Free Speech
Dear Prime Minister Ardern,
Dear Prime Minister Ardern, An open letter to yourself, Members of Parliament, and Government: As ministers of the Gospel, ordained and appointed by God, we write, not in the spirit of those wanting to rebel or revolt but as those who have the highest regard for you and your God-given
Phil Goff’s Office Doesn’t Want Aucklanders to See This Billboard
Jo Holmes Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance Unlike Auckland Council, we can’t intimidate, bully or use ratepayer funding to get the message out. We’re 100% funded by the Public. You may recall our proposed advert below which we proposed to run as double-page spread in the Herald on Sunday. The
Has the Prime Minister Gone Too Far?
Dane Giraud Spokesperson Free Speech Coalition This week we have a new episode of the Free Speech Coalition podcast. Patrick Corish sat down with Dr Steve Elers, professor of communications at Massey University. Dr Elers recently published an article criticising some of the claims made by Jacinda Ardern during her
Things That Make Me Go Hmm
The first article on the right was from a press release and it was rewritten within hours. The re-written article is on the left and the original article is on the right. Guest writer Justin Knight wrote an article about this yesterday, “How Free is Our Press Really? You Will
Blasphemy Revisited
Justice Minister Andrew Little declared back in March that a review of New Zealand’s hate speech law was in its final stages. It is only the COVID-19 outbreak which has prevented it from being enacted. In order to usher in any new religious blasphemy legislation the old must first
Doing China’s Dirty Work on Campus
The Babylon Bee recently published a satirical article, claiming that the Chinese Communist Party had disbanded its propaganda team, “as American media doing their job for them”. In a case of life-imitating-satire, an Australian university is doing Beijing’s dirty work for them: harassing and persecuting a student who dared
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American Lockdown Protests are Getting Inventive
We all have different ways of protesting when something upsets us. Some of us tell the person where to go verbally, some start a petition, some silently ignore rules they see as dumb, and some just start writing for an online news and views sites ;0) Some people though are
They Welcome Our New Insect Overlords
Nothing demonstrates the success of the Marxists’ Long March through the institutions perhaps quite so much as the decline of respect for freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is the key principle of the Enlightenment. It was so important to the enlightened Founding Fathers of the United States that they
Atlantic Magazine: Hurrah for Pandemic Censorship!
P.J. Gladnick papundits.wordpress.com A note to Atlantic magazine: George Orwell’s 1984 wasn’t meant to be a how-to guide… A couple of people writing at The Atlantic magazine see a fantastic silver lining in the current coronavirus outbreak. Jack Goldsmith and Andrew Keane Woods see the
Silicon Valley Is Our Sole Source of Truth
I’m no fan of actors, musicians, sports stars and other ‘celebrities’ spouting garbage opinions on things they mostly know absolutely nothing about. But that doesn’t mean that they can’t spout their opinions – they have every bit as much right to spout garbage opinions as the rest of
No One Has a Monopoly on Being Right
Dr Michael Jackson covidplanb.co.nz Dr Michael Jackson is a postdoctoral researcher at Victoria University of Wellington. As a scientist, I am trained to think critically, to evaluate evidence, and ask questions – lots and lots of questions. That’s my job. In March 2020 the World Health Organization predicted
The Jacinda Junta Kindly Bans Books
In a chilling scene in Chernobyl, soldiers tasked with shooting animals in the exclusion zone pause to take note of a communist propaganda banner drooping from a deserted building. “Our goal is the happiness of all mankind,” they read. They derisively remark on how happy they are – and go back
NZ Police Portrayed as Gunslingers from the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Barbara McKenzie stovouno.org Below is a TV commercial designed to promote the New Zealand Police as a force for good that is protecting the public by ‘shooting-down’ the COVID-19 virus. The advertisement shows a scene based on the spaghetti western ‘The Good, The Bad and the Ugly’ with a