5mo ago

Destiny Church library protest 'intimidating and unacceptable' - police

www.rnz.co.nz

It's astonishing to me that this violent action by a cult hasn't resulted in any arrests by the police nor any action by the government.

It's also weird that nobody on lemmy.nz felt the story was important enough to post and discuss.

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What would you like to discuss about it? Most people know Brian Tamaki and Destiny Church are scumbags who do scumbag things.
Would love to see their charitable tax status removed (as with most religious institutions), but I'm not holding my breath with the current government.
- What would you like to discuss about it?
  Anything?
  Why is this church pushing an anti LGBT agenda? Why do they still qualify as a charity? Why is this kind of violence not resulting in arrests?
  A large group of people stormed a library and assaulted a person. Nobody in this place thought this was significant enough to post a link to it and start a discussion.
  That says something IMHO.
  
  To be honest there's very few people posting here, so we can expect not everything is going to be posted. But I don't think there's anyone here that would be a Destiny Church supporter. I mean you posted it and now we're discussing it, I'm not sure why it's an indictment on the few people still active here that it didn't get posted sooner.
  I agree with your sentiments, but this is nothing new for Brian Tamaki and his cult. The same issues get brought up everytime they're in the news for something. I would love the Government to cripple them financially, but it seems unlikely to happen so far.
  I'm guessing the police have to work through the statements to figure out exactly who to arrest or something?
"In my perspective, of course people have a right to protest, but no one has the right to intimidate and use violence against other people."
At what point do these people lose that right?
We know that protest is not their goal, it is disruption.
"We will investigate thoroughly this entire incident and what we find in the investigation will lead us to a conclusion."
It will interesting to see what the conclusion is. If no consequences come of it I think that would effectively send the message that they do find such behaviour acceptable.
- As I said there was a crowd, people were recording. The assailant was most likely instantly identified and pointed out to the police. The fact that they are supposedly investigating for a week says they aren't going to take this seriously.

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