Attention Colin Craig, Winston Peters, Bob McCoskrie—stop talking and start protesting against gay marriage

Gay marriage has all but passed; its passage has been the most shambolic, disgraceful, and undemocratic in New Zealand’s political history (see here, here, and here), yet no one is protesting about this—meanwhile gays get a gay parade subsidised by Auckland ratepayers. I, and I assume thousands of others like me are totally dismayed that the main opponents to gay marriage—namely Colin Craig, Winston Peters, and Bob McCoskrie—have not organised a protest up Queen Street or elsewhere as part of their strategy to defeat the bill.

However, we have seen excellent stuff achieved by these people; we’ve seen great debates; we’ve seen substantive articles that should have compelled any rational politician; we’ve seen thousands of signatures collected and presented to parliament, and we have all sent email upon email to politicians along with thousands of submissions to the select committee--all to no avail.

We can no longer afford to be polite to the politicians on the left, and that includes the National Party; we have to start shouting at them, which means a protest or protests—albeit possibly too late now.

New Zealand has just entered its darkest political era; let me explain:

At least 50% or 60% of New Zealanders who are vehemently opposed to the gay-marriage bill have been completely shafted by the select committee and the undemocratic process surrounding it; what is occurring here is far bigger than gay marriage; we are talking about a serious threat to democracy itself. People don’t like to use the term ‘totalitarianism’ because that only exists in other countries; it doesn’t exist in New Zealand, but what have we just witnessed with the gay-marriage bill? The entire process has been a disgraceful sham from the outset; we simply haven’t been heard; this is not democracy, people, this is the first step towards totalitarianism—a new and very unpleasant era for New Zealand. Even Winston Peters' call for a referendum on the issue was shunned 83 to 33 by our so-called democratic politicians.

Winston Peters, in his impassioned plea for democracy, doesn’t use strong words like ‘totalitarianism’ but he alludes to the same:

Winston Peters—an excellent speech

What I am suggesting is this:

Even though it is probably too late now to organise a successful protest, I would still like to see one happen—even if it’s only to advance the conservative cause and get media exposure for the parties and organisations that have stood up for us.

Let’s face it; the National Party without question has joined the coalition of left-wing parties, and therefore should no longer be considered a party to form a coalition with but a party to defeat. And the way to do this is to form close relations with political parties, like NZ First, that share similar values. And in respect to the gay-marriage issue and referenda they have been very conservative indeed.

As my blog is very new, it doesn’t generate enough readership for me to organise a march myself; if it did, I most certainly would. However, Colin Craig, Winston Peters, and Bob McCoskrie have existing emailing lists and can easily mobilise a march. They just need to communicate with each other to make this happen, and it’s in their own interest to do so.

The march doesn’t need expensive bells and whistles; it just needs people with their signs, a venue, and would need to take place within a couple of weeks to have any impact at all.

If you share my views and would like to see a protest take place, please take time to write to the people that can make this happen:  

Winton Peters:

winston.peters@parliament.govt.nz

http://nzfirst.org.nz/contact

Colin Craig (via press secretary):

Email: Rachel@conservativeparty.org.nz

Phone number: 09 520 2082

http://www.conservativeparty.org.nz/index.php?page=Contacts

Bob McCoskrie:

admin@familyfirst.org.nz

Footnote:

I will be making a sticky of this post; l will leave it at the top sometimes for one week just to test the waters.

Also, I would like to know your views on this so please feel free to comment.