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Speaker 1: Look on these protesters have been Harrison Winston and his neighbors,

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Speaker 1: even as recently as last night. They really have to

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Speaker 1: call this nonsense off. Turning up at someone's house in

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Speaker 1: the evening or as the Prime Minister said to Mike

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Speaker 1: this morning, at eleven at night or four in the morning,

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Speaker 1: is not protesting. That's actually just intimidating. Particularly, I think

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Speaker 1: in the case of Winston, who I know has been

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Speaker 1: actually dealing with us for a number of months now,

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Speaker 1: I don't think he's actually gone public yet, even when

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Speaker 1: I asked him, I don't think he's gone public with

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Speaker 1: the extent of the harrassment that he's been dealing with.

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Speaker 1: And partly it was probably because he didn't want to

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Speaker 1: encourage it to continue. But I have been aware for

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Speaker 1: months that this has been going on outside his house.

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Speaker 1: What makes it worse is that, like with many heritage

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Speaker 1: suburbs in Central Auckland, Winston's house is right on the

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Speaker 1: road side. He doesn't have a yard out the front

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Speaker 1: between him and the protesters. He doesn't have a long

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Speaker 1: driveway between him and them. Right if you stand outside

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Speaker 1: his house, you're basically touching his porch. His front door

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Speaker 1: is about one and a half two meters away. I

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Speaker 1: think that makes the intimidation even greater. And what these

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Speaker 1: protesters need to understand is that that and not drawing

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Speaker 1: attention to Gaza by harassing a senior journal a senior politician,

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Speaker 1: just like with the flotilla kids, right, They're not drawing

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Speaker 1: attention to Gaza. They are only drawing attention to themselves

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Speaker 1: and getting us talking about not about Gaza, but getting

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Speaker 1: us talking about whether the thing that they are doing

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Speaker 1: as their protest or their activism is appropriate or not.

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Speaker 1: They're simply drawing attention to themselves. Now, there is a

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Speaker 1: planned law to stop this business about the protesting outside

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Speaker 1: people's houses. It's in the submissions phase, so it hasn't

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Speaker 1: passed yet and it's a while away from passing, which

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Speaker 1: means of course that in the meantime these protesters can

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Speaker 1: pretty much do what they like by the looks of things,

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Speaker 1: But what they should understand is that it is inappropriate.

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Speaker 1: And most New Zealanders with families will look at this

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Speaker 1: and think this is inappropriate, and so all they are

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