A System That We Can All Be Proud Of

In a fiery exchange between a mainstream media lackey and CounterSpin Media host Kelvyn Alp, Alp summarised the desire of the Wellington protesters and the freedom movement more generally: a system that we can all be proud of. In the absence of any better suggestion, this essay outlines what such a system might look like.

There is one big problem with the current New Zealand system: the vast majority of the benefits from all the work performed go to a very small number of people. Under our current economic arrangement, the benefits of labour don’t go to the labourer but to the owner of the land upon which the labour was performed. This is called capitalism, and if you don’t like it you’re responsible for tens of millions of deaths by starvation in Russia and China.

It’s an ugly system. It’s not much different to medieval feudalism, in which the vast majority of people were serfs beholden to a lord. The serfs worked all day, and then the lord came in and took their productivity away for his own purposes, leaving the serfs with barely enough to get through to the next tax day (if they were lucky).

Being a New Zealander is a constant humiliation.

Not only must one deal with the fact that one’s wages hardly go anywhere, but one must also deal with the pettiness of average New Zealanders. This pettiness follows from being a small, isolated country infested with the slave morality of Christianity. There’s nothing we love more than ripping our neighbours down once they make something of themselves. Anyone with any self-esteem has to be destroyed.

Nothing about the way our system is run engenders pride. We have to aim higher.

A system that we can all be proud of would entail change from the ground up. It would require a total paradigm shift from a mentality of profit before all, to a mentality of alleviating the suffering of the New Zealand nation. It would require raising solidarity between the various communities of New Zealand, rather than setting them against each other.

The first step in bringing this about is to restore basic dignity to the average worker by making it possible for them to get ahead.

As of right now, the average New Zealand worker has no chance of ever owning their own home. Wages are so low in comparison to house prices and rents that the average house now costs over 25,000 hours of labour at the average wage. This contrasts rudely with the average house price in 1992: 7,000 hours of labour at the average wage. Not only does the average worker have trouble buying a house, they have trouble saving at all.

It’s impossible for the average worker to be proud of a system that exploits them to such an extent. It’s like asking a plantation slave to be proud of the plantation system. Our economy must be completely redesigned, so that it once again becomes possible for the average worker to buy a house and raise a family on their wage.

To this end, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand ought to be given an entirely new remit: to alleviate the suffering of the New Zealand people. This new remit would replace the existing focus on inflation and unemployment. The problem with this existing focus is that it inclines the Reserve Bank to drop interest rates to the floor for the sake of encouraging borrowing (and thereby spending), but these low interest rates just lead to ballooning house prices.

Also to this end, the mass importation of cheap labour must stop immediately. There is nothing that has lowered the standard of living of the average Kiwi worker more than having been forced to compete with imported cheap labour. Increasing the supply of cheap labour inevitably lowers the price of that labour, and New Zealand’s historical addiction to it is one of the prime reasons why our wages are in the toilet. We have to go clean.

A final step is that tax incentives must be used to attract investment in productive capital. A land tax must be introduced to shift investment from land banking to business. New Zealand’s productivity is infamously low, the result of many things, but foremost among them is the lack of capital investment. Because New Zealand employers have historically always been able to import cheap labour, they have not been incentivised to invest in productive capital.

None of these suggestions require jingoism, supremacy or xenophobia. New Zealand doesn’t need to denigrate other nations in order to create a system that we can all be proud of. But we have to give our own people a fair deal. And this starts with giving the everyday Kiwi a fair standard of living for full-time work. That a full-time worker can afford a decent house that they can raise a family in could be the basis of a system that we could all be proud of.

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New Conservatives Forced Into Humiliating Climbdown On Cannabis Policy

The New Conservative Party recently changed their drug policy to remove the reference to increasing the legal penalties for cannabis use. This climbdown went unannounced, and was not noticed by other media concerns. But VJM Publishing noticed it, as we have been criticising the old New Conservative drug policy for years.

