CP
We have been advised that our prime minister Jacinda Ardern is to make one of her regular trips to her place of worship, the United Nations in New York, this month.
The public will remember her inaugural trip in 2018 when she took along her three-month-old baby Neve and partner Clarke Gayford.
Cynics might view taking cute little Neve as an attempt by Ms Ardern to make a mark and grab global attention.
If that was her intention, it worked.
Always looking for something fresh and new, especially among the ranks of the dull, grey and old attending these conferences, the media duly responded.
They hailed the bright young thing Ardern as the first world leader to bring an infant to a meeting of the UN General Assembly.
They cooed over little Neve.
Well, what would you expect?
No one is going to pan a baby.
Ms Ardern’s name and smile flashed around the world.
The media beamed with joy when she told the UN General Assembly that under her New Zealand was pursuing “the simple concept of kindness”.
That simple concept of kindness has, four years later, worn thin if in fact it ever existed.
Many New Zealanders, a large percentage of whom are too scared to voice an opinion publicly, would admit that much of that alleged kindness in Ms Ardern’s government departed in flames and smoke outside Parliament six months ago.
Since little Neve was carried into the UN in 2018, New Zealand, under her mum’s leadership, has become an unhappy, deeply divided, economically challenged country, with increased crime, poverty and violence.
After her first visit to the UN, Ms Ardern returned the next year and attacked nationalism when addressing the General Assembly just after then US President Donald Trump had trumpeted American nationalism and condemned globalism.
Since then, Ms Ardern has made a “virtual” appearance at the UN trotting out the old favourites, anti-terrorism and commitment to the climate change initiatives taken by the UN.
It is clear the UN and what it thinks figure prominently in the mind of Ms Ardern.
She is a committed globalist and socialist.
And as a committed socialist, what does she believe?
The mainstream media will not tell you, but an indication can be found on the website of the International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY), a worldwide organisation of which she was once president.
The IUSY has some beliefs that would make the average New Zealander uncomfortable.
They state that freedom “is a vague concept with many meanings and changeable implications.”
Of human rights the IUSY says:
So called religious, cultural or traditional practices discriminating and abusing human rights (homosexuals probably) must be abolished.
The IUSY wants “a system of international taxes ….immediately applied for raising taxes on the arms trade, carbon emission and financial transactions and properties” and “introducing an independent source of revenues for the UN…to finance its mission for global social development”.
The IUSY favours “global governance which will ‘restrict the sovereignty of national states in certain forms'”.
We consider the UN the only existing legitimate framework for global political regulation…The UN needs to take the lead in global economic governance.
As we all know, whoever holds the purse strings calls the tune for everyone else.
It is obvious from her love affair with the UN and her affiliation to the IUSY, that Ms Ardern’s thoughts, motivations and ambitions, and those of her government, are far beyond the shores of small, remote, insignificant New Zealand.
Or should that be Aotearoa?