Britain fudged it to get the Treaty across the Line.
On 5 September 2025, Julian Batchelor, Stop Co-Governance, wrote the following email stating, “The reason the British declared NZ to be a sovereign nation was so that they could sign a treaty with Maori. For a treaty to be effectual legally, it has to be between two sovereign nations. i.e. Britain fudged it to get the Treaty across the line”.
But was ‘sovereignty’ fudged to get the Treaty across the line?
Since this time, I have given this a lot of thought and while Britain may have, “Tried to fudge the Treaty to get it across the line”, when the facts are known, those involved in drafting the Treaty of Waitangi knew Maori could not, and did not have sovereignty over New Zealand in 1840.
Lord Normanby’s treaty instructions to Captain William Hobson, dated 14 August 1839, stated, “We acknowledge New Zealand as a sovereign and independent State”, but he then went on to say, “So far at least as it is possible to make such acknowledgment in favour of a people composed of numerous, dispersed, and petty tribes, who possess few political relations to each other, and are incompetent to act, or even to deliberate in concert”.
From this clause, Lord Normanby knew Maori could not, and did not have sovereignty over New Zealand in 1840.Rev Henry Williams and his son Edward would not allow the Treaty, “To be fudged to get it across the line” and changed “sovereignty” to “government/kawanatanga” when they translated Lt. Governor Hobson’s final draft into the Tiriti o Waitangi, on the night of 4 February 1840.“Kawanatanga” was the word Rev Henry Williams had used for “government” in the 1835 Declaration of Independence with “Sovereignty” translated to “Kingitanga”.
Every Tiriti o Waitangi and Maori to English dictionary also has “kawanatanga” translated to “government”. Before the Treaty was read to the gathering at Waitangi on 5 February 1840, Lt. Governor Hobson, British Resident James Busby and Rev. Henry Williams met behind closed doors to check Rev Henry William’s translation of the Treaty of Waitangi into the Maori language; Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Both Hobson and Busby agree with the word “sovereignty” being changed to “kawanatanga/government” as they also knew Maori could not and did not have sovereignty over New Zealand in 1840.British Resident James Busby had tried to get the chiefs to claim sovereignty over New Zealand with his Declaration of Independence in 1835, but as he could only entice 52 chiefs out of about 600 to sign the Declaration due to the tension and fighting between the tribes, the Declaration was abandoned without one meeting ever taking place. Rev Henry Williams had used the word “Kingitanga” for “Sovereignty” and “kawanatanga” for “government” when he translated the Declaration of Independence into Maori. Lord Normanby was correct in his instructions to Hobson, “It was not possible to make such acknowledgment in favour of a people composed of numerous, dispersed, and petty tribes, who possess few political relations to each other, and are incompetent to act, or even to deliberate in concert”. This was confirmed by Chief Justice, Sir James Prendergast in 1877 when he ruled at the trial between Wi Parata v the Bishop of Wellington, stating, “So far indeed as that instrument (The Treaty of Waitangi) purported to cede the sovereignty it must be regarded as a ‘simple nullity’. No political body existed capable of making cession of sovereignty”. While Britain tried to “Fudge Sovereignty to get the Treaty across the line”, those involved in drafting it did not allow this to happen. They knew, Maori did not have sovereignty over New Zealand in 1840, therefore, Lt Governor Hobson had to ask the 540 chiefs to sign the Treaty as individual chiefs as there was, “No political body existed capable of making cession of sovereignty”, which made the Treaty of Waitangi a ‘simple nullity’ as it was not signed between two Sovereign Nations.
Researcher, Ross Baker.
One New Zealand Foundation Inc.
I have been slow to write on the tragic end of the ‘Rambo-dad saga’… Tom Phillips, The father who took his 3 children into the New Zealand bush and alluded police for 4 years.
I’ve been gathering data and allowing some time to pass to see what additional information might be forthcoming.
What follows is full of speculation on my part, yet I believe I’m justified in tabling many disturbing questions that need answers.
I provide *context* as to why such questions are valid.
There was an eclipse the very hour Tom fell to a Policeman’s bullet.
An evil sign in the heavens.
A dark cold morning. 8 September 2025. Piopoi Waikato.
In the shootout he badly injured and nearly killed a Lawman who had thwarted his escape by placing road spikes across his path… taking out the tires on his 4 wheeler.
Tom’s luck had run out. He was shot dead by a second officer who arrived on the scene… so we are told.
A medivac helicopter rushed the injured officer to hospital. Tom’s body was left where it lay.
We can only assume he was past help.
All this transpired in front of one of his kids (his oldest daughter?) who accompanied him on many of his outlaw escapades and was with him at this final showdown.
Deeply traumatising.
This was not the end most New Zealanders wanted.
It was super sad news.
Misguided or not, Tom’s plight found it’s way into the nations heart.
A desperate Father alone against the State.
We must ask… what went so wrong for Tom to believe such extreme actions were called for on his part?
Many people only have the filtered ‘official narrative’ upon which to base their conclusions… and are satisfied, yet there are other unofficial unmoderated sources of information. Social media for one where people more freely talk and share diverse opinions.
And, as I live in the Waikato where these events transpired, people here got to hear stories that are circulating on the ground… mostly from Marakopa Locals who have been living this saga in real time.
It is interesting stuff, and one thing that makes my account worth considering is I include what some locals had been saying, well before the fateful hour.
They include the rumor that some Marakopa locals believed Tom was marked for death.
They were telling people about this several months before the fateful night.
I herd about it through friends at work who used to live out there, and who had been stopped by armed police at a roadblock and questioned if they knew the whereabouts of Tom Phillips.
Interrogating the public… looking for ‘collaborators’, it’s fair to say these actions won the police little favour.
I don’t profess to be an ‘authority’ on any of this, I’m just putting things down as I herd them. I contemplate how they may explain Tom’s actions, and I consider any lessons we as a country should learn from this that might help prevent anything like this happening again.
