Post by Kiwi Frontline on Mar 27, 2020 12:00:02 GMT 12
Karl du Fresne: HARAWIRA'S OPPORTUNISTIC TRY-ON IN THE FAR NORTH
Let’s see if I’ve got this straight. Hone Harawira and his mates are manning checkpoints on main highways in the Far North to intercept tourists and turn them back, ostensibly to protect their people from Covid-19. He describes it as a border-closing exercise.
And the police, whose statutory duty is to maintain law and order, appear to have meekly gone along with this brazen usurpation of their authority by a failed MP (he was tossed out by his own Maori voters in 2014) with no legal mandate whatsoever.
So too, we are told, has the local mayor, former National MP John Carter.
While the eyes of the country and the media have been on supermarket queues, toilet paper shortages and prime ministerial press conferences, Harawira appears to be using the health crisis as a smokescreen for an opportunistic grab for power – and he’s getting away with it.......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2020/03/karl-du-fresne-harawiras-opportunistic.html
Let’s see if I’ve got this straight. Hone Harawira and his mates are manning checkpoints on main highways in the Far North to intercept tourists and turn them back, ostensibly to protect their people from Covid-19. He describes it as a border-closing exercise.
And the police, whose statutory duty is to maintain law and order, appear to have meekly gone along with this brazen usurpation of their authority by a failed MP (he was tossed out by his own Maori voters in 2014) with no legal mandate whatsoever.
So too, we are told, has the local mayor, former National MP John Carter.
While the eyes of the country and the media have been on supermarket queues, toilet paper shortages and prime ministerial press conferences, Harawira appears to be using the health crisis as a smokescreen for an opportunistic grab for power – and he’s getting away with it.......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2020/03/karl-du-fresne-harawiras-opportunistic.html