It was bitterly cold. My uncle, the husband of my Mother’s sister, had a thin blanket to ward off the chill. He was in a freezing sparsely furnished wooden hut at the specially built Hautu Detention Camp, near Turangi on the Desert Road. Relaying this pacifist family member’s harsh treatment came in a hushed tone, made by an older relative and was overheard by me when I was a child.
Conscientious Objectors. Location Hautu detention camp.
The several main camps established in due course took all sorts together, though Hautu also became a punishment centre for ‘bad boys’ and the uncooperative, who were not necessarily insincere in their convictions, while the smaller sub-camps took the most docile.
University of Wellington. THE HOME FRONT VOLUME I CHAPTER 7 — CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS AND DEFAULTERS
Men who refused to join the war effort were called conscientious objectors. After World War II was declared, anti-war meetings and parades were banned by the government. Some objectors tried to speak out, but they were arrested, silenced and imprisoned with the others. The men were locked up, punished with hard labour, shamed, and vilified. They were imprisoned as an example to other would-be objectors. They had a choice. They could join the armed forces, serve in a non-combative role or go to jail. They were brought before a military tribunal and their reasons were heard. The objectors included Christian pacifists, humanists, agnostics and political objectors. WWII saw 800 of New Zealand’s 5,000 conscientious objectors labelled “military defaulters” who were then interned behind barbed wire.
In January, a church leader who does not discriminate spoke at a morning service and likened the divisive treatment of the conscientious objectors to the treatment of the unvaccinated people in New Zealand. He talked of the deep divisions both these issues caused in society and in Churches.
*Only watch 10 min, from 43:49-54:02
The speaker read out part of my recent article, What it is like to be a Second-Rate Citizen in NZ .
While the comparison is not exact, the division in society is equally as fierce.
The unvaccinated are:
- a minority
- accused of not doing something for the good of others
- accused of not doing what’s right for the country
- accused of holding up the freedoms of others
- made to feel guilty
- subjected to harsh mandates
- excluded
- vilified by friends, colleagues and family members
- some are detained
- censured or silenced
- segregated
The unvaccinated have:
- lost personal freedoms
- made to be an example to discourage others
- watched by the police
- some are excluded from their profession
- pressured to get their children jabbed
- cannot eat and drink out
- cannot attend a gym, get a haircut, sports, library, theatre, church, choir, events etc
In war times the CO’s were labelled cowards and still are, by many. One thing these men cannot be denied is that it took enormous bravery to declare their principles in the face of great disapproval. Behind barbed wire, in remote places, they served their time during the war as they could not bring themselves to kill another person. As the speaker said a CO could say soldiers took the easy way and caved in to what the Government wanted them to do. A form of bravery. After their release, the COs were deprived of the right to vote for 10 years as further punishment.
Ardern showed her true colours on Friday 3 December 21, when she agreed that her decision was causing segregation and division for NZ citizens. She happily announced that the unvaccinated are second-rate citizens. This sensationally revealing video has been watched over and over in disbelief that a Prime Minister would use such cruel coercion against their population.
DC: “So you’ve basically said, this is gonna be like, it’s almost, you probably don’t see it like this but two different classes of people, if you’re vaccinated or if you’re unvaccinated. You have all these rights if you are vaccinated”
— Viewspot (@viewspotnz) October 23, 2021
PM: “That is what it is, so yip, yip” pic.twitter.com/ggBWbuUzUO
The unvaccinated were being forced into poverty, immediately excluded from many places, and even banned from using the public toilets in some towns. They too had a choice. Have the jab, or else! It takes courage to refuse Covid–19 vaccines under threat of alienation and while enduring ongoing brainwashing.
The easy way would be to cave in to what the Government wants especially when it puts you under financial pressure.
“It became clear that conscientious objection is living history and the stories shared were in the first instance of grandfathers, fathers and brothers who had taken a stand of conscience.
Associate Professor Tolich – University of Otago
It is becoming clear that the unvaccinated will also become living history and their stories must be shared, men, women and children of all ages, who have taken a stand of conscience against an untested, experimental medical procedure they do not want.