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Friday, 11 February 2022

The police turn brutal in Wellington, New Zealand

I apologise for the wonky formatting; this small item has taken about 4 times as long as normal to put together from the first moment.

Not being content with following events from 20 km away and watching

livestreams we decided to go on down and see for ourselves.

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The media are praising the police for their "patience" and "calm response" to "aggressive" anti-COVID vaccine mandate protestors.

This could, of course be straight out of George Orwell and worthy of Soviet propaganda. While we are talking of the protestors this picture tells the tale.

This was the scene last night.

The first impression we got was of a rainbow selection of people from all sorts of backgrounds. There were young and old, there were Pakeha, Maori, Thais, Chinese. Above all, the children...

Despite everything that people had been through during the day there was a party-like atmosphere and even some exuberance.

All of this came under the sombre observing eyes of the cops.

The media says ad nauseum that there is no central message uniting the protestors - that they are "rent-a-mob", a collection of the "unwashed" and "unemployed" as one policeman said.

However, there was a central message that goes through everything; that is Jacinda Adern's vaccine mandate have to go and indeed this government has to go.

Everyone we spoke to had their own grief, their own tale to tell, whether it was losing a job they loved or losing friends or relatives to the jab.

This is what media and some parts of social media selected by them had to say:

We spoke to one woman who related the following:

Police closed ranks and moved in on the crowd. They had a tactic of identifying a target, going in and dragging them out on their backs and then turned over on the concrete.

There were a number of injuries reported - broken ribs and sternum.

Some of the people ended up in hospital.

One tent was broken into and the woman arrested leaving the children on their own.

One person we spoke to observed the pleasure some police (including policewomen) in what they were doing - "gleeful" was the word she used.

I do not have the numbers at my fingertips, but it seems over 120 arrests were made.

This appeared on Telegram:

WHEN ONE FEMALE POLICE OFFICER CAN DO THIS, WHAT WILL A RIOT SQUAD DO...

"For those of you watching my live, it was just as well I put my phone away when I did. Police pushed forward and I am now In hospital .. a woman PC deliberately pushed her elbow onto my windpipe and then my sternum.I told her she was hurting me and she increased the pressure. Suspected broken sternum I felt it crack, the pressure was incredible. Onscale of 1 to 10 it was a 10 never had pain like it. I SCREAMED AND SCREAMED...they pulled me out by my arms and injuring me further and them kept we waiting on all fours for more than an hour for ambulance...as ambulances turned I heard them.sa they were going to Pepper spray the people.....I am finejust in a LOT of pain...

Kia kaha"

This treatment of a 14 year-old boy is straight out of the textbook of the Israeli police and when used by American police it provoked months of rioting by BLM and Antifa.

Today, New Zealand Police deliberately and brutally attacked citizens engaging in peaceful protest in front of Wellington's Parliament House. Police, using pepper spray and scrum tactics, targeted and herded the crowd of civilians after locking the gates mid-morning to prevent them leaving the area.

The protesters, who were singing the New Zealand National Anthem and linking arms, remained remarkably calm under extreme pressure from the massive number of recruits from the NZ Police Training College and other Police resources.

Adults and children were targeted during the violent assault on citizens, with one 14-year old suffering a neck injury from the use of Police headlock tactics. Elderly men and women were dragged out from their peaceful protest groups, and dragged across grass and concrete before being arrested and taken for processing.

The charges against the protesters involved trespass, which was alleged by Speaker of the House Trevor Mallard and reiterated by Grant Robertson, Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand.

Live video shows the aggressors to be New Zealand Police with the crowd overall being extremely good-willed.under intense pressure.

One media commentator noted that "I have never disliked Police in my life - until now!", and it seems that the actions of Police being livestreamed around the nation have encouraged many hundreds more New Zealanders to join the movement.

Here is another description:

The police are doing shifts, the people are not.

The protesters were standing peaceful and then the police barged.

I watched the whole thing for 4 hours straight with a side on view.

They pulled a woman by her hair and her dress came off in the process and they arrested her naked. I watched them pull a young girl right in front of the camera when she was just talking to her parent and then supposed to go back into the outer area. They barged right at the point out of the blue when there was NO violence at all and grabbed her and cut her neck. There is a woman who was just putting her ph away in her bag and they unexpectedly barged again and they grabbed her and dragged her by her feet and then pushed their elbow into her sternum and cracked it and now she is in hospital. The other people they arrested got let go and are back on parliament grounds.

STOP LISTENING TO MAINSTREAM MEDIA!!! THEY ARE DECEIVING YOU.

We know as soon as they are about to barge cause you can see across at the mainstream media filming from the balcony. They run back to their camera like they know something is about to happen then about 5 mins later they start to barge.

