Post by Kiwi Frontline on Sept 10, 2021 11:47:27 GMT 12
MORE THAN ONE WAY TO RUIN A COUNTRY – Amy Brooke
The shock of the brutal religious fanaticism of the Taliban again abroad in Afghanistan, partly at least to the shame of the Biden administration, is also a reminder to us. There is more than one way to destroy a country.
The invasion of the coronavirus has given political overlords in the West more opportunity than at any other time to trample on democratic freedoms. The deaths from Covid-19 are tragic and some form of lockdown is arguably justifiable. But many extremist measures imposed have been extraordinarily cruel, resulting in people dying in utter loneliness, children forbidden from being with their parents, and the sick and elderly being prevented from holding the hand of someone much-loved, and needing love, when leaving the world behind.
What price our autocracy here in New Zealand? Not only does our government’s imposition of full lockdowns bring such sad outcomes for many gravely ill and prevent women giving birth having a husband close by, it also ensures more will die unable to access much-needed medical procedures. Equally, the toll on individuals’ mental health is incalculable, with despair yet again leading to suicides as a result of failed businesses and personal losses.
The incompetence of the Ardern government is now cited as the reason for New Zealand’s lowest ratio of vaccine rollouts of any OECD country. The delayed decision to even order them has the Pfizer vaccine available late to the majority of the country. Many are only now able to get their first dose, while other countries prepare to give their third. Given the increase in community transmission, and our low vaccine rate, this new total lockdown is viewed as a rod for the government’s back. For so many others it is catastrophic.
We are well overdue, in fact, to look at how we are governed, doubly problematic, given that our hard-left coalition is virtually waging war upon the country by implementing identity politics, with inevitable consequences. A small minority of part-only Maori extremists, obsessed by a percentage of their racial inheritance, is pushing a Maori supremacy movement endorsed by our government’s unmistakably anti-democratic agenda.
The push towards constitutional change to establish co-governance of New Zealand along racial lines, while completely unacceptable, nevertheless brings home the realisation that constitutional change is possible. Moreover, to reclaim our democracy, there is one very practicable, achievable piece of legislation which would put us in control of determining our own directions – rather than being ruled by our oligarchy, that small group of powerful individuals now controlling the country……
www.spectator.com.au/2021/09/more-than-one-way-to-ruin-a-country/
The shock of the brutal religious fanaticism of the Taliban again abroad in Afghanistan, partly at least to the shame of the Biden administration, is also a reminder to us. There is more than one way to destroy a country.
The invasion of the coronavirus has given political overlords in the West more opportunity than at any other time to trample on democratic freedoms. The deaths from Covid-19 are tragic and some form of lockdown is arguably justifiable. But many extremist measures imposed have been extraordinarily cruel, resulting in people dying in utter loneliness, children forbidden from being with their parents, and the sick and elderly being prevented from holding the hand of someone much-loved, and needing love, when leaving the world behind.
What price our autocracy here in New Zealand? Not only does our government’s imposition of full lockdowns bring such sad outcomes for many gravely ill and prevent women giving birth having a husband close by, it also ensures more will die unable to access much-needed medical procedures. Equally, the toll on individuals’ mental health is incalculable, with despair yet again leading to suicides as a result of failed businesses and personal losses.
The incompetence of the Ardern government is now cited as the reason for New Zealand’s lowest ratio of vaccine rollouts of any OECD country. The delayed decision to even order them has the Pfizer vaccine available late to the majority of the country. Many are only now able to get their first dose, while other countries prepare to give their third. Given the increase in community transmission, and our low vaccine rate, this new total lockdown is viewed as a rod for the government’s back. For so many others it is catastrophic.
We are well overdue, in fact, to look at how we are governed, doubly problematic, given that our hard-left coalition is virtually waging war upon the country by implementing identity politics, with inevitable consequences. A small minority of part-only Maori extremists, obsessed by a percentage of their racial inheritance, is pushing a Maori supremacy movement endorsed by our government’s unmistakably anti-democratic agenda.
The push towards constitutional change to establish co-governance of New Zealand along racial lines, while completely unacceptable, nevertheless brings home the realisation that constitutional change is possible. Moreover, to reclaim our democracy, there is one very practicable, achievable piece of legislation which would put us in control of determining our own directions – rather than being ruled by our oligarchy, that small group of powerful individuals now controlling the country……
www.spectator.com.au/2021/09/more-than-one-way-to-ruin-a-country/