Ardern’s popularity hangs off Christchurch and COVID – nothing more and nothing less. She did not end child poverty, build affordable housing, reduce hospital waiting lists, create jobs or get vagrants off the streets. Facts do not matter and neither does policy. Having failed to keep previous promises, why bother making more?
The Christchurch massacre was murder on a scale not seen previously in New Zealand. Because the targets of this horrendous crime were Muslim it has made it harder to discuss Islamic extremism. The Christchurch massacre has silenced discussion on the downside of Muslim immigration and the creation of separatist community hubs as it is not politically correct to discuss these things.
Ardern cunningly banned Brenton Tarrant’s manifesto. It is a crime to be in possession of it. Why is it banned? So that youthful minds would not latch onto his extremist views? Think about how ridiculous the ban is, given that Tarrant is a visiting Australian and very much a loner yet look at how little resistance there was from a stunned NZ public to the censorship.
Brenton Tarrant is evil, and a murderous fool that USA Today described as “drifting from one extremist ideology to another”.
“Tarrant called himself an “ecofascist” promoting “green nationalism,” anti-population growth (excepting Europeans), anti-urbanization and pro-sustainable economic practices. He is pro-union, pro-minimum wage and pro-workers’ rights (to keep out immigrant labor).
And he explicitly rejects conservatism, capitalism, individualism and consumerism.
“Conservatism is dead,” he wrote. “Thank God. Now let us bury it and move on to something of worth.”
Tarrant is not fully on the political right as media tell us, ad nauseum yet USA Today says Americans lump Brenton Tarrant in the same camp as Donald Trump.
“As you might expect, most of the blame-gaming for the tragedy in New Zealand was aimed at President Donald Trump, especially because the Australian shooter noted in his 74-page manifesto that he was a supporter of Trump “as a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose.
Yet those eager to tie Trump to the shootings mostly ignored the next sentence in which Tarrant [was] asked whether he supported Trump “as a policymaker and leader? Dear God no.”
The ‘Tarrant far-right lie” suits Ardern’s narrative. We are supposed to regard him (whose name she will never utter) as politically opposite to her socialist/Marxist politics. This is a clever lie to hide the fact that Tarrant has more in common with Jacinda Ardern than with Donald Trump and Tarrant’s politics also align him with Islamic terrorists.
“…the document as a whole resonates with other examples of extremist literature such as the Unabomber manifesto and Osama bin Laden’s 2002 “Letter to the American People.”
It presents a radical worldview, a list of grievances and a mobilizing call to action.
It details a terroristic methodology, to agitate, destabilize, create crises, and exploit opportunities.
It is a case study in terrorism as a revolutionary method.”
Tarrant said that the People’s Republic of China has the closest political and social viewpoint to his own. While he veers all over the place politically, his admiration for Communism places him under the same Marxist umbrella Ardern inhabits, a fact she most assuredly does not want broadcast.
Ardern fulfilled Tarrant’s objective of removing guns from the general public.
“Tarrant was very much aware of how his actions in New Zealand would play out in the American arena.
He wrote that one of the reasons he carried out the attack — and with guns — was “to create conflict between the two ideologies within the United States on the ownership of firearms in order to further the social, cultural, political and racial divide within the United states.” “
Ardern has more in common with Brenton Tarrant than she lets on. She hastily wrote gun control legislation that proved difficult to implement. She took guns off responsible hunters and shooting enthusiasts under the guise of preventing future massacres – another lie. In fact, Tarrant would not have been issued a gun licence if police had vetted him properly.
“The Dominion Post, a Wellington masthead owned by NZ’s Stuff, reported that Dunedin police did not subject Tarrant to the usual regulatory regime when he applied for a firearms licence.”
The truth is the Christchurch massacre might have been avoided if the police had not slipped up. Ardern promulgated that lie for political gain. She also knows her legislation will not prevent future massacres because criminals and gangs don’t hand over illegals guns.
And now we have COVID, Ardern’s political godsend after the fawning publicity from Christchurch died down. COVID was the gift to end all gifts. Telling us tens of thousands would die if we didn’t obey her spread fear and kept a cowering public under control, locked down and grateful.
Are the distressing economic repercussions of severe lockdown really worth our alleged COVID free position? Early indications are that we paid far too dearly for a virus that may be no worse than seasonal influenza.
Is anyone else suspicious about the recent COVID advice from the government explaining regional lockdown and asking us to stock up on masks? When will Ardern start another panic by announcing community spread is back? This will be another lie. Community spread never went away, there wasn’t enough testing done to confirm the fact, of course.
Ardern’s latest lie is the June quarter unemployment figure of 4%. The Finance Minister skited about how well the government cushioned the COVID blow and media excitedly exclaimed how much better we are doing than was expected, very good news for the PM and her team of five million three (excluding media).
But Kiwibank chief economist Jarrod Kerr says the government figures are not accurate. He says they are “so unbelievable – you cannot believe what is being put out“. When the facts are altered to suit the political narrative, unbelievable is the correct response.
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