The protesters may well believe that their cause was more important than others, that the ends justified the means. Well, actually, all protests believe that, at some level. But most protests understand that a society that observes democracy and the rule of law is worth preserving, and the preservation of that society is worth more than any single cause. That's why we have to ask why so many people felt that the society had abandoned them, that they had so little to lose that they would occupy Parliament and central Wellington for three weeks in a protest that everybody agrees is different from anything that we've seen before. Well, the Government's answer to that question came out last night in what I regarded as a disappointing speech from the Prime Minister. So far as she's concerned, everything is fine, the COVID response is fine; it's all because of conspiracy theories driven by foreign websites. Well, you know what? That sounds like a conspiracy theory in itself.