At the beginning of last week something strange happened. Every media outlet was talking about this person, this ‘anti-trans activist’ Posie Parker, who was coming to our country. It was on the TV1 News every night last week, and it was on Newstalk ZB every time I turned on the radio.
In examining the disgraceful outcome last Saturday, it is important to understand how this all eventuated.
By the middle of the week there was a campaign to stop her from entering the country. That was being reported on every news bulletin as well. Then Michael Wood, Minister of Immigration, stepped up and said the decision to let her into the country was ‘up to the authorities’ and that he would not intervene. But he also took the opportunity to say that he hoped that she would never set foot here. Again, this was broadcast on every news bulletin every day. But he also said – and this is very important to note – that everyone has the right to free speech.
This phrase was parroted by a number of politicians during the days running up to Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull’s rally. Various politicians said the same thing. Michael Wood, Chris Hipkins, Grant Robertson, Kiri Allen, Carmel Sepuloni and even Christopher Luxon all read from the same song sheet – that they found her views ‘repugnant’, but that everyone has a right to free speech.
Whatever…
Under the guise of allowing free speech, the politicians, aided by their allies in the mainstream media, did a hit job on Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, telling everyone who was listening – and this was broadcast several times a day – that she is a repugnant person, but free speech is paramount. The message being sent to those who do not do their own research was that this was a person that we did not want here.
And what happened? This was the Thug’s Veto in fine form. The government had, via the media, effectively told everyone that this person did not have the same rights as everyone else; that she was a bad person, but… you know… free speech… and Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull was attacked by a violent crowd, and admitted that she feared for her life at the hands of the angry mob whipped up by the government and its compliant media.
They are masters at this. Think of the attempts by Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux to speak here. Phil Goff refused to allow them to speak at an Auckland Council owned venue, and thanks once again to Rent-a-Mob, who threatened violence against venue owners who offered to help out, they were cancelled also. But Saturday’s event went ahead… once the government had effectively given permission for all hell to break loose.
Never forget the police’s role in all of this. They stood back and let it all happen. They allowed women to be punched in the face. They did nothing… until Kellie-Jay’s security people finally got her away from the baying mob. Then, they bundled her into a car, told her that they could not protect her (‘could not’!) and drove her to her hotel and then to the airport. The actions of the police were clear. They were not going to protect a foreign citizen from being pulled to pieces by a lynch mob. If she had been seriously injured, or killed: well, they would have been partly responsible, because they walked away from their duty to protect the public. They were reading from the same song sheet as the politicians and the media, which says – free speech is important, (cough, cough) but you may have to pay the ultimate price to get it – and you are on your own if you try.
Prime Minister Hipkins said he would have been proud to have been at the Auckland event on Saturday – even though the violence and hatred shown was actually terrifying.
This is our prime minister. What is it they say? You can take the boy out of the activist group, but you can never take the activist group out of the boy?
All this anger and hate was wrought on a diminutive blonde woman who is no threat to anyone. The crazy Greens claimed that the outcome of the rally was an outpouring of love, but all I could see was hate. Hate for a woman who simply wants to protect her daughter from having men in places where they ought not to be.
The media hyped it. The politicians condoned it. Kellie-Jay was sacrificed on the altar of cancel culture, and she almost paid the ultimate price.
I have many problems with this, but here is one of them. I have many friends and family members who are left-wingers. I once had a discussion with one such friend about vaccine mandates. I said that the individual should have the right to choose. She said that everyone should act in the interests of the greater good. In other words, we should all act in the interests of the majority, and if you have to take a small vaccination to assist with the overall health of the nation, then you should do it.
I do not intend to go down the vaccine rabbit-hole again, but here is my issue. Trans people represent approximately 0.2% of the population, and yet governments want to overrule the rights of women, who make up 50% of the population, in their favour. Where is the ‘acting in the interests of the greater good’ in that? And why do women have to be punched in the face because they want to speak about their rights?
We never heard a word of what Kellie-Jay, or any of the other women intending to speak on Saturday had to say. This rally was doomed to destruction from about the middle of last week. The media, the government and the police ensured it. But they did so while lying to everyone that free speech is important.
Even worse is that the person who poured tomato soup all over Kellie-Jay has been turned into a hero by the media, with Stuff quick to tell her story on Monday. I felt complete disgust at their blatant distortion of the truth. This person, a former refugee, committed an act of violence against another who did nothing wrong. She should be prosecuted for assault, not heralded in the media.
Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull is not anti trans. She just stands up for the rights of women. They are not mutually exclusive.
So men can call themselves women, but women are not allowed to protect their own identities or their personal safety as women.
Whatever happened to the rights of women? Whatever happened to the government looking after its citizens?
Whatever happened to the truth?