John McLean
Citizen typist patriot
In the early days of Ancient Rome, perduellio was instituted as a criminal offence for treason, punishable by death. The crime included injuring or endangering the dignity, supremacy or power of the Roman State. Extended family members of anyone executed for committing perduellio were banned from mourning the culprit and their houses were compulsorily burned down.
The early Romans clearly grasped the imperative to eliminate internal enemies if their nascent commonwealth were to thrive. Perduellio was foundational to the mighty Roman Empire.
New Zealand has no equivalent, on its books, of perduellio. Sedition – bringing New Zealand into disrepute, inciting disaffection against the government etc – ceased to be a crime in New Zealand on 1 January 2008, when it was removed from the Crimes Act. Treason remains a crime, but is confined to armed insurrection or fomenting war against New Zealand.
On 29 September, an outfit called Both ENDS announced that it has lodged a formal complaint with the European Commission alleging that New Zealand has weakened environmental protections and failed to effectively implement its Paris Accord climate commitments. Both ENDS is a nefarious Netherlands-based NGO (Non-Governmental Organisation).
Both ENDS alleges that New Zealand has breached its free trade agreement with the European Union by reopening its territorial waters to offshore oil and gas exploration, not meeting its greenhouse gas reduction commitments under the Paris Accord and passing legislation extinguishing the climate change court case spearheaded by Māori activist Mike Smith. I’ve previously covered Smith’s crazy litigation:
SUPERHUMAN SMITH V SEVEN GHASTLY GREENHOUSE GASERS John McLean 12 February 2024
Both ENDS’ intention is to spit roast New Zealand’s economy. Leading Both ENDS’ attack on New Zealand (holding the flame, burning his candle at both ends) is its “Head of Trade and Investment Policy”, Fernando Hernandez Espino. Fernando is a climate change Che Guevara-type try hard from South America. In an attempt to get more carnal activity with women – “by the fire light Fernando”…or anywhere else – Fernando also claims “intersectionality” with the “feminist economy”.
Both ENDS’ New Zealand collaborators include:
- Greenpeace Aotearoa
- the Environmental Law Initiative
- OraTaiao (an incorporated society representing Woke, climate obsessed “health professionals”)
- Mad Mike Smith himself
- Jane Kelsey (lifelong loony leftie legal “academic”)
- Ngāti Pūkenga Iwi ki Tauranga Trust (one of the Māori groups trying to extort millions if not billions of dollars out of the Port of Tauranga in relation to its port expansion)
Greenpeace Aotearoa’s main man in this mendacity is its Executive Director, Dr (of “political science”, no less) Russel Norman. Both ENDS quotes Norman:
Greenpeace Aotearoa supports this complaint because the New Zealand Government has spent the last three years systematically undermining climate and environment laws, often with the stated purpose of gaining trade benefits. That is a race to the bottom on environmental regulation, which is exactly what the sustainability chapter of the EU-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement was designed to prevent. We have met the prime minister, ministers and senior officials many times to warn them they were breaching that chapter. They have not listened.
I’ve got news for you, Norman Non-Conqueror. The New Zealand Government is not obliged to listen to a single word from you.
The fact that Greenpeace New Zealand, despite its overt political advocacy, continues to enjoy charitable status is yet more stark evidence of just how leftie-cooked New Zealand’s charities regime has become. Attacking ordinary New Zealanders’ economic prospects for your own virtue signalling ends is the opposite of charitable, Dear Dr Russel.
The Environmental Law Initiative’s “senior legal researcher” is former Green Party chief of staff Eliza Prestidge-Oldfield, a neurotic and unfortunate person.
Then we have all the usual suspects coming in behind the front liners. Pseudo academics like Canterbury University “Professor of Political Science and International Relations” Bronwyn Hayward. According to her uni bio, Brony’s “research is at the intersection of sustainability, youth, climate change and democracy”. Hayward has waywardly waded in with, “The stakes could not be higher for us as a nation and I am deeply concerned that our government has put our country’s reputation and trade at risk.”
Contrary to what Hayward asserts however, New Zealand is at no reputational or trade risk from its fossil fuel use. Our little nation consistently produces 90 per cent of its electricity from renewable sources (hydro, geothermal, wind, solar and biofuels). The only risk New Zealand faces is fiscal. Under its current Paris Accord commitments, New Zealand will have to pay $5 billion to overseas climate change grifters for offshore emissions credits before the close of 2030, with an additional $2 billion before the close of 2035. Of course, this would be an act of national suicide that needn’t and won’t happen.
Neurodiverse attention seeker and Waikato law professor Al Gillespie has chimed in with his characteristic verbal diarrhoea, splattering, “the architecture around them [promises to implement the Paris Accord] (from stopping the Smith case, weakening targets, and reversing earlier exploration goals) is collapsing”. I’m not into guilt by association but…
Bla Bla Bla.
Lurking beneath the radar screen in this treachery is of course antisemitic Green Party co-leader Chloe Swarbrick and a troupe of other unpatriotic quislings.
What’s really going on? In essence, a coterie of globalist, unpatriotic New Zealanders are working with a malignant neo-Marxist European organisation to try and impoverish productive New Zealanders, de-stabilize New Zealand politically and undermine New Zealand’s international reputation and democratic sovereignty.
Climate change catastrophisation and national debt-loading are simply the mechanisms these vile subversives have chosen to pursue their mission to destroy New Zealand as an autonomous nation state.
In Britain, designed energy paucity (shutting down North Sea natural gas extraction) combined with an orchestrated state-sponsored mass invasion by illegal aliens (mainly fighting-age Islamist men) has impoverished native Brits leaving Britain on the brink of civil war and national debt default.
All these pinko actors are hell bent on deconstructing the Westphalian nation-state system in favour of a United Nations-run global world order. There’s no longer any ambiguity or subterfuge.
What should the current New Zealand Government do, immediately? Two things.
First, the government should exclude, from its climate change regime, all greenhouse gas emissions arising from New Zealand food production. Such exclusion would be entirely consistent with the Paris Accord, Article 2(1)(b) of which states:
This Agreement…aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by…Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production. [emphasis added]
The preamble to the Paris Accord also expressly, “Recogniz[es] the fundamental priority of safeguarding food security and ending hunger...”
Secondly, the government should reassert what Prime Minister Luxon said in June 2026, with uncharacteristic decisiveness:
We ain’t shutting down farms and we certainly aren’t sending billions of dollars offshore.
This article was originally published on the author’s Substack.
