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Steve Rose: ” You just gota have live music…” . West Auckland 1995-96…
Don’t Forget Jacinda Arden’s lies…
The voting public so easily forget and slip into apathy… They are so easily gaslighted. These are some of the most exploited truths by corrupt demagogues.
This is why Kamala Harris can run for President claiming to having been a tough advocate of border control when the truth is herself and Biden are responsible for the mass invasion of the US by systematic illegal immigration funded by George Soros.
It’s also why Harris and Walz are posing in the run up to the election as ‘Gun enthusiasts’ when we know their full intention is to overthrow the 2nd amendment.
In New Zealand Winston Peters was able to dupe thousands of Freedom voters into voting for him despite the fact that he was the man responsible for putting Ardern in power!
That is how easily he was able to subvert people from voting for the true Freedom Movement.
Wake TF up people!
Snap out of your 5 minute attention span!
Grow a pair and be prepared to suffer a bit for the sake of your so-called values.
As Tom Paine said in ‘The Crisis’…
“Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.”
Tim Wikiriwhi
Christian Libertarian.
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Tucker Carlson: ‘One of the world’s most Appalling Leaders, Jacinda Ardern Quits.’ Good Riddance!
Jacinda Ardern is more Dangerous than Covid-19: Censorship and Control of the Press.
Russell Brand Posits the question… What is sovereignty predicated upon?
Russell Brand On X today.
My answer… off the cuff…
There are several levels of ‘Sovereignty’.
The most essential one’s being God’s Divine Sovereignty and from this Individual sovereignty.
Individual sovereignty is a vital concept for Human Freedom which is only possible from a theistic foundation in which the Human Individual is imbued with Inalienable rights to life and Liberty.
The fundamental argument being we are given our lives and Freedom directly from God Almighty and it is Theft for governments, or anyone to rob us of our God given life and freedom.
We Free Men then can form a National government which derives it’s *National sovereignty* from a collective of our individual sovereignty and right to form a government. The Government in this way is *Not sovereign*… but the servant of the Sovereign people.
Yet still the people cannot imbue their government with any greater rights or authority than they posses *as individuals*…. therefore no collective of people have the right to create a government that tramples upon the God given rights of Individuals or minorities. No such legitimate power exists.
Therefore the Government must be strictly limited in it’s power, scope, and function leaving the Individuals with their Liberty to follow their own consciences… practice their own faith…. exercise their own values… the only condition being they respect the rights of others to do the same thing… and that their actions do not transgress the rights of others. This is where such things as Private property and free speech are essential rights. Private property is where we may practice our faith. Free speech being distinguished from violence means we can speak out minds and openly evangelise our faith and political opinions… which even if others do not like them or causes them offence… do not constitute violence and so do not violate others rights… and as such are lawful.
Atheism has no foundation for the sovereignty of individuals… no foundation for individual rights in fact no foundation for objective morality at all.
Famously The atheist Jeremy Bentham called rights ‘Nonsense on stilts’.
Atheist Hobbes said their is no higher power than *Might*…. The Leviathan state.
This is why under the atheist materialist paradigm there is no defense against *The sovereign State* which then can treat individuals in any way they see fit.
This is the Atheist Marxist conception whereby Individuals can be sacrificed for the sake of the Collective… The State. There are no Higher Moral Principles by which The All powerful State can be deemed to be Evil. In The Marxist consception… whatever serves the benefit of the Party State is moral* …. That’s Lenin.
so you have a choice… God and Human Rights vs Atheist Nihilism and the subordination of human beings to absolute power.
Tim Wikiriwhi
Christian Libertarian.
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Tim Wikiriwhi’s Submission to the New Zealand Government’s Constitutional Review. 2013
Materialism renders Man Nought. Meaning-less, Value-less, Right-less
The sinking of the HMNZS Manawanui: NZ Government comes under heat for Woke ‘Diversity hire policies’.
Photo from an excellent X post by The Sanity Retention Institute @SanityRetention here
NZ Minister of Defense Judith Collins is Livid that on line social media commentary has been zeroing in on the fact that the commander of the HMNZS Manawanui was hired to fulfill the Navy’s Woke ‘Diversity and inclusion’ policies that has seen a number of top positions filled with woman.
Collin’s is a typical powertriper who want’s to tell the public what they should think.
She certainly does not appreciate the Governments PC Hiring policies being put in the spotlight after the loss of a 150 million dollar Navy Ship.
