If there’s one thing that women’s rights campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen’s current speaking tour is proving beyond doubt, it’s that policing in Australia and New Zealand has become so deeply politically compromised that both are rapidly becoming police states.
Hyperbole? Consider what a “police state” is: A state whose government institutions exercise an extreme level of control over civil society and liberties, with little or no distinction between the law and the exercise of political power.
In the Australian state of Victoria, police have pursued highly politicised prosecutions against prominent conservatives in defiance of the state prosecutor’s express recommendations, while government MPs have openly flouted summonses with no repercussion. During Covid lockdown, police took part in illegal BLM protests, but used rubber bullets and teargas against Freedom protesters.
In New Zealand, police knock on peoples’ doors over perfectly legal social media posts, while issuing secret notices against journalists, and filmed themselves gleefully high-fiving after violently smashing the peaceful “Freedom Village” protests. Government and police conspire to illegally keep conservative journalists from entering the country.
In the case of Kellie-Jay Keen, Victorian police bizarrely co-operated with neo-Nazis in an apparent effort to embarrass a feminist rally, while violent far-left counter-protesters punched police horses and knocked a woman unconscious.
And New Zealand is allegedly conspiring to repeat its attempt to keep an ideological opponent out of the country.
Firebrand British anti-transgender activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull could be barred from entering New Zealand after her rally in Melbourne attracted neo-Nazi supporters and descended into violence.
Ms Keen-Minshull’s radical “Let Women Speak” tour has scheduled events in Auckland and Wellington on Saturday and Sunday.
While UK nationals are usually able to enter New Zealand without a visa, Immigration New Zealand (INZ) is investigating Ms Keen-Minshull’s application ahead of those events […] However, such actions are usually taken based on a person’s criminal background, meaning an assessment of how the Melbourne incident might weigh on Ms Keen-Minshull’s application is outside of the usual parameters.
Meaning that Keen has no criminal record. Her only “crime” is opposing the left-wing government’s anti-woman “trans” agenda.
As for the neo-Nazis and violence in Melbourne, Victoria Police have a lot to answer for.
The event on Saturday was long planned and co-ordinated with the Victorian Police, event organisers made public warnings that far-right groups were expected and not welcome.
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Yet, Victoria Police, while properly keeping far-left counter-protesters separate from the women’s event, ushered the neo-Nazis through a cordon, even apparently shaking hands with one. The police willingly gave the neo-Nazis a platform to stand on the steps of the Victorian parliament and perform Nazi salutes.
Why did police allow this to happen?
The Australian Jewish Association is asking that very question.
There was some very odd policing. While the Victorian police held back the trans activists who arrived to disrupt the rally, they did not do the same to the Nazis. Rather they seemed to facilitate their entry to where the women’s rally was taking place on parliament steps. WATCH the video and form your own view.
This disruption caused the women’s rally to disperse early. Many are saying the police should have stopped the Nazis.
The Nazis were condemned by the women’s rally organisers – one contacted AJA in distress explaining what had happened. The “Let Women Speak” organisers had nothing to do with the Nazis.
It is shameful that some politicians and media are now trying to smear this women’s movement with the false accusation of involvement with Nazis.
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The women’s group included Maori and Muslim women, so they are clearly far from Nazi sympathisers. Kellie-Jay Keen has been repeatedly attacked by neo-Nazis groups.
Many women at the rally, including Maori woman Michelle Uriarau, Co-Founder of women’s group Mana Wahine Koreo, said the salute was ‘chilling’.
Political motivations on behalf of the Victorian Police would also seem to include wedging the weak-as-piss Victorian opposition. Liberal leader John Pesutto is moving to sack newly-elected MP Moira Deeming, who attended the rally.
Moira Deeming was recently elected to the Victorian Upper House, and is a former local councillor and school teacher. In her maiden speech, Deeming presented a clear platform for women’s rights and talked about her broad association with more left-leaning woman in solidarity against gender identity ideology […]
Speaking after the rally, Moira Deeming said she was frightened when she first saw the men dressed in black wearing masks because she assumed they were trans activist that were about to attack women. She was however confused that the police appeared calm […] Deeming said until the men did the Sieg Heil salute there was no outward indication that the men were Nazis, even though they were clearly not associated with the women’s group.
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Yet, while Victoria Police coddled the neo-Nazis, just steps away, far-left groups with a reputation for thuggish violence, such as Socialist Alternative and Antifa, were spitting, throwing corrosive liquids and punching police horses and kicking women. One woman was knocked unconscious.
Will New Zealand Police similarly tolerate violence against women by trans activists? Assuming, of course, that the immigration process isn’t yet again wrongfully hijacked by political machinations.