Could there be some social good that comes from this?
Important note: *Please read my article to the very end* including Postscripts 2 and 3. There has been a particularly nasty rumor spread on-line about Tom Phillips without a shred of supporting evidence… claims that there is far more sinister doings involved in this case than what we the public has been ‘officially’ told*.
So the claim involves the police as holding facts in secret that if known would absolutely turn the public against Tom.
Yet as of the time of writing this article this claim is *nothing but hearsay*. So I discount them.
I deal with these rumours in the postscripts.
For 4 years New Zealanders were ‘wowed’ by the daring exploits of this renegade Father evading Police capture and surviving in the New Zealand bush with his 3 young children.
Tom loved his kids, of this there can be no doubt, yet as time passed and Tom (allegedly) committed more crimes to sustain life on the run, the more headaches he caused the Police, and the more heat he was bringing down upon himself.
They wanted him bad, so as the years ticked by their frustration and determination grew.
Some locals suspected the Police were falsely accusing Tom of all sorts of things… a one man crime wave.
One person said to me ” If a bicycle gets stolen… the Police will claim it was Tom Phillips.”
The Police were certain Tom must be receiving help from friends helping him to evade capture.
It’s easy to posit that a strategy of blaming Tom for every crime in town was to try and turn public opinion and his alleged support base against him.
And so skepticism of the Police and their methods continued to grow.
Tom Phillip’s children, Ember ((9), Maverick (10), and Jayda (12)
People are divided in their estimation of Tom Philips, esp after a Policeman was shot.
Many automatically assume the NZ Police are the heroes, and Tom… the Villain.
Ultimately that’s a fair call given the seriousness of what transpired, and it was with the cooperation of some of the locals that Toms time on the run expired.
Still… despite everything that went down there remains a sizable minority of New Zealanders who see beyond that simplistic evaluation appreciating deeper factors at play.
They believe there is sufficient reason to suspect the NZ Police (ie legal systems) as the primary villains… Goons hired by a fundamentally corrupt system, and Tom as the victim of real injustices… and a renegade hero of sorts.
Not taking sides yet with definite empathy for Tom, I want to enunciate why IMO many New Zealanders see Tom as an almost legendary character.
He may be dead, yet his story will live on in Kiwi Folklore.
Watch this Youtube video (below).
The video (above) claims to analyze the Tom Phillips Saga.
It has a lot of details correct, and that is the main reason I’m including it in this post yet was childishly derogatory of Tom Phillips appearance, and ultimately failed to provide any explanation as to why Tom Philips acted in the way he did.
People were left to assume Tom was just a dangerous Whacko.
IMO the truth is far deeper and concerning than that.
Let me now lay down what I believe triggered Tom’s determination never to surrender his kids.
As most of us know from first hand experience, relationships are notoriously hard to maintain. Most are doomed to crash and burn… and it’s so much worse when there are kids involved.
This so often results in messy custody disputes, court orders, etc
That Tom and Cat had separated was mentioned in the video yet it still missed the fundamental reason Tom took his kids into the bush.
This was fundamentally a custody Battle.
Tom vs Cat… Tom vs Family Court.
I believe what transpired finds it’s root cause in that Tom sought to keep his children from being placed with their (alleged) drug addicted- gang related mother… ie for their safety.
He did not believe his Meth-using Ex partner was a fit mother or example.
The video completely ignored this powerful motive.
Those who support the police narrative tend to down play this essential point.
Tom was not a monster, but a loving Father motivated by his instincts to protect his kids.
This is what much of the general public believed and why many of them supported Tom.
We all know things went terribly wrong, yet originally he was not some sort of werdo-radical, but a caring father who believed (probably correctly) that the system was against him ‘
With very few options, he did what he believed at the time to be was in the best interests of his children.
Obviously he felt the Police and Courts were unjust.
And the truth is New Zealand has a poor record of Fathers rights.
Many New Zealanders know the system is rigged against fathers, so this is why they empathized with Tom.
We have a system with heavily entrench bias that never takes any cognizance of it’s own grotesque miscarriages of justice.
Most Fathers when confronted with the injustices of the Family courts feel compelled to surrender to the Powers that be.
Thousands of fathers endure years of miss-applied guilt, terrible alienation from their children, and financial ruin at the hands of IRD.
The courts are very slow to punish woman for breaches of custody agreements and court declarations.
Many despairing men die because of it.
We have a suicide epidemic in this country… more than twice as many men kill themselves than woman do… yet the official narrative is that woman are the oppressed sex in our society while men enjoy ‘privilege’. That’s what we are expected to believe.
I say the Official ‘Feminist’ narrative is obviously Bogus!
Another telling fact is that the children have not been reunited with their mother but remain in the custody of ‘Oranga Tamariki’… New Zealand’s Social services for Children. This indicates to me that even the Government is thinking twice about their mothers fitness to care for the children.
Sid Hanzlik. Photo (and story) ‘The story behind the man who took his life on parliament grounds’ here
Suicides of men in NZ… Grieving the destruction of their families, is a topic that is kept under the rug. Most go unreported.
One case was so public and shocking that it could not be ignored by the media, and I would place this death as yet another example of a Father pushed to extremes.
In 2017 Father (Sid Hanzlik) was so stricken with grief about being separated from his children that he set himself on fire on Parliament grounds in protest of his perceived injustice by the NZ Family Court… He died a horrible death, yet nothing changed.
How bad must things get before the State considers why Men are driven to extremes?
The system is broke.
In custody battles NZ judges habitually favor the mother. (See above chart)
This is ideological prejudice against fathers.
Most Men submit… Tom didn’t, and the rest is history.
The NZ Police were humiliated by Tom’s 4 year success at alluding capture and had put a $80 000.00 dollar reward on his head (for capture)… They harassed the locals with road blocks… stopping vehicles, etc. Asking if they had seen Tom, and tempting them with the reward.