It has been reported here by Author John McLean that in recent times The Navy has made a big deal about inclusivity of woman… Yvonne Grey not only being a woman but also a lesbian, yet now that disaster has struck Judith Collins seeks to red herring the NZ public by pretending that any critisism of the Navy’s hire policies are false and ‘extremely mysogynistic’.
Collins denies Diversity hire was a thing in the Navy… she insisted Grey was awarded the position on merit.
Screen shot from an excellent opinion piece by Redbaiter on X
Watch the video and read the commentary…. It is just one of many excellent opinion pieces that have been written on this very embarrassing sinking of the NZ Navy Vessel.
She even claims such Misogynistic online abuse has resulted in ‘Woman in uniforms are being abused on the streets!
Really?
This smacks of total Bullshit to me!
As for any possibly false wild speculations going on on line… IMO that is *Her Fault* for not being up front about what happened!
We should not have to wait for a ‘court of inquiry’ to hear the basic testimony about what occurred!
Further more… and this is the truly *1984* part of Collins comments…. she made it clear that she (the government) took the trouble of ‘investigating’ people who made negative comments on social media about the Wreak!
The EVIL EYE of the State now turns upon us if we dare express opinions they don’t like!
That’s Stalinism… North Korea China type tyranny type stuff whereby the want a population too scared to critisise them!
As for denying ‘Diversity hire’ is a thing in the Navy who the hell is she trying to kid? We all know and see that Woke travesty being implemented in government and the private sector… all day every day!
People who have been consciously selected for positions on the basis of their ethnicity or Sex.
If the people are now suspicious that the Captain of the Vessel was one of those sorts of ‘diversity hires’ well that isn’t because they are *Misogynistic* but because we know that is a policy of Idiot organisations today so they can virtue signal and appear woke and not be accused of being bigoted.
The stricken HMNZS Manawanui. Samoa. Reports say 200 000 liters of fuel has been spilled into the ocean. Photo from here
An excellent critique of Defense minister Collins patent gaslighting was published by Counterspin Media NZ on X here
Diversity hire is Navy policy.
Excerpt… ” And while Collins has insisted that various women in positions of leadership within the NZDF have been appointed based on merit, rather than diversity quotas, a little digging destroys that claim.
In 2023 for instance, an OIA request (attached) was made to the NZDF in regards to gender equality, which is most interesting…
According to the NZDF OIA response, the organsiation adopted the principles of the UNITED NATIONS WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT PRINCIPLES (WTF?!) after being invited by the ‘NZ Women’s Empowerment Principles Committee’ to do so.
The rainbow warriors at the NZDF also attached a ‘Champions of Gender Equality Charter’ to the OIA. The fact that they even have a document like that goes to show just how ‘woke’ and infected with cultural Marxism the organisation has become.
It is also worth remembering that circa 2016, the NZDF went about changing job titles to remove the word ‘man’ from them, (for e.g. from ‘General List Seaman’ to ‘General List Warfare’) in order to be seen as modern and progressive.”
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So there you have it! Diversity hire is Navy policy!
Yet let’s pause for a moment.
What if Grey really was the most competent applicant for the position of Commander?
Even so… She may indeed be worthy, yet when ‘Diversity hire’ is a thing you destroy any faith the public can have that she was hired on merit.
Diversity hire puts things like Sex, and race high up the list of criteria for hiring staff. It is well known it skews the employment process and means competence can place second to diversity quotas.
And if Equality for woman really is the ideal then she must be prepared to weather the storm of public scrutiny and guile the same as if a man was at the helm. Collins reaction is typical of Feminists who play the victim mentality whenever they are held to the flame!
* She is the one playing the sexist card here*.
Rabid feminism!
*We know you are full of crap
@JudithCollinsMP *
Take a look at this Feeble PC Beta Male leading our Navy here
This is what’s left after all the so called ‘Toxic Masculinity’ has been squeezed out!
As for the so-called ‘Official investigation’ Should New Zealanders have confidence???
Not Likely! John McLean says… “The Inquiry seems to be organised so that the Navy can protect its own back as well as its policies, including – and especially – the criteria for promotion in this ever more feminine (and feminist) service. As Peter Cresswell pointed out on his Not PC Blog “An inquiry by the Navy about the Navy doesn’t give confidence that we’ll ever know much more”.
