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And still the fallout from the historic sex offence trial rolls on - and will no doubt continue to do so until a decision is made on the future of Clint Rickards.
Protesters in Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch and Dunedin gathered to vent their anger about - well, just about everything, really. They proclaimed they had no faith in the justice system, they were anti-police, and one woman carried a sign that said Clint Rickards was a word that rhymed with hunt.
I haven't done a Wimmins Study course at uni, and so maybe that's why I don't quite get where these wimmin are coming from.
No faith in the justice system? Presumably, these wimmin have faith in the system that convicted Shipton and Schollum for the rape of a woman in Mt Maunganui. Do they have faith in the system that delivered that verdict? Or do the protesters only lack faith in judgments they disagree with?
The anti-police placards also seem a little incongruous, since it's the police that vigorously pursued the charges against these men and who have supported the complainants throughout the trials. Most of the coppers who are looking after us now are a different generation from the men who have been vilified - some of them weren't even born when all this was going on. And why use a term for female genitalia as a pejorative? I thought wimmin had reclaimed the C-word as their own. Not very good feminists, if they're using the C-word as a weapon.
In fact, the Wellington wimmin probably did the police a favour - their actions will have united most New Zealanders in support of the boys and girls in blue.
