Video: New Zealand Journalist Begs Government to Save Us from Government
I get her point, but…
Last week, I enjoined you to watch a video of a pastor taking on a school board. The pastor was based and brave, but my larger point was that there are many more conclusions to be drawn. Most notably, that…
It is time we move beyond genuflecting to government and asking them nicely if they would mind very much not being so tyrannical. If they would stop taking our property by force and claiming the authority to impose their involuntary rule upon us.
It is time to stop asking to be governed AT ALL.
Another video has come up that allows me to make this point again…and so I am going to make the point again. Repetition is the mother of pedagogy. Or, as the pirate flag says, “the beatings will continue until morale improves.”
As described by Maria.Zeee on Instagram, in the video,
Journalist Liz Gunn releases an official statement advising the NZ Ministry of Health Whistleblower and person working with him have both been raided by police.
Liz Gunn reports police are still surrounding the Whistleblowers’ home after several hours following the raid.
Gunn calls for the New Zealand government to call off this tyrannical response and give the Whistleblower the honor and respect he deserves as a national hero.
Watch the video and spread it around—on its own merits, it is very important. Then, I will highlight some choice quotes below in order to make a more general point.
This journalist is brave, and the whistleblowers she is seeking to defend and champion are even braver still. The New Zealand regime is tyrannical, and the police are the enforcers of that tyranny. I respect, admire, and fear for this journalist, and for all of our brave counterparts down under.
That said, I would like you to listen to some of the things she says, and to think about them from a different angle.
She begins by explaining the situation:
I'm Liz Dunn and this is an emergency call around the world from New Zealand.…I've had a call to say that the whistleblower who has put out the crucial information exposing the Covid lies, exposing the information that he had working for the Ministry of Health in New Zealand has had his house surrounded by police at 2.15 today. It has been swarming with police, the time now is almost 5 o'clock.
This is obviously tyranny and intimidation by a corrupt government. And it gets worse:
I have not gone public yet because I wanted not to inflame the situation but why are the police there still? And this I heard 10 minutes ago, as well as that 10 minutes ago, the second person who backs up that whistleblower and one of the people who contacted me along with the whistleblower has had her house now surrounded by police.
Moving forward from here, I will start to sound a little sarcastic. This is not in any way to denigrate this journalist. I very much respect what she is doing here, and I want her to be successful in her emergency call.
I also do not wish to alienate you, dear reader, if you are not quite where I am regarding the legitimacy of government. (I have only been where I am for a little over a year, so I get it.)
My sarcasm (if that is what one wishes to call it) is just a device to illustrate a much broader point: taking the long view of history…why do we keep asking to be ruled and then begging our rulers not to rule us so roughly? It just seems like there is a better way.
So, for what it’s worth…
Here is where she begins to ask if one government would mind very much not being quite so tyrannical as the previous government:
So those two people are no longer available to talk to us and I must put this message out to the world. I would remind the new New Zealand government, under Luxon, that you must get out the truths and show you are different from the tyrannical Ardern government.
And how is that working out so far?
This is a massive challenge for you. This is where you show New Zealand what kind of a government you will be….
I am pretty sure that is exactly what they are doing. They have two whistleblowers’ homes surrounded by enforcers of the regime police. Isn’t that clear enough?
You got into government promising New Zealanders that you would stand up for what we call the freedom truth-telling movement, that you would put out a full COVID inquiry.
Why oh why won’t politicians keep their promises?
Because “democracy” does not oblige them to. Because they don’t really represent you. Because voting is not actually consent.
The whistleblower tried to reach you as well. I gave him your number and he said that he would give you all the information. We were both willing to give you the first drop and make you the hero politician of the world.
If we stroke your ego enough, won’t you please rule us a little better?
We are still willing to do that but I am calling on you, Winston. I am calling on you, help these people. Make sure Luxon calls off the police, make sure they are freed immediately, make sure that this whistleblower is honored as a New Zealand hero for telling the people of the world the truth.
Pleeeeeeease?
I am asking you, Winston, show that you really meant what you said when you stood in this election and got all those freedom votes.
We’ve been voting for people to rule over us for a couple of centuries. For millennia before that, we accepted the claim that some people are literally born to rule and others to be ruled.
And yet, no matter how nicely we ask, they never actually set us free. Imagine that.
Perhaps the problem is more fundamental than simply which set of rulers we choose and which system they use.
You must send messages to this new government under Christopher Luxon, care of the New Zealand Parliament in Wellington, around the world demanding that the whistleblowers be freed and me too if they come for me.
This is absolute tyranny.
And in a few years, we are going to install another group of rulers and ask them not to be so tyrannical. Maybe if we say ‘pretty please’…
The greater importance is if a government is shown to be criminal, then it is absolutely essential that the people of that country find a way to expose that criminality.
And then what?
“Oh no, they are going to vote out one government and replace it with…another government.”