” the Navy has compounded the problem by appointing as chair of the Inquiry into the disaster yet another person who can only too easily be perceived to be another of its over-promoted women – in this case Commodore Melissa Ross, who also ticks the boxes that seem to be more and more important in naval promotions – in her case being both female and part-Maori…
So passionate is she about the importance of promoting women in the Navy (apparently because they are women rather than on merit) that the Navy website of 6 December, 2019, stated of her: “She is passionate about the development of women in the military and was co-chair of the N.Z. Defence Force’s Women’s Development Steering Group, which she helped create”.
How could anyone have faith in such an Inquiry, headed by one who appears to be so fanatically committed to her fellow female officers as to bring her objectivity into doubt? Commodore Ross is the very last person who should be involved in an inquiry into the sinking of the Manawanui.
The New Zealand Navy is a small affair where everybody knows everybody else and that is especially true of the coterie of powerful female officers who all seem to be of the same stripe – of advancing women (and covering up for them?) at the expense of men. Obviously Melissa Ross and Yvonne Gray know each other – probably very well. If a litigant in court is known to the judge, that is always pointed out and the judge will normally remove himself from the case. So why not follow this rule for the naval Inquiry?”
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So Judith Collins must think the New Zealand Public are gullible idiots to expect us to have faith in such a farcical investigation!
As if the findings will ever call into question the employment processes that led to Yvonne Grey’s appointment as Commander of the Vessel.
We the people of New Zealand have the right to question the impact the Woke politicized Diversity hire is having on the quality of performance by our Navy!
Obviously placing Politically correct quotas ahead of Competence is a massive Fools game that risks many peoples lives!
My Message to Judith (She was tagged into my X Commentary) is Stop treating New Zealanders like naughty children and release the preliminary information you have on your desk!
Answer the fundamental questions such as was the vessel drifting or under power when it hit!
Stop the stone walling and obfuscation!
Until you do that… until you give us some facts…. do us a favour… if you don’t like what’s being said on line … just scroll past!
Rumours, speculations, and falsehoods love a vacuum… you are responsible for that.
The longer you dither about the more the suspicions grow.
And we have the right to discuss these matters and draw our own conclusions.
Do you get that?
Probably not.
And for goodness sake get Impartial Investigators on to this so that we get real answers… and so the people of NZ can have confidence that we will hear the truth.
As John McLean States… “For an Inquiry to be credible in should be headed by the Judge Advocate of the Armed Forces with two others: one from Britain’s Royal Navy and the other from the Royal Australian Navy. Only then could the public, whose taxes have to pay for a $130 million replacement vessel, have confidence in the outcome of the Inquiry. The choice of Melissa Ross to head it is yet another example of Judith Collins’ notoriously bad judgement.”
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That seems like a reasonable expectation to me.
Tim Wikiriwhi
Christian Libertarian.
The sinking of the Manawanui. WHEN WILL THE NAVY EVER LEARN? By John McLean.
The Doomed HMNZ Manawanui . 6 October. Samoa. Photo from here
WHEN WILL THE NAVY EVER LEARN?
By John McLean, author of “A Mission of Honour; The Royal Navy in the Pacific, 1769-1997”.
In my article of a couple of days ago on the HMNZS Manawanui disaster, entitled “Is The Navy Fit For Purpose?”, I raised the issue of the perceived over-promotion of minority groups in the services at the expense of the efficiency of our defence forces.
Speculation is rife throughout the country as in both general conversation and on social media (usually a truer reflection of opinion than the mainstream media) the suspicion is that the captain of HMNZS Manawanui, Commander Yvonne Gray, was over-promoted because she ticked the boxes of being both female and lesbian.
Instead of facing this issue and providing some facts to rebut such a presumption the Navy has compounded the problem by appointing as chair of the Inquiry into the disaster yet another person who can only too easily be perceived to be another of its over-promoted women – in this case Commodore Melissa Ross, who also ticks the boxes that seem to be more and more important in naval promotions – in her case being both female and part-Maori.
So passionate is she about the importance of promoting women in the Navy (apparently because they are women rather than on merit) that the Navy website of 6 December, 2019, stated of her: “She is passionate about the development of women in the military and was co-chair of the N.Z. Defence Force’s Women’s Development Steering Group, which she helped create”.
She gave away her prejudices in her own words: “With women in the Navy, we still have work to do to create the environment where they can thrive” (presumably at the expense of men). And yet the speaker of this sexist nonsense has been appointed by her fellow feminist, Judith Collins, to investigate the sinking of the Manawanui by another woman officer, Yvonne Gray whose ability to tick various boxes is widely believed to have been the reason for her rapid promotion to command of the $100 million vessel that, under her command, sank in Samoan waters.
