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Dieuwe de Boer
NC Board Secretary
New Conservative
In this article Dieuwe covers the cost of lockdowns, how New Conservative’s support for life and freedom are mutually compatible, and the enactment of medical discrimination.
Lockdowns Cost Lives
Western Australia and the United Kingdom have seen spikes in hospital use and illness due to delayed treatment caused by lockdowns. Fully vaccinated Gibraltar (118%!) has cancelled Christmas. Austria has enacted mandatory vaccination and more lockdowns.
We cannot be a people who seek freedom at the end of a needle. “There’s a new variant! There’s a new booster!” could go on forever and ever. The promotion of “feeling safe” as a type of public health response is dangerous and immoral. Now that winter has arrived in the northern hemisphere, lockdowns are back. Summer in the south has meant that lockdowns ease off.
New Conservative has been a consistent voice against these sledgehammer lockdowns and has called for more humane and traditional pandemic responses that treat us all as human beings.
Freedom of Choice & Preservation of Life
One of the criticisms we get is that we’re “pro-choice” on things like medical treatment and “anti-choice” on things like abortion and euthanasia. This is a fundamental (often deliberate) misunderstanding of the issues.
Both abortion and euthanasia require the deliberate ending of human life via a legal form of homicide, and both involve the false promise of a deliverance from a burden. The life and freedoms of one are sacrificed for the gain of others.
The right to life is the most fundamental right. Once it goes, the rest of the dominoes fall with it, as we have discovered. If society has no qualms about killing the vulnerable, it can have no qualms about trampling on every other right we have.
This ties into one of the reasons why the freedom to refuse medical treatment was encoded into our law: coercion into medical experimentation has led to all manner of atrocities. Once the state has amassed power, it does not easily relinquish it.
Tyranny and Medical Discrimination
Last week, the government rammed a bill through parliament under urgency that separated New Zealanders into two classes of citizens. What should have been a national uproar was sadly quickly buried by Her Majesty’s Opposition who decided to make it all about their internal problems.
This government has devolved into a pattern of tyranny that has decided to run itself as a technocratic dictatorship. This highlights all the more the need for a conservative voice in parliament that will defend traditional values, and the need for proper checks-and-balances on power in New Zealand.
Bill of Rights Act Referendum
Co-Leader Ted Johnston, on behalf of New Conservative, has started a petition to parliament calling for a referendum asking if the Bill of Rights Act 1990 should be elevated to supreme law. Please consider signing the petition and sharing it with your family and friends. While you’re at it, invite them to join New Conservative and put a real opposition in parliament in 2023.
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