January 12, 2022 11:00am by David Farrar

Do other protests get invoiced?

The organiser of anti-Government protests in Christchurch is being billed thousands of dollars to cover the council’s traffic management costs.
The Christchurch City Council has sent The Freedom and Rights Coalition group, founded by Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki, a $14,117.47 invoice for costs it incurred during three protests in Cranmer Square and elsewhere in the city in November and early December.

I have no time for Tamaki or these protests. But I am skeptical of the Council trying to invoice a protest for the traffic management associated with it.

Fine, if they do this for all protests. But have they ever done this for any other protest?

If the answer is no, then what you have is an agent of the state trying to prevent protests it disagrees with.