What National and Luxon Lack

For a long time, I’ve been aware of the role media has in shaping public opinion. I remember the lead-up to the anti-smacking bill, civil unions and the more recent homosexual ‘marriage’ law, and the cannabis referendum in 2020. Mainstream papers and television news blatantly promote their views and fashion their reporting to create their desired narrative. What’s more disconcerting is that so many Kiwis are hoodwinked by it, thinking they are getting largely unbiased ‘news’.

Unfortunately, our prostituted media have outdone themselves through the Covid ‘pandemic’. Their insistence on calling anyone opposed to the Covid vaccine or the government’s no jab no job rules ‘anti-vaxxers’, their almost daily smears against the unvaccinated, combined with their attempts to underreport numbers attending anti-mandate protests or describe the protestors as far-right or white supremacists have, unfortunately, had their effect on the compliant Kiwi population.

Sometimes the claims are just plain ridiculous. Just why the Maori ‘community’ would support white supremacy, I fail to understand. Perhaps our leaders are insinuating Maori are stupid and need a maternalistic state making sure racists don’t encourage them to make medical decisions for themselves. But the only stupid ones are those who believe and take on board these ridiculous smears without investigating for themselves.

This brings us to the National Party of New Zealand. What a disgrace. You would think that we would have leaders intelligent enough to see through the government propaganda. But no. People like Luxon seem to promise nothing more than more competent authoritarianism. “Labour is driving New Zealand over a cliff at 100km/h. Vote for us, we’ll spend less on the car, slow things to 50, and make sure everyone has their seat belts on!”

Check out this recent propaganda piece in the New Zealand Herald highlighting the impotence and stupidity of the National Party while providing us with a classic example of government paid for brainwashing. The headline is Covid 19 Omicron outbreak: National Party MP Harete Hipango attends second anti-lockdown and mandate protest. This is news? An opposition MP attends a protest that opposes the government response to the pandemic? Shocking.

The article begins.

A National Party MP has attended a second anti-lockdown and mandate protest.

Outrageous. What opposition MP would dare to oppose our glorious leader’s lockdowns and vaccination mandates?

Whanganui list MP Harete Hipango has posted pictures of herself on Facebook, at a rally in her electorate.

But the post has been deleted after being contacted by her party’s leader Christopher Luxon.

A number of my Christian friends have demonstrated enthusiasm for the recent change in National’s leadership. I beg to differ. In his maiden speech, Luxon has demonstrated that he lacks a Christian worldview of politics. Since then he has shown himself to be weak and ashamed of his faith. His response to (media) concerns about his faith has been to deny that he would allow his faith to impact his politics (ironically despite praising the Christian politician William Wilberforce whose Christian faith was the impetus behind his long battle for the abolition of slavery) and to state that he hasn’t gone to church in five years. Exactly why I as a Christian should be excited by this I am yet to comprehend. His unwillingness to stand up to mandated vaccines tells me everything I need to know. Either he is morally deficient because he cannot see the current evil, or he can see that it is evil, but pragmatically chooses to ignore it because he could lose support. Bad or weak. Hardly exciting alternatives.

She wrote about freedom and choice in her post and criticised the label anti-vaxers.

Smart woman. She gets what the media seems to exhibit deliberate obtuseness about. To protest mandated vaccines or even this particular vaccine does not automatically make one an ‘anti-vaxer’. It makes me wonder whether these journalists, barely out of puberty, working for these mainstream propaganda machines, have ever actually talked to real people who have different opinions from their likewise brainwashed and naïve workmates. Probably not.

Hipango attended a similar protest in early November.

How dare she.

The Facebook post has since been deleted.

As it should be. We want no record of any high-profile person supporting the peons who think they have the right to determine what goes into their bodies. Slaves need to know their place.

Next, we are told about the November protest.

She told media that she was there simply to support her local community.

The MP left the scene after a film crew had captured footage of her at the scene.

This implies that she was ashamed to be seen at the protest and left because of the film crew. As if she had been caught at a crime scene. However, it is just as likely that she had made her appearance and it was time to go. The journalist who put this together however wants you to think that she was slinking off ashamed of having been caught amongst these foolish protesters.

The rest of the article attacks Hipango for some (admittedly) dodgy-sounding spending when she was last an MP. What relevance this has to the matter at hand is obvious. The rubes reading the article might not yet have been sure which point of view they were meant to hold.

One more leading statement to notice.

The earlier post is still being circulated though by people who are questioning the wisdom of an MP attending such a protest.

Who are these people questioning the wisdom of an MP attending such a protest? Are there not also people who are circulating it who think it is great to see someone stand up for the freedom for individuals to choose whether they will undergo medical treatment, as we are supposedly guaranteed in our toothless Bill of Rights?

Here’s my call to action. Abandon mainstream media. Support alternative media sources such as The BFD and send an email to Luxon suggesting he grow a pair.