How could anyone have faith in such an Inquiry, headed by one who appears to be so fanatically committed to her fellow female officers as to bring her objectivity into doubt? Commodore Ross is the very last person who should be involved in an inquiry into the sinking of the Manawanui. Much of the blame for this continuing “train crash” can be laid at the feet of Judith Collins who, as Minister of Defence, was responsible for appointing her fellow feminist, Melissa Ross, to head the inquiry.
Instead of trying to rebut the obvious presumption that Yvonne Gray might have been appointed to command due to her ability to tick certain boxes of political correctness that the Navy apparently now deems so essential to promotion, Judith Collins resorted to smear tactics, which are always easier than giving truthful answers to allegations. Those who dared to point out that the purpose of the Navy is to defend the country and that this can best be achieved by promotion on merit rather than gender/sexual orientation were damned by Collins as “misogynists” and “armchair admirals”.
The Inquiry seems to be organised so that the Navy can protect its own back as well as its policies, including – and especially – the criteria for promotion in this ever more feminine (and feminist) service. As Peter Cresswell pointed out on his Not PC Blog “An inquiry by the Navy about the Navy doesn’t give confidence that we’ll ever know much more”.
The New Zealand Navy is a small affair where everybody knows everybody else and that is especially true of the coterie of powerful female officers who all seem to be of the same stripe – of advancing women (and covering up for them?) at the expense of men. Obviously Melissa Ross and Yvonne Gray know each other – probably very well. If a litigant in court is known to the judge, that is always pointed out and the judge will normally remove himself from the case. So why not follow this rule for the naval Inquiry?
For an Inquiry to be credible in should be headed by the Judge Advocate of the Armed Forces with two others: one from Britain’s Royal Navy and the other from the Royal Australian Navy. Only then could the public, whose taxes have to pay for a $130 million replacement vessel, have confidence in the outcome of the Inquiry. The choice of Melissa Ross to head it is yet another example of Judith Collins’ notoriously bad judgement. Former Defence Minister, Ron Mark, would never have made such a blunder.
Not surprisingly, the continuing absence of any meaningful information from the Navy has fuelled the rumour mill. One of these rumours is that Yvonne Gray’s “wife”, Sharon, was also on board the Manawanui when she sank. This is either true or false; it would be helpful if the Navy (or its Minister) would either confirm or deny it. As the well-paid Minister of Defence, Judith Collins has a lot of questions to answer and merely smearing those who ask them is not good enough. This thing is becoming a bigger mess by the day.
NZ Police have been ‘Trained to detect extremism’…. what does that even mean?
Christchurch terror attack: Coroner probes how gunman obtained firearms licence
So in the One News story (above) we are told that ‘The New Zealand Police have had training how to spot ‘Extremist views’.
The question must be asked… what exactly such training might entail?
We can have a fair guess given both Ardern’s ‘Disinformation Project’ and sycophantic Leftist New media outlet ‘News Room’ cite the attitude of ‘anti-immigration’ as being one of the signals for ‘Dangerous Far right extremism.’
This is probably also the sort of thing the police are looking to detect when they ‘Drop by unannounced’ to have a little chat with fire arms owners.
With this in mind it is probably advisable not to speak to them unless you have a lawyer present.
It’s an absolute fact that the Police did not apply the law or follow the safety processes and that theirs was the chief failure that resulted in the Terrorist death toll… yet Ardern used the situation to Rob law abiding citizens of their rights to have semiautomatic rifles and large mag shotguns.
The whole business was a travesty of justice and a usurpation of Power. Ardern and the Police had an agenda to take away New Zealanders Rights in this regard *already in process*… just waiting for the opportunity to impose it.
Tarrant himself even wrote in his still illegal manifesto that he chose to use these fire arms because he knew it would result in the NZ government persecuting NZ gun owners and Banning these fire arms… and like puppets on strings Ardern and Co did exactly what Tarrant wanted… and banned his manifesto so few Kiwis would actually know the Gun ban was part of Tarrant’s plan!
Yet I suspect things could be far more rotten than what the average ‘conspiracy theorists’ believe… because what Tarrant did is a carbon copy of what Norwegian Gunman Anders Breivik did in 2011. Both Tarrant and Breivk declared that why they were committing their atrocities was because they wanted to highlight what is called ‘The Great Replacement’… ‘conspiracy’ in which (to my limited knowledge of this subject) is a claim that there is a Conspiracy of Powerful elites seeking to overthrow Western democracies *By flooding western Nations with legal and illegal migrants from the third world*.
