Simon Anderson
A dickhead with a camera: the Establishment's dissident.
In April of 2023 New Zealand society was reeling from the backlash against leftwing political violence.
A storm of international criticism had been unleashed upon the country for the attack upon a women’s rights rally hosted by the British activist Posie Parker a month earlier. Domestically, Kiwis were asking difficult questions about police collusion with the violent demonstrator and questioning the bias of the vestigial media which, despite video evidence proving the contrary, endeavoured to portray the violence positively.
One of the extremist groups involved with organising the demonstration and colluding with the police was the Greens political party. Many of the Greens’ members of parliament – and prospective members – participated in the mob. One of those participants was Benjamin Doyle: sworn in at Parliament [on] the 5th of November, 2024.
Over the last few weeks Mr Doyle’s employment at the radical Burnett Foundation has been the subject of much discussion. Speculation about Mr Doyle’s mastication habits aside, his involvement in the events at Albert Park has largely escaped scrutiny. Certainly the hagiographies published by the vestigial mainstream media have made no mention of it.
A number of Green party MPs were in attendance that day including Mr Doyle. Here he is photographed with party leaders Marama Davidson and Chloe Swarbrick alongside MPs Ricardo Menendez, Golriz Ghahraman, Lawrence Xu-Nan and Hūhana Lyndon in Albert Park that morning, prior to the violence unfolding.
In the subsequent days the Green Party were unrepentant, defiant, even celebratory. Party co-leader Chloe Swarbrick appeared on national television to offer a justification for the physical violence perpetrated against the hostess herself, Posie Parker, by the Green party extremist Eliana Rubashkyn. Mr Rubashkyn was subsequently convicted of two counts of assault for the act of pouring tomato juice which initiated the subsequent attack on the women’s rights rally.
To date no member of the Green party other than Mr Rubashkyn has been charged with inciting violence or perpetrating violence in Albert Park. Neither has any member offered an apology or, in the case of Ms Swarbrick, resiled from her comments in support of her friend and comrade Mr Rubashkyn.
Quite the opposite. Against a backdrop of public outrage and international condemnation the Green party MPs returned to Albert Park a month after the attack to celebrate their victory: a victory of premeditated, leftist, political violence over Freedom of Expression, Freedom of Assembly, Democracy and the Rule of Law.
This photograph was posted to social media by Mr Doyle on the 29th of April 2023, inside the rotunda – the epicentre of the mob’s violent attack – one month subsequent to it. New Zealand’s newest member of parliament accompanied this photograph with the following observation:
“The only thing missing from the rotunda today was tomato juice.”
Far-left extremism is a growing issue in New Zealand and the Green party are the vanguard of it. Many Kiwis are deeply suspicious of state institutions, notably the judiciary and the police, providing at least tacit acceptance of the violent extremism the Green party perpetrates and advocates.
And across the political spectrum, every Kiwi would be well advised to consider if Benjamin Doyle is the calibre of individual who ought to be sitting in our house of representatives “putting words into practice”.
This article was originally published on the author’s Substack.
