Intrepid Journeys - Aotea Square

Awake with the stoners more like.



No prison for pot Dr Brash.

Listened to this chap for a couple of minutes didn't understand a single muttering word that came from his mouth.

The plan.



The .00000000001%...who were there.



Too lazy to pitch that bad boy.



The rich do not need saving however.



More booze? Prohibition?



Oil lobby.



Defacing US flag, anti-war, anti-anti-anti??



Say what?



Say what?



Occupy in dramatic action shot.



Anti-Hubbard sign.



Invoking Gandhi?



Group shot of the crowd.



Really?



Now they wish to liberate the University. From what precisely?

I had a half hour spare today waiting for a delivery to arrive for me at Smith & Caughey Queens Street, while I'm accidentally in town for a very quick trip, so around 2pm so I took up the Occupy challenge to go down to Aotea Square and have a look at the protest.

What I saw reinforced further that if these occupiers are the future of New Zealand and indeed the 99% then New Zealand is utterly poked. The pathetic heaving underclass is alive but not well in Aotea Square for sure.

I approached the area firstly underwhelmed with the size of, well everything. If it was a bloke in a bar and you had a pre-squeeze, it wouldn't be coming home with you. Too small.

On the plus side I do give them some credit that it all seemed very peaceful.

The stench of the unwashed was soon apparent, although in two days if the gas pipeline from Taranaki is not fixed, unwashed Auckland central residents could be everywhere.

These people aren't even Labour voters. They are worse than that. We are talking Alliance or Mana. Or even too stoned to vote.

I was not dressed in a suit which would be a sign of war. Given I had showered that morning and blonde it was quite apparent I was there on my Blackberry to take photos and perhaps I was the 1% enemy. Any competent protest movement would have at least questioned my presence. Alas not our Occupiers.

Now I'm not anti-weed. But it was soon evident that the non-violent, non-alcoholic protest was fuelled on dak. The rolling eyes of the 40 people I counted in the vicinity were proof they were either psychiatric patients, or stoned. Or perhaps both.

Trained in Management at University and with now extensive experience, I am qualified to provide some advice regarding. I would like to think if I was a pinko I could at least run a decent meaningful protest. Remember everyone these people are gaining sympathy from quasi-Labour MP Selwyn Pellett. I doubt Selwyn's actually gone there and seen quite what he's backing to receive a dividend from.

1. Your message must be consistent.

As evidenced by signs around below, "Occupy" is a mish-mash of New Zealand's degenerates. In other words, these are people that if as the middle classes were living next to you not only would you roll your eyes at, you would erect a bloody large fence so you didn't have to see them. We had Maori activists, the pro-cannabis lobby, anti-oil, anti-capitalism, hippies, students and a sign that suggested "calves are induced murder". Surely Gilda Kirkpatrick could have told you that about her high heels before you got to Aotea Square.



2. Your message must be on point.

A sign saying "no capital gains tax" belongs at a National or ACT Party meeting. "Tax evasion" only gets me excited enough to think I might want to actually join the protest.



3. Hot chicks.

Simply there were none. Laila Harre on her own recruited at least half the Alliance membership. She also provided the likes of Matthew Hooton with enough drooling sympathy to listen to the cause. There are no Laila's here but the feminist movement was represented by this sign.



4. Alcohol and drugs.

It's fine to provide weed to be smoked outside before arriving, but walking through the space drove me to drink and this was alcohol free. This young topless man (his pants fell down part way through a hoola hoop movement) asked me if I was over 20 and could go buy some alcohol.



Normally I would be flattered at least with the age thing, however his eyes suggested he was inbred or stoned. Either way I realised that Len may be too soft-cocked to allow degenerates who voted for him to be arrested for squatting in tents but I would be up for supplying liquor to a minor as well as public drinking. He later told Auckland council security in my presence that he was security for Occupy.

I suggest he won't be tomorrow when the idiot in charge reads this post. I have respectfully refrained from taking close up pictures identifying any of the others in the square apart from the speaker at the event, however will be doing them a favour identifying this moron so he can be ejected.

Len's Men (Supercity security) did discuss in my earshot what they would do about Occupy's security and concluded they couldn't do anything. Yes the occupiers have a security roster of their own, this guy pictured was actually on it. The problem is the longer this crap goes on the more the ratepayer is paying for it.

5. Hazards

I arrived completely sober. In the time I was there I almost slipped up twice on the steps. ACC may have had claims already from the stoned and unwashed. Occupying this space was dumb. It's out of the way, no one was around and it's no Wall Street. We could leave these halfwits there a year and it wouldn't matter. Well other than once it starts to rain the grass will be off.



6. Expansion

When building a business you need room to expand. Occupy can't, it's almost at capacity as the grassed area is capacity. Yet tents outnumber people present. Not good business planning. And it is pretty clear that the tents are not full so they are attempting to create a facade that the protest is much larger than it actually is. A bit like what Whaleoil referred to yesterday as "Un-occupied".



7. Other hazards

I found the one respectable person there who was sporting a pro-MMP badge. He looked like a student, was reasonably dressed and more importantly appeared literate and not stoned. I asked him where the protesters actually were as I pointed out there were more tents there than people. "Oh I live ten minutes away I don't stay here there's light pollution".

That is, at night the poor petals can't sleep as Queen St has too many lights.

In summary if these losers and degenerates want to get noise they should move and "go big".

Occupy Shortland Street.

It would be loud, rude, stop traffic and disrupt $700+ an hour lawyers and barristers getting to work. Which means Len would have to actually make a decision regarding. Handing over to Crusher would be the only option.

Aotea Square is nothing. It's like pissing in the ocean. Doesn't matter. If these hippies, dope smokers, Mana party members and fuckwit middle class kiddies want to make a statement pack up their middle class tents and occupy Shortland Street.

If you are gonna go.

Go big. Or go home. Which is it going to be Occupy?