By Olivia Pierson
First published on Insight@theBFD 10/09/2020

It is cringeworthy to watch the world media slobber every time Jacinda Ardern lifts her little finger. But they did exactly the same thing when former-President Obama was in office. The world’s Main Stream Media gave both leaders sainted status, which ought to be no surprise considering that both Obama and Ardern hold an almost identical ideology, which most of the MSM also hold.
 
That ideology is communism – and like all serious communist activists, they cloak themselves in the disguise of being mild and non-threatening socialists.  Effectively what you have then is nothing less than wolves who govern in the clothing of sheep; they’re cunning, disingenuous and profoundly impression-management conscious, taking great care to flash phoney smiles when they talk, smiles which are often incongruent with the seriousness of the topics under discussion. They’re trained to master keeping their tone “nice” and “upbeat,” all the while decidedly reshaping the world after their horribly anti-Western agendas.

It was the philosopher-novelist Ayn Rand who made the point that socialism is the close cousin of communism. She wrote:
 
“There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism—by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.”

Obama’s speciality was to stoke the fires of racial disharmony in his own country. It could have been so great if he, as the first Black American President, could’ve exhibited the character development not to have done this. 

But alas, he never missed an opportunity to make highly public statements on black boys or black men who had been killed by a cop or a white man – even if the cop or white man happened to be acting in self defense. 

Knowing that America leans toward extreme sensitivity over the issue of race, a wiser president would’ve made the point over and over that skin colour has no bearing on anything and as an issue, is nothing if not bloody passé.  While indulging gratuitously in his brand of racial hyperbole, it cannot be ignored that Obama accomplished next to nothing when it came to actually improving the lives of African Americans during his 8-year presidency. 

In the wake of Black Lives Matter activism reaching an emboldened fever-pitch, this fact has come back to haunt Obama’s legacy in spades, as untold black people now cross camps into the Republican party and proudly plan on voting Trump in record numbers this November.

This is because Trump didn’t rely on talking-up his desire to help the black community, he went and acted for them by introducing comprehensive prison reform – the First Step Act (leniency for minor, first-time offences) and official pardons for gross injustices such as in the case of Alice Johnson. He also eliminated the practice of women giving birth inside prisons while chained to a hospital bed – many of whom were black women – unbelievably, Obama decided to look the other way on this one.

The best thing Trump has done for the black community, so far, was to champion school choice for low-income families, giving them access to scholarships and generous tax credits to be able to send their kids to a private school of their own choosing instead of having to suffer their kids attending the crap government school around the corner. 

Also in education, Trump restored funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs); traditional and respected institutes of higher learning for the black community since the end of slavery in the 19th Century.  Obama allowed for their funding to expire.
 
The second best thing Trump did for the national black community was overhauling the tax system and providing Opportunity Zones in underprivileged neighbourhoods resulting in $75 billion worth of investments and mentorship programmes.

Black conservative activist Candace Owens has been mega-phone vocal in her support of Trump and made the point often that the Democrat Party, as it did during the presidency of Abraham Lincoln, still fights to keep American blacks controlled “on the plantation.”

But the most amusing and surprising person to have watched be red-pilled regarding the black community is Leo Terrell.  A civil rights attorney and a staunch Democrat whose hatred for Trump was palpable, suddenly did an about turn this year and has become the most passionate Trump supporter.  The reason for this is simple – he was paying attention after the high profile death of George Floyd when the protesting turned into rioting, looting and violence spreading all over American cities while the Democrats took great pains to not condemn the violence which overwhelmingly harmed black Americans, especially with their ludicrous call to defund the police.

In a heated exchange back in June on Fox News show Hannity, Terrell calls far-Left black activist Cornell West, “a dinosaur,” and West appallingly calls Terrell, “negro.”
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In this coming election, Trump is hoping to win a significant percentage of the black voting electorate, in comparison to the modest 8 per cent he won back in 2016.

To this very day, Obama, who has gracelessly not observed the gentlemanly presidential tradition of not making public criticisms of the incumbent president,  continues his well-rehearsed, racist rhetoric, but can never compete in reality with Trump’s tangible, active achievements in support of black America.
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By Olivia Pierson

A staggeringly ill-informed, yet rather telling op-ed was published on Stuff this week by Virginia Fallon titled “Sometimes Politics Should Trump Friendships.”

Fallon admits to not knowing any President Trump supporters in this country bar one, a friend of hers whom she describes as “funny and intelligent” rather than a “MAGA-hat wearing, mouth breathing simpleton.” 

Since finding out that her friend supports what Fallon touts as Trump’s “disregard for black lives,” their 30-year friendship is now over.  

So much for the intellectual tolerance of the Left, but we’ve come to not expect this from them anymore.  

