So the fundamental dishonesty continues. It seems the most remarkable thing to think you can set yourself up a roadblock, pretend to call it a checkpoint, and get approval from the Prime Minister and the Police Commissioner. 

As we found out over the weekend from a NZME journalist who arrived at the Ngataki in the Far North, there wasn’t a police person in sight. Locals had already talked of friction at the sight, as people try and access beaches, something perfectly acceptable in level three.

The journalist, despite being an essential worker and allowed to go where they want, was told they couldn’t. Told they couldn't by a person with no more authority than you or me. The Ngati Kuri spokesperson didn't regard media as essential. Really? Under what power, law or authority? A police officer, astonishingly, arrived 10 minutes after the journalist.

And that is what the Prime Minister with yet another of her astoundingly naive utterances has started. To even countenance, in the slightest of ways, the prospect of non law officials taking the law into their own hands, you are asking for exactly the sort of trouble that has unfolded.

I listened to ZB's Drive show on Friday. The head of another checkpoint listed the gangs present including, in her words, "the mighty Mongrel Mob."

All of this is premised under the foe spin that these are vulnerable communities. As far as I can work out when it comes to the virus, we are all vulnerable. In fact, what we do know is the most vulnerable are old people, so why they haven't got road blocks up I have no idea.

But under what circumstances could you have imagined yourself living in a country where a race based policy of breaking the law is endorsed by the highest office in the land, endorsed by the Police Commissioner and backed up with so called evidence? Like all road blocks aren't road blocks, they're checkpoints, and all checkpoints have police at them when that is simply a straight up and down not true.

The police operate with the support of all of us, they are respected because the vast majority of us believe they are on the right side of the law, justice, and community service. This is the opposite of that, it is race based, and therefore racist. It is illegal, yet defended. We are told one thing when another is clearly the truth.

And worst of all it's political. The Labour Party are beholden to Maori for the Maori seats they can't afford to lose the vote. They would sell every non-Maori out to offer a level of tacit support for illegal activity the rest of us wouldn't stand a hope in hell of getting away with.

Why are we putting up with this?