Andrew Bydder
Despite the ongoing disruption to businesses all over New Zealand, Cuddles Coster and his police force refuse to end the illegal occupation at Parliament.
The 120 activists behave like they are above the law. They abuse fellow citizens who are just going about their daily lives on the streets outside Parliament, spraying them with water and threatening them, while spreading misinformation and crackpot conspiracy theories.
The police are well resourced with riot gear, water cannons, pepper spray, rubber bullets and even the contentious and probably illegal long range acoustic devices. Yet, even after a clear court ruling that the activists broke the Bill of Rights, the only actual constitutional law the country has, the police steadfastly refuse to take action.
Perhaps they are worried that intervening will lead to confrontation and violence, or upsetting images and bad publicity, or damage to property.
The stream of filth that pours out of the occupation is polluting the waterways airways, and they have encouraged others to blockade roads around the country with lower speed limits and bizarre spots painted on intersections – allegedly to save lives but really to increase traffic congestion to force people to use public transport.
The occupiers appear to use children as shields, although insiders say it is just childish behaviour such as calling everyone who disagrees with them ‘racist’. Meanwhile, as the police and public are distracted by the frontline speeches, one of the occupiers has been observed trying to steal water infrastructure.
For a while, it looked like the police were going to lose control of the situation when a counter protest formed. The mostly peaceful protestors were moved on, proving that the police have the ability to end the illegal occupation if they wanted to. Perhaps it is time for Cuddles to resign so someone else can do his job.