I think the only ones that complained were Destiny Church whom had their own march up in Auckland.
I just feel it was a waste of time because everyone knows it was a tick box exercise for a bill going now where fast and all it has caused is disruption.
The one thing I really do want to applaud is the fact that in this country we still have the right to protest or argue our various causes. And to this extent, yesterday, New Zealanders exercised that right and made their voices heard. That is a democracy in action.
In places like China or North Korea, the military would've shut it down before the march even started way up north.
I just feel it was a waste of time because everyone knows it was a tick box exercise for a bill going now where fast and all it has caused is disruption.
The one thing I really do want to applaud is the fact that in this country we still have the right to protest or argue our various causes. And to this extent, yesterday, New Zealanders exercised that right and made their voices heard. That is a democracy in action.
In places like China or North Korea, the military would've shut it down before the march even started way up north.
lol- you could be in luck buddy. 😁Snuck into the foreign interference bill, according to NRT:
‘The latter point of course covers a huge swathe of legitimate democratic protest. Occupations and blockades are a normal part of the push and shove of democratic society. This law would define them as "coercive".
But wouldn't they only be illegal if they compromised protected New Zealand interests on behalf of a foreign power? As noted above, those interests include "international relations" and "economic wellbeing", while links to a foreign power can be highly tenuous. We've seen protests blockade streets and buildings, occupy land, ships and oil rigs, and the targets of those protests - the dairy, oil, and weapons industries - have all claimed that it threatens "economc wellbeing" (they've even called it "economic treason"). And the government and SIS of the day have slandered virtually every major protest movement in our history - the union movement, the anti-war movement, the anti-apartheid movement, the anti-nuclear movement - as a tool of foreign interests.
Essentially, this law allows the government to criminalise people based on its own misconceptions, conspiracy theories, and outright fantasies of their motivations (and its belief that we "ought to know" about their weirdo fantasies).’