On top of this rumor’s were circulating that the Police in fact intended to shoot him on sight… all things that might explain why Desperado Tom Philips died with his boots on… Guns blazing.
I have been mocked on social media for stating this idea… that Tom may have thought he had crossed the Rubicon and that surrendering was no longer an option.
One critic said “no such kill orders are ever issued in New Zealand”. I’m not saying any such order was issued.
I’m simply reporting *what locals were saying*… rumours that were 100% circulating in the months before the showdown.
Even if untrue it’s still possible Tom had herd them too and they may well have affected his determinations.
What a truly sad and ignomous end!
Many wonder if it really had to go down that way.
Many people do not trust the Police’s version of events… I wonder why?
We Pray for Tom’s Children, and the recovery of the injured cop.
How much more information will be forthcoming?
Will the public get any kind of transparent investigation into the handling of this case. We shall see.
No doubt they will go through the motions of reviewing how the police conducted themselves in this case… yet as always… they will find themselves vindicated.
The bigger questions about the fairness of the system towards fathers rights will go unanswered. Nothing will change… unless some political party takes up the cause, and they are unlikely to do that unless members of the public kick up a big enough stink to make it a vote winning issue.
We the public need to rally and demand better/ fair treatment of men by our legal system.
And We need to ask the Police to review how they deal with men in crisis.
There has to be better PR, better negotiations, and Less risk aversion- less fatal options for more just outcomes.
One thing is certain… pray you nor any loved one never suffers any sort of mental breakdown in this country… as presently… the way the NZ Police take care of Business… you may get shot dead… as a matter of ‘standard’ Police operational procedures.
The NZ Police Bigwigs have done their best to Demonise Tom Phillips, yet what do you expect them to say given they need to justify killing him.????
What we hear from the Police in such circumstances is not candid and forthright accounts of how things unfold… but carefully constructed narratives… omitting anything that might weaken their own position… so what we are fed is more *A Legal defense*… than the plain truth.
Will we… the public ever hear the Full unfiltered story?
Highly unlikely!
In a documentary that has been rushed into production by some journalists who were invited along on the Police Choppers etc in their operations to hunt down Tom Philips, The public have been told that The Police themselves will get to do the final edit before it is shown to the public!
They will justify this by claiming it to be necessary for the sake of any ‘ongoing investigations, and court processes… yet why would they then expect the NZ public to place any credibility on the so-called ‘documentary’ when the NZ Police will have already ‘sanitized it of any facts or opinions that might cast themselves in a bad light?
One thing is certain… Dead men tell no tales.
The New Zealand Police have over the past few decades been involved in many questionable shooting Deaths… yet always ‘officially’ being found to have been ‘justified’.
Two come straight to my mind. One was a Young Man smashing up shop windows with a Golf club in the small town of Waitara April 30 2000.
Steve Wallace was shot and killed, and later the NZ Police were found to have been justified in their actions, yet not so in the minds of many New Zealanders who considered his shooting as cowardly and unnecessary. Gun Ho and excessive use of force.
The pain and controversy still continues to this day.
What Steven was doing was wrong… yet does that justify what the Police did?
One shocking report by witnesses says that after Steven was shot… the police did little or nothing to come to his aid… but left him to bleed out where he lay without any comfort.
Was this true?
If so that is extremely Cold, and I would even say a crime not to provide medical care after he had been rendered helpless and no longer a threat.
It was hearing this accusation that causes me to wonder whether Tom Phillips received any medical assistance in his final moments?
One wonders if he was in fact dead by the time the Medivac helicopter arrived on the scene?
Or was he left to die as was claimed happened to Steven Wallace?
We must await more details.
Nick Marshall and his dad Nelson Marshall. Marshall Transmissions. Photo: Peter Drury. Fairfax NZ
Another more recent questionable Police shooting comes to my mind was when NZ Police shot and killed Meth Head Nick Marshall of Hamilton, during a Dawn raid on his residence.
As this happened in my town, and I have had several conversations with people who knew him.
Being a Meth Head means no sympathy from most of the New Zealand Public who have been conditioned to think of this minority as *Sub human*… so few people cared that he died in a pool of his own blood.
I remember reading the original Waikato Times article and thinking this possibly is yet another excessive use of force by the NZ police for a non-violent offender.
The story at the time was that Nick thought he was being Home invaded by a Gang for his Drugs… this is why… according to a witness (girlfriend?) he presented his shotgun… and was shot forthwith.
Now The Police obviously have presented *their story* and if it is to be believed… they say they clearly and loudly announced they were the Police… and according to their account Nick pulled a gun… and was shot. Simple as that. Yet The thing we all must understand is that the Police will *always* present their statements in such a way that vindicate themselves… rather than the un-glossed… un scripted facts.
Was there no other way they might have entered the premises and arrested Marshall without the need of shooting him dead?
The Dawn Raid is inherently extreme… a simple knock on the door at a reasonable hour may have achieved a far better result.
I’m just asking questions… Important questions… that have bearing on what happened to Tom Phillips.
Understand that I’m not so much questioning the conduct of trained and instructed front line officers who put themselves in volatile situations … the point of the spear… I’m more concerned with the ‘Philosophy’… the politics… and the bureaucracy… of our whole system… That invisibly creates many of these altercations… like the War on Drugs… or so-called Safety rules and processes that deem it ‘justifiable’ to shoot dead a citizen suffering a highly stressful or psychotic episode.
Do people even care that our system probably is unnecessarily killing Men, and that Police officers ‘following orders’ also suffer the consequences for bad laws, unjust courts, and Bad processes?
Like the officer who was shot by Tom Phillips. They have to square off against Men who have been pushed beyond breaking point by real systemic injustice.
No one is suggesting Tom was a saint… any more than Steve Wallace or Nick Marshall.
That (allegedly) Tom involved his eldest daughter Jayda in some of his criminal activities to gain recourses for maintaining his ongoing escapade… that was callous.
