HOUSES AND IMMIGRATION ONLY FOR THE DESERVING

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NZ Catholic Bishops and Pope Francis, stand up and take a bow. If, as Lindsay Mitchell says, "NZ's approach to welfare has gone awry" and "the undeserving have been rewarded",  you as the putative shepherds of this country's flock of Catholics - who are supposed to be the leaven of our society - will sooner or later be judged for deserting your post. 

Inspired presumably by Jorge Bergoglio's "Who am I to judge?" in 2016, the Church has utterly failed to teach the meaning of "Judge not, that you be not judged" (Mt 7,1). Every day we are all called by the Gospel to judge right from wrong, good from evil. Otherwise how are we to avoid sin? But we must be careful not to judge rashly (he who lives in a glass house shouldn't throw stones) or hypocritically. That is, to judge with discernment we need firstly to live by the Gospel ourselves. 

We can only hope that MSD Minister Louise Upston means what she's said, that WINZ will judge applicants for emergency housing as either deserving or not, and act on that judgment.

Sometimes the gems are buried. My ears pricked up when the following statement was reported on a news programme playing in the background:

"MSD staff assessing anyone applying for emergency housing will increase their scrutiny of whether they have unreasonably contributed to their immediate emergency housing need ..."

I googled Minister for Social Development Louise Upston's press releases to confirm that's what she actually said. Indeed she had.

If the government means it, this is hugely significant.

It has been clear for decades that NZ's approach to welfare has gone awry. The late Roger Kerr, of the NZ Business Roundtable, once said to me, "The only way forward is to go back to the concept of 'deserving' and 'undeserving'."

To be honest, at the time I thought this was slightly draconian. But the passage of the years has only brought me further around to his view. By protecting people from the consequences of their own foolish actions NZ has only created more 'need'.

In other words, the 'undeserving' have been rewarded. This is a direct offshoot from the philosophy of 'non-judgmentalism' which is absolutely rife through the social services and charity sectors, and even health and education. It is formally taught.

Especially is it taught in Francis church, in the Novus Ordo, the fake ape of the Catholic Church which takes its tone from Bergoglio's infamous "Who am I to judge?" in 2016, which set in train the divergence from Church doctrine and the Gospel which has only accelerated since then, to permeate Western society.  

Every needy individual is a 'victim' of circumstances, never their own poor decision-making.

I am personally a great believer in second chances and the right to redeem oneself, and have certainly had occasion to avail myself of these principles (or lived with the consequences of not being forgiven or excused.) But like many pendulums, the one called 'tolerance' has swung too far.

The welfare system is now the lifeblood of criminals. People who trash other people's property, who threaten and abuse neighbours, who keep aggressive dogs as status symbols, who have not a skerrick of regard for others, turn up at WINZ demanding to be placed in emergency housing. And they are.

(Not to mention the tens of thousands of other people who took no responsibility for their own education, go on to produce children recklessly and, in turn, take no responsibility for theirs.)

Or in regard to their eternal destination of either hell or heaven, even more recklessly produce children who they kill before birth.

Between the passage of the Social Security Act in 1938 and the early 1970s the percentage of working-age people on a benefit never exceeded two. Today it stands at almost twelve, with the time people stay dependent growing every year.

As a society we have created this level of reliance by believing and acting on a bad idea. That we must not judge others. We must not mention their faults and shortcomings. We must bend over backwards to not blame the person responsible for their own troubles. That's the 'kindness and compassion' we are taught to aspire to.

Until Louise Upston said something quite contrary but actually utterly sensible.

In assessing applicants for emergency housing case managers must take into account whether they have "unreasonably contributed" to their need.

One assumes that if the answer is positive, there will be no emergency housing offered.

 

Quite right too.

My theory is that the emergency housing crisis - putting people into motels, lodges and motor camps - came about because the Labour government created an expectation that anyone who showed up at the newly-generous WINZ department asking for a house would get one (or something akin).  

If people had been turned away, they would have found their own solutions. Living with friends or family usually. If friends and family wouldn't have them - presumably because they were undeserving - why should the taxpayer fork out to put them into places where they can wreak anti-social havoc on nearby neighbours?

It's the individual who should experience the consequences of their own unwise actions - not everybody else.

So let's support Upston and encourage her to take this new approach further. I would vouch that the majority of New Zealanders want to help people who, through no fault of their own, need a benefit and public housing. But that willingness does not extend to people who chronically cause their own misfortune.LINDSAY MITCHELL: Is real change on the cards? (bassettbrashandhide.com)

 

And then there's the other Lindsay (Perigo, ex-broadcaster) whose views though somewhat more acerbic marry well with Mitchell's and are too amusing and witty - and true - not to publish.

Perigo's Perspective, Reality Check Radio, Thurs March 7, 2024

It's an honour to be part of the real resistance, the counter-revolution, the antidote to Woke-Fascism, the fulfilment of that most edifying and gratifying banner flown across our skies in anticipation of RCR, RIP Woke Media. 

How delicious to see that come to pass! May Newsdump be just the first domino to fall of that foul and pestilent congregation of communists. May One Nitwit News, the New Zealand Ferald, National Socialist Radio and Stuff ... ed quickly collapse also, and Academia, the very hub of evil, be next. They have all hectored, lectured, gaslit and defrauded us, these smug, sanctimonious government propagandists, for long enough.  If there's an appetite for their version of Pravda, let them put it out there in the open marketplace ... and may a thousand flowers bloom, and weeds die.

