A TALE OF TWO CINDYS: BAD START, SAD ENDING?

To comment please open your gmail account. Or use my email address, FB or Messenger. Scroll down for other comments.

Another Cindy - like it or lump it

If you don't like the sound of Dame Cindy Kiro as our new Governor-General, if you're not rushing to bow and scrape, your suspicions and reluctance are well-founded.  

She like her name-sake (did we need another Cindy?) is a liar.

• Cindy was once, not too long ago, Children's Commissioner. We may deduce from the state of NZ children today that she wasn't brilliant at that job. But now she's promoted. And how.
  
  
• Cindy said the hundreds of thousands who petitioned against the anti-smacking bill were "gullible and misguided". 
  
  
• Cindy says that for some people, including herself apparently, tagging and graffiti are 'legitimate art forms'.
  
  
• Cindy (representing other blind, deaf, stupid socialist academics, we suppose) says "we know more about parenting now than we did in our parents' time".
  
  
• Cindy couldn't produce reports she was paid to produce, but she managed a 50% staff turnover.
  
  
• Cindy managed 8 overseas trips in 12 months. Trips  you paid for.
  
  
• Cindy as Children's Commissioner was called by Christine Rankin "a waste of space".
  
  
• Cindy was once upon a time executive director for Greenpeace NZ.
  
  
  

"Dame Cindy will take up the role of Governor-General in October and remain in it for a five-year term," Ardern said today. 

That gives us something to look forward to. 

"Over many decades, Dame Cindy has demonstrated her passion for the wellbeing of children and young people, as well as education and learning. I know she will bring that same commitment to all New Zealanders as Governor-General."

What did I just say?  

National Party leader Judith Collins welcomed the appointment, saying she had previously worked with Dame Cindy, who had made a significant contribution to New Zealand in education and health, and worked to advance and promote research and scholarly activity in science, technology and the humanities.

Really. We can see how significant Dame Cindy's contribution has been. Realistically, we can only expect more of the same. Could the Leader of Her Majesty's Opposition not have opposed the appointment? Isn't that her job?

ACT leader David Seymour said the party wanted to congratulate Dame Cindy and wish her all the best in the new role. 

Even David Seymour, who's the best of a bad lot in the 'Opposition', was me-tooing. To think that when she retired from her previous career as Children's Commissioner, Dame Cindy had the cheek to say, " I think New Zealand could be the first country in the world to stop the deliberate killing of children". 

The problem with Cindy Kiro’s politics

by McBlog • 24 May 2021 • 0 Comments

2006

In 2006, at the height of the anti-smacking bill debate, Dr Kiro along with Sue Bradford, EPOCH and Barnardos misrepresented the child abuse statistics from both NZ and Sweden. They said ‘Around one child a month dies at the hands of a parent or caregiver in New Zealand. In Sweden, the average annual deaths attributable to child abuse for the past 30 years or so has been less than one every four years.’ In fact the actual rate of child abuse deaths in Sweden had averaged around seven every year and has sometimes been as high as twelve, according to recent comments by Sweden’s public health minister.

2006 – Big Brother society

“I am calling for the creation of a plan for every child so that no one falls through the gaps. These plans would mean that educational, health and safety information would be shared and assessed in a consistent way. A key benefit of the integrated framework is that all professionals will be required in their assessments to take account of the child’s life in the context of the families and communities in which they live. A consistent finding of investigations of child homicides by my Office is the need for interagency cooperation and communication to ensure the safety of children and young people engaged with multiple agencies.”

2008

The Children’s Commissioner has knowingly misled the public on child abuse statistics, but that it is not first time that she has done so.

(Emphasis mine.)

In a Sunday Star Times article last year, Dr Cindy Kiro said that 88 children were killed in a five year period. These were repeated in a Dominion Post article this year on Dr Kiro. But blogger Lindsay Mitchell has obtained an admission from Dr Kiro under the Official Information Act that the figures are inaccurate, and that the real figure was 35. “Despite the gross inaccuracy of the figures, Dr Kiro allowed them to be republished in an interview a year after the first incorrect report and despite being aware of the misrepresentation,”

2008 – Government Rebukes Extremist Comments of Children’s Commissioner

Family First NZ is welcoming comments by the government today that they do not support the outrageous and out-of-touch comments of the Children’s Commissioner in relation to tagging and graffiti.In response to questioning in parliament today, the Minister for Social Development distanced the government from statements made by the Commissioner Dr Cindy Kiro in support of the rights of children and tagging.