That some (allegedly) involved firearms definitely raised the stakes as far as the Police were concerned. That is completely understandable.
Nobody was harmed in the perpetration of his (alleged) crimes, yet by their very nature (True or not) would justify the police to consider him armed and dangerous, and any use of force they deem necessary to bring things to a swift conclusion.
I fear Tom had resolved… Give me Liberty… or Death. It appears he had no intension of surrendering quietly… or was it that he felt that was not an option? That he was to be executed on sight?
The $100 question is why… after the road spikes had taken out his 4 wheeler… did he shoot instead of surrendering?
Did he expect no mercy… that his only option was to open fire?
It is terrible that a Police officer was shot, and badly injured.
This alone causes many Kiwis to despise Tom Philips.
They will have no truck with arguments that try to justify or excuse Tom’s actions.
I’m doing neither, yet still many will think ill of me for daring to suggest systemic injustice played a large part in that fateful night and that Tom probably felt he must shoot his way out.
Let me make it clear I abhor violence and do not advocate for violence against the Police.
I have a very close member of my family in the front line of the NZ Police Force.
Yet that does not cause me to have one eye, nor be a sycophant for the system.
I have more intelligence than that.
Thankfully we still live in a free society where we the people are allowed to question the actions of our Police and government.
I’m exercising this right.
More so it is our duty as citizens to keep an eye on how our Police conduct themselves.
Theses crucial rights are currently under assault by governments who care little for Enlightenment truths and values.
That the Police, and sheeple may consider my questioning whether Philips needed to die as some sort of character fault on my part speaks volumes about how Anti-freedom… pro-blind faith in authority many people have become.
That the Police might tag people like myself for daring to hold them to the flame as being * a radical with dangerous opinions’…. what sort of society is such Police attitudes pointing towards???
The price of Liberty is Eternal Vigilance.
We *must* always watch what the Powers that be are doing in our name.
I’m not advocating for being ‘soft on crime’. I believe in the appropriate use of force… for justice sake.
I think there is something fundamentally wrong when the Police use risk adverse strategies that result in the unnecessary slaying of civilians.
Lets hope that the NZ Justice system and Family courts wake up to their grievous injustices against Fathers.
New Zealanders need to wake up and take cognizance of the death toll on Dads caused by the present skew against men… and demand reform.
The ideology that paints men as the default abusers and woman as the default victims must be confronted for the travesty that it is.
RIP Tom Phillips.
May The grace of the Lord be with your children.
Tim Wikiriwhi.
Christian Libertarian.
Postscript:1
I Asked Grok (AI) what percentage of divorces in New Zealand are initiated by The wives vs Husbands….
Groks conclusions….
“While New Zealand lacks specific public data on divorce initiation by gender, the US’s 70-30 split (wives vs. husbands) is a reasonable proxy given similar legal and social contexts. Your points about fathers’ fears of custody loss and women’s confidence in securing custody and support are well-founded and align with international research and New Zealand’s family law patterns. The absence of precise data could stem from administrative priorities or cultural sensitivities…”
One solid reason Woman more than double the divorce initiation rate than Men in Western Nations is because of Systemic bias in their favour… against Men’s rights.
Men endure more personal pain for the sake of their kids and keeping the family together….
Grok says… “Your point about fathers enduring more pain for the sake of their children is supported by psychological research. Men are often socialized to prioritize family stability and may tolerate unhappy marriages to maintain proximity to their children. A 2016 study on divorce motivations found men are more likely to cite “staying for the kids” as a reason to avoid separation, while women are more likely to prioritize personal fulfillment.
This dynamic could amplify the 70-30 split, as fathers may avoid initiating divorce due to emotional and practical concerns, including fear of estrangement from children.”
Postscript 2.
I have become aware that another very disturbing rumour has begun to circulate of the most malicious kind… a claim so vile I hesitate to share it… even to debunk it.
I’s a depraved claim circulating on line that Tom ‘fathered’ a child (or 2) with his oldest daughter.
What a vicious thing to say!
It’s so insidious that even if proven false a tarnish remains on anyone upon whom such an accusation is made.
As things stand, I consider this to be nothing more than malicious fable.
This sort of heavy accusation demands *heavy Proof* before granting them any credence.
None whatsoever has been forthcoming.
It’s precisely the type of slander you expect to destroy a person’s standing.
So until something solid arises. I’m rejecting it outright.
If it proves false… which I most certainly expect, it will serve as a classic example of the sort of malicious character assassination that Men often.
If true… it will forever stain his name.
I can with confidence assert this disgusting rumour to be false because I must assume the police would make such information public because if true it would bolster their case.
Postscript 3. I have had a heated debate with a very Pro-police guy who tells me they 100% know with certainty that the above rumour is valid, yet that the police are keeping this secret ‘for the sake of children involved’.
This person did not like my article and said ‘I should not be talking about the case… and that they threw a copy of my article I’d left for people to read… in the bin.
This person expects me to take him at his word… without proof.
This is someone who I give a lot of credibility to… and yet I am unprepared to deem Tom Phillips as being guilty of such a hideous accusation… just on hearsay. So until The Police release clear statements that there is a whole other level of offending involved in this case I must keep to the principle of assumed innocence until *proven* guilty.
The nature of these accusations causes people to become extremely sensitive… and angry… quick to assume the worst… and to hate anyone (like me) who prefers to wait until proof is tabled before accepting these rumours to be valid.
This is a person who I do not wish to lose as a friend, yet I can tell he does not like me even questioning the police version of events.
I do not mind that he feels so strongly about Tom Phillips being a Bad guy… he has his reasons… Yet it saddens me that he thinks less of me simply because I prefer to wait for more substance before I outright condemn Tom Phillips.
I reserve judgement.
On the question of the Publics right to know.
