By Olivia Pierson

The following is republished from Hatchard Report and is an excellent, though tragic, reminder that NZ is in the fight of its life as a free nation.

Even something as wonderful as the NZ Symphony Orchestra has lost its way through sheer collective cowardice... except for one violist, Nicholas Hancox. God bless his integrity.

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God’s Own Country
by Guy Hatchard

One of my favourite books read whilst at Christchurch Teachers College was “Cry The Beloved Country” by Alan Paton. A 1948 novel about the trials and tribulations in pre-apartheid South Africa. It poignantly mourns the loss of the stability offered by traditional tribal ties as the economic and social alienation of blacks takes root in the cities.

In 1980 New Zealand was still referred to as Godzone, a derivation of reforming Premier Richard Seddon’s turn of the century vision. ‘Godzone’ cherishes the ideal of a free caring society set in pristine nature. Whether this was ever fully true doesn’t really matter, it was something to aim for and be proud of. It celebrated our aspiration to be an inclusive, kind, and freedom-loving society.

The End of the Dream

Stuff Newspaper, famously sold for $1 in May 2020, is now generously funded by the New Zealand government to stuff us, in their words, full of “The Whole Truth.” Today Stuff published an article entitled “NZSO musician with anti-mandate ties seeking council seat.”

This is just another in a series of Stuff articles attacking anyone who opposed government Covid vaccine mandates, but for me it signals the end of the Godzone dream.

The assistant principal viola in the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Nicholas Hancox is standing in the upcoming local body elections, but he is not welcome to do so. His crimes as detailed by the Arts Correspondent of Stuff are as follows:

• An orchestra colleague accused Hancox of wearing a “Freedom-affiliated T-shirt” to a chamber music rehearsal.

 

• Hancox sent an email to his NZSO colleagues in December in which he linked various articles from scientific journals which questioned the safety and effectiveness of mRNA vaccination.

 

• Symphony orchestra publicist Tom Cardy described NZSO as ‘nonpolitical’ (??) but linked Mr Hancox’s criticism of mRNA vaccination to the government’s Covid-19 policies and said NZSO staff must refrain from “any act, omission, or statement that may detrimentally affect the goodwill or reputation” of the orchestra. Cardy also said “employees should not do anything that could compromise or be seen to compromise the NZSO’s ability to retain the Government’s confidence”.

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• Hancox made a submission to Parliament opposing the Covid-19 Public Health Response Amendment Bill. Stuff describes such actions as part of an effort to make New Zealand ‘ungovernable.’

So let’s examine these crimes one by one:

• He wore a freedom T-shirt—apparently offending an unwritten and little-known NZ dress code disbarring references to freedom. Oxford Languages defines freedom as “the state of not being imprisoned or enslaved.”

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• He referenced mainstream scientific journals—he should have referenced the government alone or perhaps Stuff arts correspondents. This is perhaps the end of NZ science. Do you think this is an acceptable position or the start of fanaticism? Fanaticism is defined as “belief or behaviour involving uncritical zeal, excessive enthusiasm, blind faith, and the persecution of dissidents.”

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• He held political views different from the government—to retain employment at government-funded NZSO he should have been a musician devoid of political opinions. A restriction compatible with repressive regimes.

 

• He responded to a government public consultation initiative—he should have kept his mouth shut and obeyed without question. Surely the government should stop this pretence of public consultation, responding will only get you into trouble.

Among the journal articles Mr. Hancox linked is this one: 
Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States, an early article whose conclusions have been widely replicated and have since been acknowledged as accurate—the study’s main point being that mRNA vaccination does little to reduce Covid case incidence. Something that we are very well aware of in New Zealand as the vaccinated have filled our hospitals out of proportion to their numbers.

An article written in 1940 by Leo Fanning entitled “New Zealand… A Free Land. The Real God’s Own Country” said:

“No man who found himself suddenly endowed with infinite power could design and make a better country than New Zealand—happy isles of heart’s desire. Here nature offers mankind every gift for health of body and mind…Anyone with a good knowledge of the people here believes firmly that they will strive to their utmost to keep themselves free because they know well that they have a country worth keeping, a country worth guarding.”
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I hope the significance of Hancox’s crimes are clear. We are no longer a free country nor a chosen people. We have somehow created an exclusive political class so sure of their right to rule us that the very word ‘freedom' sends shudders through their ranks and elicits calls to close the door to those who cherish the opportunity to learn and express themselves—they are no longer welcome here.

By Olivia Pierson

August has been an utter disgrace to our nation, showing just how serious Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is about smashing freedom of expression in New Zealand. 

I have been writing about this glaringly fascist tendency in our PM since she was given the role by kingmaker Winston Peters back in 2017. She made it clear that Kiwis having the traditional cultural right to express their own ideas about anything and everything was something she was just not going to tolerate. 

We Must Speak Freely - It's Holy Ground!

The Human Rights Commission & Free Speech

Rhetoric Doesn’t Kill People, Violence Does: New Zealand’s Anger, Sorrow & Worry

What Happened to Renaud Camus is Coming to NZ

Little Truth Does He Know

Satire Died a Quick Death in New Zealand

Kiwis Just Put Their Money Where Their Mouths Are

There is no Measure for Hate Speech

Criminalising Hate Speech - an Affront to Our Natural Liberties

Ardern Intent on Smashing Free Speech

From Prime Minister to Tyrant

Jacinda Ardern: the Woman’s Weekly Prime Minister

Here we are in the latter half of 2022 and in just one week we saw Chantelle Baker’s hugely popular Facebook page deactivated, we saw Avi Yemini of Rebel News barred entry into NZ and disgustingly, we saw Kelvyn Alp and Hannah Spierer of Counterspin Media arrested with their production gear, laptops and cell phones all confiscated. 

These despicable anti-liberty actions have all been done ostensibly for different reasons, but the reasons remain odiously crappy... “spreading disinformation” or in Yemini's case, a low-level "previous criminal conviction” that ended up as merely a $3,000 fine.  Alp and Spierer have had the legal book thrown at them for “distributing an objectionable publication” - some link to an overseas website about a documentary on the Christchurch mosque shootings, according to Spierer. Even though Alp is clearly a dick and sounds like a loon, there better be more to this story. 

We’d already seen Lauren Southern and Stephan Molyneux barred from speaking at a paid event and we’d already seen Brian and Hannah Tamaki arrested during illegal lockdowns for daring to organise peaceful protests about them. We’d already seen Lee Williams, employee of Synlait Dairy Company, fired and absolutely hounded out of the country back to the UK by Maori Party extreme-Left activists who didn’t appreciate Williams' idea of taking the piss (Kiwis aren’t used to satire anymore because it’s never allowed on our airwaves). 

This is the obvious persecution of conservative voices in our country. Despite whether we agree with their views or not, or whether we like them as people or not, our nation  
once was much better than this one, which now makes its police monitor and suppress the views of too many of our citizens. Dissent is essential to any country's survival, psychological health and freedom, but the fact that Jacinda Ardern won't tolerate it shows you just how weakly rotten she is as a person, let alone as a leader of a free people. She despises the very notion of liberty because she’s a flakey, grinning, horse-faced, fucking fascist.

We’re not going to tolerate her civilisation-smashing nonsense. This is our country. Fight back New Zealand, ferociously! Our freedoms are given to us by Nature and Nature’s God. Any human who acts to take them away is simply evil, impotent and destructible. Remember that.