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Tuesday, 22 March 2022
WRITING ON TYRANT ARDERN'S WALL: A CALL FOR UTU
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Now that the tyrant, Jacinda Ardern has seen the writing on the wall in the polls she has started to walk back her draconian and divisive mandate policies which have seen unvaccinated Kiwis treated worse than lepers.
Absolutely! We should be issued with bells!
There’s a moment in conversation when everything changes, Ben Visser says.
It’s been happening for months when he’s been chatting away to a friend or stranger and the topic of vaccinations comes up. No, he’s not vaxxed, he’ll say, and then it’s all over.
“It’s like you’re dirty or dangerous, and you can see people recoil. As a result you feel segregated and often almost like a leper.
Stuff
Dawn Bodger, 65, said being the consequences of being unvaccinated made her "feel like a leper, and it's really upsetting".
I’ve ditched friends, some relatives, and I’ll never forget what they did in this madness. I’ve retained my more sensible friends, and I’ve found better friends. I’ve made lists of the businesses who banned me for daring to make a personal choice. I know what they did and I won’t be forgetting that their compliance effectively locked me out of society. I will never trade with those businesses again. They’ve lost my custom forever. I will not forget that they chose division over rational decision making.
Sure they were coerced, with fines and Worksafe action, but they still had a choice to make, and when they shunned me, they shunned my business forever.
What makes this all so much worse, is that the people they welcomed are the ones now infecting everyone else. It can’t have been us as we were banned.
“The mental damage caused by this will last for a while, and it’s a lot more severe than a lot of people realise.”
With the government expected to announce next week the winding down of restrictions, including mandates, the country is facing a long road back to social cohesion.
Some experts say the pathway lies in tough conversations, plenty of empathy and righting long-standing inequalities. Others say we may never get there, and that’s a price worth paying for the health benefits mandates have delivered.
Stuff
He doesn’t blame NZers for their fear and mistrust of the unvaccinated and does believe things are changing. People don’t care so much about others’ vaccination statuses and some are already dumping requirements for vaccine passes.
Visser says although Kiwis are a forgiving bunch, it’s going to be a long road back to reuniting the country.
“It’s ruined a lot of the magic of being a New Zealander and that’s my problem with it.”
Stuff
With Stuff publishing "stuff" like that, we can conclude that the worm is well and truly turned and Ardern on the way out. Unless she legislates a 4-year term ...
We are a forgiving bunch, but we aren’t at all forgetful. I don’t blame people for what was done to us, but I do blame politicians. We saw you. We saw politicians failing to stand up for freedoms and rights. We saw politicians trying to out do each other on who could be the more efficient fascists in ripping away our rights.
Despicability
We saw the cowardice of politicians when faced with the people they burned. We won’t forget.
I can tell you this much for free. I will NOT be voting for any party currently in the parliament. Not Labour, not National, not ACT, not Greens and not the Maori Party.
Cam, in stating that, you are an exemplar. A reader of this blog put on a mask yesterday for the very first time. She had to drive her vaxxed, sick husband to get a RAT. He handed her a mask as they drove in, saying, "You'll need this." She told him, "Only for you." She says, "It felt like a self-betrayal".
I will help coordinate and facilitate ANY party that stands for freedom. We must never again slide into totalitarianism. But for that to happen the existing parties need some of the pain they visited on us. It’s coming, get ready for it. There needs to be utu.
Ah - no. Utu is out. Verboten. Sorry to be a wet blanket, but it's forbidden by Christ. You know how it goes:
I say to you, Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you: and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you: That you may be the children of your Father who is in heaven, who maketh his sun to rise upon the good, and bad, and raineth upon the just and the unjust: Mt 5:44.
There needs to be a reckoning.
The person most responsible for the evil that was visited on us, is of course the tyrant, Jacinda Ardern. She is unspeakably evil and what she did to society should be held against her for the rest of her natural life. She should be shunned, other than to protest her. Everywhere she goes she needs to be shunned, other than to protest her. Everywhere she goes she needs to be met with derision.
Sorry to labour the point, but: Judge not, and you shall not be judged. Condemn not, and you shall not be condemned. Forgive, and you shall be forgiven: Mt 7:1.
Give nothing to tyrants.
Give nothing to those who aided and abetted the tyranny. We need a “wicked perfect storm” to obliterate the parties currently squatting in the parliament.
We need the same “wicked perfect storm” to obliterate the corrupted media who unquestionably ran the regime’s lines along with the useful idiots like Shaun Hendy, Siouxsie Wiles and especially Michael Baker.
Attaboy Cam!
The mask mandate madman and muppetty mates Baker Wiles and Hendy
I have nothing but contempt for them all.
As a Christian, I am taught to turn the other cheek, to forgive. I can forgive, but sometimes it is necessary to go all Old Testament on some of these people so that they can feel our wrath. If we don’t then they’ll feel like they could give it another go. Nothing stops a bully faster than a kick in the teeth. I feel that the media and politicians need to feel the darkness.
One does need to stand up to bullies, yes. It's worth it for the pleasure of seeing them crumple.
https://youtu.be/v0nmHymgM7Y - Leonard Cohen sings "You want it darker"
I’m not feeling particularly forgiving at the moment. Now it’s much too late to turn the other cheek.
https://youtu.be/0nyMrjGX2vk: Leonard Cohen sings "It seemed the better way".
We warned everyone where this would end and now it’s here.
Being a killjoy again: we shouldn't bank on it.
It was never about health and it’s still not about health. It was about control: the elites wanted to see how far you could all be pushed.
The protesters, those who stood strong, those who said no, are the true heroes of this country.
