| Locke Foundation Commentary on selected New Zealand happenings
Journalled by Dagny S Taggart |
Today Prime Minister Helen Clark visited the University of Otago. I was there. And wow.
As you'd expect, at the meeting were Labour supporters as well as people opposed to Labour. What I didn't expect to see - although I guess I probably should have - was the way the Labour supporters behaved. I'm not just talking about passers by who supported Labour. I'm talking about the people who were there as part of the event, wearing the Labour gear, holding the balloons and passing out the leaflets. Oh, and ripping anti-Labour material out of the hands of students, stealing belongings and running away with them, and Cabinet ministers assaulting women. It was a fiasco. I might undersand if these were your average loudmouth lefty students, but these were Helen's people, the ones who showed up with her! Maybe there's no difference?
I spoke to one of the women trying to physically rip materials from students' hands. I said, "Does your party support theft and vandalism to achieve its goals?" I was asking to make her stop, I didn't expect a reply. But I got one. She said, without flinching - "Yes!" I gotta admit, I didn't see that coming. Another of the men in red surrounding Helen did the same to another person, and when he asked this Labourite if he believed in free speech, the reponse was again, immediate and clear, "No I don't, and at least I'm honest about it." OK....
Way to go Labour, keep getting people like this working for you, it's magic for your public image! Or maybe this is the only kind of person who will work for you?
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