Handout to be distributed:
This protest requires large numbers of participants to show the Government they must consider people over ideology. Participants are expected to:
- Use common sense at all times
- Do not block or impede Emergency Services
- Obey the road rules
- Obey the covid rules for your regions, do not cross covid-regional borders
- Stay in vehicles
- Drive to the centre of your local town
- Tune your radio to your local Newstalk ZB (list of frequencies above)
- At 1.35pm pull over, put hazard lights on, turn up radio for the Groundswell statement
- Safely drive on (no gatherings)
- No offensive placards or signs (see approved slogans at http://www.groundswellnz.co.nz)
- To show you are part of the protest you can print an A4 Groundswell poster or order a Groundswell flag/banner to display on your vehicle (see http://www.groundswellnz.co.nz)
- Do not be provoked [by Jacindanistas]
[The Jacinda government’s paid Mainstream Media will focus on any transgressions of these sensible rules as they don’t like people who protest against her regime, and will ignore the reasons for the protest. —Eds]
Be interesting to see if the protests do anything. Seeming they have not listen to last one and still carried passing He puapua
https://www.hrc.co.nz/news/nothing-fear-why-human-rights-commission-backing-he-puapua/
human rights commission must of got a payout.
The anti apartheid demonstrations against the 1981 Springbok rugby tour did not stop the tour going ahead. Protests do not influence the government, we all know government can ignore a few thousand people in the street. They are influenced by polls and the mandate they get on polling day.
The protest flyer says “New Zealanders feel they are no longer heard or being considered”. An important purpose of protests (or riots which are the extreme form of protesting) is it gives participants a feeling of togetherness, that they aren’t alone in their views (which may be held only by a small minority of people), and gives them the impetus that their opinions are valid and worth pursuing. They feel their views should hold as much or more weight over the majority of people; that is a natural human reaction when we find others who do not agree with our views, and as we live in a democracy, the right to express alternative views should be encouraged.
This weekend will be interesting in Australia and around the world with protests. Even more interesting will be how they will be reported as they are all about excessive government control.
I miss the days when the media were not arse kissers to the government and actually reported what was going on.