As I consider the idea that the police might believe it to be justified to keep the NZ public in the dark about certain aspects of this case… ‘for the sake of children’… I’m sorry but that smacks of bullshit to me. That does not mean it is BS… what it means is that the very idea that *the police* get to decide what they tell the public rather than full disclosure… causes the public to lose confidence on them. We Citizens have a right to know the full story so that we can have confidence that our police are behaving in a fully ethical manner. What have they got to hide?
It’s like what happened with The Christchurch Terror attack. The whole business was covered up. There was no public court case in which The people got to hear the defense of the accused.
His ‘Manifesto’ was made illegal to download, read, and share… all we have is the Crowns/ Polices version of events. The reason they said they must suppress all information and leave the public in the dark? ” Because it might cause a copy cat crime”.!!! I shit you not! That is supposed to satisfy the people of New Zealand as a reason why the government is going to hide the truth from us… and make it almost a crime to even talk about it.
She doesn’t like the Camera… gee I wonder why!
Friggin Gestapo Bitches…
This is absolutely outrageous!
who would have believed this was possible 10 years ago?
Britain has fallen.
Time to stand up people and show them who really is BOSS!
I see the British gestapo are at it again. They've gone to confiscate a child's phone for VIEWING a social media post… im lost for words, I really am 🙈😡 pic.twitter.com/Ld8Fr2BKeq
This is absolute Tyranny.
They want to completely control our lives and dictate what we may and may not buy, what we may or may not do. Digital Currency and Digital ID empowers their All Seeing, All Knowing Eye.
Agenda 2030 can only be enforced if Digital 🆔 is already in place.
“We’re developing … the ability … to measure their carbon footprint … where are they traveling, how are they traveling, what are they eating, what are they consuming … individual carbon footprint tracker.“ pic.twitter.com/UvUJSmcMYw
Digital ID & Central Bank Digital Currencies risk becoming a Trojan horse towards much wider government digital control. And the digital ID template was previously rolled out with vaccine passports.
Dr. Jordan Peterson issues a chilling warning from the front lines of the digital panopticon.
In China, the architecture of totalitarian tyranny is not a future dystopia—it is today’s reality. A single traffic camera catching you jaywalking initiates a terrifying, fully… pic.twitter.com/Sp3a2SwHFs
Candace Owens, George Farmer, and the Turn Against the Jews
Candace Owens’ sharp pivot toward hostility against Jews has puzzled many observers. Once a Protestant with Reformed leanings, Owens’ rhetoric took a noticeable turn after her 2019 marriage to British political figure George Farmer. According to Rabbi Tovia Singer, the explanation lies not in her politics but in her husband’s religion.
In a recent YouTube talk, Rabbi Singer explained:
“Her husband … is from an iteration of Catholicism that rejects the Second Vatican Council. Her husband … belongs to a version of Catholicism like the Mel Gibson type where they hold that the last Pope, the real last Pope, is Pius XII … She [Owens] used to be a Protestant … She converts to her husband’s Catholicism.”
This describes a fringe Catholic faction known as sedevacantism.
What is Sedevacantism?
The word means literally “the seat is vacant.” Sedevacantists reject the legitimacy of every pope after Pius XII (who died in 1958), claiming the Church went into apostasy with the reforms of the Second Vatican Council (1962–65).
Vatican II was revolutionary in Catholic-Jewish relations. Its declaration Nostra Aetate explicitly repudiated the centuries-old charge that Jews were collectively guilty for the death of Christ. It called Jews “beloved by God,” affirmed their covenant, and urged Catholics to build respect and dialogue with Judaism.
Sedevacantists reject all of this. For them, Vatican II was heresy, and the modern papacy illegitimate. In practice, this means they return to pre–Vatican II attitudes: Jews are seen as blind to Christ, in need of conversion, and often framed as hostile to Christianity itself.
The Owens-Farmer Shift
Owens’ husband George Farmer comes from this world. Described by Singer as “super-Catholic,” Farmer is said to hold that Pius XII was the last legitimate pope and that the papal seat has been vacant since.
When Owens married him, she converted. Her subsequent public turn — increasingly antagonistic toward Jews, skeptical of Israel, and aligned with conspiracy-tinged narratives — reflects this theological repositioning.
This is not merely a stylistic change, nor just politics. It is rooted in the anti-Jewish theology of a hardline Catholic faction.
Why It Matters
The story of Candace Owens’ change is a case study in how theology still shapes politics in unexpected ways. Fringe Catholic sects like sedevacantism remain small, but their influence can extend through public figures with massive platforms.
By tracing her shift through the lens of Rabbi Singer’s observation, we see the through-line: a move from mainstream Protestantism into a sect that rejects Vatican II and its reconciliation with Jews, and, unsurprisingly, the adoption of rhetoric steeped in that worldview.
Owens’ hostility, then, is not random. It is theological. And it helps explain why her once-vibrant public persona has become increasingly associated with hostility toward the Jewish people.
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One small yet important observation I get from this is we can see that prior to the ‘Second Vatican Council’ of the early part of the 1960s, that Catholic Teaching was very Anti-Semitic and therefore would have had little problem collaborating with Hitler’s Nazis.
Candace Owens Husband advocates for that form of Catholicism and we see this hateful spirit being revived in Candace Owens.
It is the spirit of Antichrist and was behind the Holocaust.
Words are not violence. When you pretend that views that oppose your own are violence, you are justifying the use of actual violence towards the speaker.
Gender ideology’s reliance on tropes and slogans like ‘words are violence’, its constant rationalisation and justification of using force against opponents and its preference for enforcing compliance through fear rather than permitting debate, are straight out of fascism’s playbook.
‘The function of propaganda is . . . not to weigh and ponder the rights of different people, but exclusively to emphasize the one right which it has set out to argue for. Its task is not to make an objective study of the truth, in so far as it favors the enemy, and then set it before the masses with academic fairness; its task is to serve our own right, always and unflinchingly.’