As someone who closely follows American politics every day, I am constantly floored by how woefully ignorant Kiwis remain about the topic.  If the folks of NZ digest news from America via our MSM: print, TV and online outlets such as the NZ Herald, Newshub, the Dom Post and Stuff(ed), their ignorance is understandable, though not forgivable. Though we live in an information age, the sad fact remains that Kiwis have become so politically brain-dead from a diet of spoon-fed “news” borrowed from very selective sources, they have absolutely no idea what is going on in the land of the brave and the home of the free. 

Take this black lives mattering business for instance: it is a fact that President Trump has done more in just four years of his first term in office to help and assist black lives than former-President Obama did in the entire eight years of his presidency.
 
This is why Black Americans are crossing from the Democrat Party into the GOP in droves - and that’s not just hyperbole.

The prison reform of the First Step Act which President Trump saw enacted was a second chance for first time offenders, who were caught doing a crime not because they were violent, hardened criminals, but because they were utterly desperate and opted for actions outside of the law.  Alice Johnson has become the poster-great-grandma for First Step after her sentence was commuted by President Trump and she recently received a full pardon. 

Johnson, a mother of five children, worked for FedEx for ten years, suffered from a gambling addiction and lost her job.  Divorce followed and then the loss of her son in a motorcycle accident.  She went bankrupt and lost her family home. 

Johnson then became involved in a drug-trafficking ring based in Memphis, was arrested as a first-time, non-violent felon and received a lifetime sentence without parole in 1997.  She served 21 years of her sentence as a model prisoner in correctional facilities hundreds of miles away from her large family. 

Her case was put before Obama as part of his 2014 clemency project but was denied. It was Kim Kardashian who picked up Alice’s case to try to get her a pardon in 2018 and was successful.
 
Johnson is now a free-woman - and a formidable one at that. 

The disgusting practice of pregnant women giving birth in prisons while chained to their beds continued in 40 states throughout Obama’s presidency.  It was President Trump who banned this astonishingly medieval form of restraint in all federal prisons as part of the First Step prison reform. 

Black Americans are fleeing into the Republican camp - and the only reason for that is Trump. Many voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012, and then also for Hillary Clinton in 2016.  But their lives never improved, until Trump’s presidency.  

Their reasons are diverse: from the record low black unemployment rate that Trump achieved for them with the aid of tax-cuts, new manufacturing and Opportunity Zones, to lower medication prescription costs for their family members.  There’s also the school choice education reform which gives generous tax-credits to low-income families so they can afford private schooling for their kids. 

But the most recent issue causing Black Americans to cross party lines is the overwhelming Black Lives Matter violence.  

The more that Democrats embrace and submit to this Marxist hate group, who loudly rant about defunding the police, the more terrified black people now feel in their own neighbourhoods.  If the police really were to be defunded across the country, they know black-on-black violence would escalate through the roof - and that’s something Democrat leadership never openly addresses, and neither does the NZ media.  

So perhaps Virginia Fallon’s recently ditched old friend, whom Fallon wrote was “a woman who spent her younger years railing against injustice; a woman who marched for human rights issues,”  still does care deeply about those causes and has the wherewithal to recognise they will be monumentally abused if the Democrats win the election.

Many Trump supporters are a far-cry away from being the “mouth breathing simpletons” that Fallon wishes they were.  Most of them are just better informed than Fallon about what has happened to America under decades and decades of swampy Democrat and Rino leadership.  

Judging by her uncultivated, bogan-esque personal image littered with in-your-face tattoos, perhaps with her great knack for coming down on the ignoramus’ side of history Fallon could write some gripping anti-Trump articles as an activist-at-large for BLM with special emphasis on the next chapter of a Seattleite, police-free CHOP zone.  I mean, there were only 65 reported offences inside CHOP between June 8th and June 30th, including aggravated assault, larceny-theft, rape, and two homicides of black men committed by other black men.  I wonder why NZ journalists don’t cover the reality of BLM with any veracity?  

Personally, I think Fallon may have just ditched a longstanding friend whom she could actually learn a lot from - and help make her a better writer by filling in some of her conspicuous knowledge-gaps. 

By Olivia Pierson
First published on Insight@theBFD 3/09/2020

The violence of the Marxist group Black Lives Matter and their alliance with the fascist hate group ANTIFA, is undeniable.

We have watched American cities be set aflame: businesses, churches, cars and municipal buildings. We have watched untold people be punched, beaten and killed by them. We have watched hysterical banshees scream “hate-speech!” at ordinary decent folks who keep reiterating the universal truth that all lives matter.

The official Black Lives Matter website made their racist intentions clear, as if their violent actions were not clear enough to those who pay attention.

