LIES ABOUT CAPITAL GAINS TAX, LIES ABOUT RAPE, LIES ABOUT LOCKDOWN

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Prime Minister Ardern, you must resign. When you vowed and declared during your last term that you'd never allow a capital gains tax, you lied. You've extended the 'Bright Line Test' to 10 years which means, effectively, that you've introduced the capital gains tax you promised never to introduce.  You'd rather resign, you said. 

So do it.

Even a ringleader of Ardern's cheerleaders, RNZ's Tova O'Brien, calls it "the mother of all broken promises". 

O'Brien is wrong: the mother of all Ardern's broken promises must surely be her glib assurance that she's in politics "for the children", when just a year ago she rammed through the Abortion Legislation Act which has already resulted in an increase in slaughter of unborn children of more than 9 percent. We can conclude that pregnant women are now inclined to put off killing their baby in the hope that they won't have to, because they know they can do it right up till the baby is due. 

But no, Prime Minister: a tax on houses sold within 10 years of purchase is a capital gains tax, no matter what sort of silly name it goes by. John Key dreamed up the 'bright line test' to stop house buyers flicking their investment on within two years to make a quick buck. Far be it from me to compliment Key, but fair enough.

During the election campaign, Grant 'Grunt' Robertson (whose father, incidentally, was gaoled for what used to be called 'theft as a servant' of $120,000) ruled out any extension of Key's 'bright line test'. So he lied too. For the first time (as far as we know).

This socialist Government is also ending new landlords’ ability to write off the interest on their mortgages against their rental income. By 2025 this 'loophole' will be closed to all landlords. A friend commented today that she and her sister won't be buying the house they'd hoped to. So someone else is thereby denied a home and good landlords.

The ultimate intention of this socialist Government of course, is to do away with private property altogether. And as Ardern, Little&Co, Death Dealers to the Nation were voted in so massively by a proletariat petrified by COVID, what's to stop them?

Trevor Mallard riding for a fall

And then there's the little matter of Mallard. The Speaker of our House of Representatives is also a liar. He accused a Parliamentary staffer of rape and got sued for it. Mallard had to apologise. He's cost the taxpayer $333,000 in legal fees. 

According to Court documents, he threatened to attack the reputation of the man he maligned as a rapist, months after he admits now that he knew the claim to be false. In effect he was saying, from his exalted position of power, "if you sue me I'll say I was telling the truth". Mallard is exposed now not only as a liar, but also as a bully (which is hardly news). 

And liar number one in this tatty trio of tricksters - Prime Minister Ardern - said today when confronted with Judith Collins' calls for Mallard's resignation, that she considers the matter closed. And why? Because Mallard has apologised. 

Oh, well that's all right then. A man who holds the third-highest public office in the land can be found out in a lie and bullying to boot, and cost the taxpayer $333,000, and all he must do is say 'sorry' and he's let off. 

And then there's the question of this Government's sustained, but unsustainable, lie about the Wuhan virus. COVID-19. Starting with Mass Murderess Ardern's claim a year ago that lockdown was necessary because otherwise 'tens of thousands' of  New Zealanders might die.

Whatever will she say next

"If community transmission takes off in New Zealand the number of cases will double every five days. If that happens unchecked, our health system will be inundated, and tens of thousands New Zealanders will die," Ardern said, a year ago yesterday. 

That's how she got away with putting the nation under house arrest. And the proles just loved it, and voted her back into office for another three years of lies.

Or will it be four years? Watch out for her bid for a four-year term next. 

But there are indications that we're not all proles or smiling zombies; to wit the open letter below, addressed to 'our dear Doctor Bloomfield' (as a dear N O friend of mine thinks him to be), by Dr Emanuel Garcia. Dr Garcia is a psychiatrist employed by the Hutt Valley DHB. He has dual US and NZ citizenship; he's a poet and amateur theatre director.

Emanuel Garcia 

"Dear Dr. Bloomfield,

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I write to you as a physician colleague and a fellow Eastbourne resident to express my perplexity and dismay over New Zealand’s COVID policy, of which you, as I understand, have been the spearhead.

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Allow me respectfully to submit to you the following questions:

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1. Do you truly believe that it is rational to expect that this (or any other coronavirus) can actually be eliminated from the country?

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2. Do you believe that the PCR test is indeed a reliable benchmark upon which to base strategies of management?

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3. Do you truly believe that lockdowns and ‘social distancing have any scientific evidence to show that they can in fact prevent the spread of a contagious virus, and do you understand the enormous social and psychological consequences attendant upon the imposition of these measures?

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4. Are you cognizant of the enormous financial and emotional toll resulting from these various – and unpredictably executed – levels of restriction? (Personally I know a number of people who have lost jobs and businesses).

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5. Why are you and the Ministry not promoting therapeutics (hydroxycholoquine/zinc/azithromycin) and preventatives (vitamins D, C, zinc, HCQ too), along with healthy outdoors exercise and socialisation?

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While I am very happy that masks – which do not prevent or protect against virions that can easily pass through their fabric, masks which tend to make people who wear them hypoxic – have not been mandated, nonetheless I find that the directives for public transport are in fact patently absurd.

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I hope furthermore that as a physician you understand the distinction between sickness and health insofar that a person who tests ‘positive’ for COVID is not to be presumed ill unless he or she actually has symptoms – that in fact there is a vast distinction between healthy ‘carriers’ and those who are ill.  We used to say during my medical education that one should treat the patient – not the numbers. I think you know what this means.

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Given that somewhere someday someone will ALWAYS be testing positive for COVID, if tested, will we therefore be held hostage to snap lockdowns and draconian restrictions forever? Is this not absurd? Is this not actually insane?

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Would not a rational approach embrace the fact that the only way to live with infectious viruses, like influenza, is to protect the vulnerable (elderly, those with multiple comorbidities) through hygiene and brief self-imposed isolation (staying home rather than going to work), treat those who become ill as well as we can, and to allow the public to develop GENERAL IMMUNITY?

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Please allow me to direct you to one particular website that has much valuable information:

https://www.americasfrontlinedoctors.com/

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There are many more.

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As a psychiatrist I probably should mention the profound effects of fear, uncertainty, economic liability and the like: our referrals in the Hutt Valley are through the roof since the big lockdown last year.

Now, someone commented that such referrals increased markedly after the big Wellington earthquake. But people realise that earthquakes are inevitable. They are an "act of God". A lockdown is not inevitable; it's an act of stupidity. .

New Zealand, little and far-away as our country may be, has been a pioneer and has gone against the worldwide grain – for example with respect to women’s suffrage, and nuclear arms and energy. I hope in this instance of an oppressively blunt and globally brutal response to a virus, we can be pioneers yet again – of real science, and of the protection of human liberty.

Sincerely,

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Emanuel E. Garcia, MD

Eastbourne, NZ.