Jeremy doesn’t like to hear the truth and that is the truth.

@ bert And Jeremy supports the Nuremburg NZ site, threatening to execute politicians, media and health experts.
Refuses to denounce the site, its threats, its racism and even its Dirty Politics links.

@bert 435 lies of John Key
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2016/06/04/435-lies-by-john-key/

Jeremy is also good at lies @bert. He claims to not know anything about the execution lists on the right-wing racist, hate site https://nuremberg.nz/

Jeremy won’t denounce this site for its threats to prominent politicians, media and health experts.

An interesting you have written. A couple of comments.

On one hand I can appreciate in the context of past violent evictions like Bastion Point, the cops being wary of doing anything that might explode the situation unnecessarily and cause substantial public push back. For that their wariness of going all in from the start can only be commended.

I can appreciate that the Police by virtue of decades of government policy are a bit stretched in terms of numbers and resources that they can bring to bear. They need to be able to see the protest off without creating a situation that they are not capable of controlling. They have also learnt some of the finer points of diplomacy that a lot of police forces around the world don’t seem to have done so, either because their governments want a stronger response or they simply haven’t been trained to disarm hostile situations.

But this is Aotearoa. Here our police have learnt that a strong arm approach does not always work straight off, even if perfecting it is still a work in progress. They have learnt to use diplomatic methods where possible and maintain a rapport with the community.

So, what is the problem?

Simply, the public have had enough of the protesters disrupting their lives. The protesters have had their chance to have a peaceful protest. It is turning sour and the conditions of the protest camp are making things worse. Wellingtonian’s want their city back. New Zealanders want their Parliament back. 139,000 people including myself and probably quite a few who read articles on this website want them to pack up and go home.

And then there is the right to peaceful protest. No one is denying the right to peaceful protest. What people are saying now is that the peaceful part of the protest has long since transited into something more sinister. When you have cops getting faeces and acid thrown at them; businesses and their clientele being harassed; students needing intervention because supposedly grown adults have decided it is okay to intimidate them; the disabled community not being able to go places safely, that is not a peaceful protest any longer. When the protesters are calling for hanging’s, arbitrary trials of the media, politicians and some business people, that is not a peaceful protest any more.

But where is Andrew Coster in this?

Curwen quite eloquently wrote about Mr Coster’s record. He examined the N.Z. Police Commissioner’s record and noted his strengths, the Opposition claims about him being woke.

I would not argue that Mr Coster is necessarily woke. I would argue that he has underestimated at just about every turn, the true of the protest movement that is expanding across Aotearoa. He has not shown recognition of the fact that these protests, from the weekly Brian Tamaki events during lockdown through to now, have been very well signposted on social media. If Mr Coster had looked seriously at New Zealand Twitter, he would have seen all sorts of warning signs that the protest movement absolutely mean what they say.

And yet, here we are. In a situation where the Wellington protest have trashed the lawns of Parliament; another protest is occupying Cranmer Square in Christchurch; a third protest crossed the Auckland Harbour bridge today without permission. A fourth is occupying land in New Plymouth.

All of these protests have been well sign posted. Are these places in addition to Wellington now going to have to suffer Mr Coster’s reluctance to draw a line that the Police will enforce?