this Labour government should be punished at the polls.
By Tony Orman
Propaganda adverts funded by the taxpayer
I was surprised and angered by government running television advertisements plugging its “Three Waters Reform” agenda. Over the years, I’ve come to expect some deceit and deception from politicians and governments, but the television advertisement was a brazen, bold and dominantly arrogant vehicle to ram through government’s water “reform” agenda – without fair debate.
As a swinging voter who has voted for several parties over 50 or so years, I viewed the advert as an insult to the public and democracy. To rub a good dollop of salt into the wound (ouch!) my taxes – and yours, i.e the public purse – are paying for the substantial costs of government’s television adverts. But really the actual cost is secondary to the principles around democracy and fair debate.
The television advert costs are an insult to anyone who has qualms or is opposed to the Three Waters “reform”. Even the local regional, city or district council cannot counter the adverts of government funded by filching from the public purse. Nor can any agencies (e.g Fish and Game) or environmental organisations (e.g. NZ Federation of Freshwater Anglers) concerned about the fate of our deteriorating freshwater.
Labour no longer cares about people
Formerly by parentage from a strong Labour Party background, I recall the arrogant 4th Labour government of 1984 – 1990 destroyed the Labour tradition of caring government that by and large, served the people. By 1987, Labour had lost my support. From then on, I became an uncommitted independent voter.
My use of inverted commas around “reform” is not because of a wobbly, erratic typing finger but directly related to so-called “reforms” by governments of recent decades having been – almost all – utter failures. Think health, electricity, local government, economic and state owned enterprises etc.,.
Out of control
This Labour government are clearly out of control, like a juggernaut, insensitive, short on principles, ethics and totally forgetful of its statutory democratic duty as an elected government — and deaf to the public’s views. Never mind, the public will pay the bill.
But come 2023 election, this Labour government should be punished at the polls for its arrogant disdain of democracy.
( First published by the Marlborough Express.)
This government is seriously lacking anyone with a brain.
Tony Orman is so right. The so-called “news” papers are a bought captive of the current government and will not publish anyone’s views that are critical so it is important that everyone who can should publish their thoughts wherever they can.
Iwi have been empowered with rights in almost all decision-making at every level of government and local authority; General and Mental Health, Social Welfare, Education, Pre-school, Health and Safety, Land, Fisheries, Water-resources, Agriculture, Rivers and Streams, Conservation Areas, Scientific Research, Bio-security, Libraries, War Memorials, Museums, and a raft of other Parliamentary Acts where ‘Treaty Principles’ have to be taken into consideration.
Perhaps by enabling Maori to share decision making, in keeping with modern, scientific techniques in almost at every level of government and local authority, those backward-looking Maori – holding a vision of a ‘Golden Age’ that never was – will be weaned from their Matauranga Maori – a preliterate Stone Age folklore, based on Myth, Magic and Old Wives’ Tales, and become a modern people.
An alternative interpretation could be these rights reflect the United Nations’ ‘Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ – ‘recognition of the inherent dignity… of equal and inalienable rights of the human family… as the foundation of freedom, justice and peace…’ This is a laudable objective, even though History reveals that of all the Pre-literate Stone Age people falling under Colonial tutelage, Maori are the most favoured.
There is even a third possibility: The government, adopting the Green Party aims, in accordance with the United Nations’ Agenda 21, is responding to climate change, ‘to preserve people, planet, prosperity, peace and sustainable development.’
To achieve its targets to control Green House Gasses, the management of water ways, the sea-shore, mineral extraction and such national assets, must be firmly in the control of the strong hands of government. Government cannot allow itself to be impeded by vested interests.
If it is any – or none – of these why does the government advertise the the fact.
Democratic government should be for the people, of the people and by the people.
That can only apply to the people who are actively involved in the process.
Those who ignore the opportunities to be involved and influential in the 2 main political parties have no representation in the government.
If you join a party and get involved you will learn that a small minority of people are ddeciding what happens to the rest.
You will discover who these people are and what their prejudices, beliefs and agendas are.
You might also enable your opinions and desires to be heard and even promoted.
Failure to participate in the making of decisions does not protect us from the adverse consequences.
The government does not belong to Jacinda or that socialistic minority of busybodies in the Labour Party but they have taken control of it because they became actively involved.
All the people who desire democracy need to take responsibility , join and become active in rhe National or Labour party because without their help our government is an Oligarchy.
Let’s all stop complain and do something to restore democracy to NZ.
I absolutely agree with the above narrative. This Labour government is out of control and is being led by the minority, pushing their agenda, destroying our sovereignty, destroying our English heritage in favour of a monority people who are only 16% of our population.
Tony, you are BANG ON!
Well said Tony, arrogance doesn’t get much worse than Ardern dipping into the public purse so that we pay for our own indoctrination. How many know of her $55 mil hand out to any media outlet willing to further the Ardern secret agenda plan to hand over sovereignty to the maori elite by 2040?? So, by public funding of media, we pay for our own indoctrination.
Time to punish Ardern at the polls,so that she is never seen again. A true enemy of democracy and the people, and a hopeless racist.
