Hello everybody it's Simon Anderson I'm here with Daniel Maxwell. Daniel has been charged with obstructing police at a pro Palestine demonstration. Get a Daniel, tell us what you're going to solve about. Hi, yeah well I'm here called today defending that charge from my truck police. You know what actually happened they asked me to take my flag down and go home at a pro Palestinian protest my flag was a Israel New Zealand flag and I did that I returned home, dropped my flag off and went back down and I went back down then decided to arrest me again because that was the second time that I'm arrested me and thrown me in the cells for being in a Palestinian rally with the Israel flag representing Israel. So you've been arrested several times demonstrating at these pro Palestine rather counter demonstrating at this pro Palestine demonstrations. How many times have you been arrested? Twice. Twice. They dug up some old stuff to try and bring it into life and then two more after that was solely just standing for Israel being there. So it sounds a little bit like police overreach that they've just decided that they don't want counter demonstrators. When you compare how counter demonstrators for instance an Albert Park with the rainbow community or the pro Palestine demonstrators that have been showing up to counter demonstrator against Brian Tamaki in Destiny Church. Do you think that the police have been even handed? No you know they've been very quiet especially that day when they didn't choose to protect, was it Rosie Parker, was it a name? She was violated pretty much that day and the police didn't protect her at all and it really showed what sort of state this country is in. But thank God that Labour government pains are all over. We have a new government now that seems to be a bit more on the right side of justices and on the right side of even at this stage. It still remains to be seen at the moment they're hitting in the right track. And so I think you know with these ones the police just weren't intimidated because of the thousands of people gathering from Palestinian that having just one person there with an Israel flag could promote you know could upset them or promote violence or whatever you know. But I mean like someone said they're calling for the annihilation of the Jews. They're marching down Queen Street saying from the river to the sea, Palestine shall be freed. Calling for the genocide of the Jewish nation and so it doesn't get any more violent than that verbally. I've caught you on camera at several of the demonstrations and you're a man of faith and I've heard you expressing pro-Christian point of view which is fairly critical of Islam. I've heard you express political opinion and support of Israel and against the Palestinian cause. But I've never heard you be in any way abusive or threatening or anything like that. From my perspective and the footage that I've shot of you, you're reasonable and not insightful at all. Would you agree that that is true? I've totally agree you know. I took swearing away from my lips a long time ago and I said yeah! But that never comes back. I've never come back. Because I'm freedom people over there. Yeah, no definitely I'm not there to abuse anyone, put anyone down. I always show love. I have only love for all of the people regardless of what they believe or their cultural race. It's just what they stand for is incorrect. Are you at all grateful to the police? And I ask this because I've seen a number of times that particularly the Muslim youth have objected to the things that you are saying and it has been the police that have insulated you from some attention that I believe would be could lend, could it end up in physical confrontation? Yeah, yeah definitely. Since the time I was arrested in our recent Lucy, the criminal lawyer, they realize they made a big mistake and from there they have been well they've been allowing us to stand now and to stand for Israel and Haley space it we're actually standing for what's right. We're standing for what's right, no doubt about it. And so yeah of course I'm grateful for all the police officers. A lot of them always shake my hand and come up and congratulate me and I thank all that I've there. It's just been the one or two above them that have been given the orders you know back then to arrest them get them out of the way that of course trouble but now they don't, now they're protecting us, they're letting us stand you know and moved on but moved on pretty much. But overall of course I'm grateful to all the news that I'm pleased they do a great job. That's fantastic. All right well Daniel thank you very much for taking the time. Before we finish is there anything else that you'd like to say while I have you on camera? No just that I thank you for coming down here and for doing the work that you're doing down at the Palestinian process because you know it just just helps having that. Those people there that are standing for what's right in the face of the hate and the heart of the enemy so to speak you know what happened in Israel on October 7th it's just the atrocities that we committed, the murder, the raping, the beheading, the burning of innocent children and people would need to be remembered you know and they've seemed to be pushed that away and the hostages need to be returned that's what I believe. I finished with that right there. Free the hostages. All right thank you very much Daniel thank you for taking the time. Good luck.