By Olivia Pierson
​First published on Insight@theBFD 23/07/2020

Liberals have been viciously going after Tucker Carlson ever since his show on Fox News turned into a runaway success for the network over the last four years.

In November of 2018, after a left-wing journalist posted Carlson’s home address online, an ANTIFA mob congregated outside his house chanting, “Tucker Carlson, we will fight, we know where you sleep at night.” The group who called themselves “Smash Racism D.C.,” tweeted out photos of the Carlson property and its address. This is the same group who chased Senator Ted Cruz and his wife Heidi out of a restaurant during the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. They told Cruz that he “was not safe.”

When this mob descended onto Carlson’s property, his terrified wife Susie, with whom he has four children, was home alone and locked herself in the pantry after phoning the police. Over the following year, the property was vandalised, ANTIFA returned to make a menace of themselves and the Carlsons regularly received death threats in their letterbox. Though they loved their D.C. home and neighbourhood, the family moved house for the sake of privacy and safety.

Yesterday, Carlson claimed on air that the New York Times was working on a story about where his family had moved to. He said:

“The paper has assigned a political activist called Murray Carpenter to write a story about where we are now. They’ve hired a photographer called Tristan Spinski to take pictures. Their story about where we live is slated to run the paper this week. Editors there know exactly what will happen to my family when it does run. I called them today and I told them. But they didn’t care. They hate my politics. They want the show off the air. If one of my children gets hurt because of a story they wrote, they won’t considered it collateral damage, they know it’s the whole point of the exercise: To inflict pain on our family, to terrorize us, to control what we say. That’s the kind of people they are.”

Of course, the NYT has denied they were going to do any such thing. However, given the dirty doxing-and-cancel-culture that has come to define the paper’s environment, it looks as though this time their low tactics were pre-empted and owned by Carlson on this occasion, especially since he was so confident in the veracity of his information source that he called Carpenter and Spinski out by name.
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Last week, Carlson’s top staff-writer, Blake Neff, had to resign after it came to light that he had been posting “racist, misogynist and homophobic” messages under a pseudonym on a social media site used by lawyers and law students:

“Among Neff’s most telling posts are a reference to ‘foodie faggots,’ a comment stating, ‘Black doods staying inside playing Call of Duty is probably one of the biggest factors keeping crime down,’ and another comment stating that Democratic U.S. House Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib, all women of color, want to ‘MAKE YOUR COUNTRY A DUMPING GROUND FOR PEOPLE FROM THIRD WORLD SHITHOLES.’”

Acting in a professional capacity, Carlson sought to distance himself from Neff’s on-the-nose messages, though it’s hard not to notice the truth of them. Liberals are trying to make the case that Neff writing an opinion is the same thing as Carlson writing it. They don’t seem to understand that they are two separate people and one has lost his job over it.

And now comes another Fox News sexual harassment scandal, which Carlson has been placed in the centre of.

Two women, Cathy Areu and Jennifer Eckhart have joined forces in order to bring a lawsuit against Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson and Howie Kurtz for sexual harassment – and against Ed Henry for rape during the course of his sexual fling with Eckhart. Henry was fired on July 1st, 2020, after an internal investigation by the network using a private law firm.

Salon ran a story yesterday about the new accusations and asked for Fox News to comment.  Fox responded with this statement:

Based on the findings of a comprehensive independent investigation conducted by an outside law firm, including interviews with numerous eyewitnesses, we have determined that all of Cathy Areu’s claims against Fox News, including its management as well as its hosts Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Howard Kurtz and its contributor Gianno Caldwell, are false, patently frivolous and utterly devoid of any merit. We take all claims of harassment, misconduct and retaliation seriously, promptly investigating them and taking immediate action as needed — in this case, the appropriate action based on our investigation is to defend vigorously against these baseless allegations. Ms. Areu and Jennifer Eckhart can pursue their claims against Ed Henry directly with him, as Fox News already took swift action as soon as it learned of Ms. Eckhart’s claims on June 25 and Mr. Henry is no longer employed by the network.

