The Daily Blog Open Mic – 22nd February 2022
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Well, that’s him sunk his chances of getting anyone from other than the far left to vote for him:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/local-government/127837383/auckland-mayoral-race-efeso-collins-makes-free-public-transport-his-big-policy
I like this from Gordon Campbell on Scoop.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2202/S00052/on-the-ottawa-precedent-for-police-action.htm
Looking at Ottowa and Wellington.
…The legal backdrop has been interesting. Three weeks after the Ottawa truckers protest began, it seems that the Police have finally advanced only after the protest organisers were faced with an injunction initiated not by the city authorities, but by a young Ottawa resident. This impelled the Police to uphold the law. In addition, federal emergency powers had been invoked that, among other things, made it an offence to bring a child to the protest site.
This is worth stressing. Basically, the legal machinery that has culminated in the belated Police action in Ottawa has been set in motion by the residents adjacent to the protest. They have been subjected to weeks of threats, to noise and sleep disruption, to a heightened risk of Covid infection etc etc. Much of this ordeal has been minimised or simply ignored by the Police, the city authorities, and by central government – all of whom seemed to be paralysed by the kind of difficult decisions that they are employed to make.
After all, it comes with the pay grade.