There were police in tears at some of their colleges behaviour and said this is not right! There were 3 police that I know of that resigned on the spot. People can have a go at me over and over and I couldn't care less! Video footage does not lie like photographs do! I know what I saw! NO ONE can tell me otherwise.

Police are just doing what they have been told to do.

But it's their choice with what they do next.. I'm sad for some of the police and I'm really sad for our people!

It was a huge shock seeing people standing there linking arms singing the national Anthem and then watching out of the blue the barging and dragging people out by hair, feet or arms.

I prayed so hard for all involved and I cried my tears too. Wishing I could be there in support.

https://truthwatchnz.is/cv-injection-nz/nz-police-brutality-today-a-14-yo-boy-is-injured-restrained-by-full-body-force-on-his-head?fbclid=IwAR3fjphQOsHoKL8BYY5IGBOLxW_TnhUfN1gWLMJeoVpq6OM6hfwsvQMP_MI

VIDEO at the link:

On this, this a departure from normal media coverage this appeared in the NZ Herald

Police officers filmed dragging naked protester by her hair on Parliament grounds

Here is a screenshot from someone else being dragged away. She collapses a few seconds later.

WATCH THIS VIDEO TO SEE THE POLICE TACTICS EXPOSED:

https://www.facebook.com/ChantelleBakerNZ/videos/292417952876527/

There is a lot more I could say about this but I want to get this information out "as is"

Monday, 15 March 2021

Anti-vaccine demonstrations worldwide

BREAKING: Tear gas used at Montreal anti-lockdown protest

Police then began deploying teargas with no warning to the crowd. This led to the Westphalian Times editor herself getting hit with a canister of teargas.

the Post Mllennial,

14 March, 2021

Thousands of Quebecois took to the Montreal streets on Saturday in protest of Premier Legault's lockdown measures. These measures are strict and include a 8PM curfew for everyone. Exclusive reporting from the Westphalian Times depicts Service de police de la Ville de Montréal pushing and teargassing protestors.

Westphalian Times editor Marie Oakes estimates around 3,000 - 5,000 attendees at the protest showed up initially, followed by thousands more. Footage shows massive crowds marching down St. Denis in Montreal.

The police were out in full force and used megaphones, warning attendees to socially distance or face fines in the thousands. Eventually, back up arrived and the SPVM began shoving protestors. According to Oakes, one protestor yelled over the intercom, "this is a peaceful protest, you don’t have to do this. People are peaceful here, you’re the violent ones. There’s a woman lying on the ground."

Police then began deploying teargas with no warning to the crowd. This led to the Westphalian Times editor herself getting hit with a canister of teargas.

The protest is still on-going. The is a breaking story and will be updated as more information comes in.

The Netherlands has halted use of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine for at least two weeks while an investigation of possibly serious side effects from the jab is undertaken by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).

The precautionary decision to suspend use of the vaccine until at least March 28 was based on new information from Norway and Denmark regarding potentially serious side effects in people who received the inoculation, Dutch Health Minister Hugo de Jonge said on Sunday.

“We can’t allow any doubts about the vaccine,” de Jonge said. “We have to make sure everything is right, so it is wise to pause for now.” Dutch health authorities reportedly had to cancel 43,000 vaccination appointments because of the suspension.

Ireland made the same decision earlier on Sunday, suspending use of the AstraZeneca vaccine after four new cases of people suffering serious blood clotting after receiving the shot were reported in Norway. Denmark stopped offering AstraZeneca vaccine jabs on Thursday after some recipients developed blood clots, and Norway followed suit.

https://www.rt.com/news/518092-netherlands-suspends-astrazeneca-jab/

https://www.rt.com/news/518068-ireland-halt-astrazeneca-vaccine/

https://www.rt.com/news/518052-copenhagen-lockdown-protest-denmark/

An anti-lockdown group staged a protest in Denmark’s capital to express their solidarity with an activist who was sentenced to two years behind bars for allegedly inciting violence at an earlier demonstration.

Several hundred members of the ‘Men in Black’ anti-lockdown group took to the streets in Copenhagen on Saturday night, lighting red flares and shouting slogans as they moved through the streets. Some demonstrators played bagpipes and pounded on drums, while others carried a large banner reading “black-clad resistance.”

Footage published by RT’s video agency Ruptly shows the demonstrators, many of them dressed in black, launching fireworks into the air as police escorted the crowd. There were no reports of violence and no arrests were made, according to local media.

Thursday, 14 January 2021

New Zealanders protest against lockdowns and tyranny

Apparently I was part of a ragtag group of "far-rightists". I did not know that I was on the Right; I thought I was on the side of Truth.