It remains clear that the woke liberals won’t be satisfied until Tucker Carlson’s excellent show is taken off-air, for one reason or another. 

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By Olivia Pierson
​First published on Insight@theBFD 16/07/2020

In just one interview yesterday evening, a thrilled Judith Collins reminded New Zealanders that there still happens to be a few adults left in the room of politics.

Strong and confident in front of the press, while still being able to retain a sense of humour – “I think it might be time for a drink,” Judith, not Jacinda, is the woman who could breathe some fresh air back into this stale country.

I read recently the foundational mission statement of the National Party from 1936:

“To promote good citizenship and self-reliance; to combat communism and socialism; to maintain freedom of contract; to encourage private enterprise; to safeguard individual rights and the privilege of ownership; to oppose interference by the State in business, and State control of industry.”

National, to date, have fallen so far from upholding these core ideals that it’s been an utter disgrace to watch. It rocked the hearts and minds of its own core voters, especially after National MPs voted unanimously for the Zero Carbon Bill, an insidiously infectious piece of Green political propaganda which Ardern was particularly fond of.

If Collins is serious about winning this year’s election – and I have no doubt she is – then I hope that she gives profound consideration to the foundational values of her Party, for they matter now more than ever.  It’s not a case of National voters keeping faith with the Party, it’s a case of National keeping faith with its own core principles to deserve those core voters, and swing voters who are at odds with the progressive left (because they own a business, or did).

Ardern is a radical, progressive socialist, exactly the sort of political leader that the National Party came into existence to combat and crush. Economic leadership which indeed safeguards individual rights and the privilege of ownership is paramount, but so too must be crushing the cultural infection of Marxism which delivered its intellectual rot and popular narratives into our institutions and straight into the minds of our young. It remains something diligent parents have had to constantly counteract as the culture lurched hard left in the last 30 years.

I hope that Collins will not fail to name this powerful enemy openly as President Trump did in his superb and much-needed Mount Rushmore address. The National Party once knew it was directly up against communism and socialism – and that was before Wokedom dominated all our institutions.

The Marxist/Maoist intellectual and economic corrosion is a major feature of the Chinese Communist Party (to say nothing of its inhumane evil of running massive concentration camps). Through its contempt for the rest of the world, it failed to protect it from the Chinese virus. From this, we are all still reeling. Collins must also address this directly, especially now that former PM Helen Clark is overseeing an investigation into China’s actions in cahoots with the WHO. Clark hitched New Zealand’s economic wagon firmly to China with our free trade deal in 2008. China have proved themselves to be anathema to honourable, civilised and fair conduct on the world stage – they’re not just tainted, they’re decomposing and the stench is eye-watering. 

Trump was the only political leader with enough balls to hold China to account for its illegal, crony trade practices, a promise he made very early on in his campaign, and one he has more than delivered on. Socialism and communism are still scourges to combat, abroad and at home in all Western nations.

This year’s election suddenly became very interesting. I wish Judith Collins all the very best in her first major objective, and that is to crush the kindergarten government we currently have.  I think this is well within her natural capability.
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She must stay faithful to National’s foundational principles. They are still substantial and excellent in both essence and practicality if a leader has the brass balls to be true to them. They, along with Collins’ confident and likeable personality, are the key to winning National back the votes they need.

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By Olivia Pierson
​First published on Insight@theBFD 09/07/2020

As Hong Kong citizens grieve the loss of their democracy, American protesters seek to overthrow theirs.

It’s heartbreaking to see the end of Hong Kong’s push toward greater democratic liberty. Communist China asserting its power to reabsorb this flourishing capitalist hub was always the worst option on the table since it threatened the end of the British legal system and liberties, including a free press.

