Post by Kiwi Frontline on Nov 4, 2021 10:41:01 GMT 12
THAT CAN’T BE RIGHT?
M O’H (Silent Majority Team New Zealand) writes > Lately it feels like the brakes have fallen off and we’re free-wheelin’ down some dark highway. There are going to be casualties. New Zealanders have been sucked into politics whether they like it or not, and there’s not a lot to like.
There’s a phrase I’m hearing a lot at the moment – but I’ll come to that later.
What’s astonishing with Ardern and her government is how they seem to lack the introspection needed to realise that when you politicise what should be non-political issues, you will never get satisfactory buy-in from the punters. You only have to look at the gun “buy-back” scheme to see that play out.
Our current Covid response situation is another such issue. Killing a mosquito with a sledgehammer comes to mind with all these restrictions and mandates. Politics by nature breeds disseverance and our health needs related to the virus should have never been politicised. A functioning health approach must be apolitical, robust, efficient, and most importantly, serving the needs of the citizens as individuals. Not scattered, heavy-handed, and dripping in bribes of KFC and cash.
If Ardern had not hijacked the health response, but left it in the hands of the Ministry of Health and medical professionals, New Zealand would be in a much better position with regard to our growing social incohesion, and possibly the actual health of individuals also. I can’t help but think back to last year when a woman on the street was interviewed by Newshub about the QR code scanning. Her response: ‘whatever Jacinda says to do, I do the opposite’. Perhaps Jacinda should have stayed out of it.
It might sound cynical to say, but could it be that Ardern hopes to capitalise on the social troubles? To seize further power by breaking down what we have built up and taken for granted all these years.
No, that can’t be right?
Another worrying observation is how many of our fellow New Zealanders don’t seem to grasp the gravity of change we are going through, and the pace it’s being implemented.
Discussing a very emotive social issue just before the election last year, I explained to a friend some new laws being pushed through. ‘That can’t be right?’ was the puzzled reply.
Said friend got their news from the traditional source, the good old 6pm slot. Here’s where New Zealand has a major problem – the media. Having been gifted tens of millions of dollars for the ‘Public Interest Journalism Fund’, the news media flaunt their wares in such a blatantly biased way, it’s almost unbelievable!
And it’s not just about what they do cover, it’s also what they conveniently leave out that sets the narrative firmly in place. A recent blood-boiling episode of Q&A with young Jack – Tame by name, tame by nature, comes to mind. He interviewed Nanaia Mahuta over the Three Waters asset grab. Did he grill her on her true intent? Did he enquire about the tribal aspects and affiliations of the new entity? Were you satisfied with the level of questioning the program served up? After all, they are your assets being practically confiscated.
That can’t be right, surely?
According to the NZ On Air Public Interest Journalism Fund General Guidelines, the fund must achieve a number of things: one of which is to “actively promote the principles of Partnership, Participation and Active Protection under Te Tiriti o Waitangi acknowledging Maori as a Te Tiriti partner”.
Hold up, the Treaty? A partnership? A made-up concept now being used by media to artificially alter the direction of public discourse?
That can’t be right either?
You may have heard the odd mention of He PuaPua. Have you read the document? You may have heard some curious vague concepts being discussed but deemed it a bit ‘heavy-going’ to delve into any further. An until-recently secret document which outlines how the government is undermining New Zealand’s collective culture, in favour of a single, minority one, by feeding what can only be described as racist policies, through all its governmental tentacles.
And here comes that phrase again: that can’t be right!
But it is right – these things are happening. Right now, right here, right under our noses. Our value as citizens is being incapacitated; depleted. We are held in such contempt by our government, and particularly by the prime minister, that we no longer matter to them. We are not worthy of respect in their eyes.
So what is the right thing to do about this offensive violation, by people voted to lead and serve us? How do we protect our very democracy?
We must be courageous. We must reject what is being done to our country. We must put petty differences aside and unite. This is not the time to debate over insignificant issues. Most importantly educate yourself fully and speak about your findings to your friends.
We are in a societal culture war and we are losing.
This will not end until we put a stop to it.
