The
Blackshirts come to the streets of Auckland
LEAK:
NZ Cops Brag About Bashing TPP Protesters – U.S. Embassy “Happy”
12
December, 2012
This
week the NZ corporate media, in concert with the NZ police, set up a
young female protester as a scapegoat for the repeated violence
demonstrated by officers & security guards at the December
8 TPPA Shutdown protest at
Sky City, in Auckland.
The
combined protest movements of It’s
Our Future, Occupy
New Zealand, Aotearoa
Is Not For Sale and Socialist
Aotearoa,
among others, were depicted as violent,
framed as volatile and dangerous and falsely accused of wanton
assaults on
police officers.
Despite
this Occupy NZ flooded the alternative media sphere with THE TRUTH:
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comprehensive info-filled
blogpost
But
never did we dream that the protesters written about so libellously
in the national media would now be suddently exonerated in so
spectacular a fashion as has unfolded!
The
tape is of internal police conversations regarding the approval of
the U.S. Embassy of the police actions that day, a tape of which GPJA
says;
In the recording the officer acknowledges Saturday’s melee was sparked when an officer “broke ranks” and ran into the crowd.
The
admins on Occupy
Auckland &
Occupy New Zealand have had a hell of a week. Not only have they had
to deal with constant paid trolls on You Tube videos posting false
“witness testimony” (sure they were there! With a uniform on…)
we have also had to deal with many of our own loyal supporters who
weren’t present, and who took the corporate media/police line at
face value.
It
seems the entire country forgot our track record of a year straight
of non-violent protest actions.
As
with the violence displayed at the Occupy Auckland evictions and the
constant bashings dished out by police at Glen
Innes Housing protests,
there was already amountain
of evidence that
the blame for the TPPA unrest lay
at the feet of
authorities.
For
an organisation that has promised to change
its culture surrounding
the handling of crimes committed
by its employees,
it needs to take a serious look at why it is expending its resources
targeting normal legislative democratic dissent and not dealing to
the abysmal social issues that continue in Auckland seemingly
unabated.
When
the police make the general public the enemy, who is left for them to
protect and serve?
It
is difficult for someone not involved to realise the full
significance of this now-famous photo of Motorbike Cop – NZ’s own
version of Pepper
Spray Cop.
The
member of the public in the featured photo on this article is wearing
a Power
Shift t-shirt.
Power Shift had an event at the university on the morning of the TPPA
protest, and are a very straight-laced coalition of climate change
protesters, many of whom then attended the TPPA shutdown on a whim.
While
to corporate eyes the young man’s skin colour may condemn him, as
with the other victims of Motorbike Cop he was quite obviously
undeserving of the ill-treatment so publicly meted out to him.
Likewise
some police may have been fooled into thinking it is an
accomplishment to hit John Minto. To us, it is the utmost shame to
beat a man of his age. Those who physically abuse someone they can’t
outmatch intellectually are the definition of thugs.
The
city cops that policed Occupy Auckland for the first four months of
our occupations, were the opposite of the thuggishness displayed at
the TPPA negotiations.
It
seems whenever police are imported from other locations there is
brutality, but the regular city cops especially under the guidance
of Inspector
Danny Meade,
have been constantly affable, supportive and
generated goodwill amongst activists.
To
have those efforts so callously destroyed for the sake of
testosterone and blatant political discrimination, let alone on the
world stage where it is being played out, is pure embarrassment.
This
month we have worked so hard to move the world to analyse and reject
the TPPA, with great success. Even going so far as to host foreign
citizen journalists, to spend money filming and documenting the
momentous events here, creating a pure historical record.
Occupier
Kereru of Occupy Auckland said:
this is the year of instant karma. All actions will be held
immediately accountable.
It
seems this is precisely what has played out here. Despite the police
and corporate media machines being set firmly against us – the
truth has slipped through the cracks and the perpetrators have
revealed themselves and their intentions, to the world.
To hear the leaked tape GO HERE
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