How Many Human Rights Is The New Zealand Government Currently Violating?

The human rights of New Zealanders are outlined in the Bill of Rights Act. This legislation describes the ways in which the Government is, in theory, prohibited from causing harm to the New Zealand people. The astonishing and terrifying fact is that a number of these rights are being violated, right now, by the Sixth Labour Government – and only VJM Publishing cares enough to report on it.

In fact, almost all of our civil and democratic rights (i.e. Sections 12-18 of the Bill of Rights Act), plus some others, are being violated at time of writing.

The COVID-19 pandemic is being used as an excuse by the Government to ignore Section 11, which states: “Everyone has the right to refuse to undergo any medical treatment.” The reality for many today is that they must take a coronavirus vaccine or lose their jobs. It’s illegal in New Zealand to coerce someone into giving up a human right on threat of losing their job, but such is the current hysteria around coronavirus that people are doing it anyway.

Section 13 was violated by the Operation Whakahumanu Police harassment campaign, and the ongoing threat of further harassment. Although Kiwis supposedly have “the right to adopt and to hold opinions without interference,” we can still have cops turn up on our doorstep to intimidate us into silence if we hold the wrong opinions. It seems that intimidation doesn’t quite meet the threshold of interference.

In the case of VJM Publishing, all it took was us selling t-shirts that said ‘It’s Okay To Be White’, and the Police came to our offices to interrogate us about our “concerning” opinions. If one authoritarian snitch claims that a particular opinion you hold is shared by the boogeyman of the moment, then suddenly you’re “ideologically adjacent” to that boogeyman and therefore a threat to national security.

Section 14, which deals with freedom of expression, has been violated in numerous ways. Apparently “Everyone has the right to freedom of expression, including the freedom to seek, receive, and impart information and opinions of any kind in any form.” This section has been violated in more ways than just Operation Whakahumanu.

Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux’s attempt to speak in Auckland showed that public officials can override the New Zealand public’s freedom to receive information on a whim. Auckland Mayor Phil Goff decreed that the subject matter Southern and Molyneux intended to cover was too hot for the globohomo stronghold that is the Auckland economic zone, and the Canadian duo were duly banned from speaking.

The prohibition on the use of spiritual sacraments violates Section 15, which states that “Every person has the right to manifest that person’s religion or belief in worship, observance, practice, or teaching, either individually or in community with others, and either in public or in private.” This particular right was already being violated when the Human Rights Act was passed, and still is.

It’s illegal to practice the Greco-Roman Mystery religions, because these religions involve the use of spiritual sacraments which are illegal. Psilocybin-containing mushrooms, the basis of e.g. the Eleusinian Mysteries, are considered a Class A drug by the New Zealand “Justice” System. This means that the Police will destroy anyone exercising their right to manifest a Greco-Roman Mystery religion in worship, observance or practice.

A hierophant who shared a psychedelic sacrament in a group setting for the sake of communing with the divine, as our Indo-European ancestors did for thousands of years before the scourge of Abrahamism befell us, could face life imprisonment as a penalty, this being the maximum penalty for “supply of a Class A drug”. Life imprisonment for practicing one’s religion is about as severe a human rights abuse as one can get, yet it’s on our law books right now.

Section 16, then, which states that “Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly” is violated in several ways. The most egregious recent example is the arrest and imprisonment for Billy Te Kahika and Vinny Eastwood on August 18th (they have still not been released). Apparently the COVID-19 Response Act means that Section 16 of the Human Rights Act goes out the window.

This is not to mention that Section 16 is also violated by the prohibition on gathering to hear Southern and Molyneux and by the prohibition on gathering to practice Greco-Roman Mystery religions. Peaceful assembly means nothing, it seems; if the Establishment considers you a threat, they will smash you.

Section 17 claims that “Everyone has the right to freedom of association” yet, in practice, only favoured groups are allowed that freedom. If you’re the Mongrel Mob, you can associate freely without interference, but if you’re Action Zealandia, you will find yourself getting targeted by the media (which is, in practice, merely the consent manufacturing arm of the Government).

It might seem strange that New Zealanders of European descent don’t have the freedom to associate without getting smeared by the media, when gang members can not only do so but also get positive press coverage. The only real response to this is to shrug and say “We’re in Clown World now.”

The COVID-19 Response Act has also kicked Section 18 in the arse. Section 18 guarantees that “Everyone lawfully in New Zealand has the right to freedom of movement and residence in New Zealand” but coronavirus hysteria has also seen this one get ignored. The Government doesn’t even have to explicitly override this section; they only have to order the Police to ignore it and they know the Police will obey.

Section 18 also means that the ad hoc roadblocks set up in some rural places are human rights violations. New Zealanders have the right to travel on public roads, which means that other New Zealanders do not have the right to arbitrarily block those roads. Chimping out over coronavirus because you watched too much television is not adequate cause to violate other people’s human rights.

Section 19 is violated in several ways today. This section claims that “Everyone has the right to freedom from discrimination on the grounds of discrimination in the Human Rights Act 1993”. But in practice, anyone can discriminate or be discriminated against – all it requires is the political power (or lack of it) to persuade others to consider you a favoured (or unfavoured) group, a process described by Edward Bernays in Propaganda.

Old people get a big fat basic income of at least $370 per week not available to younger people, brown people get scholarships not available to whites (and sometimes preferential medical care), homosexuals get a level of media attention not available to heterosexuals and women and men both have exclusive spaces not available to the other. In theory, discrimination is illegal, but in reality anyone can freely discriminate against anyone else, as long as they have political power.

The only solution to these constant violations is to replace our toothless human rights system with the Sevenfold Conception of Inherent Human Rights, and empower the average citizen to enforce this conception with violence. This would involve the average citizen being taught about the Sevenfold Conception while at school and then, when an adult, given a state-issued semi-automatic rifle and instructions to use it on any politician threatening the rights outlined in that conception.

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