Mandate protesters

[Lilith7]

Vaccine mandate protesters have again gathered in Wellington to march to Parliament - even though most MPs have gone home for the holidays.

A large number of protesters from the Freedom and Rights Coalition gathered in Wellington's Civic Square this morning and started a march to Parliament just after 11am.

They are protesting against the traffic light system, vaccine mandates and the Government's plan to vaccinate under-12s from next year.

They have the right to protest but I cant get my head around the fact they are doing it every week, dont they realise that people will be getting pissed off with them the more they carry on, yes they have made their point now get over it. And the stupidity of marching on parliament when there maybe only a few politicians there and probably not the ones they want to try and get their message to.

Good on them I say, if we dont make a stand for freedom, then we will only see more medical apartheid from Jacinda and her totalitarian regime, I never believed we would see such division in this country.
I know many fully vaxxed who agree and wont be getting their booster shots in another 6 months when the time comes...

Shame that parliament was closed, but the timing was made around when the borders in Auckland were reopening so couldnt get down to wellington.

Good on NSW for dropping their mandates.

     "A stand for freedom?" What, the 'freedom' to merrily spread the virus, infecting  many & making at least some of those people seriously ill, & perhaps causing some to die?

And please do not pretend this is anything like as cruel & unreasoning as actual apartheid; there are sound reasons for needing as many of us as possible to be vaccinated, in contrast to apartheid.
Likewise those using the term 'totalitarian regime' would do well to first look up the meaning of the term, rather than making themselves look even more foolish.

They have the freedom to make such silly statements, unlike a genuine totalitarian regime.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/totalitarianism


"In the broadest sense, totalitarianism is characterized by strong central rule that attempts to control and direct all aspects of individual life through coercion and repression.

Totalitarianism is distinguished from previous forms of autocracy in its use of state power to impose an official ideology on its citizens. Nonconformity of opinion, as already noted, is treated as the equivalent of resistance or opposition to the government, and the state police or secret police, along with other institutions of compulsion, are used to enforce the orthodoxy of the proclaimed doctrines of the state."