You learn something new every day! Lol.

Protest at NZ Paliament featuring Billy te Kahika, Rashid Buttar (by cellphone) and others

MAINSTREAM NZ IS NOW REASSURING US THERE IS NO IMMINENT LOCKDOWN (IN SPITE OF HINTS OTHERWISE FOR AT LEAST A WEEK NOW)

Envirowatch Rangatikei,

13 January, 2021

Here we have mainstream dispelling the social media rumours that the NZ Govt is planning a lockdown on 15 January. For those of us with a finger on the pulse it’s not really rocket science going with the narrative to note that there will inevitably be another. We simply have a matter of dates here. Either way, being prepared is not rocket science either. We also have, not rumours but ‘stated fact’ from mainstream that food is going to be scarce, and intimations that although not mandatory you won’t be able to travel, work, socialize etc without the CV vaccine (that medical intervention by the way that has killed people or made them very ill – see also Covid Vaccine Deaths & Covid Vaccine reaction in ‘categories’, top left of page). Proving the point over a rumour for the 15th of January is irrelevant in my humble opinion. Let’s look at the larger picture. The ‘fact checkers’ as they call themselves are all over it. These same censorship moguls who are running our lives right now recently deemed an article from a Harvard Immunologist as fake news. So the person with the health degree doesn’t know what she is talking about, while Bill Gates’ whose ‘expertise’ extends somehow way beyond IT and right into health matters and mandatory vaccines without a relevant degree, does. The hypocrisy is breathtaking, and if you hadn’t noticed this by now as I see many still haven’t, I’m very concerned about your gullibility. EWR

A rumour New Zealand will enter lockdown on January 15 has been slammed as false by the All-of-Government COVID-19 Response Group after the untrue claims circulated on social media.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/01/coronavirus-new-zealand-not-entering-planned-lockdown-on-january-15-officials.html?fbclid=IwAR3wA1vad6sGdwwHMRkUCAu3-Nv70SN3TJO9xvxIqanrxOIPWMNS_d3trR0

The lame stream media reaction

Police and security were on stand-by this afternoon, as close to 100 protesters gathered outside Parliament for a "freedom rally," led by controversial political figure Billy Te Kahika.

Te Kahika was flanked by his own private security, which he had brought along to the protest.

In among the many signs – most critical of the Government, lockdowns and the UN – were a number of Donald Trump flags.

One protester told the Herald this morning that they "loved Trump" – that appeared to be the sentiment shared among a number of people gathered.

Another person at the protest was carrying a pink "Women for Trump" flag.

Before the protest had started, Māori council chair Matthew Tukaki labelled it an "alt-right, it's pro-Trump" event with nothing to do with freedom.

Despite this, neither Te Kahika nor any of the speakers mentioned Trump, the impeachment or anything to do with US politics.

Their comments were mostly aimed at the Government – objecting to the lockdowns and questioning the effectiveness of any Covid-19 vaccine.

Clinical trials for the vaccine are underway – medical officials around the world have urged people to get the Covid-19 vaccination to protect against the spread of the virus.

Te Kahika co-led the Advance NZ party, which won 1 per cent of the total vote in the 2020 Election.

Given the storming of the US Capitol last week and the arrest of a person who smashed windows at New Zealand's Parliament with an axe yesterday, there was heightened security at the protest.

Protesters begin gathering outside Parliament for this afternoon's 'freedom rally'. Photo / Jason Walls

Tuesday, 1 December 2020

French protesters set fire to Rothschild bank

French Protesters Set Fire To Central Bank

Zero Hedge,

30 November, 2020

One of the recurring questions amid the year's countless BLM protests and associated riots has been why instead of burning and looting innocent businesses, the angry mob does not target the source of all wealth, income and social inequality - not just in the US but the world - the central bank, i.e. Federal Reserve (located at 2051 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20418 for those unaware).

Yet while US protesters and rioters still need guidance what buildings to burn down, their French peers are finally catching on.

Over the weekend, tens of thousands of critics of a proposed security law that would restrict the filming of police officers protested across France on Saturday, and officers in Paris who were advised to behave responsibly during the demonstrations repeatedly fired tear gas to disperse rowdy protesters. The controversial Article 24 of the bill seeks to protect police officers from doxing and harassment, and bans filming of cops on duty and sharing their images online with the "intent to harm."

Civil liberties groups, journalists, and people who have faced police abuse are concerned that the measure will stymie press freedoms and allow police brutality to go undiscovered and unpunished.

“We have to broaden the debate, and by doing that, we say that if there were no police violence, we wouldn’t have to film violent policemen,” Assa Traore, a prominent anti-brutality activist whose brother died in police custody in 2016, told The Associated Press.