Comments by Dr Kiro to the Select Committee considering the anti-tagging bill included:

• for some people, graffiti and tagging are seen as legitimate art forms. There is history and social commentary behind these art forms….

• interestingly, these public spaces are often environments that children and young people are alienated from…

• solutions need to appropriately balance the rights of property owners and the rights of children and young people …

2008 – Children’s Commissioner Insults Generations of Parents and Grandparents

The Children’s Commissioner Cindy Kiro has attempted to discredit the huge response to the two petitions asking for a Referendum on child abuse and the anti-smacking law by saying that previous generations of parents didn’t parent as positively and were less qualified in knowing how to raise their children than parents of today.

“We know more about parenting and child health and development now than we did in our parents’, grandparents’ and great grandparents’ times.” – Cindy Kiro

Dr Kiro has also labelled the hundreds of thousands who have signed the petitions as gullible and misguided, and simply puppets to a political agenda. Once again, this is highly insulting to the more than 300,000 New Zealanders who care about good parenting and have thoughtfully signed the petitions.

Source: https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0802/S00290.htm

2008 – 8 overseas trips in 12 months and a 50% staff turnover

Her office has failed to produce it annual report to Parliament on child Poverty in New Zealand and its Compliance report on the rights of the Child for the UN. The Children’s Commissioner’s Office has had a 50% staff turnover in the last year, and has failed to deliver two major reports.  But Cindy Kiro did manage to attend eight overseas conferences in 12 months.

2009 – Rankin slams Children’s Commissioner

 

If you'd managed to forget Christine Rankin these earrings will remind you 

An angry Christine Rankin slammed Children’s Commissioner Cindy Kiro as a “waste of space” at a rally protesting the country’s dismal child abuse record. Rankin, chief executive of For the Sake of Our Children Trust, told about 500 marchers in Auckland’s Queen St: “We want a children’s commissioner who is not a waste of space, someone with courage who will make a difference.” But Kiro, who refused an invitation to yesterday’s march, hit back labelling Rankin’s group and the Sensible Sentencing Trust as “the hang-’em high brigade”. Kiro said the marchers in the second of what organisers hope will be a national series “believe the solution is to lock ’em up and throw away the key.

https://bobmccoskrie.com/?p=27429&fbclid=IwAR3fKaQVWX7rCSXVc2hRgBHLYxEgBDHxhDj6gXLDLrlyLXMeUL_CHb9juz8#sthash.IzBAxWMX.dpbs

The only good thing to be said for Dame Cindy's appointment is, we can't blame it on the bishops. Which reminds me ...

Yesterday I was emailed by a parishioner reminding me that today we would celebrate the Patronal Feast of New Zealand and Australia of "Our Lady Help of Christians".

WRONG. New Zealand's patronal feast has been whipped out from under our feet and been substituted by a 'newly added feast day; the Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church'.

On Monday May 24, the day after Pentecost, we will be celebrating the newly added feast day; the Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church. Pope Francis has added this memorial to the Roman calendar to honour the Blessed Virgin Mary under her title as, 'Mother of the Church'. The Marian title 'Mother of the Church' was given to the Blessed Mother by Saint Pope Paul VI at Vatican II.

https://www.nlo.org.nz/news-and-events/media-releases/mary-mother-of-the-church-2/

This we are told by the National Liturgy Office, a creature of the NZ Catholic Bishops' Conference. But an online resource, Catholic Daily Readings, informs us that the "Saint of Today" is "Our Lady Help of Christians". What's up, doc?

Call me suspicious, but I wonder if the idea behind the switch is Jorge Bergoglio's intention to get rid of the "Our Lady" title as being altogether too Catholic, offensive to Protestants who persist in the belief that we 'worship Mary', and therefore an obstacle to his globalist vision of a New World Church. 

The fact that her new title was awarded by the highly problematical 'Saint' Pope Paul VI at Vatican II should do nothing to persuade us otherwise.

Our Lady Help of Christians, pray for New Zealand.