by Amy Brooke

Softly softly catchee monkey — the alphabet community’s grab for our children. 

This article on link to The Spectator below contains some highly relevant comments from Christchurch residents overwhelmingly rejecting the proposal for a rainbow crossing to be established in the city.  

Their comments make interesting reading.  And as The Spectator allows non-subscribers access to three links before subscriptions are needed, I hope that as many of you as possible will read this article. If not, a subscription to The Spectator, which highlights issues our mainstream media either refuses to acknowledge –  or gets spectacularly wrong – is well worth considering.

The thoughtful and sensible sentiments expressed by those who reject the ongoing activist moves by the LGBT community to gain more and more opportunities to centre-stage themselves in the name of “diversity”,  to persuade councils to finance rainbow pedestrians crossings, to insert themselves into our schools and children’s libraries,  aiming  to propagandize them (why else are they there?)  is a concern to many who are by no means homophobic, but are now too intimidated to speak, out lest they be accused of homophobia.

In other words, many New Zealanders now feel they’re being bullied. When accusations of homophobia get deliberately targeted at an individual or a group- who,  while by no means  condemnatory of actual individuals, are nevertheless perturbed at sexual behaviour they may regard as deviant being praised, as even somehow superior – as with the Gay Pride sloganizing – then the attack on free speech has become a subversive tool.

It’s deplorable that even the police can use extravagant accusations such as “hate speech” for actions which can be described as vandalism, but which some citizens are very possibly going to imitate, given the growing concern  among New Zealanders that they are being compelled to tolerate actions and behaviour which are thoroughly undemocratic. As one correspondent says, “Why should anyone use our public carriageways and public spaces as a billboard to promote their specific interests?” And far from indulging in homophobia, a majority of New Zealanders would certainly identify with, “I don’t care what people are, or nor who they identify with, and neither do I need to know if it doesn’t affect me or my life…People can do what they like,  as long as it is within the law,  as far as I’m concerned. Just don’t keep pushing it on me, or seeking attention.”

 In fact there will be quite a few New Zealanders who have friends or acquaintances who for some reason or another have found themselves — or have become — homosexual but who are themselves basically private individuals and who strongly disapprove of the demand for special rights by LGBT groups.

 New Zealanders are undoubtedly a tolerant people, but they do not like the feeling that they are now being  virtually bullied by aggressive activists demanding special treatment. Pushing  for the “right” to target children in libraries, and demanding a special right above all other activists group to have rainbow crossings, courtesy of ratepayers, repainted under the banner of  Gay Pride  (what exactly this pride consists of is not defined) goes against the important principles of any democracy .

Granting such special rights to various aggressive sectors of the community – including small groups of activist part-Maori  – apparently as a policy of appeasement- inevitably contributes to social divisiveness and resentment. Allowing LGBT groups to virtually hijack our roads to advertise their cause is not only undemocratic – it is foolish – and the majority of New Zealanders will undoubtedly not be supportive of this grab for attention.

Other power grabs for special treatment by the very small  minority of activist part-Maori –  above all our other ethnic groups – are by no means supported by the majority of all part-Maori – include the replacing of the English names for all our government departments and institutions, with te Reo names. Why? The majority of  the latter were never Maori names at all, but are simply made-up “Maori.  Where in the genuine Maori language were the words for Ministry of Social Welfare, or The Ministry of Housing and Urban development,  or Inland Revenue, or Accident and Emergency Department, etc?

To claim these are genuine Maori could well be regarded as fundamentally fraudulent, as with much of the supposed Maori language now inflicted upon children and teachers in schools and required of people being interviewed for particular jobs. Not only is it another form of bullying -– cultural bullying — but the coalition government pledged to restore the English names to all government departments and institutions, so that New Zealanders could understand what they stood for

There is no excuse for that not having happened by now, and Christopher Bishop’s apparent refusal to restore the English name to Kainga Ora is completely unacceptable. He should resign if he has difficulty respecting the coalition agreement.

 Prime Minister Christopher Luxon seems not to have taken on board the fact that not only is he personally unpopular for good reason, but that National would not now he back in government were it not for New Zealand First, and ACT — hence his propensity to rebuke the leaders of these two political parties when they are actually right, and he is wrong. Why has a directive not being given to all government departments and institutions to immediately restore the English names so that the country understands their role is more easily able to scrutinize them?

This is not happening, and it is something that Winston should be following up.

And when, with urgency, is the Marine and Coastal Areas Act going to be revoked and is effects reversed?  Meanwhile an apparently activist judiciary  is granting more Maori claimants (whose claims are, shockingly,  financed by the taxpayer (so they lose nothing by advancing them) proprietary rights over our seabeds and coastal areas – which should belong to all New Zealanders ? Luxon is dragging the chain on this one. Nor is he perceived to be wedded to democratic principles, basically endorsing co-governance when it relates to local Maori being authorized to  power-share control over lakes and waterways. He is apparently also oblivious to the fact that the word indigenous cannot possibly apply to Maori, as they themselves emigrated to this country. And what about the overdue dismantling of the Waitangi Tribunal, established  by Labour’s activist Geoffrey Palmer, and formerly described by the late well-respected  media commentator Brian Priestley as “a Star Chamber”,  adding that he had never seen an institution less well-designed to get to the truth of things. Some of its recommendations have been ridiculous,  let  alone thoroughly anti-democratic, and it serves to advance the interests of Maori activist only activists only, not of all New Zealanders.  

Luxon, in fact, is regarded as the weakest link in the coalition government, although that  is apparently not his self-assessment. And unfortunately, given the nature of today’s party political system, National Party MPs who surely must be far more aware of what is happening to this country are remaining tight lipped, controlled by an individual who is acting as if he is still in charge of a large corporation and  apparently imposing his will on his  party. Some New Zealanders would undoubtedly equate this to simple moral cowardice – not fronting up to a leader who is not taking the country in some of the urgent areas that need addressing. These  include repudiating the proven misinformation about the whole supposed climate change emergency – one of the most outrageous scams targeted against the West, but being used as pretext for  increasing taxation and control  of our lives.

While Net Zero is being hastily abandoned overseas because of the damage it causing to countries’ economies, New Zealand’s folly, fanned by the  scientifically illiterate Green Party, has  our intellectually under-powered government endorsing this – as well as the push to  prioritise EVs and phase out petrol-driven vehicles, although the increasingly recognized  disadvantages of these – let alone the horrific fire risk from their batteries  – has them being now being rejected overseas, and their production being cancelled.

Stupid is as stupid does. And there is little doubt that most New Zealanders,  looking at  the disastrous record of Labour and the Greens combined, now feel caught between a rock and a hard place, looking at the lamentable leadership of a National Party with a highly restricted focus on what  needs to be done to try to restore prosperity and democratic practices to this country.

But of course, those who simply complain have only themselves to thank. Writing to and emailing MPs, as well as ringing Parliament, requesting to be put through to the office of the relevant leader or MP to make your views known  (04 817 9999)  are not difficult ways to be involved in what should be a participatory government – by the people, for the people.

 And in the long term, even more valuable, would be the support for the  100 Days — Claiming back New Zealand, so that it  would be we New Zealanders ourselves who, like the  highly intelligent Swiss, would make the decisions as to which way our country should go,  rather than being afflicted with what is constantly enforced on us, from the top down.