OPINION
Harry Palmer
After the American War of Independence was won in 1783, when Benjamin Franklin walked out of Independence Hall in Philadelphia after the Constitutional Convention in 1787, someone shouted out, “Doctor, what have we got? A republic or a monarchy?” Franklin supposedly responded, “A republic, if you can keep it.” That might well have been the response of one of New Zealand’s prime ministerial forebears in answer to a question about our democracy. And the question nowadays is: with so many politicians under the thrall of overseas influences like the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the Trilateral Commission, the World Economic Forum (and secretive, supranational groupings), is there much left of our once-proud, stand-alone democracy, or are NZ’s politicians now so fully detached from accountability to the voter that they’re out of our control and in the process of selling us down the river?
A fundamental fact is that we all possess a soul that is capable of love if coached correctly from the beginning. Thus ‘good-hearted’ people are those who, with God’s help many of them would claim, have produced all that is good in society. And it’s been those good-hearted people with their concern for others who have paid the ultimate price: almost disappearing from view because of the incompetence and corruption of our politicians and the processes by which they supposedly run the country on our behalf.
That idea of loving thy neighbour and the practice of looking after your fellow man arguably reached its peak in the year 1948 when, after years of governments ‘kicking the can down the road’, the Welsh Labour MP Aneurin Bevan, the health minister under PM Clement Attlee after the Labour Party came to power in the UK in 1945, founded the UK’s “National Health Service”. It’s been all downhill ever since – and this is where it’s at today. Treating doctors like hospital cleaners produces this: a news story from just this last week.
Is New Zealand and its own health service any different? I suggest the shenanigans of NZ’s incompetent politicians and their selling off of publicly owned property in the 1980s to cronies like Fay, Richwhite and Co are nothing compared to the evil scheming of politicians over the last couple of decades: scheming curated and coordinated by the likes of Tony Blair and Barack Obama with their networks of billionaires’ ‘playboys’ and fellow believers in the World Economic Forum, along with other bought-and-paid-for politicians in many countries around the world. Their intent is to win the big prize: the whole world.
From time immemorial, the way to take possession of another country has been to attack it with a superior force, massacre everyone in sight and then strike a victory pose over the carnage. Then in the 1960s came the neutron bomb that relied on radiation to kill everyone but not harm buildings and infrastructure.
The approach currently being used is to softly, softly, over a generation or so, work on undermining the ‘old world’ belief systems of your victim populations using psychological techniques to convince them that you are their new and benevolent ‘master’. And why kill everyone off? The old, weak and infirm and those who know what you’re up to, you dispose of by various methods so you end up with the docile remnant who, with psychological conditioning – the Stockholm Syndrome – will eventually look up to you and be happy to be enslaved.
Their methods of gaining control have obviously been aimed at breaking up the most basic building block of society – the family – and replacing the heads of the family with the WEF-anointed ‘government’.
I believe that the world’s progress down the slippery slope to their dog-eat-dog world began in earnest in the 1960s, when the contraceptive pill was released. Homosexuality was removed as a crime from the law books in England in 1967 (1986 in NZ). And it was these and the other so called ‘improvements’ in the quality of life that globalists’ frontmen and women, invariably of ‘socialist’ inclinations, have commandeered in the early years of this century. Other ‘improvements’ in the quality of life include the raising of abortion to full acceptance in law, albeit with rules around the age of the foetus. The removal of the law does not remove the moral obligation on us to attempt to save or preserve another’s life, but this is a matter the howling mobs demand not be discussed. There is a direct line, I feel, from the making of abortion so readily available to the growing acceptance of euthanasia and the cheapening of human life.
All those addicts lying on the streets in their stupor? Just let ’em lie there and city sanitation will cart their crap off to the incinerator and hose the street down when they die.
Over the decades, sex has become to be considered as a form of recreation, including the commercialisation of prostitution (legal in 2003 in NZ) and gay clubs in most major cities of the world. In more recent times, the education of little children has been expanded to enforce them to empathise with the 4.4 per cent of NZ’s population that claims to be gay. Those same little children may also be exposed to some bloke in a frock reading them a fairy story.
Of course the learning about the intimate details of the various forms of sexual activity can only encourage experimentation and schools are known to have various policies around the informing of parents whose children become pregnant or are ‘transitioning’. And don’t you dare address a kid by the wrong pronouns within the hearing of their teacher!
Thus the state is more and more using the education system, sex and the mainstream media to undermine the solidity of family life; to split people away and isolate them in order to insert itself in as a replacement ‘head of the family’, or ‘big brother’ if you’re a George Orwell fan.
It’s surely an indication of just how far the globalists have dragged us all down their rabbit hole when USA Boxing announced last week that men who claim to be women can fight real women in the ring. And no one seems to be particularly concerned about it. They’re laughing at us: they believe that they’re unstoppable, and they’re probably right.
A clip from the film The Matrix would seem to show from where we’ve come to where we’re bound, as we follow, full of hope but with little discernment, behind our Pied Piper of Hamelin politicians.
It seems clear to me that the individuals we elect to represent us need to be thrown out, along with their half-witted ideas about ‘net zero’ and associated scams and the system they have finagled over the years to suit and benefit themselves. The introduction of ‘proportional’ representation deserves an especial mention in this regard. The present voting system is not good enough to reflect the hopes and ambitions of the electorate. And the mainstream media – which is supposed to keep the politicians and civil servants on their toes on our behalf – has defected to the other side.
Once parliament has been cleaned of the infestation and the system re-jigged to more accurately to reflect the needs of the voting population, then the newly installed, genuine representatives of ‘we the people’ can convene to compile a new constitution to replace the current mealy mouthed ‘make it up as we go along’ one. A constitution that more clearly and unequivocally states its conventions, as the American Declaration of Independence does: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” (In other words, a statement of rights given by God that cannot be revoked by mere politicians.) It’s way beyond time voters began to treat members of parliament as what they are and indeed claim to be: servants of the public.
And in the meantime, the sycophantic mainstream media needs not only to have its government-provided subsidies revoked, along with its paid advertising, but be left alone to survive or perish on its own merits. No more simpering female or low-testosterone males, but Rottweiler interviewers who, when accosting one of OUR representatives, won’t hesitate to exclaim, “Just what the f**k do you think you’re playing at?” as an angry employer might once have done in real life. It’s beyond time these schemers and abusers of our collective trust were put in their place with their self-erected shield of pomposity punctured.
Will any of this happen? Highly unlikely, but ever so slightly possible, I suppose, especially if ‘they’ try their lockdown trick or something similar again. That ‘something similar’, and just as spurious, might be the ‘15-minute city’ con that intends to severely restrict travel to within a given area round your home, or the ULEZ (Ultra Low Emissions Zone) in cities where you’re charged around NZ$25 every time you enter if you don’t have an electric vehicle. It appears to me, with democracy gone (as the Covid lockdowns proved), our so-called leaders, with their endless list of restrictions they wish to impose, now behave like the thug who, without reason, backs you up against the bar in a pub, saying, ‘Well, come on then, what are you going to do about it?’
Until you kick him in the balls.
There’s little chance of a grumpy old bugger like myself, with one foot already in the grave, being around to witness such a gratifying conclusion to the present troubles being inflicted on the Western world. But I can hope.
When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion – when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing – when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors – when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you – when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice – you may know that your society is doomed.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged