Harbour Bridge protest now vs that time middle class militant cyclists pushed past apathetic cops then
One of the issues with the Parliament Lawn Protest is how quickly the Middle Class Marxist Woke Left let everyone know that their kindness is really just a shallow virtue signal and that behind the surface of their hashtag compassion lies the beating heart of sadistic cult who yearn to punish the sinful.
The speed with which so many have called on the police to bash protestors, or calls for the military to become involved or even one Woke Lord who wanted the Governor General to sack Coster so a new intelligence committee can deal directly to the lumpenproletariat scum…
…John A.Z Moore explores this at the Democracy Project…
Liberals and leftists have found a new cause in decrying a rabble of poor, brown and angry protesters. They have embraced the police and even the army as the necessary agency to push back this mob. Where is the left that once saw the millionaires, billionaires, the police and the oppressive state agencies as the real enemy? A new left that reengages with the mob is desperately needed.
…so at the height of passions we get a Harbour Bridge protest that the Police are promising will be rough…
Auckland Harbour Bridge Destiny Church protest – police will have ‘significant’ presence
Police say they will have a “significant” presence at a planned anti-mandate protest that threatens to bring the Auckland Harbour Bridge to a standstill, and warn they will “actively engage” with anyone who tries to cross it on foot.
…remember when the middle class pakeha militant cycling squad rode across this bridge last year?
Not only did the cops let them do it, the Government promised them a stupid $750million bike bridge!
Auckland City Councilor Efeso Collins at the time questioned the way police allowed middle class militant cyclists over the bridge while working class South Aucklanders get a very different kind of policing.
This double standard is about to raise its head again.
When the soft cheese revolution of militant Devonport Cyclists led by David Slack wanted to cross the bridge, an apathetic Police force let them and the Government promised them a billion dollar bike bridge.
The smelly underclass lumpenproletariat want to do it and the Police are issuing press releases promising violence.
This constant double standard is causing more extreme politicisation, not cauterising it.
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If there is no clear class position from a lengthy protest what do you call it? It is not just low end workers at the Wellington occupation.
I guess this “cross class” type of action including the alienated, discarded, precarious workers, issue driven, petit bourgeoisie, anti vaccination individuals, & well off donors and celebrities, had a precursor with the Occupy Movement. Generalised action with many targets and little distinct class focus in terms of identifying the perennial main enemy–capital, finance capital and imperialist powers.
I have already pointed out on TDB that at CHEP Pallets in Penrose a group of striking First Union members, all Polynesian, are getting a blood hard time from Auckland plods. No change there for working class people daring to challenge an International corporate for a living wage.
p.s. I know a couple of people from the Far North where I am based, who are in Wellington, and they are of the “Sovereign citizen” bent. And they are frankly a pain, and on the edge of sanity from my view, they have turned up for 15 years at political events and occupations that others have organised and do their best to f**k things up and spread disunity.
Everything Bradbury says is true, but … some of these protesters have shown signs of being pretty excitable. There is a danger of scuffles between police and protesters on the bridge, and somebody falling off into the harbour. That would be fairly sobering.
The answer is to get out on the bridge tomorrow and send a fucking message. These so called lefties from the chattering classes need putting in their place. They’re on the side of capital not the worker.
Most of the protest and their far right backers aren’t behind the workers either
Please, please put back on your tin foil hat Cricklewood.
I read a message on one of your T-Shirts… “Free Tamaki” I didn’t know he wasn’t? What was he wanting freeing from, brain damage?
Thank you for noticing this.
The rule of law can’t hold if there are different rules for different people.
When the cyclists wanted to protest on the bridge, the police “couldn’t interfere with a peaceful protest”.
How things change when they don’t like the protest.
Please also note the legal decision that police and defense can’t force members to vaccinate -as I understand it, on religious grounds.
What then of the much maligned Destiny church who have a basic human right not to get vaccinated on religious grounds (and it’s unlawful to mandate them) and who’s leader did jail time?
Not even allowed to protest.
Should be some big law suits coming up.
And a change of government.
Needs reworking on the name – Density Church – so low, you can’t see under it, so high you can’t get over it and so dark you can’t see through it, Oh rocka my soul. Perhaps these religious types should get the church to add to a fund they set up to assist any people that they infect, for the real and worrying living costs of the afflicted. Thinking of the saintly Samaritan who ministered and paid for care to the ungodly.
