by Carol Sawyer

It’s very weird actually… are they normally this bad?

1) We have seen a young pregnant woman arrested and handcuffed in her pyjamas, in the early morning in her home, and in front of her two small children, because she had posted an announcement about a lockdown protest on Facebook. She had asked protesters to observe social distancing and to wear face masks and had not known she was doing anything wrong.She said she was happy to delete the post but no such luck. She was in Ballarat, Level 3, not Melbourne, Level 4

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-03/coronavirus-lockdown-protest-facebook-arrest/12624318

2) We have seen another young woman, who had an exemption from wearing a face mask on medical grounds, being choked and held against a wall by a policeman for not wearing a mask and when, in the midst of that choking, a big fat policewoman came along and also approached her she kicked out with the only thing free, her foot… now she has a mandatory 6-month prison sentence for that. I have to say I would probably have done the same in self defence. It was a terrifying police assault.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/122414031/coronavirus-melbourne-woman-choked-arrested-after-being-stopped-for-not-wearing-face-mask-during-covid19-lockdown?fbclid=IwAR0f-dYCKo83wmuuYLxvM_PDYNWVZTSLxYVrC8EWTVJdWa7CHu-0cTgmN1Y

3) We have also seen two elderly women on a park bench approached by 5 policemen and told they were under arrest. They seemed bewildered.One of the women had her phone snatched out of her hand by one of the cops.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3401886559832518

4) This happened today in Victoria… a mentally ill man who was not carrying any kind of weapon, downed by a police car and then kicked in the stomach and head by Victoria Police. He is now in a coma.

https://gript.ie/watch-australian-police-car-rams-mentally-ill-man-officer-kicks-him-in-head/

5) In the news item attached a young woman is physically dragged from her car for having a cellphone attached to a battery charger on her windscreen!

In the Daily Mail (UK/Australia):–

Fewer rights than North Korea: Chilling reality for Melbourne under Dan Andrews’ Stage 4 lockdown – and why he IS acting like a dictator

• Melburnians are living under stricter lockdown rules than China or North Korea
• Victorian capital would have been locked up for six months by October 2020 
• This is despite Victoria having an Australia-first Charter of Human Rights 
• Swinburne University Law School dean Professor Mirko Bagaric explained why
• He also argued how part of the Victorian government’s response was illegal

Full article

This was begun during Iride McCloy’s term as Kapiti mayor and is one of the good things that the council does.

The dates for the trail this year are in the graphic above; the brochure will be available early next month at different outlets, as well as online, and we’ll post it at that point.

One of many beach baches (or cribs as they are called in the South Island) to be found in the Olde World Beach Zone. Which is bigger — the house or the shed? It’s the house because of an annex not visible in the pic, but even without it, the house would be bigger. It’s typical of what the Waikanae Beach Residents Society is keen to see retained to preserve the character of the area — their being replaced with McMansions is not wanted.

Whenever you hear a fluent Maori speaker you tend to wonder in admiration, how did they get that good? The obvious answer is that they devoted a lot of time and practice to it.

A guy who migrated here from Europe a few decades ago told us that he when he got here he didn’t speak English, but set out to learn 10 words a day — which seems a good way to acquire some Te Reo.

The official Maori Dictionary is one we use a lot — and usefully it has a sound button so you can hear the correct pronunciation.

tuku.reomaori

And for the commited, Te Wananga Aotearoa

In Iran, it’s a crime for women to appear in public with their hair uncovered [without a hijab]. Yasaman Aryani, a 24-year-old activist, wanted to change this.

It was International Women’s Day 2019 when Yasaman and her mother took off their headscarves and walked through a women-only train carriage in Tehran, handing out white flowers. Yasaman spoke of her hopes for a future when all women would have the freedom to choose what to wear, “me without the hijab and you with the hijab”.  After a video of this went viral, Yasaman was arrested and charged with “inciting and facilitating corruption and prostitution” through promoting “unveiling”.

Help us fight for Yasaman’s release. Sign the petition, call on the Iranian authorities to:

• Unconditionally release Yasaman Aryani from prison
• Unconditionally release from prison all other women’s rights defenders detained for peacefully protesting against forced veiling

Webpage

On Ngarara Road, opposite the Waikanae Cemetery. The reference to “36 miles north of Wellington” means it must be before the metric system became official in 1976, and could be 1960s.

by Carol Sawyer

This whole interview with Douglas Murray from a week ago is fascinating. It is over an hour long, though. so for the time-challenged please, please listen to Douglas’ amazing four-minute rant, from 57:00 to 1:01:00, on what a time bomb the whole BLM movement is.

As he says, it might work this year, it might work next year but eventually it will be fought against by the majority and, as he says, “Turns out it wasn’t wanted. How do you unknit that without going to hell?” The same argument he uses here applies to the Maori separatist/sovereignty movement in NZ, in my opinion anyway.

About Douglas Murray:

Douglas Murray is an author and journalist based in Britain.

His latest book The Madness of Crowds was a bestseller and ‘book of the year’ for The Times and The Sunday Times.

His previous book, The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam, was published by Bloomsbury in May 2017. It spent almost 20 weeks on The Sunday Times bestseller list and was a Number One bestseller in non-fiction. It has subsequently been published in more than 20 languages worldwide and has been read and cited by politicians around the world. The Evening Standard described it as “By far the most compelling political book of the year.”

Strictly, the wood makes it quadricolor.