Challenging: PM Tries to Describe 2022, the Year of a Two-Tier Society
December 8, 2022
“For the most part, that building is full of people who are just there to do a job for New Zealand. So it was very difficult knowing people were facing that.”
The Prime Minister said she had to make changes to how she did things as a result of the protest.
That’s part of the job, she said, but “seeing that spill over to other people was very upsetting”.
Ardern said the occupation was “the tipping point from protest, which I think we celebrate as a democracy, to something that felt like something else completely”.
Some of what motivated the protest is “based on misinformation and disinformation”, Ardern said.
“That was very challenging, knowing that people were there for reasons that they didn’t feel right, that it was difficult.”
Oddly, describes a “tipping point” from a protest (which she totally celebrates, you guys!) to…something else. Leaving out any mentions of sprinklers, loud music, LRAD devices, and police snatching people away.