As captured in this screenshot from the Wayback Machine, the New Conservative drug policy used to state they wanted to increase penalties for cannabis use. This was consistent with the principles of the Christianity practiced by the New Conservatives, which seeks to destroy all genuine spiritual practice, leaving the Christian cult the sole purveyor of spiritual goods. Cannabis, which has been used as a spiritual sacrament by Indo-European people for thousands of years, is seen as evil by Abrahamists.

The problem is that such a policy is inconsistent with the principles of freedom, and New Conservatives have always presented themselves as a freedom party. Much of Elliot Ikilei’s campaign material from the 2020 General Election prominently featured the word “FREEDOM”, and freedom from the tyrannical Sixth Labour Government was one of the main selling points of the New Conservative movement.

However, claiming to stand for freedom at the same time as standing for the oppression of cannabis users is a blatant contradiction. VJM Publishing has been resolute in pointing out this contradiction. Every time someone preached to us the imperative of voting New Conservatives for the sake of freedom, we pointed out that the New Conservatives themselves opposed freedom for cannabis users.

Christians ripped into us for this stance. “Who cares about cannabis users?” they cried. Cannabis users are degenerates, their filthy habit should not be tolerated. Cannabis use causes violence and crime, they bleated (unlike our holy scripture that says followers of other religions should be killed). Only the freedoms that we want are actual freedoms – anyone wanting other freedoms can get stuffed.

But what goes around, comes around.

So when former New Conservative leader Leighton Baker was arrested in Wellington, he didn’t get much sympathy from these quarters. I couldn’t refrain from remarking that the Police did to Baker exactly what Baker wanted done to cannabis users. As such, it was fitting that he got a taste of his own medicine. This opinion proved immensely unpopular in some quarters (I was banned from several TeleGram groups for uttering it), but I stand by it.

All laws are enforced by Police violence. Every single one. If a person performs an action which is morally right, but which is legally wrong, a Police officer might arrest that person. If that person should resist the arrest on the grounds that their action was morally right, the Police officer will physically smash that person into submission in order to make the arrest possible.

Therefore, those who support cannabis prohibition also support violence done towards cannabis users by the law enforcement authorities. Although many supporters of cannabis prohibition deny this, it’s a fact made evident by simple logic. This is why cannabis users have understandable cause to resent those who support cannabis prohibition. It’s a similar level of brain-dead prejudice to wanting someone locked up for having sex with another consenting adult.

VJM Publishing made all of these arguments in the wake of Baker’s arrest. It seems that the irrationality of New Conservatives’ drug policy became apparent to them at some point shortly after, because they updated it to remove the policy of increasing penalties for cannabis use.

The basic inhumanity of cannabis prohibition is now evident to even the most morally depraved section of society, the Christian conservative. It’s surely just a matter of time before the law is significantly changed.

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Learnings From The Truckers’ Convoy And Parliament Lawn Protests

Now that the Police have broken up the freedom protest in Wellington, it’s time to look back on the past month and determine what can be learned from the experience. In the opinion of this author, four important lessons are immediately evident.

1. Establish a clear leadership structure.

The freedom movement needs to have established leaders who can be relied upon to give accurate information to supporters about the state of affairs. The February convoys were beset by misinformation and rumour-mongering, some of it deliberately stirred up by Establishment lackeys, mainstream media hacks and other tools of authoritarianism.

Some detachments of the convoys were sent down wrong routes by trolls pretending to be organisers, and a grifter pretending to be part of the movement was able to trick people into making donations into his personal bank account. A clear leadership structure needs to be established to avoid these dangers. The masses must be told who these leaders are so that they know not to trust rumours being spread by others.

These national leaders must be unifying figures who have broad support among alternative thinkers. This means no Brian Tamakis or Derek Taits. A person like Outdoors Party Leader Sue Grey would be ideal. This person would have to be responsible for delegating responsibilities to other members of the leadership structure, and would therefore have to be available full time.