I wonder if maybe we pay too much attention to Ardern and don’t think about who is behind and “running” Ardern.
The Politicians are chosen and promoted by those who have the most influence and power within the political parties.
These people who “pull the strings” are mostly “invisible” and like to remain so.
Most people do not think about the “power behind the throne” because they become too emotionally distracted by the person “on the throne” and the image that has been created.
If you ask most people they say they either like or dislike Jacinda and that is how they voted for or against Jacindamania.
Mania is a *psychological condition that causes a person to experience unreasonable euphoria, very intense moods, hyperactivity, and delusions*.
Criticism of Jacinda might not be a very effective strategy because it intensifies the delusions that those who “like” her might have.
It also feeds the delusion that she is so special and superior to the rest of the people.
Most of the people do not know Jacinda at all. They only “know” the personal that was created and marketed to us by those she serves.
Maybe we should try to increase the awareness that she is just an ordinary person with huge political ambitions who has been chosen by and is serving an elite group of people whose agenda is to control our lives.
If Jacinda does not do what she was chosen and told to do then she will be replaced by someone else who will.
Cheers
Good points, Bancroft,
One smart person once said,”we must be careful not to just focus on the fin while ignoring the shark.” The ever smiling, sad sack, “caring” mirror practiced face glum & goody good cheer of our “Saviour” Cindy, is ALL, FIN! Beware the shark.
comment received from David Tranter:–
“Tony Orman’s letter recalled my experiences over 18 years as a rural health spokesman for various organisations starting in 1991. It was a shock to encounter “reforms” as imagined by politicians and other devious beings via the undermining of New Zealand’s once widely envied public health system.
To me the farce that was the 1990s health “reforms” (deforms) was summed up by a letter I received from an Oamaru nurse in 1995 who wrote; “The 17 nurses who resigned were great nurses who could not work under the new management system”.
On two trips around New Zealand visiting rural hospital support groups the common experience was expressed by a member of one hospital committee when I asked, “How have you got on with the health bureaucrats?”. He replied, “They lied to us”.
And so the “reform” deception continues. Whenever politicians and bureaucrats want to destroy and/or privatise an effective public service they trot out this utterly discredited term to cover their multitude of sins. And still Kiwis vote for the same old crowd of deceivers and ego-trippers.
As the song has it, “when will they ever learn?”.
Why do we persist in calling a bureaucratic disaster that results in more sickness and expense every year a “health system”.
I worked in it for many years but soon realized that it was a SICKNESS INDUSTRY that does little if anything to promote or improve people’s health.
What we have is more and more expensive ambulances at the bottoms of more and more cliffs that more and more people line up and fall off of.
Those who understand the industry and how to play the game get richer while the rest just get sicker and poorer.
The industry is about generating more and more revenue and profit from labelling more and more people as having chronic illnesses of modern civilization.
Cures for these problems are not really sought or desired because healthy people would be bad for business.
Benjamin Franklin once said “God heals and Doctors get to collect the fees.”
If you bother to look at what makes people healthier it is easy to find.
1. Get born with reasonably good genes and reasonably decent parents.
2. Become educated and earn a comfortable living.
3. Stop eating so much. Fasting is beneficial in many different ways.
4. Do more physical exercise. 150 minutes per week is enough. That’s just 21 minutes per day.
5. Go to bed earlier because the sleep before midnight is very good for us.
6. Stop fretting about the small stuff and most things are actually small stuff.
The problem with these health promoting strategies is that no-one needs to pay for them and so they are bad for the sickness industry and all those that profit from it.
There you go.
No charge.
You are welcome.
Have a healthy and happy life.
The tribal elite control have control, or are gaining control, of much of New Zealand. The final stage of the project, the complete mastery of national politics, is coming into full view. The proposition, which has been voiced on a number of occasions, is for a totally dual government system with separate Maori and non-Maori houses of parliament, and a Maori veto on all legislation – the Tikanga Maori House for Maori and the Tikanga Pakeha House for others, overseen by a Treaty of Waitangi House for Maori and Pakeha, where assenting and voting will be by tikanga. The power of the dominant iwi representatives will then include control of, and the ability to give instructions to, police and military.
Most people only think of freedom, equality and democracy when they are gone. This may be in the next few years, when it will be too late.
Thank Heaven For A Crisis.
A crisis is the perfect vehicle for authorities to ram through dodgy agendas with very limited public scrutiny. Apparently we have a “water crisis”that according to the Labour Government can only be resolved by the party’s Three Waters vision. A key element of this proposal demands stripping local communities of their assets and severely diluting their decision making influence about where this “grand vision” is going. While Three Waters is sold to fixing neglected infrastructure and ensuring high quality water in the future much less publicised are proposals of ownership and control given to vested interests as clearly set out in the Labour Party’s He Puapua blue print for New Zealand. Even if my suspicions are ill founded there remains an equally worrying possibility that this transfer of local assets into largely faceless, government controlled entities is the first step to privatisation. Water is the new gold and the ownership debate has only just started.
Why aren’t some of these people who have commented on Tony Ormans piece in politics I’m sure we would be better off from their efforts.