Anti-vaxers only understand one thing: brutal violence.
If you want to crush the soul of an anti-vaxer, you first must crush his body.
This is democracy 101.
AP:
Some countries might send in a riot squad to disperse trespassing protesters. In New Zealand, authorities turned on the sprinklers and Barry Manilow.
Initial moves to try and flush out several hundred protesters who have been camped on Parliament’s grassy grounds since Tuesday had little effect.
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New Zealand police arrested more than 50 people and began forcefully removing hundreds of protesters camped outside its parliament building for the last three days to protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates https://t.co/LHNwUk54Bg pic.twitter.com/BprRoFImnp
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 10, 2022
The protesters, who have been voicing their opposition to coronavirus vaccine mandates, responded to the soaking from the sprinklers by digging trenches and installing makeshift drainpipes to divert the water.
When a downpour hit Saturday, their numbers only grew. Protesters brought in bales of straw, which they scattered on the increasingly sodden grounds at Parliament. Some shouted, others danced and one group performed an Indigenous Maori haka.
New Zealand, the performance of the Hakka sacred dance by the Maori natives in the Parliament in Wellington, they demand the end of all vaccination mandates. pic.twitter.com/CAxuj9r45K
— Protest News (@ProtestNews_EN) February 13, 2022
Breaking News‼️Right Now In New Zealand Protest Against COVID MANDATES💪🏻🇳🇿Hundred of thousands Protesters in New Zealand Against @jacindaardern Covid Mandates👌🏻🙌🏻🇳🇿The Booster does not work anyway and Omicron is harmless🇳🇿 @jacindaardern failed she should resign👎🏻🇳🇿👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 pic.twitter.com/Vq1Cy0sDp9
— Armand Klein (@realArmandKlein) February 12, 2022
By evening, Parliament Speaker Trevor Mallard had come up with a new plan to make the protesters uncomfortable: using a sound system to blast out vaccine messages, decades-old Barry Manilow songs and the 1990s earworm hit “Macarena” on a repeat loop.
Protesters responded by playing their own tunes, including Twister Sister’s “We’re Not Gonna Take It.”
The protest began when a convoy of trucks and cars drove to Parliament from around the nation, inspired by protests in Canada. At first there were more than 1,000 protesters but that number dwindled as the week wore on before growing again on Saturday.
Police have been taking a more hands-off approach since Thursday, when they arrested 122 people and charged many of them with trespassing or obstruction. Police, who have been wearing protective vests but haven’t been using riot gear or carrying guns, had tried to slowly advance on the protesters.
But that resulted in a number of physical confrontations. A video of two female officers briefly dragging a naked woman by her hair from amid a scuffle went viral.
Hey Jacinda, I hope you enjoy the global media coverage of your regime’s brutality and authoritarianism!
…and yet even with all that brutality the protesters are still right there in Wellington staring you down.#Convoy2022NZ https://t.co/wdZ8VQwBuo
— Zeitgeist (@ZeitgeistNZ) February 10, 2022
It's official @jacindaardern has lost complete control of #NewZealand
This is a peaceful protest and look what her paid for thugs are doing. Kneeling on frail woman's head FFShttps://t.co/MLe85LkEvg
Brave souls. Please share. And hold the line. pic.twitter.com/b87TcmyM6b
— Dr.Justice.Distro (@DistroDr) February 10, 2022
In a response to questions from The Associated Press, New Zealand police said they did not remove the woman’s clothing as some people had claimed online, and that she had been naked for “some time” before her arrest. Police also said the images and videos didn’t provide the full context of the protest activity or the situation that police faced.
Still, the scuffles seemed to prompt a strategic rethink by police, who appeared more content to wait it out as the week wore on. But by Friday, Mallard, the Parliament speaker, had seen enough, and told staff to turn on the sprinklers overnight.
“I ordered them on,” he confirmed to the AP.
“No one who is here is here legally, and if they’re getting wet from below as well as above, they’re likely to be a little bit less comfortable and more likely to go home,” Mallard said, according to news organization Stuff.
“Some people have suggested we add the vaccine in the water, but I don’t think it works that way,” he joked.
Mallard told media he was responsible for the sound system loop as well.
1News coverage of Day 2 of the #Convoy2022NZ protest on New Zealand’s Parliament grounds. As with the Ottawa truckers protest, mainstream media and politicians are attempting to portray the protesters negatively. pic.twitter.com/0TqQVvsHcl
— Zeitgeist (@ZeitgeistNZ) February 9, 2022
Some of the protesters’ vehicles have remained parked in the middle of streets around Parliament, forcing some street closures. The National Library and many cafes and bars in the area have closed their doors while the protest plays out. Police said one protester had a medical event on Friday evening and an ambulance was unable to reach him because of the vehicles blocking the streets, resulting in a delay before he was treated.
Among the protesters’ grievances is the requirement in New Zealand that certain workers get vaccinated against COVID-19, including teachers, doctors, nurses, police and military personnel. Many protesters also oppose mask mandates — such as those in stores and among children over about age 8 in classrooms — and champion the ideal of more “freedom.”
“Freedom” is one of the latest dogwhistles for the supremacy of the white race.
When the anti-vaxers say “freedom,” what they mean is “kill the niggers.”
Parliament’s grounds have often been the site of peaceful protests, although mass campouts are unusual. Typically at least some politicians will come out to listen to the concerns of protesters, but politicians reconvening at Parliament after a summer break were in rare unison by not acknowledging the protesters.
New Zealand was spared the worst of the pandemic after it closed its borders and implemented strict lockdowns, limiting the spread of the virus. The nation has reported just 53 virus deaths among its population of 5 million.
For those not so great at math, that is more than 10% of the country’s population dead from this virus, simply because the people refuse to do the most basic, common sense safety measures, such as take four doses of this safe and effective vaccine, wear masks all the time everywhere, cease all social interaction, close all small businesses, and stop working.
One of the great things about democracy though is that the population doesn’t simply have the power to disagree with the government. The government has the absolute right to force its will on the population, without exception. Those are our values and it’s who we are. If these protesters continue to refuse to obey the government, the law of democracy is that soldiers will be sent in to kill them.
Democracy means safety, and the primary threat to safety is viruses. If beating you doesn’t work, if spraying you and forcing you to listen to distasteful music doesn’t work, in a democracy, it is the duty of the government to shoot you to death in order to prevent you from spreading a deadly virus that has already killed millions of New Zealanders.
Jacinda Ardern is a devout follower of the Islamic faith, and the teachings of the prophet Muhammed, a leading proponent of democracy values, always put safety before the lives of those who would threaten our values.
Those of us who believe in democracy must recognize that it is very fragile, because it is based on a tiny minority of wealthy elites controlling a large population of peasants. The fragility of this democracy means that we must always be ready to give our lives, or to kill in order to protect the safety of the people from a virus.
If we stop the vaccines, if we remove the masks, if we allow people to move around freely, we are abandoning our belief in safety.
And then who are we?
What are our values?
We become no better than the sickening Chinese, who force the wiggers to play Squid Game, or the Russians, who refuse to respect the borders of the Ukraine.
This is a minor inconvenience. All that democracy is asking for is two more years to flatten the curve and prevent the hospitals from being overwhelmed, and that you take vaccines every four months, and that you wear masks forever, and that you stop working and move into government housing and get paid by the government with worthless tokens and eat bugs.
Extreme virus restrictions and the abolishing of the middle class are the only path to utopia. And those who would stand in the way of it deserve much worse than being stripped naked and beaten by the police.