Responding to the discharge without conviction and permanent name suppression of a man who punched a 71-year-old woman in the head at a protest last year, ACT MP Laura Trask says:
“[Yesterday’s] discharge without conviction is a tragedy for women.
“A 71-year-old woman attending a women’s rights event was physically attacked by a man who thought his political opinion trumped her right to safety. Using violence to suppress opinions you disagree with is a singularly ugly act, and this discharge without conviction sets a disappointing precedent for the consequences of political violence.
“ACT will continue to advocate for a country where freedom of speech is protected at all costs, and where using violence to suppress this fundamental right is punished accordingly.”
Thanks for the pearl clutching there, ACT.
How about you advocate for an overturning of this ruling and the permanent DISMISSAL of the judge? They’re either an abject ignoramus or a leftist ideologue. Neither of those scenarios is conducive to a government who support free speech.
Or should we all just start carrying cricket bats to climate protests so we can claim our ADHD made us do it?
Coz if that’s the new precedent, it’s fine by me 👍
Well said 👍
I found playing a good game of baseball before attending a ‘climate change protest’ helps free up the mind and really gets you into the swing of things.
Fire the Judge.
He’s clearly either incompetent or c****** or both.
Either way this profoundly cretinous judge needs to go.
The judge is clearly an idiot.
Incredible that this guy is actually employed on the tax-payer dollar as a judge.
Yup. The judge should be fired immediately He/she is clearly incompetent/unfit for purpose.
A simply astonishingly judicial failure.
Incredible incompetence.
This moronic judge needs to go immediately.
Jurisdiction in New Zealand is rotten to the core!
This judge should never be allowed again to make a judgement.
Maybe he needs a black eye?