Pushing Back on the Gene Tech Bill

NZDSOS Media Team

Up to 400 people attended an event in support of political parties opposing the proposed gene technology bill becoming law.

Once again the lawn of parliament was the site of peaceful pushback against more anti-human laws.

A strong line-up of people from different arenas spoke but the message was unified: Do not mess with genetics, you can’t control the results; and do not trade NZ’s natural environment and food producing reputation for biotech profits.

A highlight speaker was Sue Kedgley, past minister and leader of the Green Party, who reminded us that this fight has been running for 25 years and that it was community pushback last time that defeated round one.

Short and powerful statements were made too by leaders from organic and natural farming, GE Free NZ, GE Honesty, Brand NZ, as well as mother, grandmother and health activist Deborah Murtagh and others.

Environmental lawyer and party leader Sue Grey called instead for an act that would ensure only legislation that actually made life better for New Zealanders be passed by parliament. She has been instrumental in defending our Bill of Rights in the courts, which seem no longer supportive of it.

A Green Party MP sounded like the environmentally concerned party of old and NZ First leader Winston Peters spoke – and listened – to the crowd. He received scepticism for saying that the bill should be made safe for people before he would support it. When he asked if the bill was fixable, he got a resounding roar of “No!”, which summed up the overall consensus. Nothing in the bill stands to serve humanity or the plant and animal life of New Zealand.

For NZDSOS, Dr Matt Shelton was invited to speak and started the presentations with a sombre tone. Transcript of Matt’s speech:

Good morning and thank you to the organisers Claire, Tracy etc for the opportunity to speak.

I’m here on behalf of the many humans that have perhaps already been genetically modified.

As a humanitarian organisation defending medical ethics and human rights, NZDSOS of course opposes this bill.

A week on Saturday is November 15, at midday on what we call Red Remembrance Day – the memorialising of 2021 when the first completely untested gene tech product was forced into many unwilling people.

Make no mistake, the Covid jabs were exactly the products that the gene tech bill proposes to usher in more of, with no local scrutiny and on the say of overseas regulators. This seems like a global power grab and wholesale attack on the entire biosphere and we are glad that some politicians at least are listening to people’s concerns. Those of them that genuinely put New Zealand first can start to right some of the wrongs of the Covid era by rejecting this bill. It is beyond fixing since its intentions seem to us to be highly dangerous. We already have plenty of medicines created by genetic engineering techniques that have proven more benefit than harm, and legislation to govern them, if properly applied.

In the last five years we’ve seen existing legislation and safeguards ignored and dismantled to the result of the death and disability of many thousands at the hands of the last government, with parliament still in complete denial, and now the current government wants to usher in the most dangerous gene tech regime on the planet, perhaps second only to Australia. We’ve gone from a worthy caution and relatively protecting our environment to a reckless greedy money-grabbing bonanza.

Our PM literally told biotech investors he wants the New Zealand population to be the sandpit that they can play in at the very least. The kindest thing we can say is that perhaps they see gene tech experimentation as the way out of our terrible economy. But to us, it’s the overarching clawed fist of the WHO and other unelected private interest groups behind all these anti-human moves and legislation, like imposing digital ID, CBDCs, gender ideology, weather manipulation and the ridiculous net-zero agenda.

Many millions of dollars are already invested in mRNA vaccine production. We must make these products and companies subject to tighter regulations, not much laxer by removing protections. This bill is so bad and dangerous, it’s not even worth dissecting to try and find any good bits.

It comes down to trust. If the last five years have taught us anything, it is that all the people paid by us to keep us safe were lost at sea. They abandoned their posts when a bit of fear came along, so why should we expect anything different going ahead? And there were so many lies told. “The safest vaccine ever” said the spokesman for NZ biotech. The doctors’ highest authority declared it a “zero risk medical product”. But the real zero of relevance was any safety monitoring. And now many gene tech injured people are gaslit and made invisible. Why would authorities do anything different next time? Politicians willingly threw human rights under the bus and pulled legal and political tricks to get the job done of injecting gene technology into the entire country. We had legislation that should’ve stopped them, but it was ignored and not upheld in the courts.

Not enough scientists and doctors understand the dangers and unpredictability of messing with genetics, the fabric of life – especially those in parliament it seems. And the industry spin doctors lie about how accurate and specific their techniques are.

So please politicians, kill this bill before it kills more of us. Seems strange to have ask this, doesn’t it? But here we are.

It takes maturity and wisdom not just intellect to appreciate the dangers this bill represents and it seems that we opponents have that in spades, and we demand the government listens and abandons attempts to sell our biome to the highest bidder, and wreck it in the process.