The activists were originally protesting the extradition law which would see Hong Kong citizens be tried on the Chinese mainland under the oppressive laws of the Communist Party, but it evolved into 5 key demands:

• the withdrawal of the extradition bill;
• the release of arrested protesters;
• an independent inquiry into heavy police tactics;
• a retraction of the word “rioters” when describing protesters; 
• the full implementation of a Western-styled democracy

After a year of massive protests, which inevitably became more violent as the stakes got higher (they were up against hard-core Communists and a secret police), they got none of it. What they ended up with was a new Security Law originating from Beijing and brought into force on June 30 2020, which saw the arrests of 370 people and counting.

Fearing retribution, and expecting to soon be placed behind mainland China’s “Great Firewall,” Hong Kong’s social media users have already begun to scrub their accounts and delete pro democracy messages, as have the many shops and businesses standing in solidarity with the protesters; they quickly removed their colourful posters and signs.

Hong Kong was the last and most successful of the British Empire’s colonies. Now it is China’s.

The new law makes subversive or secessionist activities illegal, including shouting slogans or flying flags that communicate any notion of independence. For Hong Kong citizens, even criticising the CCP while in another country can result in arrest. Chinese communism will now crush Hong Kong’s former liberty.

Meanwhile in the West.

Countries which have long, democratic traditions of freedom are now having to face monsters of their own creation: mobs of bored protesters that actually are rioters and nihilistic vandals. These gangs of vaunted liberality have so much liberty they don’t know what to do with it – aside from vandalising historic statuary and acting as if they are profoundly aggrieved as a way of life; they are literally begging to be taken over by Marxists, who refer to themselves as Black Lives Matter since referring to themselves as Democrats just doesn’t sound bad-ass enough, even though they vote in that direction, when they don’t miss the bus.

In America, where the BLM movement began, they change their official demands every other day but here’s part of their “What We Believe” statement taken from their official website:

“We practice empathy. We engage comrades with the intent to learn about and connect with their contexts.

We make our spaces family-friendly and enable parents to fully participate with their children. We dismantle the patriarchal practice that requires mothers to work “double shifts” so that they can mother in private even as they participate in public justice work.

We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.

We foster a queer affirming network. When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking, or rather, the belief that all in the world are heterosexual (unless s/he or they disclose otherwise).”

Here’s a recent iteration of BLM’s 5 issued demands from June of this year:
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• Surrender. Empty the precincts. Disarm and defund the police. Justice for George Floyd;
• Stand Down. End curfews and road closures. Withdraw the National Guard;
• Free Food & Supplies. Allow the free redistribution of goods from damaged businesses;
• Amnesty for all. Drop all charges. Cease investigations;
• Free Assembly. Right to protest and grieve however we feel necessary

Note demand 3, where they feel they have the right to rampage around smashing and destroying businesses and then claiming the goods and products for themselves, like plundering thieves.

Note also demand 5. The American Constitution already gives them the right to peaceably assemble to ask their government for a redress of grievances, but that’s nowhere near good enough for their entitled bad-asses. They want to protest and “grieve” in their own special way, which is code for violently and destructively.
 
I just wish America could transport all the BLM protesters into Hong Kong to get a real taste of the coming communism which they crave (plus no TikTok), and transport all the freedom-loving Hong Kong protesters into the United States to get the liberty that they know what it’s like to have to go to the wall for. They lost, and an emboldened China claws its former territory back – COVID-19, the bio-weapon they unleashed on the world, helped them do it so easily.

It’s heartening to see Boris Johnson and Scott Morrison offer sanctuary to Hong Kong citizens who want to get out. Countries are struggling for their most essential natural rights – or for their totalitarian opposite. Right at the time when Hong Kong grieves the loss of its liberties and many prepare to flee into exile, to watch President Trump define America’s national character at Mount Rushmore – and also name the enemy which constantly seeks to assassinate it – all while underneath the giant, ghostly faces of the forefathers who authored the nation into liberty, felt like an epic distinction to remind us that liberty is indeed quite a fragile thing which requires our utmost vigilance, not our inbred apathy. 

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