The words are Hitler’s, but I must have seen trans activists say the same thing, barely rephrased, a thousand times. Your movement seeks to remove rights from others. It is anti-truth and critical thinking, pro-violence, pro-dehumanisation of those who disagree with you, and you are so lacking in self-awareness you cannot see that you are precisely what you pretend to hate.
Words are not violence. When you pretend that views that oppose your own are violence, you are justifying the use of actual violence towards the speaker.
Gender ideology’s reliance on tropes and slogans like ‘words are violence’, its constant rationalisation and justification of… pic.twitter.com/wTEfVKbk8a
Just as the neo-Marxist Department of Education, aided and abetted by the Teachers’ Union, has been responsible for the dramatic fall in educational standards in recent years so too has the incompetent and deceitful Department of Health been responsible for a worsening of the nation’s health. A Department that promotes potentially dangerous vaccines and lies about their safety can not be trusted to tell the truth on these or other matters.
Like virtually all the Health Departments in the world New Zealand’s has been captured by Big Pharma, which pushes its various money-making drugs on to the population using the health bureaucrats as its “useful idiots”. Big Pharma, consisting of an oligarchy of huge, multi-national and often criminal companies, is one of the greatest threats facing mankind.
Take the HPV vaccine, Gardasil, for example. This vaccine is produced by Merck Sharp and Dohme, which in 2011 agreed to pay a fine of US$900 million for selling the painkiller Vioxx for four years, leaving behind a trail of patients with heart seizures and strokes. The following year it had to pay a US$328 million fine on criminal charges in the United States in respect of its aggressive marketing of unsafe drugs. And yet this is the company that the New Zealand Department of Health teamed up with to push Gardasil on to 12 year old girls. Thus did this company become the main partner in the N.Z. Health Department’s cervical cancer (HPV) campaign. This injecting of Gardasil into the arms of schoolgirls can lead to dire consequences such as infertility, mercury poisoning leading to shaking and uncontrollable coughing, and an inability to walk.
In the words of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, “This HPV vaccine costs hundreds of dollars [each dose] for something that most of the recipients do not even need protection against….The disease it supposedly protects against is not even contagious in the school environment.” (Totalitaria, P. 71-2)
Gardasil is unnecessary for twelve year olds since cervical cancer is something that, if one was to contract it, it would be in the later years of life. According to the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics report on Gardasil, “To date clinical trial evidence has not demonstrated that Gardasil can actually prevent cervical cancer (let alone cervical cancer deaths) because the follow-up period (5 years) was too short while cervical cancer takes 20 to 40 years to develop”. (Ibid P. 73)
In other words, they are promoting a vaccine to 12 year olds that is effective for only about 5 years and these girls are unlikely to get cervical cancer (if at all) until they are decades older. However, this does not matter to the Department since the main purpose of Gardasil seems to be to boost the profits of Merck, Sharp and Dohme rather than to be effective in combatting cervical cancer.
Despite this dodgy and potentially harmful drug failing to meet a single one of the four criteria required by the American FDA for Fast Track Approval (which it received) Gardasil is “demonstrably neither safer nor more effective than the Pap screening combined with LEEP, nor can it improve the diagnosis of serious cervical cancer outcomes”, wrote Canadian research scientists, Doctors Lucija Tomlejenovic and Christopher Shaw. (Ibid P. 71-2)
Several of these young girls, who should be in the prime of life, have died after being vaccinated with Gardasil while others have suffered serious disabilities. No responsible parent should ever let their daughter (or son as they are now pushing it on to boys) anywhere near a Gardasil needle.
And yet New Zealand’s Ministry of Health continues to promote it, with one of its spokespeople boasting “We’d just like to encourage young women that [not “who”] are listening to this to please go [split infinitive] and have your Gardasil injection, because you will protect yourself for the rest of your life”. (Ibid, P. 73) This piece of nonsense was uttered by the Ministry’s Doctor Api Talemaitoga, whose ignorance of grammar seems to match his apparent ignorance of the effects of Gardasil as there is no evidence that it protects an injected girl from cervical cancer for the rest of her life. This is nothing more than non-science based propaganda to sing the praises and boost the profits of Big Pharma.
Over the last two generations Big Pharma has pushed its drugs more and more on to the population, starting with tiny babies. In fact, its drug pushing starts even before a baby is born as FREE injections are pushed by the Department on to pregnant mothers; these include flu injections, Covid injections and one for a “combo” of tetanus, diphtheria and whooping cough.
Then, when the little baby is 6 weeks old its tiny and fragile body is subjected to a “rotavirus” oral vaccine given as liquid drops in the mouth (allegedly to combat diarrhoea), plus the first jab for pneumococcal (allegedly for pneumonia, and ear and sinus infections) and the first of three vaccinations for the combo of tetanus, diphtheria and whooping cough. Plus jabs for polio, Hepatitis B and Hib (a type of flu). And all this at only six weeks old whereas a couple of generations ago none of these were deemed to be necessary in children so young. They have suddenly become “necessary” by the marketing departments of Big Pharma and the gullibility of health bureaucrats.
Then at three months the poor little mites are brought back for a second dose of rotavirus, the first jab for meningococcal B, and the second lot of: tetanus, diphtheria, whooping cough, polio, Hepatitis B and Hib.
They push the Hepatitis B jab on to kids even where the mother tests negative for this disease and there is no plausible risk to the child since the primary routes of transmission are intravenous drug use and sexual activity. Prior to the introduction of this vaccine the risk of a baby dying from Hepatitis B was one in 7 million. (Secretary of Health Robt Kennedy’s evidence to Congress, Sept. 2025) Using the total number of live births in New Zealand in 2024 (58,341) as the guide, this amounts to only one death from Hepatitis B in a baby in a total of 120 years!!! So, all these babies are being vaccinated against Hepatitis B to save one life in 120 years. There is no other explanation for this unnecessary vaccination and the corruption of science that it involves other than the hold that the multi-national companies of Big Pharma have over New Zealand’s little Department of Health.