At least 46,000 people packed the sprawling Republique plaza and surrounding streets carrying red union flags, French tricolor flags and homemade signs denouncing police violence, demanding media freedom or calling for the resignation of French President Emmanuel Macron or his tough-talking interior minister, Gerald Darmanin.

The crowd included journalists, journalism students, left-wing activists, migrants rights groups and citizens of varied political stripes expressing anger over what they perceive as hardening police tactics in recent years, especially since France’s yellow vest protest movement against economic hardship emerged in 2018.

Violence erupted near the end of the march as small groups of protesters pelted riot police with small rocks and paving stone. The officers retaliated with volleys of tear gas, prompting minor scuffles.

What we found most remarkable is that as rioting escalated, the protesters did something they have never done before (to our knowledge): they set fire to the facade of the central bank building in Paris.

While fire crews reached the central bank building on time, and it did not spontaneously collapse "due to the high temperatures" unlike some other structures, one wonders what happens during the next protest, or the one after. And when will US protesters figure out what the French already have: that burning and looting stores owned by fellow hard-working citizens only exacerbates the inequality. On the other hand, to really make a statement, a couple of Molotov cocktails aimed at the Marriner Eccles building just may attract some attention.

Monday, 9 November 2020

BLM: "Peaceful protests are racist"

BLM: “Peaceful protests are racist”

People like the well-meaning couple are always the first to be eliminated in a revolution followed by "useful idiots" like those protesters here.

Sunday, 27 September 2020

Protests against lockdown on Trafalgar Square

Sadiq Khan, mayor of London

"To the thousands of Londoners who protested peacefully today: I stand with you - and I share your anger and your pain"

-6 June, 2020

"This is not acceptable...Large gatherings are banned for a reason"

- 26 September, 2020

This German doctor addressed the crowd..

And was arrested.

Anti-lockdown protesters today clashed with police after at least 15,000 demonstrators descended on Trafalgar Square as part of a rally against coronavirus measures in the UK.

Attendees of the 'We Do Not Consent' rally ditched their masks as they crammed into the London square this afternoon, despite Metropolitan Police pleading with people to stick to Britain's coronavirus restrictions.

Crowds, who were also warned violence would not be tolerated, carried placards reading 'is this freedom?' and 'end the crazy rules' as they flocked to protest against Britain's coronavirus restrictions.

Sixteen people were arrested during the demonstration - which later moved to Hyde Park - and nine police officers were injured with two rushed to hospital.

Piers Corbyn, 73, brother of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, was among the crowd alongside conspiracy theorist David Icke, 68, who has made a series of false claims linking Covid-19 to 5G technology.

Demonstrators ditched their masks and ignored social distancing as they shouted 'we will win' and waved flags, before police shut them down because crowds 'have not complied with the conditions of their risk assessment'.

Trafalgar Square has a maximum capacity of 20,000 people and photographs showed crowds almost filling the area as they stood shoulder to shoulder to protest against Britain's increasingly stricter lockdown rules.

In contrast, last month's protests had around half today's turn-out - at around 10,000 people.

Skirmishes broke out between protesters and police later in the day, with those in attendance chanting 'shame on you' - shoving at officers as they passed through the crammed crowd.

Pictures show a woman appearing to be knocked to the ground as a struggle broke out behind her, while one man chanted with blood pouring out of his head.

In a statement, Scotland Yard said the breach had 'put people in danger of transmitting the virus' which voided their risk assessment and left those at the event 'no longer exempt' from Covid-19 restrictions.

'We are now asking those in Trafalgar Square to leave,' the force said. 'Officers will be engaging with crowds and informing them of this development. By leaving now, you can keep yourself safe and avoid any enforcement action being taken by officers.'

In other coronavirus developments today:

Scientists are considering a plan to ask everyone over the age of 45 to shield to stop the spread of Covid-19;
Britain has been warned to expect 100 coronavirus deaths a day within the next three to four weeks;
Government sources claimed Boris Johnson's 10pm pubs curfew was based on 'back of a fag packet calculations' and 'NOT advocated by SAGE';
The restrictions imposed in March could kill 75,000 in five years, including 31,000 deaths not related to Covid, according to documents submitted to SAGE;
Unions call for in-person university classes to be suspended as 3,000 students are placed in lockdown;
MailOnline analysis reveals Britain's outbreak began to surge after 'Super Saturday' reopening;
Sadiq Khan calls for Londoners to be stopped from visiting friends and family.

Here's one the New Normal totalitarians will love! It's the police punching a lady in the stomach and shoving her to the ground at the "No New Normal" protest in London today. But she probably deserved it, right? After all, she wasn't even wearing a mask.
--C.J.Hopkins