Now of course after these psychopaths committed their terrorist evils… The official narrative became… ‘Anyone who is anti-immigration’… ‘anyone who speaks up against Mass immigration’ … these people are dangerous Far Right Radicals espousing the same psychopathic delusions *as Tarrant and Brevik*! Ie because of what Tarrant and Brevik did… made it possible for Socialist governments to basically prohibit any public discourse which implies there is a Global political agenda to destroy Western democracies via mass immigration of Aliens who do not share Western Religion, Values, ideals… but who in fact carry beliefs that are violently opposed to Western beliefs.
This is where I tell you *There is exactly this Globalist Agenda going on before our very eyes!* And we should not be afraid to speak up about it! To discuss it… etc. Now I utterly condemn what Brevik and Tarrant did. I think it was horrific and Evil in the extreme and I would never ever condone anyone *Copy cating* their crimes… yet it smacks of 4 D Chess that these two events happened centered on *this fundamental reality* of systematic Mass migration… esp when we had NZPM Jacinda Ardern delivering speeches at the UN saying shit that no New Zealander sanctioned her to say as our representative on the world stage about promoting a ‘Border-less’ Global community…!!!
That’s not a bogus conspiracy theory on my part… non of this is mis-information! It’s all documented *Facts*.
My next point is conjecture founded upon an assessment of all the facts. I’m not saying this happened because it’s beyond the pale of what is conscionable! Yet it’s almost like both Brevik and Tarrant were CIA MK Ultra programmed useful idiots who both preformed false flag operations for the sake of making speech in resistance to Mass migration illegal ‘Racist hate speech’.
Even if they were not MK Ultra Zombies… the end result of what they did is the same… It worked in favour of the Soros/WEF/ Ardern/ Gates Cabal to outlaw criticism of their Globalist agenda to destroy Western First world capitalist societies so they can set up their Totalitarian New World order which does away with pesky Individual rights to property, freedom, free speech, The 2nd amendment, limited government, Medical freedom, etc etc etc.
Even if Tarrant and Brevik were not MK Ultra Zombies the Global push to control the internet and Ban firearms… *certainly represents a real world Tyrannical agenda that threatens individual rights and The freedom of Western civiisation*… and it cannot be a crime for free citizens to openly talk about what these corrupt politicians and Power trippers are doing!
The Great Replacement is a real thing! We see it In Europe! Look at France! Look at London! Look at what is happening on the Mexican boarder of the US! We are talking about a systematic invasion.
And seeing this fact… knowing this fact does not make anyone a ‘dangerous far right extremist’!
What it makes you is a dissident activist whom the Powers that be want to suppress and outlaw!
*IE it’s the Globalist power trippers who want to destroy our societies and take away our rights and create Police States that arrest people like me who dare say things that might stir the voting public to resist their evil political schemes!
They are trying to make writing a post like this one illegal. They want the power to arrest voices like mine. They want to force X not to allow conversations like this to take place on line.
As far as the Corrupt WEF and their minions are concerned my musings and thinking ought to be illegal!
That is what’s at stake regarding Tarrant…. That is what Ardern has spent the last 5 years flying around the Globe seeking to cajole governments into passing anti free speech laws and taking control of social media.
Remember her speech to the UN that called free speech a weapon of war!
Tim Wikiriwhi.
Christian Libertarian.
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WEF, Soros Determined to insure Donald Trump Does not win 2020 Election… and they achieved their objective.
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— ✨C😁NSPiRACY FACTS✨ (@goyimgrant) November 9, 2023
Free Speech is in Peril. Powerful testimony by Lara Logan.
Powerful testimony by Lara Logan:
"I have worked at the highest levels of the media as a full-time correspondent for 60 Minutes, chief foreign correspondent for CBS News, chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS News. That was my home for 16 years. And as a journalist, I have… pic.twitter.com/ocY7hmWYYe— Camus (@newstart_2024) October 7, 2024
Powerful testimony by Lara Logan:
“I have worked at the highest levels of the media as a full-time correspondent for 60 Minutes, chief foreign correspondent for CBS News, chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS News. That was my home for 16 years. And as a journalist, I have sat down with world leaders, mass murderers, and terrorists. And I have held people on both sides of the aisle accountable. I have seen suffering and I have faced evil and I have walked through the fires of hell on distant battlefields. I faced my own death at the hands of a mob of some 200 men in Egypt when I was gang-raped and sodomized and beaten almost to death while on assignment for 60 minutes. And yet for almost a decade I have been targeted and falsely branded and accused of many things that I did not do.