A goal might be to find a trusted representative from each leg of the route to stay in touch with the national leadership, as well as the Logistics Committee and Media and Public Relations Committee (see below). The ultimate goal would be a structure that protected the movement from false rumours, outside agitators, mainstream media lies and the machinations of Establishment politicians.

2. Establish a Logistics Committee.

At one point, rumour had it that the viability of the Parliament lawn campsite hinged on whether the protest organisers could arrange Portaloos for the protesters. This is an example of the logistical considerations that protest organisers need to consider. Next time, a Logistics Committee needs to take care of any issues relating to providing the basic needs of thousands of people.

As Kelvyn Alp mentioned on Counterspin the other night, the convoy participants were met along the way by people handing out bread and other food. A large number of people suddenly descending on a city will inevitably require large amounts of food and drink. A Logistics Committee is needed to help deal to this suddenly increased demand for basic needs. Arranging shelter is also vital work.

Logistics also includes the provision of a public address system. The PA system for the speakers outside Parliament was provided by a church group, which soon refused to let anyone else speak except for preachers. The freedom movement must try to supply everything needed for its purposes without relying on outsiders who may have other motives.

3. Establish a Media and Public Relations Committee.

The mainstream media’s coverage of the protests was little more than an effort to smear the protesters as white supremacists. All throughout, the mainsteam media spread rumours of neo-Nazi involvement, sexual assaults in the camp and violence against bystanders. The mainstream media is an arm of the control system and the enemy of the New Zealand people, and they need to be considered as such. Therefore, they must be dealt with intelligently.

To this end, the freedom movement needs a Media and Public Relations Committee to deal with media interactions.

One important part of this is to provide press releases to scoop.co.nz and to other journalistic sources. This will get the true message out about the motivations, intentions and aspirations of the movement and will pre-empt the authorities and the mainstream media from smearing us as racists and white supremacists. We must speak for ourselves so that our enemies are prevented from doing so.

These press releases must serve the imperative to win the propaganda war. Winning this war also involves getting the message out through channels other than the mainstream media, who will twist and spin things to serve their masters in the Establishment. Close liasons with alternative media must be maintained. Freedom movement leaders must get themselves interviewed by, and get their opinion pieces published by, the alternative media.

4. Keep the Christians and other fanatics out.

VJM Publishing has long made the argument that the freedom movement cannot include Christians for the simple reason that Christians do not support freedom, as evidenced by Christian opposition to cannabis law reform, prostitution law reform and homosexual law reform, and Christian support for the legal right to hit one’s children and to rape one’s wife.

These five strikes do not mean that Christians should be made to feel excluded, but it means that Christians cannot be allowed into influential positions within the movement. They will sabotage the movement to the benefit of their cult if any opportunity arises, and will always cause infighting as they inevitably seek to impose themselves upon and exclude non-Christians.

To this end, Destiny Church and Brian Tamaki have to be completely excluded. Destiny and Tamaki claim to be freedom fighters, but they recently campaigned for the New Zealand Government to destroy cannabis users in the 2020 cannabis referendum. Therefore, they do not understand freedom. They are simply grifters using the freedom movement to promote their cult, and need to be utterly shunned.

Any religious fundamentalist who has previously campaigned to take freedoms away from the New Zealand people must be excluded from the freedom movement. This means anti-cannabis fanatics like Tamaki, Elliot Ikilei and Leighton Baker. The freedom movement has to be smart enough to tell the difference between people who truly stand up for freedom and people who just say that they do.

This goes for all other fanatics. No Communists, no Nazis, no “you should be allowed to buy children on the free market” libertarians. Anyone who thinks they can decide for other people what’s right for them has to be excluded. They will only cause infighting.

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The Three Layers Of The Control System

There are three layers to the control system which rules over us and which keeps us in a state of submission. These layers reflect the basic strategies that the rulers of the control system use to paralyse our ability to resist the abuses they heap upon us. The three layers can be arranged in descending order, from the most subtle coercion to the crudest.

