looking guys, so any attempt at intimidation wasn’t going to work.
The only incident I saw was when someone with peroxide hair tried to rip a sign off a kid. That got sorted out real quick when another kid defused the situation. The rainbow crowd also tried drowning out whoever was speaking, but Vision had a decent sound system and just turned the volume up, and then a more assertive speaker took the stage and rallied the crowd.
Eventually, Vision NZ decided to march down Queen st. The rainbow crowd couldn’t stop this, so they walked on the footpath next to them making lots of noise. They all finished up at the bottom of Queen st, where Vision NZ did a haka (a traditional Maori song/dance) and the tranz crowd tried to stare them down.
P.S. It wasn’t a good way to advertise Auckland Universities ‘culture’ to my kids -they are going elsewhere.
P.P.S A cruise ship from the USA was visiting at the time -What a way to make them feel ‘at home’
P.P.P.S It seems I missed a lot of the violence at Kellie-Jays event
https://twitter.com/ChantelleBakerr/status/1639421646640664581/video/1
It is the biggest foreign and defence policy news in the South Pacific since the end of the Cold War, that is the formation not only of the AUKUS defence alliance, but the agreement for Australia to be the seventh country to have nuclear propelled submarines. Seventh after the five formal nuclear weapons states and…
A small country far away of which they know nothing
“All of us count”, huh? , I was an ‘unperson’ last year because I chose to rely on natural vaccination.
Here are some missing stats for them,
Uncoffined 
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