Comments on: If this 12yr old NZ First war apologist is the result of kids at ANZAC Day, should we ban kids from ANZAC Day?

By: Otto Mann

Otto Mann — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 11:29:04 +0000

In reply to Lulu.

Lulu, so what you’re saying is protest, but don’t do it when anyone can actually see it happening? Is that it?

Golly gosh, that’d be like Maori protesters protesting the day after Waitangi Day!

I think Putin would be happy with this kind of “protest” activity. It’s a Clayton’s protest; the protest you’re having when you can’t see the protest happening.

Maybe the anti-Springbok Tour protests in 1981 should’ve happened after the Springboks went home to Sth Africa?

Suit you?

By: Straight up

Straight up — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 08:29:19 +0000

In reply to LOSTRELIC. You compare an inauguration to ANZAC day? You might be the thickest person I have ever met.

By: Wensleydale

Wensleydale — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 03:15:27 +0000

In reply to In Vino. He seems rather precocious for a 12 year-old, which is encouraging. Hopefully, as he grows older, he'll learn to examine what he's told with a critical eye, conduct his own research and re-evaluate his opinions accordingly. It would be a tragedy if he simply trundled through life meekly regurgitating the opinions of his elders. Old people can be ignorant half-wits just as easily as the young.

By: Robert Glennie

Robert Glennie — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 02:20:59 +0000

In reply to Frank Macskasy. War is the continuation of politics by other means. So yes, war IS politics. War is where guns do the work of diplomats.

By: Robert Glennie

Robert Glennie — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 02:19:08 +0000

I have been researching what my family’s contribution to both World Wars was. I cannot find much on World War One, but World War 2…

https://willnewzealandberight.com/2017/04/25/the-story-of-lance-sergeant-eric-dennis-green/

By: Frank Macskasy

Frank Macskasy — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 20:35:59 +0000

In reply to cagey. So peaceful protest is a "political stunt" in your eyes, Cagey?

By: cagey

cagey — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 19:51:30 +0000

Isn’t the salient point that this young lad (and his NZ First dad) chose to voice his displeasure at these protesters DURING an interview, though obviously they – the protesters – had not just shown up 5 minutes before. I could be wrong but hadn’t this boy’s dad been interview just before this? Isn’t it truly ironic (hypocritical ?) to telling people holding a low-key protest that it wasn’t a day to be political while engaging in a blatant political stunt.

By: graeme pedersen

graeme pedersen — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 12:14:53 +0000

My understanding of ANZAC Day as a kid was to respect and support the families attending, who had lost members at the front. My father in law was classed medically unfit and was a guard at the internment camp near Palmerston North where the Japanese were held. They knew rural new Zealand well, as they had learnt about New Zealand in preparation for invasion. My main complaint (no comments here) is the fact, OUR Government saw fit to hold a SPY conference involving the western WAR mongers over the ANZAC week. Secondly, for all our Anzac ties with Australia, New Zealanders are the worst treated immigrants to the Lucky country.

By: Mike in Auckland

Mike in Auckland — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 01:43:10 +0000

In reply to Pete.

A bit like letting people cast a vote (after endless biased MSM reporting and a government of the day applying ‘dirty politics’ strategies and tactics) once every three years, and then ignoring the people and their concerns for the next three years afterwards.

Democracy is more and more becoming a farcical kind of exercise in NZ Inc.

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 23:08:54 +0000

In reply to Frank Macskasy. Hmmf. So Peters has his own personal rubber stamp for his employees that he can use when ever they make an outburst. So leaders of political parties can create cultural traditions in one TV interview out of the nothing when ever controversy rears its ugly head. Amazing!