Dear ‘Groundswell NZ Howl of Protest’ – don’t be dicks!

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FFS – don’t be such juvenile dicks!

This is a pandemic and public health crisis, rolling up to supermarkets to stomp your feet about being forced to stop polluting the planet is fucking childish.

Frightened people queuing to buy food don’t need to be harassed like this.

Dickheads.

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23 COMMENTS

    • I don’t know if education has anything to do with this sort of bullying, but it is inexcusable behaviour towards innocent shoppers largely trying to do the right thing, and already under pressure. Politicising the pandemic sucks, and this group and certain Nat politicians are letting us down badly by doing so.

    • LOL. Next you will call them ‘deplorables’. The one thing I can’t stand in lockdowns is the moral posturing. If this group tries to politicise this lockdown it will hurt them the most as the majority of sheeple still think Delta is the second coming of Delta.

      • Normally, I would completely agree with your comment, but after watching the hours long convoy of people trying to get out of Auckland, which only stopped when police started turning people back at midnight, I am now seriously doubting the state of mind of a hell of a lot of kiwis… Considering that it would only take one or two of the tens of thousands who tried to flee the city to be infectious, to have a nationwide level 4 lockdown on the cards.. Real clever, and very mature, don’t you think?

        • Try your government Stef. Yesterday via email and call centre my jab was on. At 9am they have closed all Auckland vaccination centres for 14 days – no acknowledgement in the media therefore they are trying to bury this story. They are liars and now some very nice call centre operators are going to be shitkicked because of a liar government.

          Do you blame people when they are continually lied to and let down by this government. What goes around comes around.

          • We’ll Frank explain this,
            “Covid-19 vaccine: Roll-out to resume from 8am on Thursday after pause” Stuff 17/8/2021
            You expect us to believe that vaccination will be suspended for 14 days. There’s all your snarky put downs of the Prime Minister which are boring and repetitive and leads me to think you have nothing positive to add to the debate and that basically how do we know,
            Which ends of you are talking?

        • I totally agree, in Christchurch I observed full carparks at the supermarkets & bottle stores while driving to a meeting which would also seem to be an unnecessary risk.

  1. Humans are the pre-eminent self sabotaging species when it comes down to it. Not nearly as clever some times as we like to think we are–though quantum physics, exploring space, and engineering are pretty damn smart!

    The thing is human development is so uneven around the globe, even within one national boundary. Fine scientific minds capable of a COVID Vaccine, and Taliban theocratic thugs coexisting in the same century…Charles Darwin’s legacy and mushy pea eating pom football fans…

    The Tractor’n’Ute crowd are obviously a bit of a reactionary rump really–not worth paying too much attention to.

  2. That’s weak sauce if they wanted to scare us they should stop threatening us and do a full on strike don’t delivery any milk, veges or meat to supermarkets, factories etc it’d lock the meatwokers out and cause absolute f***** chaos and if we thought fights over toilet paper were bad .. doing this in lockdown would be insane.

    They could get the vineyards and orchards involved too and not deliver wine and that’d piss off the upper middle class

    Go on do it you cowards. They won’t they are all talk.

    I have some sympathy for them on a couple issues but am getting tired of the threats… Now’s your chance to show us how you can throw the country into chaos and we all know you could…. Forget tooting go on strike… Cause mass panic…

    They wont cos it’d turn the country off them

  3. If the index case is from a red flight from NSW isn’t this the people that went to Aus knowing they might not be able to get back and therefore went with the knowledge of, leave at your own risks. Also was the red flight NZers required to do the MIQ if not this is a bad mistake made by our government. And why do our media keep saying Delta is here when it’s actually been here in MIQ for ages with many coming back now with Delta. Also why isn’t the pre testing not picking those infected up especially when some are testing positive on day 0.
    NZers coming back now and travelling for whatever reason unvaccinated are putting us all at greater risks and costing our country billions of borrowed dollars. We need to revisit our strategies for MIQ and our ports as well as letting people in as long as Delta is out there people coming and going need to be fully vaccinated, have a extensive isolation plan and if need be prepared to go into MIQ. In the meantime people packing up and going to their holiday homes need to be issued big fines as a deterent. People breaching their bubbles need to be warned if caught and fined if breaching again. As for those saying open up the borders they are welcome to leave if they are not happy here.

  4. Those hicks tooting unnecessarily are committing an offence. A police officer gave me the exact wording earlier, but it went in one ear and out the other. Hope the cops were there, and did them for it.

  5. Hundreds of Aucklanders leaving town with boats and caravans but let’s bash farmers because someone tooted a horn.
    Yeah those selfish hicks eh.

  6. Our. very own Taleban minus the AK47

    But just like the irrelevant peasant bores in Kabul. Just a bunch of bewildered hayseeds annoying city folk

  7. All of this, the chaos, the fears, the frustrations, the difficulty in dealing with this new outbreak, the harsh but necessary lockdown…all this could have been so much easier and maybe avoidable if only THIS SOFT FLUFFY BE KIND GOVT HAD MADE VACCINATIONS FUCKING COMPULSORY LONG AGO!!!! SORRY ANTI-VAXXERS AND WOKE REBELS BUT ONCE IN A WHILE YOU COULD JUST TAKE ONE FOR THE TEAM. THE VERY TEAM THAT WILL SAVE YOUR ARSE WHEN YOU LIE THERE SOBBING AND CRYING IN ICU. NOW GO AND GET YOUR JAB FFS!

  8. Kraut. The Bill of Rights gives all NZ’ers the right to refuse medical treatment, and that’s an important freedom, which shouldn’t be relinquished. Compulsory vaccination would set an unfortunate precedent,
    and it would probably also require legislative change – which won’t happen.

    The pro-active anti-vaxxers, are also exercising their important right to freedom of speech. But it’s a different matter if thick broadcasters like this Williams person are allowed to propagate ill-informed opinions to audiences who might be disturbed by him. His bosses should be called to account for this, and they shoul be required to justify why he is being paid to preach in opposition to expert government scientists’ opinion. It’s another delicate situation, but the public good should be foremost here, as you say. Most of us are capable of doing our own research, and we are free to do it, so there is no need to have to “ depend” upon radio hacks to do it for us.

    Billy what’s his name looks to me like a nasty piece of work and not quite right in the head, Groundswell misogynistic bullies, and horrible horrible primitive sort of people – the politicians who have been supporting them should step right back now and disassociate themselves from Groundswell, and we should be asking them to if Groundswell are boasting about behaving anti-socially towards innocent persons. Groundswell needs those pollies and won’t want to alienate them, but they have gone too far this time.

  9. TACTICAL MASTER MOVE BY GROUNDSWELL.

    I think its a great idea , because tactically it should be a massive backfire for farmer sympathy . Given that around 80% of kiwis will eventually get vaccinated and are being ” good citizens ” in a serious lockdown ,any minority group which threatens community safety is likely to alienate themselves and incur significant backlash .

    If theses Trumpian hayseeds want to hitch their wagon to ,anti vax/flat earth/no climate change and the delta isn’t real camp ,while doing rootn-tootn donuts in their 2 ton fossil hungry SUV’s ,then I say let them go for it.

    The visiblity of these people now “out of the wood work ” is a call to action for Kiwis who want a progressive and inclusive ,covid free , zero carbon future for NZ .

    The only ground swell we are likely to see is from the vast majority of kiwis who will rightly pin them for being the selfish immature dickheads that they are .Self marginalisation is such a refreshing concept .Go for it .

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