But what’s truly repulsive is that here in New Zealand the BLM propaganda now mindlessly infects all of our educational institutions, along with our corporates.
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I’ve driven past schools, such as Auckland’s Marcellin College which describes itself as “A High Achieving Catholic Family Environment.”  Prominently in their playground visible from the road, they brandished a “Black Lives Matter” billboard.

I fired off an email message challenging them to take note of the fact that the BLM website states this:

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.

Since when are Catholic schools in agreement with violent, racist movements that seek to disrupt the nuclear family?  Why are they linking arms with such a vicious political group?

Perhaps they’ve been encouraged by the ghastly spectacle of an academic and influencer of NZ children such as Dr. Siouxie Wiles, who shamelessly used the platform of her Twitter account to encourage New Zealanders to send money online to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, in order to donate funds for the legal costs and bail of BLM-ANTIFA protesters who were arrested for unrestrained criminal behaviour.

Dr. Wiles sent out that appalling tweet on June 1st ostensibly to show solidarity with the George Floyd protests in America, which had by then already exploded into shocking violence. 

The next day on June 2nd, in St.Louis, some protesters murdered retired black cop David Dorn who went to try to protect his friend’s pawn shop from being smashed up and looted.  You can watch Ann Dorn, David’s widow, describe exactly what happened in her heartbreaking address to the Republican National Convention.

By June 5th, 17 Americans had lost their lives in these protests. Many of them were black Americans, but their lives didn’t matter.  Countless people were by then injured and untold businesses smashed.

Yet despite all that harm, the NZ Herald ran a story on June 10th to say that St. Andrew’s College in Christchurch were investigating an incident where a teacher rightly removed Black Lives Matter posters from the walls of the school. The students claimed that the teacher “went berserk” at them and said, “you don’t know what you’re talking about.”

Well done that teacher!

Auckland’s Marist College had students complain over their BLM posters being removed by staff and Christchurch Girl’s College also had students upset that their posters were removed by a teacher who said “all lives matter.”  Senior management intervened and commanded staff to leave the posters up.

No NZ school should suffer this ugly movement’s lying propaganda to be anywhere near their classrooms and playgrounds.

This past weekend saw the death of “Prayer Patriot” and Trump supporter Aaron Danielson in Portland, Oregon.  Video has surfaced of BLM-ANTIFA protesters yelling out, “We’ve got another one right here! A Trumper!” Then two shots ring out. 
 
Close by to the shooting, and after hearing of Danielson’s death, a female BLM-ANTIFA activist shouts into a megaphone:

“And tonight, I just got word that the person who died was a Patriot Prayer Trump person. He was a fucking Nazi!  Our community held its own and took out the trash. I am not going to shed any tears over a Nazi.”

These killer activists have been basking in the solidarity of NZ educational institutions – and it’s utterly unbelievable and unconscionable.

Disgustingly, even the NZ School of Music at Victoria University in Wellington made a firm public statement to show their lemming-like support for BLM.  Their June 2020 newsletter went out with these words:

Black Lives Matter

The New Zealand School of Music—Te Koki affirms its support for the goals of the Black Lives Matter movement, and its commitment to addressing systemic racism, injustice, and violence. We’ve been having discussions as a School as to how we can best open our ears to the conversations taking place at the moment, and are thinking about ways we can take action against any institutional racism within our walls. As these discussions continue, our programmes have come up with some immediate actions they are taking to bring about change. We welcome other suggestions from current and former students, faculty, and staff as to how we create more equitable, more inclusive, and more culturally-relevant learning environments for our students.

The Music Studies programme commits to reviewing our curriculum and research practices to de-center whiteness and prioritize anti-racist approaches in music education and music studies more broadly. This will include examining the content, approaches, and perspectives taught in all of our courses, and more action is to come.

How can a Music School even pretend to teach music if their goal is to de-center whiteness?  On the basis of skin colour alone, that’s Beethoven gone, Brahms, Bach, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Liszt, Wagner, Puccini, Mozart and the rest – all wiped.  And for what? Solidarity with the most racist and violent hate group in America. 
 
That should enrage any true lover of music.  Lindsay Perigo called this Ethnic Cleansing in Academia Aotearoa, and he’s 100 per cent correct. That’s exactly what it is.

This shameless and dangerous groupthink indoctrinating NZ education needs to immediately cease, and in light of the homicidal brutality going on in the name of BLM-ANTIFA, the institutions who have supported them need to publicly apologise and state why. Dr. Siouxie Wiles needs to publicly apologise and state why.

BLM and ANTIFA are terrorising America as we speak and New Zealanders need to wise up instead of acting like useful idiots who pretend the movement is about “fairness and equality.”  Nothing could be further from the truth. It’s about hate and chaos – and they’re openly advocating black superiority to achieve that hate and chaos.  

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