The first and most subtle layer of coercion involves the the priesthood, which imitates gold.

This layer is subtle because it relates to the spirit. Here, the control system takes measures to sap the will of their victims, making them unwilling to resist or avenge abuses. These measures are made possible through being dressed in the trappings of spirituality. The incomprehensibility of divinity means that such measures, associated with the transcendent and eternal, are ever-effective.

One of the most effective of these measures is brainwashing people to think that, if they don’t obey the priests, they will reincarnate in Hell. Anyone disobeying the dark priesthood of the control system is told that they risk the wrath of God. The masses are told that they are morally obliged to kneel down and submit to the established powers, by divine order.

Spiritually brainwashing people to be submissive is most apparent in the constant preaching in favour of weakness and passivity. The top layer of the control system always preaches that the right course of action is to do nothing and wait for Jesus to come back, or to wait for the End Times. Meanwhile, the rulers of the control system wage war after war, massacring people in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Balkans, Vietnam, Korea, Europe and dozens of smaller theatres.

The priesthood admonishes us to forgive our abusers, even when those abusers have no intention of ceasing. In doing so, they condition us to accept being abused. Through the workings of the dark priesthood, the control system induces us to submit to evil. The trouble for the controllers is that, today, most people no longer follow priests, which is where the second layer of the control system comes in.

The second layer of coercion is the mainstream media and major banking and financial interests, representing the silver.

The dark priesthood works to subjugate people’s wills, but if the people are intelligent enough, they will see through the lies of false religions. This is when the mainstream media steps in. If the priesthood is there to weaken people’s souls, the mainstream media is there to weaken their minds. This mental destruction is achieved in two major ways.

The first is by spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt. For all the politicians crying about misinformation being spread by foreign actors on social media, the number one source of misinformation is the mainstream media itself. Mainstream journalists and reporters only tell the Establishment’s side of the story, normalising the control system and its objectives at the expense of the people controlled.

The second is by destroying the reputations of anyone who resists the control system. As soon as any genuine leaders stand up among the people, the mainstream media deploys every slur it can think of – Nazi, white supremacist, nutjob, terrorist, extremist, radical – to induce the masses to withdraw their support.

The banking and financial interests also play a role here. Not only do they fund the mainstream media, but they also work to subjugate the population with debt. The mainstream media normalises the idea of half-million dollar mortgages, and then the banking and finance interests suck labour out of people for decades. The average person’s gigantic debt makes them unwilling to take risks to upset the status quo.

The third layer of coercion is the law enforcement bodies, representing the iron.

If the control system can’t subjugate the population by weakening their souls or their minds, the population will tend to become enraged. The worse they are governed, the more enraged they become. If things get really bad, people often start demonstrating and protesting physically, by occupying public space. This terrifies the controllers of the control system because they’re afraid of a revolution in which they get guillotined.

In such cases, the control system sends the hard iron of the Police forces in to smash dissenters physically – a low-frequency defence to a low-frequency threat. Examples abound, most recently with the Wellington lawn protests getting broken up by Police (or, as Anarkiwi phrased it, the February Revolt was put down).

The layer of iron is the control system’s most fundamental layer. As Robert A. Heinlein put it, violence is “The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.” Although the control system tries to engender submission first with spiritual lies and then with intellectual lies, these both stop working once people become wise to them. At this point, the control system sends in the batons and water cannon.

The control system knows that the more subtle the control, the less resentment it generates, and that resentment is liable to spill over into civil unrest. Hence, in libertarian societies they tend to be reluctant to send the Police in to smash protesters. The smart approach – and the control system is smart, even if it’s evil – is to suppress the masses with the most subtle measures first.

The danger for the control system in the short term is that faith in both mainstream religion and mainstream media have never been lower. This means that general satisfaction with the control system has never been lower, and therefore that the risk of severe unrest has never been higher. The immediate future of Clown World is likely to involve more violence.

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