Wed Feb 9, 2022 – 2:45 pm ESTWed Feb 9, 2022 – 2:46 pm EST
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (LifeSiteNews) — Inspired by the anti-lockdown, pro-freedom Canadian trucker convoy which brought Ottawa to a standstill last week, New Zealand drivers have formed their own convoy to protest their country’s draconian COVID rules.
A cavalcade of trucks, cars, and camper vans began at opposite ends of New Zealand’s North Island on Sunday, planning to merge at the approximate middle of the island in the capital city of Wellington. Another convoy took place on the South Island.
Along the way the drivers were met with supporters who gathered on overpasses with signs, banners, and flags.
The North Island’s split convoy converged in Wellington on Tuesday, where vehicles have packed up the streets surrounding the parliament building to demand a reversal of liberty-crushing COVID restrictions. New Zealand’s COVID measures have been among the strictest in the world, and have stripped citizens of their fundamental rights over the past two years.
Participants in the convoy have flown New Zealand flags and displayed signs including “Give us back our freedom” and “Coercion is not consent.” Some have held up Canadian flags in
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