They have attacked my work, my character, my sanity, and my marriage. And I am not alone. We are many. And we will not give up, and we will not give in. It’s important to all of us, because of everything discussed today, that we address the vital principles and values that exist really only in the United States of America.
And that said, these are the worst of times for the media in this country. We live in the age of information warfare, where propaganda is not simply a weapon, it is the entire field of battle. This is a war for our minds that is aided by advanced technology, and we have never been here, not in all of human history. It is a moment when we as journalists should stand together, united, and regardless of politics, we should fight for the truth and we should fight for freedom. Yet, not very long ago, we allowed one of our own to be branded as a traitor simply for doing his job. In fact, there were many so-called journalists who were leading the charge against Tucker, accusing him of treason for the simple fact of interviewing the president of Russia. And to my knowledge, there was not a single legacy media institution that spoke up. This was more than a politically motivated attack on one man. It was a betrayal of the most sacred principles of a free press. And my media colleagues know this to be true, no matter what they say. My fear is that they either no longer care or that they lack the moral courage to be honest, including with themselves to those who wish to censor the idea of free speech in America and all over the world. Media companies, institutions and journalism schools have failed all of us. And for too long we have allowed non-profit organizations to masquerade as non-partisan media watchdogs, when in fact they are little more than highly paid political propagandists and assassins whose entire reason for being is to crush anyone who stands in their way and along with them the long held and cherished ideas of free speech, free thinking, and free minds. This is a blood sport for them, their political allies, and their puppet masters. They know how to kill a journalist without murdering them. We call it cancel culture. In truth, it is a death sentence. And they get away with it because they have information dominance. Some are strong enough to survive, but only a few like Glenn Greenwald, Tucker Carlson, Matt Taibbi, only a few like them are able to reach greater heights and thrive.
These nonprofits that I’m talking about are part of a vast censorship network that includes government agencies. They use deception to mask their actions with lofty goals like preventing the spread of misinformation, disinformation, hate speech. They use phrases like protecting democracy and make no mistake, words matter. While propaganda and censorship are not new. Technology means unprecedented power and reach in the hands of a few. Companies like Facebook, Instagram, and Google, as you have heard many times today, have been allowed to amass monopoly power. And as a result, they not only reach billions of people across the world every second of the day, they have absolute control over what we see and what we hear.
Mao, Hitler. When I became a journalist more than 35 years ago, we were under emergency restrictions in apartheid South Africa. And I was 17 years old. Public safety and security were the weapons of state censors. Ours was the truth. We had no Bill of Rights, no Constitution, no First Amendment, no Declaration of Independence and journalists would have to hide their footage from the security police, sometimes sewing the tapes into their mattresses at home so they could not be seized and used to identify and target the protesters that we had filmed. The light of freedom that set fire to our hearts in South Africa was lit thousands of miles away. It was lit right here where we sit today in the United States of America.
When the Founding Fathers put freedom of speech first, it was not by chance, it was by design. The rights that followed were in part created to protect the First Amendment. Without it, they knew that freedom itself would perish. I am reminded today of the words spoken by the British Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Gray, in 1914, at the beginning of the First World War. He said, the lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime. We are once again watching the lights of freedom. They’re going out here and all over the world. And it is up to us to determine if they will be lit again ever.”
Mars is for Atheism. Earth is for Theism.
Latest pictures of the surface of Mars from NASA.
Some may recognise my comment reply (above) is based on dialogue from a Hollywood movie about Men who went to Mars.
Now If the Earth looked *like Mars*… just a bleak desert with rocks strewn all over … a world like that I could believe could be explicable by the blind forces of Physics and the process of Time… *Yet Look at our Earth!!!* You have to be ideologically brainwashed to think *Our Earth* is explicable in those terms!
There’s a glaring fundamental difference between Earth and all the other bodies we see in Space!
Earth in fact is proof enough of the existence of God Almighty. It stands as a refutation of Atheist Materialism.
There are no Values on Mars… no meaning… no purpose… no truth… no love…. how different is Earth!
Yet Atheists try to sterilize Earth of all these and render our lives as empty and meaningless as Mars.
Like the miracle of life Atheists have to say Truth, Love and Justice are just illusory constructs that have no objective validity… because that is what is at the heart of atheism… a black emptiness… a void.
Tim Wikiriwhi.
Christian Libertarian.