MPs Andrew Hoggard, Laura Trask, and party leader David Seymour were due to speak at the Rugby Club Rooms.
The protestors’ actions came on the same day the Treaty Principles Bill passed its first reading in Parliament.
Tensions escalated when a young man was seen yelling, “Kill the f***** bill,” as security guards blocked his entry to the venue.
A witness told chrislynchmedia.com “it was the worst behaviour I have ever seen.
“The protestors tried to tackle both security and police.”
The witness said that Seymour had not yet arrived at the venue when the protestors began causing trouble.
“If David had been there, it would have been very volatile. They even threw a device in the room with both Laura Trask and Andrew Hoggart.
“There was lots of heavy shouting, heckling, violent disorderly behaviour, physical assaults, but no arrests made.
A woman was also filmed entering the club rooms carrying an infant shouting “free Palestine.”
Another attendee wrote on Facebook “Well tonight was a first. I’ve never been to a meeting before where I was scared.
“We all had to leave and I got yelled at while I left. There were police there, many police.
“The meeting was interrupted constantly with people bashing on windows, the police dragging protesters from the door and loud panic units thrown into the room.
“In the meeting the MPs touched on a bill before parliament today, education, gun control, health care, business, lots on farming, and a few other topics.
“Question time was reasonable, but sabotaged by different activists and most of the other questions were at the same level as talk back radio.
“On the way home I got called out on the phone for not taking video or having photos. There was no way in hell I was stopping to do either. It wasn’t a nice place. It was full of violence. I just left quickly as requested by the police.
“I think it makes you rethink about life when you realise that you don’t feel safe as a New Zealander in New Zealand.”
Broadcaster Chris Lynch is an award winning journalist who also produces Christchurch news and video content for domestic and international companies. Chris blogs at Chris Lynch Media - where this article was sourced.
A witness told chrislynchmedia.com “it was the worst behaviour I have ever seen.
“The protestors tried to tackle both security and police.”
The witness said that Seymour had not yet arrived at the venue when the protestors began causing trouble.
“If David had been there, it would have been very volatile. They even threw a device in the room with both Laura Trask and Andrew Hoggart.
“There was lots of heavy shouting, heckling, violent disorderly behaviour, physical assaults, but no arrests made.
A woman was also filmed entering the club rooms carrying an infant shouting “free Palestine.”
Another attendee wrote on Facebook “Well tonight was a first. I’ve never been to a meeting before where I was scared.
“We all had to leave and I got yelled at while I left. There were police there, many police.
“The meeting was interrupted constantly with people bashing on windows, the police dragging protesters from the door and loud panic units thrown into the room.
“In the meeting the MPs touched on a bill before parliament today, education, gun control, health care, business, lots on farming, and a few other topics.
“Question time was reasonable, but sabotaged by different activists and most of the other questions were at the same level as talk back radio.
“On the way home I got called out on the phone for not taking video or having photos. There was no way in hell I was stopping to do either. It wasn’t a nice place. It was full of violence. I just left quickly as requested by the police.
“I think it makes you rethink about life when you realise that you don’t feel safe as a New Zealander in New Zealand.”
Broadcaster Chris Lynch is an award winning journalist who also produces Christchurch news and video content for domestic and international companies. Chris blogs at Chris Lynch Media - where this article was sourced.
11 comments:
Are the sheeple waking up at last? They will pay dearly for their apathy since the 1970s - 50 years.
Welcome to real life - do you want democracy or ethnocracy?
NZ seems to be at a cross roads. Are we going to remain a democracy or will we be run by thuggery, like a black African dictatorships where a small number of Indigenous thugs grab all the resources for themselves. Obviously most of the media, public servants, academics and many of the judiciary want the latter.
Was the lovely, peaceful, welcoming and forgiving culture on full display again?
Who cares. Let them protest all they want. Our relatives did not fight in ww2 to protect democracy and freedom, only to have a bunch of whimpy politicians, too scared of a few protesters throwing a tantrum and calling them ist words, to preserve it. The Act party are standing up against it.
The far left racist radicals are at it again....
This can't be true... we are told Maori are such peace-loving people!
Was this also a state funded pakeha project "rent a mob"?
This is a fight that needs to be had. Middle New Zealand has had enough of appeasement.
Words matter, unless we are bullies who resort to physical force and intimidation to make our points...
1) "Pakeha" is a Maori word meaning among other things "pig". I, as a European proud of my heritage, utterly refuse to have that "p" word as my label. I can think of many non-complementary English words to describe Maori...
2)"Indigenous" is a word used to refer to, or relating to, the people who originally lived in a place, rather than people who moved there from somewhere else".
By this and any other definition, Maori are NOT indigenous, so let's not label them as such. They, like every one of us New Zealand citizens are immigrants. Maori always go on about arriving from their "homeland" on canoes dated about 1,300 years ago. Truly indigenous people such as Australian Aborigines (who have been in in OZ for 50,000 years) do not have stories about coming from somewhere else. Let's get real and not accept the Maori scam about being "indigenous".
Dunning–Kruger effect: radical Maori claiming to have a superior comprehension of the TOW & our history while being demonstrably stupid, abusive, violent & racist.
When such folk show us who they are, we tend to believe them. This idiots are doing more to promote dialogue & interest in this Bill than DS ever could.
Let’s hope they keep up the good work!!
In 1840, Pakeha was the tangata Maori word for European. It was even written into the Maori language treaty as such.
From the second paragraph of the preamble in the Maori language treaty.
Na ko te kuini e hiahia ana kia wakaritea te kawanatanga kia kaua ai nga kino e puta mai ki te tangata Maori ki te PAKEHA e noho ture kore ana.
Translation from the official 1869 back-translation of the Maori language treaty.
Now the Queen is desirous to establish the government, that evil may not come to the Maoris and the EUROPEANS who are living without law.
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