Speaking overseas — she didn’t have the chance in Auckland, neither did other women. (Photo: Alamy)
This is what it must have been like when women were marched to the stake. Yesterday in Auckland the British women’s rights campaigner Posie Parker found herself surrounded by a deranged, heaving mob. She had tomato soup and placards thrown in her face. She was doused with water. Huge men screamed insults and expletives in her face. The shoving of the crowd became so intense that Parker feared for her life. ‘I genuinely thought that if I fell to the floor I would never get up again’, she said. ‘My children would lose their mother and my husband would lose his wife.’
It was a truly chilling spectacle. The mobs’ faces were twisted into masks of feral hatred. They ranted in frenzy as the diminutive Parker, her bottle-blonde hair stained orange from the soup that had been dumped on her, desperately tried to make her way to the safety of a police car. It was a ritualistic shaming of a witch, a violent purging of a heretic.
Not just the two above named pernicious organisations, but the Stuff/RNZ/TV1/Newshub/Herald cartel who incited them and Police Chief Coster who told his subordinates to let it happen should be included. As one of our readers says, this will hit our collective image — not only the dolts who vote for the Green Party — and our tourist industry. We are too dangerous to risk visiting when there are thousands of thugs like the men below who think they can rampage with impunity because of Police Chief Coster.
From Facebook: “a man who brutally punched a silver haired older woman in the face twice leaving her with a black eye. Let’s see how far we can make his guilty face travel.”
The @nzpolice are kidding themselves if they think I'm going to let this lie. You'll be hearing from me real soon. pic.twitter.com/Ep2WSwsGuf
Empty drink bottles and cans exacerbated some of the flash flooding we experienced throughout our district earlier this month.
Unfortunately, they’re the perfect size and weight to travel through our grates, become stuck and clog up sumps.
We’re out and about proactively maintaining more than 210 km of stormwater pipes and a vast network of open channels and streams across the district but we need your help to keep things flowing.
If you notice litter on the ground, pick it up and bin it. If you see something that needs our attention, let us know by calling us on 0800 486 486 or e-mailing kapiti.council@kapiticoast.govt.nz
Not good news @nzlabour@NZGreens ….YOU caused this to happen. You encouraged it, you condoned it and now the people of this country will suffer…again. And to think this is an election year…… https://t.co/NeSOtpuU6k
An unruly mob in Albert Park has catapulted New Zealand into the global headlines with ugly images that may become iconic in the debate about the dangers of transgenderism.
Bravo Kellie-Jay. You did the job that needed to be done.
For all the talk in the days preceding Keen’s arrival in New Zealand of countering free speech with ‘more free speech’, that was never going to happen. We don’t have The Oxford Union or Speaker’s Corner. That’s not how we debate ideas down under.
Michael “River of Filth” Wood
The die was cast from the moment our Immigration Minister, Michael Wood, announced that Keen would be permitted to enter the country despite, in his words, her “inflammatory, vile and incorrect world views”. The Minister declared that he would prefer it if Keen “never set foot in New Zealand” and added, “I find many of her views repugnant, and am concerned by the way in which she courts some of the most vile people and groups around including white supremacists.”
The message had been sent — by all means, come to New Zealand, but you’ll be on your own. Keen’s hotel cancelled her booking as she was mid-flight to New Zealand, and her security arrangements were also cancelled without explanation.
When Keen arrived at Albert Park on Saturday morning she was met by an unruly mob of activists hellbent on preventing her from speaking. Exactly who they were, it’s difficult to tell. Among the transgender rights activists were at least five Members of Parliament, mixing with autogynophiles, fetishists, so-called ‘allies’ and thugs spoiling for a fight.
Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson — a racist, sexist bigot.
No sooner had Keen walked into the Band Rotunda in the corner of Albert Park, than she was doused in tomato soup. Within minutes the barriers were thrown aside as the mob encircled the Rotunda in ugly scenes that have now made their way around the globe on social media. It was an increasingly volatile situation.
Keen had no chance of speaking. Her mere presence in the Rotunda was enough to enrage the mob. But her point had been made. The same groups demanding recognition as women for the purpose of such things as sport and healthcare as well as access to women’s-only spaces were the same angry mob violently assaulting a relatively small group of women in a usually quiet park in central Auckland.
The police loitered by the perimeter of the park, staring at their boots or their phones as the chaos unfolded meters away from them. But then again their job was not to keep the two groups apart, or keep the peace. They weren’t going to interfere with the mob justice that was being meted out in the park. Instead, they were no more than taxi-drivers, waiting for Keen to force her way out of the angry crowd and onto Princes Street where the police obliged with a lift to her hotel and then the airport.
New Zealand’s governing parties and media could not have been more closely aligned with the thugs. Reminiscent, in fact, of Mussolini’s (fascist) Italy.
It was shocking to watch and images of those fifteen minutes have now been viewed many millions of times and have been commented on by international media and personalities with audiences many times the population of New Zealand.
We have indeed contributed to the global debate about transgender rights — but only by showcasing how intolerant this group is, and how violently they react to ideas that challenge the perceived orthodoxy in our South Pacific hermit kingdom. It has cast a spotlight not only on the violent undertones that exist within parts of the transgender movement; but also on New Zealand’s own appalling record of violence, particularly with regard to domestic violence.
