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Ardern Cracks Down on Freedom of Speech

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Olivia Pierson
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August has been an utter disgrace to our nation, showing just how serious Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is about smashing freedom of expression in New Zealand.

I have been writing about this glaringly fascist tendency in our PM since she was given the role by kingmaker Winston Peters back in 2017. She made it clear that Kiwis having the traditional cultural right to express their own ideas about anything and everything was something she was just not going to tolerate.

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Here we are in the latter half of 2022 and in just one week we saw Chantelle Baker’s hugely popular Facebook page deactivated and Avi Yemini of Rebel News barred entry into NZ.

These despicable anti-liberty actions have all been done ostensibly for different reasons, but the reasons remain odiously crappy… “spreading disinformation” or in Yemini’s case, a low-level “previous criminal conviction” that ended up as merely a $3,000 fine.

We’d already seen Lauren Southern and Stephan Molyneux barred from speaking at a paid event and we’d already seen Brian and Hannah Tamaki arrested during illegal lockdowns for daring to organise peaceful protests about them. We’d already seen Lee Williams, employee of Synlait Dairy Company, fired and absolutely hounded out of the country back to the UK by Maori Party extreme-Left activists who didn’t appreciate Williams’ idea of taking the piss (Kiwis aren’t used to satire anymore because it’s never allowed on our airwaves).

This is the obvious persecution of conservative voices in our country. Whether we agree with their views or not, or whether we like them as people or not, our nation once was much better than this one, which now makes its police monitor and suppress the views of too many of our citizens. Dissent is essential to any country’s survival, psychological health and freedom, but the fact that Jacinda Ardern won’t tolerate it shows you just how weakly rotten she is as a person, let alone as a leader of a free people. She despises the very notion of liberty because she’s a flakey, grinning, horse-faced, fascist.

We’re not going to tolerate her civilisation-smashing nonsense. This is our country. Fight back New Zealand, ferociously! Our freedoms are given to us by Nature and Nature’s God. Any human who acts to take them away is simply evil, impotent and destructible. Remember that.

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