OPINION
Many Kiwis saw through the Covid-19 nonsense. Thousands were horrified that not one sitting MP then, or since, has spoken out about how the country was seriously lied to concerning the m-RNA jab. This liquid that sent spike proteins around recipients’ bodies was obviously neither ‘safe’ nor ‘effective’. It was incredible that every MP, including the opposition members, backed a socialist government and a director of health’s unrelenting brainwashing. All kept zipped up, even when pregnant women were told it was not dangerous for them or their baby.
Who among the MPs will be the first to break rank? It takes fortitude to go against orders and the status quo. Kiwis have a laid-back nature and generally do not like being tittle tattlers. But the Covid-19 vaccine is a life-and-death issue. People have been vaccine injured and some have even died. People have committed suicide when they lost the will to live after mandates and lockdowns or the collapse of their business or irrational divisions within their family. There has been no acknowledgement at all by the NZ Government of any harm.
Thousands of Kiwis are watching to see if an MP will replace their own personal prestige, position and loyalty to their party and be willing to break rank and move to a higher value of truth and compassion, including the probability of being forced out of their party. There will be a price to pay for such ‘treason’, by not conforming to a majority opinion and dictate. Terrible will be the ostracism when they publicly disagree or criticise the group they belong to. The courageous person will likely, however, sleep easier having cleared their conscience.
Sir James McNeish, one of NZ’s prolific writers, in his last book touched on this tricky subject. The posthumously published book Breaking Rank – Three Interrupted Lives (2017), published by Harper Collins NZ, is thought provoking. He writes:
New Zealand is a country that has grave doubts about where it belongs in the world; consequently, it has difficulty in defining its national character or psyche. One of the elements that helps define us, I believe, is a hidden outlaw that leads us on occasion to question authority and poke our head above the parapet. Call it dissent, subversion. Or anarchy.
McNeish honours the lives of three men by celebrating why they stood out from others for what they believed, regardless of personal cost. Breaking Rank had mixed reviews.
New Zealand seems to have the knack of neutralising those who try to foist moral greatness on their countrymen.
McNeish tells the story of a doctor, a soldier and a judge, who did not know each other, but were bound with one thing in common: they paid the price to break rank. These principled men, despite professional isolations and critique, defied the establishment.
It’s a recollection of personal integrity. It tells what happened to Dr John Saxby, a pioneering psychiatrist; Brigadier Reginald Miles, a soldier who disobeyed orders and went into battle with his men; and Judge Peter Mahon of Erebus fame, who went against the narrative of pilot error that the government preferred.
Andrew Paul Wood’s review of this book was published by Landfall Review, Otago University Press: https://landfallreview.com/three-men-who-defied-authority/
Mahon, to the envy of writers throughout the country, coined that immortal phrase ‘an orchestrated litany of lies’.
McNeish
It’s been three years since the Covid propaganda was broadcast for months on end. NZ’s politicians, in terms of their pandemic response, could also be thought of as part of ‘an orchestrated litany of lies’. But, sadly, they remain tight lipped.
We may have to wait until we read about it in a book.
