(Open letter to the Speaker of the New Zealand Parliament)
27 August 2014
The Speaker Rt. Hon. David Carter
Parliament
Parliament House
Wellington
Dear Mr. Carter,
On 26 August 2014, Human Rights lawyer, Tony Ellis, said in an interview
on Television New Zealand that Human Rights are only paid lip service
to. It was not clear whether he was referring to human rights in general
in New Zealand, but that may well be the case!
On August 1st 2014, some Men's Rights activists, including myself,
were mounting a demonstration outside Bowen House, Wellington, which
of course houses the offices of many Members of Parliament. Three security
guards who were working inside Bowen House came out -- one-by-one and
later en masse -- to harass us, by questioning us and implying that
what we were doing was not allowed and that they had some authority
over us, both of which was untrue. They took our photographs. I only
got rid of them by taking their photographs and starting to phone the
Police. As you know, they have no jurisdiction over the footpath and
so were interfering with our Freedom of Expression.
At one stage, an obviously Feminist woman appeared out of nowhere
and started arguing with us. I assume that she was deliberately dropped
off by car in front of us, because I had not seen her walk towards us
from the side along the footpath, and she left by being picked up by
car from the footpath in front of us. She was obviously an agent
provocateur, and it was after that that the three security guards
appeared together and said that they had received a complaint, which
appeared to be from her. It was a false complaint.
Could you please:
1. discipline your security guards for this arbitrary and totalitarian
behaviour;
2. find out from them the name and contact details of the woman who
complained to them and pass this information on to the Police and to
me;
3. discipline them if they do not have a record of her name and contact
details;
4. ask the Police to investigate if the incident with the agent provocateur
was instigated by David Farrar, who passed in front of us twice and
is a Feminist.
On 7 April 2013 I wrote to you about another
case of Parliamentary staff apparently interfering with my Freedom of
Expression -- with regard to Select Committee submissions. On that
occasion, you gave no impression of having got to the bottom of the
matter. I hope you achieve a better result this time. I note that the
senior of the three security guards was a woman, and that the Clerk
of Parliament does a good impression of being a Lesbian woman. David
Farrar has mentioned that I have called New Zealand a Dykeocracy,
so this may be a case in point -- see
http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2006/02/peter_zohrab.html .
I will send you copies of the photographs I took of the security guards
by email.
Yours sincerely,
Peter D. Zohrab |
