VAX MANDATES DON'T BREACH NZ BILL OF RIGHTS

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"(On Friday) the High Court ruled that whilst vaccine mandates can create bullying, harassment, and vilification of the unvaccinated and their family members, they do not breach the NZ Bill of Rights" - Guy Hatchard, Scoop Independent News. 

And today, a parish newsletter in the Diocese of Palmerston North announced for the second week running that "those coming to our Christmas celebrations will need to be double vaccinated." 

Bullying. Harassment, leading perhaps to vilification of the unvaccinated, in what purports to be a parish newsletter - which used to be titled '"The Holy Trinity Parish Voice" but has somehow morphed into "Ratini Kupu", whatever that may mean.

What's going on here? Can this be the Catholic Church, bullying parishioners into taking an experimental gene serum produced from baby body parts? 

It must be the Catholic Church. We can tell because the front page shows a smirking Jorge Mario Bergoglio telling us that "Getting vaccinated is a simple yet profound way to care for one another, especially the most vulnerable" (our emphasis). That amounts to a vaccine mandate. How diabolically ironic, considering that "the most vulnerable" - unborn babies - were employed in making a vaccine which to be frank is usually "a simple and profound way" to care for myself. For my body, that is, not my soul.

Certainly the parish priest's announcement is a mandate, and one made independently of the NZ Conference of Catholic Bishops, who urge but do not mandate the jab. Father kindly adds that "things will be made clear in a few weeks". One wonders how, after "a few weeks",  one might manage to get a double vax - with the stipulated 3 week interval - in time for "our Christmas celebrations".  Father outdoes, in his zeal, not just the NZCBC but the American bishops trotted out dutifully by NZ Catholic as follows:

Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego urged priests on August 11 to “caringly decline” to provide any Catholics who request it a religious exemption for the Covid-19 vaccine.

Their Excellencies McElroy and McKnight, who don't approve of religious exemptions

“I ask that you not venture down this pathway that merges personal choice with doctrinal authenticity”, he said in a letter to priests of the diocese.

Bishop McElroy said several pastors had written to him about requests they have received from parishioners asking that they sign a declaration for them providing a religious exemption. The declaration was written by the Colorado Catholic Conference and available on the conference’s website. In Missouri, Bishop Shawn McKnight of Jefferson City urged Catholics in his diocese who can get vaccinated to take responsibility and do so in order to help their communities and the country at large beat Covid-19.

https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2021/08/18/san-diego-bishop-asks-priests-not-to-give-religious-exemption-for-vaccine/

Guy  Hatchard of Scoop continues:

This means that Justice Matthew Palmer believed that vaccine mandates do not violate the provisions of the NZ Bill of Rights including

“Right not to be subjected to medical or scientific experimentation” or

“Freedom of thought conscience or religion” or

“Freedom from discrimination”

We note in passing that Justice Matthew Palmer is the only child of former Labour Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Palmer, whose deputy was Helen Clark. Just saying ... 

You might join me in thinking that Section 5 is chilling in the way that it asserts the ability of parliament to overrule our rights and implies that the majority may impose its views on the minority.

How did this happen? Before 2004, NZers had the right to appeal to the Privy Council in the UK. The UK judicial process has essential guarantees built into its constitution known as Common Law. Common Law dates back to the 13th century and to the confrontation between the rebel Barons and King John which resulted in the Magna Carta Libertatum (Great Charter of Freedoms) being signed at Runnymede.

Common Law is perpetuated when justices invoke ancient principles of fairness and rights in their interpretation of the law. Lord Chief Justice Denning, Master of the Rolls, and famous advocate of individual justice defined the effect of Common Law as what right thinking men consider to be fair between man and man and in these days between man and the state” (please forgive his gender bias in an earlier age)

Helen Clark decided that our right of appeal to the Privy Council was archaic and should be replaced by a NZ institution—the Supreme Court. That seems OK, but in so doing she quietly replaced the central role of Common Law in the judicial process with the ‘supremacy of Parliament’. Parliament now has the right to do almost anything it wishes, even extending to the amendment of legislation with retrospective effect. The NZ courts have consistently taken the view that their role is not to interfere with but rather support the intent of Parliament. The NZ Bill of Rights Act of 1990 thereby has no teeth, it is advisory only and its provisions are regularly ignored or overruled by the courts.

Jacinda Ardern and her government, riding on an absolute parliamentary majority, have today exploited parliament’s supremacy to the full. Crown lawyers have sought and succeeded in painting the imposition of medical risk as a democratic and social good in times of emergency. Concerns raised by scientific research publications did not play a part in today’s judgement, the law does not require science be followed, only the intention of parliament.

 

Can we be forgiven for drawing a parallel between 12th November 2021 and and 31st March 1933 when the German government passed an innocent-sounding law called the Temporary Law for Coordination (Gleichschaltung)? This proceeded along two related paths: synchronisation of all government institutions and mobilization of all citizens for the National Socialist cause. This law paved the way for the creation of all subsequent instruments of mass control and exploitation in the Nazi state.

This situation can only be avoided by the repeal of Section 5 of the NZ Bill of Rights.

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2111/S00137/where-did-our-rights-go.htm?fbclid=IwAR1YNLjs1w we2R7JYIYp4rQ9BnzVuV6aBbaIuRL850KRW8eSfNKZYTJQKl0

From Evening Prayer of the Divine Office for today:

And in the garden secretly,

And on the cross on high, 

Should teach his brethren, and inspire

To suffer and to die.

The Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, El Greco