"Give me my flag back. Give me my flag back" Green's leader Russell Norman almost cries as he pleads with thuggish Chinese protection people who took 'his'' Tibetan flag off him and trampled it on the ground.
Unfair?
He's entitled to exercise his free speech but as a member of parliament and leader of a sitting party one would think that he had better opportunities of exercising his democratic rights than protesting like a schoolgirl outside the very House that he has preferential rights to.
Unseemly?
Yes, definitely. One expects better from elected representatives and this wasn't up to the mark.
I am in sympathy with many of The Green Party's ideals and ambitions. In 1972 when I first qualified to vote I voted for the newly formed Values Party in Wellington Central. I did this even though I had spent all week and that Saturday canvassing for Mirimar's Labour Party candidate Brian Edwards. I went to the Labour election night bash (figuring that they'd have more and better booze than the Values people).
If only the Values/Green people would balance ideals with political practicality. They continually shoot themselves in the foot by acting like precocious 7th formers (year what in modern day school class systems?). Often their peevish attitudes only serve to alienate them further with the conservatives and to embarrass their otherwise supporters amongst the liberals and Labour voters.
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Greens... Blaagh!
Come on, the whole thing is a joke.
National x 2, Labour x 3 , National again.
Put the Maori's in charge I say.
Well Russell, after all, is named after the sound a piece of paper produces when screwed up. Still, those Chinese body guards should be told to fuck off back to their own country. We don't need more thugs on our patch.
No, I agree.
We have plenty of home-grown thugs.
Have you looked about Nuova Lazio recently?
Check the staffroom. I suspect that Ringo is the biggest thug of all.
I really don't like the Greens; a bunch of self-righteous opinionated iconoclasts. But in this case, he was just being a loud bore.
We should arrest the Chinese security guards for common assault. When you are in someone else's country, you need to respect their customs and laws.
The problem is that "The middle Kingdom" does not really recognise any culture as equal to their own.
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