National MP Maureen Pugh was allegedly assaulted after a Tākaka community board meeting.
Golden Bay Community Board chair Abbie Langford said the incident yesterday afternoon, which allegedly involved a man pushing a placard into Pugh’s chest and others shouting at her, was “a bit scary”.
“We weren’t prepared for the aggression shown towards Maureen.”
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon told reporters today Pugh had been a victim of an “attack” and the matter had been lodged with police.
The person responsible should be charged. The right to protest is not a right to assault.
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders.
6 comments:
The TVNZ News report made it sound like a light nudge.
No doubt some paru Hua rarked up by racist Te Pati Mokomai rhetoric.
Same thing happening in UK election campaign.......
Au contraire.
The left in NZ now see the right to assault as a very valid part of the right to protest.
We have witnessed these with the evidence of our own eyes from Posy Parker to Stop Co-governance and various other protests since.
The sad reality is that if the right were to use the same tactic the left being actually afraid of shadows would wilt like all snowflakes in the sun.
Make no mistake the assaults and thugs veto will continue until the push back arrives and by push back I mean that in the physical forms of actual push.....
When the national anthem is the haka and tikanga is now part incorporated in law, the days of sanctity of the (non rangatira) person are over.
The haka and its spawn should be banned. They are an incitement to violence.
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