It is time to reject the authoritarian state we are fast becoming.
M O’H
3 November 2021
M O’H (Silent Majority Team New Zealand) writes > Lately it feels like the brakes have fallen off and we’re free-wheelin’ down some dark highway. There are going to be casualties. New Zealanders have been sucked into politics whether they like it or not, and there’s not a lot to like.
There’s a phrase I’m hearing a lot at the moment – but I’ll come to that later.
What’s astonishing with Ardern and her government is how they seem to lack the introspection needed to realise that when you politicise what should be non-political issues, you will never get satisfactory buy-in from the punters. You only have to look at the gun “buy-back” scheme to see that play out.
Our current Covid response situation is another such issue. Killing a mosquito with a sledgehammer comes to mind with all these restrictions and mandates. Politics by nature breeds disseverance and our health needs related to the virus should have never been politicised. A functioning health approach must be apolitical, robust, efficient, and most importantly, serving the needs of the citizens as individuals. Not scattered, heavy-handed, and dripping in bribes of KFC and cash.
If Ardern had not hijacked the health response, but left it in the hands of the Ministry of Health and medical professionals, New Zealand would be in a much better position with regard to our growing social incohesion, and possibly the actual health of individuals also. I can’t help but think back to last year when a woman on the street was interviewed by Newshub about the QR code scanning. Her response: ‘whatever Jacinda says to do, I do the opposite’. Perhaps Jacinda should have stayed out of it.
It might sound cynical to say, but could it be that Ardern hopes to capitalise on the social troubles? To seize further power by breaking down what we have built up and taken for granted all these years.
No, that can’t be right?
Another worrying observation is how many of our fellow New Zealanders don’t seem to grasp the gravity of change we are going through, and the pace it’s being implemented.
Discussing a very emotive social issue just before the election last year, I explained to a friend some new laws being pushed through. ‘That can’t be right?’ was the puzzled reply.
Said friend got their news from the traditional source, the good old 6pm slot. Here’s where New Zealand has a major problem – the media. Having been gifted tens of millions of dollars for the ‘Public Interest Journalism Fund’, the news media flaunt their wares in such a blatantly biased way, it’s almost unbelievable!
And it’s not just about what they do cover, it’s also what they conveniently leave out that sets the narrative firmly in place. A recent blood-boiling episode of Q&A with young Jack – Tame by name, tame by nature, comes to mind. He interviewed Nanaia Mahuta over the Three Waters asset grab. Did he grill her on her true intent? Did he enquire about the tribal aspects and affiliations of the new entity? Were you satisfied with the level of questioning the program served up? After all, they are your assets being practically confiscated.
That can’t be right, surely?
According to the NZ On Air Public Interest Journalism Fund General Guidelines, the fund must achieve a number of things: one of which is to “actively promote the principles of Partnership, Participation and Active Protection under Te Tiriti o Waitangi acknowledging Maori as a Te Tiriti partner”.
Hold up, the Treaty? A partnership? A made-up concept now being used by media to artificially alter the direction of public discourse?
That can’t be right either?
You may have heard the odd mention of He PuaPua. Have you read the document? You may have heard some curious vague concepts being discussed but deemed it a bit ‘heavy-going’ to delve into any further. An until-recently secret document which outlines how the government is undermining New Zealand’s collective culture, in favour of a single, minority one, by feeding what can only be described as racist policies, through all its governmental tentacles.
And here comes that phrase again: that can’t be right!
But it is right – these things are happening. Right now, right here, right under our noses. Our value as citizens is being incapacitated; depleted. We are held in such contempt by our government, and particularly by the prime minister, that we no longer matter to them. We are not worthy of respect in their eyes.
So what is the right thing to do about this offensive violation, by people voted to lead and serve us? How do we protect our very democracy?
We must be courageous. We must reject what is being done to our country. We must put petty differences aside and unite. This is not the time to debate over insignificant issues. Most importantly educate yourself fully and speak about your findings to your friends.
We are in a societal culture war and we are losing.
This will not end until we put a stop to it.
It is time to reject the authoritarian state we are fast becoming.
M O’H
3 November 2021