Brian Tamaki
Yesterday morning at exactly 8:33am, six police cars turned up at my home. They were there to tell me my gun licence has been temporarily suspended because, in their words, I am “not a fit and proper person” to hold one. They came to uplift every one of my hunting guns.
I have 28 days to make a submission. Let me be crystal clear: this is an attack on free speech. In New Zealand today, if you speak up passionately against injustice, they send the police to take your guns.
My guns were locked in a proper gun safe. They were used only for hunting pigs and deer – nothing else. I have never committed an act of violence in my entire life. I do not tolerate violence. Yet they still came with six cars. My wife was home. Then my granddaughter and great-grandchildren arrived. What did they think was going to happen?
They have twisted my words from a recent podcast. I was standing up against the horrific human rights violations happening in India right now – Christians being killed, churches being burned to the ground, child brides and Christian women and girls being raped. I spoke from the heart as a grandfather. When I talked about protecting my granddaughters and great-granddaughters, it was figurative – the same way any father or grandfather says he would get a shotgun to protect his daughter from the wrong kind of suitors. It was never a threat. It was a father’s natural instinct to defend his family.
I said imagine if this was happening in New Zealand – if we were burning down mosques and temples. I was making a point. I never implied I was going to do it. I was highlighting the hypocrisy of our politicians. They let Sikhs walk around freely carrying weapons… daggers, swords, and axes as part of their religion. But my legally owned, safely stored hunting rifles are suddenly a problem? It wasn’t long ago there was a full-on sword fight inside a temple in Tauranga that hurt people. The police should have confiscated those weapons then. Where was the outrage?
When I said we should get rid of Sikhs and Hindus in this context, I meant stop them at the border and send them back if they will not assimilate. It is that simple. Shut the border to mass immigration that refuses to become New Zealanders. I had to say it strongly to force this to become a national conversation again.
New Zealand must remain New Zealand. Foreigners who come here must assimilate. They must not bring their foreign religions, customs, and ways – including kirpans, swords, and axes… their hijabs, turbans and burkas – and impose them on us. We are not India. We are NZ.
This government is doing a handshake with a human rights abuser… Modi. Why would any New Zealand government shake hands with the devil while Christians are being killed and persecuted in India? My recent comments have simply magnified the weakness of this government.
Now they are coming after my guns. Indians have got my licence revoked. So do Indians now control the New Zealand Police and our politicians? This reeks of political interference.
I am not a violent person. I have never been a violent person. They have taken my words completely out of context to silence me.
I will be making my submission within the 28 days.
But let every New Zealander hear this loud and clear: when they come for your guns because you spoke the truth, it is not about safety – it is about control.
I will not be silenced. I will keep standing up for New Zealand, for our Christian heritage, for our borders and for the right to speak without fear of the state coming to your door with six police cars.
New Zealanders, wake up. You could be next.