Agents for Ardern
Not lying politicians, not corrupt media. It was the protesters who have brought an end to all this. I was privileged to spend a few days at the protest. I see you all, and those who supported you. Freedoms and rights should never be compromised, and you stood there and frightened the elites so much that they needed brute force to end it. When the mandates end it is because of you. I salute your heroism.
Forgiveness is a long, long way off. We will remember forever what was done to us. Be brave, tell those who persecuted you that you saw them, and you won’t forget what they did. Tell them loud and long every day from this day forth.
Give nothing to them, and take everything, as after all that’s what they did to us.https://thebfd.co.nz/2022/03/21/you-might-like-to-say-sorry-for-a-start/?utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR3vbwtgYSZxG0cw5t1taS8vWm811URAlX9zmaDdQJthaqFZtDFtUZ7ArDw
Give, and it shall be given to you: good measure and pressed down and shaken together and running over shall they give into your bosom. For with the same measure that you shall mete withal, it shall be measured to you again - Lk 6:38.
Apologies from vaxxed to unvaxxed may become redundant. Once vaxxed wake up and realize they have a) jabbed themselves with a toxin and b) their worldview/trust in government implodes, they will be in a pitiful state.
Whether the individual christian can forgive such outrages as committed by the Ardern government is between him/her and God.
But Romans 13 makses it utterly clear that crime MUST be punished.
If not we are saying that we might punish the individual murderer or burglar or fraudster or rapists, but when government commit the most monstrous crimes of all, mass murder terrorism, apartheid - in this instance medical - ethnocide, genocide, we must let them off scot free in the name of forgiveness?
this is manifestly absurd and i submit, Ms du Fresne, that you have taken certain scriptures out of context and ignored the broader context as to how criminality is to be dealt with.
I cite again Romans 13:4 if you do evil be afraid - said the apostle of the loving God - for the ruler does not bear the sword for nothing".
The God who would forgive if given half the chance himself said this
I would be aghast if you pursued your logic to its end by telling us that in the name of forgiveness the Nazi govt should have been let off and forgiven.
in a society that always was godless punishment by means secular Law was and is the only way it is held together, and God Himself instituted this
I say: I think anyone following this blog would understand that my support for Nuremberg II makes my advocacy for punishment for politicians and bureaucrats found guilty of crimes against humanity very clear. In fact I was sent to FB jail for a week recently for stating my support for the death penalty and repeating that (as seems necessary in this context) might see me in jail again, with the usual consequent nose-dive in page views once I'm let out. But I can't let FB intimidate me, or allow readers of this blog to think my understanding of forgiveness means letting the guilty go free. To forgive my neighbour does not have the same meaning as forgiving a debt and letting him off the hook. It means holding no animosity towards him/her, and more than that it means to pray for him and do good to him, as Our Lord commands.
I think we need a completely new way of governing our small beautiful country - no parliament, but a collective of regions, with something like a council of 12 for each region, and a representative of those regions forming a main collective council.. governing BY THE PEOPLE, WITH THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE. Re instating, shoring up, making unalienable our BILL of RIGHTS. There are of course lots of facets to this, however we are NZ. We have the ability to be self sufficient, to build an NZ equal for all... we are at the bottom. What better place to be to rebuild completely anew
You want freedom? That could make you pro abortion. You've fallen into a trap, Julia. We want ethics and no one will deliver.
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ReplyDeleteToday is World water day. A media black out here. Don't want the 3 Waters issue raised and race relations damaged.
ReplyDeleteApologies from vaxxed to unvaxxed may become redundant. Once vaxxed wake up and realize they have a) jabbed themselves with a toxin and b) their worldview/trust in government implodes, they will be in a pitiful state.
ReplyDeleteNay. Thomas Hobbs said life without a government is short, nasty and brutal.
ReplyDeleteWhether the individual christian can forgive such outrages as committed by the Ardern government is between him/her and God.
ReplyDeleteBut Romans 13 makses it utterly clear that crime MUST be punished.
If not we are saying that we might punish the individual murderer or burglar or fraudster or rapists, but when government commit the most monstrous crimes of all, mass murder terrorism, apartheid - in this instance medical - ethnocide, genocide, we must let them off scot free in the name of forgiveness?
this is manifestly absurd and i submit, Ms du Fresne, that you have taken certain scriptures out of context and ignored the broader context as to how criminality is to be dealt with.
I cite again Romans 13:4 if you do evil be afraid - said the apostle of the loving God - for the ruler does not bear the sword for nothing".
The God who would forgive if given half the chance himself said this
I would be aghast if you pursued your logic to its end by telling us that in the name of forgiveness the Nazi govt should have been let off and forgiven.
in a society that always was godless punishment by means secular Law was and is the only way it is held together, and God Himself instituted this
I say:
DeleteI think anyone following this blog would understand that my support for Nuremberg II makes my advocacy for punishment for politicians and bureaucrats found guilty of crimes against humanity very clear. In fact I was sent to FB jail for a week recently for stating my support for the death penalty and repeating that (as seems necessary in this context) might see me in jail again, with the usual consequent nose-dive in page views once I'm let out. But I can't let FB intimidate me, or allow readers of this blog to think my understanding of forgiveness means letting the guilty go free.
To forgive my neighbour does not have the same meaning as forgiving a debt and letting him off the hook. It means holding no animosity towards him/her, and more than that it means to pray for him and do good to him, as Our Lord commands.
I think we need a completely new way of governing our small beautiful country - no parliament, but a collective of regions, with something like a council of 12 for each region, and a representative of those regions forming a main collective council.. governing BY THE PEOPLE, WITH THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE. Re instating, shoring up, making unalienable our BILL of RIGHTS. There are of course lots of facets to this, however we are NZ. We have the ability to be self sufficient, to build an NZ equal for all... we are at the bottom. What better place to be to rebuild completely anew
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