 

In any event, amongst the feedback on Faecesbook last week was this, occasioned I assume by my reference to Britonistan and the fact that such formerly quintessentially British TV programmes as Midsomer Murders now appear to have relocated to Eritrea:

 

"I don't know how but we need to be doing more to stop these so-called refugees from coming to our countries. The globalists are moving quicker than we realise; if we don't move we will be lost."

 

To which someone replied:

 

"I totally agree with you. Unfortunately libertarians like Perigo and ACT don't have any objection to mass immigration."

 

I cannot speak for ACT, though I know some of them are globalists, shills for Soros and the World Economic Forum,  who ACTively approve of mass immigration.

 

I can speak for myself. I believe in the right of every person to live his life as he sees fit, constrained only by the obvious corollary that he must respect the right of all others to do the same. That's what Ayn Rand called the non-initiation of force principle, often called the non-aggression principle: "No man may initiate the use of physical force against others. No man—or group or society or government—has the right to assume the role of a criminal and initiate the use of physical compulsion against any man. Men have the right to use physical force only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use.” 

"Retaliation" meaning self-defence we assume and not just for individuals but for nations. 

As someone who believes in that principle, in a world where billions don't, I am vehemently opposed to mass immigration. I believe governments, charged with protecting their citizens from force-initiators, must be meticulous in vetting those who wish to enter their countries.

 

At minimum, of course, known criminals must be kept out. So too must those of force-initiating ideologies who believe that only they are righteous and right, and that they have the right—nay, the duty—to force their view on everyone else. Here it must be assumed that adherents to such a view are sincere and will act on it. The default position must be to keep them out. In our current context that would mean no Marxists and no Islamists, at minimum. 

 

Currently, by contrast, Beijing Biden the Bribed Bastard has opened America to mass, illegal immigration. That is one of the things he was bribed to do. The invasion by ten million third worlders, including Marxists, Islamists and criminals since Biden's inauguration is not the result of incompetence, mismanagement or senility. It is deliberate. Now we learn that 300,000 illegals have been flown in secretly by Biden in the last 12 months. Without disclosing who was bribing him, Biden told us what he would do and he has been devastatingly competent in doing it.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYwLYMPLYbo   Beijing Biden

 

This is no mere surge, of course; it is an invasion, more consequential than an open war. No conventional warfare would enable one side to infiltrate the other with 10 million soldiers.

Reminds one of the infiltration of the Catholic Church since the '50s and '6os of thousands of Communists. 

 

How is this working out?

 

Who knows what fresh terror the Islamists are plotting in their zeal for Death to America? We'll all know soon enough.

 

China's Marxist Triads have joined the criminal cartels in facilitating the flow of Fentanyl, killing 300 Americans a day, along with slavery, including the sexual enslavement of children. 20,000 military age single males from Communist China have crossed the border since October. It's doubtful that they're there to pick Nancy Pelosi's grapes.

 

Random criminals have been running amok, looting, raping and killing. The murder of 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley while out on a jog in Athens, Georgia, by an illegal immigrant from socialist s..thole Venezuela—who had already been arrested for multiple felonies multiple times and not deported—has finally awakened complacent Americans into long overdue outrage. 

Similarly, one hopes, 'she'll be right" Kiwis have been awakened by Judge Kevin Glubb's ruling on the thug who bashed a grandmother at the Posy Parker rally.  

 

Dem-Scum who hate America and love the invasion have been beside themselves in their haste to downplay the grisly murder, which left Laken's skull shattered.

Makes you think of the grandmother repeatedly punched in the face at the Posey Parker rally by an Animator and Graduate of the Auckland University of Technology - an immigrant from Gizzy.

The Dem-scum Woke-Fascist Mayor of Athens, Kelly Girtz, who has turned Athens into the equivalent of a Sanctuary City by stealth, tried to blame Trump. I'll let Jesse Watters pick up the story, but the first voice here is that of the Mayor, who, like Biden, is among the lowest forms of life. The audience outrage is edifying and gratifying:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hUK9d_hlPc&t=296s   0' 09"  "The term Sanctuary City " to 3' 10" "This is an invasion."

 

That's how to deal with Woke-Fascist oleaginites. Don't let them get away with their slimey spin. Did you know, by the way, that part of that spin now is to call illegal aliens, not "undocumented immigrants," which was a bad enough euphemism, but "newcomers"?? I guess the illegal alien who bashed in Laken Riley's skull was a newcomer acting inappropriately?!

 

My immigration plan is very simple. None. Except for those avowedly and provably committed to the non-initiation of force principle. Aside from that, no immigration at all. Lots of emigration, though.

I would include a voluntary self-deportation plan whereby advocates of mass immigration would be entitled to a one-way ticket on the taxpayer dime to a s..thole of their choice with whose unfortunate inhabitants they would love to flood our country. Iran, say, or Venezuela, or North Korea or Communist China or Somalia or Yemen or Eritrea. A sanctuary for all the laid-off Pravda propagandists! A communist dictatorship or Islamic theocracy. Woke-Fascist Nirvana! Don't know how they'll get on with their pronouns, though. 

 As for genuine refugees ... well, Rachmaninoff fled Russia when it became a communist dictatorship. That's my kind of refugee.. He'd be head of the queue under my system. The skills, too!  REAL Nirvana!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otJ-F44qRFo&t=921s   17' 34" to 20' 15"

 

 

                                                           

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