And others of the pure people above the ordinary herd, like school teachers and kindergarten teachers FGS. We can’t purify our souls quickly enough to surround ourselves with a godly aura that keeps the plague away. The religious used to be big on plagues and boils etc.
Riggghhhttt! Go to church and be free to do what ever the hell you like.
Change of government…wishful thinking!!
The Protest in front of Parliament and its unfolding, has opened a new page in the Police Handbook I think. It has been a practice session for readiness on dealing with the no doubt expected rowdiness when economic times get tougher as the gummint provides instructions on how to recycle loo paper to the poor. Money is in short supply except when you have a portfolio with the financiers.
That’s a further step along for Frank and Muriel Newman’s book ol helps and tips On the Smell of an Oily Rag; the most recent frugal Aunt Daisy. 2012 – https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/manukau-courier/opinion/6446373/Living-off-the-smell-of-an-oily-rag
Frank and Muriel are wonderful. They live in a big house on a cliff looking out over Tutukaka Harbour offering helpfull advise to the poor. How to subsist on a wage system set up to benefit the ruling class. But wait. There’s more. Not only do they think this wage system is too generous, taxes for the wealthy need to be cut and the government needs to get out of peoples lives. Yes the world how it should be according to Frank and Muriel is a scary, distopian place that can only partly be alleviated by making your own soap and reusing teabags three times.. No wonder by friends dogs used to chase their car down their shared driveway, snapping at the tires of the late model European SUV.
It’s so much worse when the cyclists get away with it. Next it might be the gingers.
Maybe the police can just let Tamaki’s cultists go for it so they’re not accused of bias. The ‘middle class pakeha militant cycling squad’ will be right behind Tamaki’s mob making their point. Maybe tents will be set up on the top with ‘Camp With a View’ being established.
If police take a heavy hand the double standard will be in full display.
And Fuck the mandates.
My grand daughter went to hospital last night. Thank fuck there are mandates and she wont be covid infected by a nurse or doc suffering idiocy just like you.
Joseph,
You’re spot on!
Provided the doctors and nurses are using PPE as they were before vaccines. They are safer protection against infection.
Anyhow, hope she is better. When my grandaughter in Europe got Covid, I was quite happy that she had been vaccinated.
Ah, no. The circumstances and the situation are different. We don’t have a ‘paint by numbers’ application of the law. Particular circumstances come into it.
Why don’t the police have freedom to uphold the law of an unlawful occupation or are you promoting anarchy Cricklewood?
On the bright side the mandate has kept you alive to allow you to comment or as you put it” fuck the mandate”.
Make a day out and windy. Could have an Open Air cinema up there – Room with a View, or View from the Top, but never A View to a Kill (last Roger Moore). https://www.ranker.com/list/the-best-movies-with-view-in-the-title/reference. (Tie Cricklewood down to watch – take freedom away as the heat seems to be rising.)
Brian won’t be there. Then again he wouldn’t need the bridge to walk over, he’d simply walk on the water.
well now that challenged mandates have been deemed “illegal” for the police and defense, what does that mean for the average folk? I smell some serious law suits coming. These were always illegal – our incompetent govt. just did not want to admit it — forcing someone (or using coercion) to inject an unknown substance (trade secret – means ingredients have not been disclosed; = no informed consent) into their body is just plain WRONG. So those finger waggers that support it – shame on you. I feel for those who have lost their jobs/their homes over this govt that is an absolute laughing stock of stupid.
It seems to be a problem in jurisdictions all over. Odd that in places like Texas the ‘free choice, my body, unknown chemicals’ etc., etc., they have mandates like the attached.
https://www.dshs.texas.gov/immunize/school/school-requirements.aspx
Ranesha. There is nothing to stop you or anybody else from appealing the mandate on the same specific legal grounds that the Police and NZDF did. It wasn’t just wishy-washy anti- mandate spouting like you’re doing, and won’t necessarily apply to “ average folk,” and especially- from the look of them – most of the self-indulgent dumbos making nuisances of themselves down at Parliament. Check your facts.
To be fair and honest the tinfoil hat protesters vs the tinfoil hat bicycle lobby/Greater Auckland – Pt Chev set are hard to distinguish.
But bicycle wanks want to fuck over Aucklanders, and are the far greater villains. Genuine self centered smug middle class Timmy’s and Tracey’s who know better! And who know how to game the system for their own personal hobbies.
I think the difference with the cyclists was the police, like most decent people, simply had to turn and look away as there were middle aged men that thought lycra cycle shorts were acceptable attire.