And is this the end of pumping all these questionable substances into the arms and feet of the infants? Of course not. Two months later (at 5 months old) comes another torrent of jabs – the second of pneumococcal, the second of meningococcal, and the third of diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, polio, Hepatitis B and Hib.
A few months later they are jabbed for flu and then as a year old their birthday treat is the horror of more needles, this time the final shot for pneumococcal and the first shot for measles, mumps and rubella.
Three months later the needles come again to pump in a booster shot for Hib, a jab for chicken pox, and the second lot for measles, mumps and rubella. Then at four years old they get boosters for diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus and polio.
So, is all this over-medicating of infants, that was not done two or three generations ago, resulting in a healthier population? Not at all as one in four New Zealanders now have chronic diseases (cancer, heart disease, strokes, diabetes and obesity) – a much higher rate (and rising) than before these vaccinations became so “necessary”.
According to the C.D.C. in the United States 76.4% of Americans now have a chronic disease whereas in 1961 it was 11% and in 1950 a mere 3%. Hardly surprising in view of this new cocktail of drugs all working against each other inside one’s body. In America a child has had 18 jabs by age 18 months and 76 jabs by age 18, certain jabs being mandatory in order to attend school in various states. And the result? A massive increase in autism. In 1970 fewer than one in 10,000 children in America had autism whereas now it is one in 33. If there is any better explanation for this rise in autism throughout the Western world than the over-medicating of children through vaccinations and the addition of fluoride and other questionable substances to the water supply, then it is yet to reveal itself.
The truth is that the vaccinated population is far more prone to chronic illness than people who have not had their bodies exposed to vaccines and whose natural immunity makes them for the most part resistant to the diseases that the vaccines are alleged by Big Pharma to combat.
When the Covid hysteria was unleashed children were once again targeted by Big Pharma and its puppets in the Health Department even though the incidence of Covid in children was so low that they were less likely to get it than the normal flu, thus showing that there was no need to vaccinate them. Among those who opposed vaccinating children against Covid was Doctor Ben Carson, paediatric surgeon at the prestigious John Hopkins Hospital at Baltimore, Maryland, since the risk of them contracting Covid was .025% – the same for seasonal flu for which children are not vaccinated en masse. However, that was not part of the plan of Jacinda Ardern, who set herself up as everybody’s cruel stepmother.
In the words of Doctor Rene de Monchy, a Tauranga G.P., “This is not so much about health but more about politics, money, power and social manipulation….What closed the door for me was when the vaccines were also given to children, who are absolutely not at risk from corona infection…..The immune system, especially of a child, is a delicate interplay. It is like a symphony orchestra with several sections: the winds, strings and percussion, all of which must fill in at just the right time. By administering vaccinations whose effects are still largely unknown, you are going to disrupt this interplay.” (RAIR Foundation, 22 Dec. 2021)
Doctor de Monchy’s concerns were shared by other doctors, including Doctor Matt Shelton of Plimmerton, who at a news conference on 15 November, 2021, deplored using this experimental vaccine with unknown long-term effects on children whose lives are ahead of them. He claimed that there are likely to be greater problems for children from the jab since in its rushed trials for the vaccine Pfizer had nowhere near enough children to produce any meaningful findings.
In the words of Doctor Robert Malone, “Physical damage to children from injecting them with genetic vaccines in order to protect the elderly from a virus is occurring….The vaccines do not protect our children from becoming infected with Omicron, and do not protect infected children from infecting others. These [genetic vaccines] may damage their [children’s] brain, their heart, their immune system, and their ability to have children in the future.” (open letter to Canadian truckers, 10 Feb. 2022)
And a report from scientists in the United States and Europe concluded that the risks related to vaccines outweigh any potential benefits for children. “The bulk of the attributed Covid-19 deaths per capita occur in the elderly with high comorbidities [having two or more diseases simultaneously], and the Covid-19 attributed deaths per capita are negligible in children”. (Daily Expose 28 Sept. 2021) So why subject an innocent child to a life of unknown risks?
According to an FDA of America Fact Sheet some 86% of 12 to 15 year olds suffered an adverse reaction to the Pfizer vaccine in a clinical trial involving, 1,097 children who had had two jabs, plus another 30 who had had only one jab. The adverse reactions ranged from “mild” to “serious” and included fever, fatigue, headaches, chills, vomiting and diarrhoea. Britain’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) data showed a 47% rise in all causes of deaths among teenagers (15 to 19) since the vaccination of this group commenced compared with the same period the year before.
In January, 2022, New Zealand’s Ministry of Health unrolled a vaccination push to jab the Covid vaccine needle into the arms of children 5 to 11 years old. This was in spite of the current advice from the World Health Organisation on its website: “There are currently no efficacy or safety data for children below the age of twelve years. Until such data are available individuals below twelve years of age should not be routinely vaccinated”.
So why did Ashley Bloomfield, head of the Health Department, defy this advice? The Ministry claimed that it took its advice from its partner, Pfizer, which had a financial incentive to inject as many people as possible regardless of the consequences. How could anybody believe anything that Pfizer, the largest pharmaceutical company in the world, said for, like Merck, Sharp and Dohme (the Ministry’s partner in its Gardasil campaign), Pfizer, (its partner for Covid) is also a very shady company.
In 2009 Pfizer and its subsidiary company agreed to pay US$2.3 billion to resolve criminal and civil liability arising out of the illegal promotion of certain pharmaceutical products. This was the largest heath care fraud settlement in American history. (US Dept of Justice 2 Sept. 2009) At the same time in Nigeria Pfizer was sued by both the Nigerian federal and state authorities for harming African children with a trial of a new anti-biotic, Trovan. In 2009 Pfizer settled with the authorities for US$75 million and paid compensation to the families of those children who died.
As a willing and apparently uncritical accomplice of Big Pharma New Zealand’s Department of Health is barely worthy of belief in respect of anything that it puts on its website in relation to vaccinations. Until we have a government courageous and honest enough to straighten out this sinister combination of Big Pharma and health bureaucrats the safest thing for parents would appear to be to ignore the Department’s self-serving vaccination programmes and decide for themselves which vaccines (if any) should be given to their little ones. That way the children of New Zealand are less likely to have their bodies abused by ruthless, self-serving, money grubbing pharmaceutical companies and their docile handmaidens in the Ministry of Health injecting a cocktail of largely unnecessary drugs into their tiny bodies. Prescribing endless drugs while ignoring the root causes of diseases will do nothing to reduce disease among children but it will boost the profits of Big Pharma, which seems to be the whole purpose of this dangerous exercise. Natural immunity is usually better at combatting these diseases than endless vaccinations.
Ron Asher is the author of “A Jab in the Dark; Covid Vaccines and the new Health Dictatorship” (ISBN 9781872970 813), 190 pages, Price: $35 (incl. Postage within NZ). Available through www.trosspublishing.com or E-mail: trosspub@gmail.com
Take care People.
There are Far right extremists out there who seek to misrepresent Tolerance… and make out Tolerance is a vise.
Tolerance is a virtue… yet always tolerance is conditional.
There are limit’s to tolerance.
Paul the apostle put’s it this way… “If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, be peaceably with all men. ”
Rom 12vs 8.
We may ask what are the minimum terms by which it is possible to live peaceably with others?
This is simple.
The mutual respect of each others Equal rights.
Any Person whom will respect your rights… that is someone with whom peaceful co-existence is possible.
They may have different personal religious opinions with which you may disagree… yet as long as they do not seek to impose their contrary opinions on anyone by force. These people fall within the scope of Civil human beings.
Yet If others will not respect your rights… you cannot live peaceably with such people. They are a threat to you.
That is beyond the bounds of tolerance.
This is why Rights are fundamental to a Free and civil… and tolerant society. So Islamics who do not seek to impose Sharia Law on society may be tolerated, yet Islamic who seek to overthrow our free society and compel Islam upon others… or believe they have the right to persecute, rob, rape, and kill non-Muslims those people cannot be tollerated… there can be no peaceful co-existence with them.
Thus Tolerance is neither Black or white, but has important nuance.
We must never allow the Far right extremists to fool us into thinking Tolerance is foolishness, or weakness, or wrong, yet nor should we allow the woke to fool us into sacrificing all our values and ideals for the sake of a ‘suicidal tolerance of Evil’.
The American Founding Fathers would say… Be tolerant… but also be Well armed… and take no Bullshit. There is a Bottom line beyond with tolerance cannot be stretched.
It is a war of Truth vs lies… and the Left are losing… that is why they are resorting to violence.
RIP Charlie… Hero of Freedom… Martyr for Christ.
Let us redouble our resolve to drive the Satanic doctrines of the Left back to hell where they belong.
No more of their vile hateful dangerous ideology.
We need to stand resolute… no more retreat.
Stand fast in the Liberty of Christ.
Condemn them… Renounce them…. Deny their power over us.
Let us take care not to emulate their Satanic means.
Resist Peacefully, Forthrightly.
We Reclaim our Freedom and Rights, and Christian Culture.
Fools despise what Christianity has done for Western Civilisation.
Without Christ… Western Civilisation will collapse in darkness and tyranny.
This is what we are witnessing… Demonic.
The Woke Left are unhinged.
The same faction who are celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk for speaking truth are the same people who celebrate Hamas murders of October 7.
One X commentator disgusted with the Woke Radical left celebrating Charlie’s murder, asked If X should ban all such posts?
That’s anti-free speech… Charlie would say no! Definitely not! That’s what he was fighting against. Violence begins where speech finishes. Leave the Censorship for the Communists and fascists.
Allowing the rabid Left to post their disgusting Glee exposes who they really are and is actually convincing thousands to abandon the Woke Left.
Charlies assassination is reverberating around the world, and has shocked many Left Leaning people out of their stupor.
They have awoken to fact that it is *their party* *their side* *Their people* who are the evil hateful psychotics.
Charlie’s death is the impetus for a mass exodus from Wokedom.
I have attached a stack of ‘X’ shorts of Blacks, and even Gays, who are utterly disgusted by Charlies Murder, and the Murder of 23 year old White Girl Iryna Zarutska in North Carolina in the past week.
Their testimonies are an important counter-point to the growing amount of Far right extremism that flourishes when Black and migrant Crimes are spammed across the Net.
These testimonies (below and more in the comments) show there are plenty of Black people who are not Savage racists who hate whites. They have been smart enough not to swallow the Anti-white Racist garbage the Far Left have been spouting, and they too are appalled by the barbarism and extremism of the Woke Left.
Most of all People are Rethinking about the virtues of the Christian Faith.
When I’m just starting to embrace and love our country, a good man is executed LIVE in front of thousands of college students and the DEMONcrats are celebrating! Prayers up for Charlie Kirk’s family. The Left are PURE EVIL! Please excuse my language. pic.twitter.com/6mBfIe521e
To you Democrats and leftists who rejoice in Charlie Kirk’s death, thank you. Thank You for giving us the real purpose of “FUCK AROUND AND FIND OUT” really means!! If you think there’s one Charlie Kirk, you’re wrong. They are more coming your way!!!! pic.twitter.com/NwJ0lGQWoh
— Brock “From Blob to Beast” Easley (@TheBrockEasley) September 10, 2025
I’ve seen a lot in my 2 years of being a creator but what I just saw with Charlie Kirk has changed me forever. We have to pray for a miracle and work together. Let all of our differences go in this moment. pic.twitter.com/WknViLBbLm
Calling people Nazis and fascist for over 10 years WILL radicalize the weak of mind. They always perpetuate violence on those they disagree with. PRAY FOR @charliekirk11pic.twitter.com/49ALyk3rPk