I’m sure government is quaking in its jackboots.
And that is what I have done here as a reporter, as a journalist, that is a journalist’s role
“After years of hard work and investigative journalism, lightning struck and journalists actually managed to unseat an especially corrupt government official. Whereupon several more immediately took his place. And then the journalists, the politicians, and everyone else went back to arguing over which crop of rulers ought to rule us the next time.”
Lather, rinse, repeat.
I respect the small number of journalists who are working to expose real corruption in government. Now, perhaps it is time to examine the question of whether involuntary governance as a system is fundamentally corrupt.
In future years, if the world does not stand by and with and stand up for these whistleblowers, help New Zealand, we are in dire straits if this new government perpetrates the tyranny and brutality of Jacinda Ardern's ghastly government.
In future years, people will continue doing exactly what they are doing now…
Pleading with government officials to control themselves, and to control other officials of the same government.
Accepting and perpetuating the myth that they have a legitimate monopoly on the use of violence. That they can commit acts that would be considered unacceptable if committed by a private citizen.
Replacing one government with another and asking it to pretty please not be as tyrannical as the last one.
Claiming that this is the only way it can be, for all time, and shrieking like Invasion of the Body Snatchers at anyone who suggests otherwise.
Contact Winston Peters, care of the New Zealand Parliament, demand that he stands up as well. It is crucial, it is crucial that they are freed.
Or what?
Or else.
Or else WHAT?
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My apologies to this journalist for using her video to make this broader point, and for my tone in doing so. I just want people to start thinking about government in a new way.
I really do understand how unnerving this topic is…
All we’ve ever known, with few exceptions, are governments. A government is an entity that claims a monopoly on the use of legitimate violence and the dispensation of final justice. There is a large body of (convincing and erudite) literature with ideas on how we can replace these with competing private providers of justice and security, but there are few historical examples1, and it all feels very much like uncharted waters.
There is also the objection that we are so far away from such goals that it is simply impractical to talk about them—that we should be voting and fighting from within to change the system, rather than looking to abstract philosophy and far-off changes. I get that too, and as I have stated before, I support those who are taking that approach.
But for right now, that is not my job.
A few centuries ago, we began to realize that no one is actually born with the automatic authority to rule another—that there are no real fixed classes of highborn and lowborn. So we left behind HumanGovernance 1.0 and moved to 2.0—the era of democracy.
The term democracy here is a top-level category used to distinguish one part of a continuum that measures degree of dispersion of decision-making authority:
Monarchy depends upon oligarchy to function. Democracy far too easily gives way to oligarchy. And besides—democracy simply replaces the monarch with voting majorities (and bureaucrats, and politically connected special interests) as the ones bossing you around.
For right now, my job is to get you thinking about a move to HumanGovernance 3.0 —the era when we begin to reject involuntary authority of any kind.
In the near future, I will shift my focus to offering more practical solutions. But for right now, I want to get people thinking about the fundamental immorality of this system. To try to shake people out of the long-held belief that how things are now is how they must be, forever and ever.
I am here reminded of a moment in the Sherlock Holmes story “The Copper Beeches” (specifically the Jeremy Brett television adaptation):
Dr. John Watson : What delightful little farms these are, don't you agree? Aren't they fresh and beautiful?
Sherlock Holmes : Do you know, Watson, it is one of the curses of having a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject.
So it was with me when I saw the video above. Yes, it rang the same alarm bells in me that it did for you. And I hope she is successful in her mission.
And yet, because of my current focus, I also heard yet one more human crying out against tyranny in one breath and then begging our overlords not to be so tyrannical in the next…as if no other option were possible.
I get that most people have never even heard of other options, so this is not a critique—merely an observation. Indeed, it prompts me to a metaphor, which I am hesitant to make because of its prurient nature. I try to keep things PG around here—I am not a prude or puritan, but I also don’t want to alienate a bunch of people with salacious content.
But I am compelled, in this instance, to cross into that territory in order to make a point…
There is a meme going around, intended to mock statists, leftists, and all those who never met a government rule they didn’t like. It includes a picture of an NPC along with the suggestive caption,
Ooh, govern me harder, daddy.
It certainly gets the point across. However, the normies and statists whom that meme mocks are (in the short term, at least) lost causes. They will comply with every rule, bend the knee to every official and expert, and believe every word they are told. I am not trying to reach them.
The people I want to reach are those who know there is a problem but nonetheless keep going, hat in hand, to government, asking for a solution…the people who are, in essence, saying,
Stop governing me so hard, daddy. Can’t you be a little gentler while you’re defiling me against my will?
Sorry, but the metaphor, prurient though it may be, is apt. We have been a slave species for so long, we don’t know any better.
I get it. Until fairly recently, I too was a “limited-government conservative.” I too believed there was some amount of nonconsensual defilement that was acceptable. I too believed there was no other way.
I no longer believe that, and I would like you to stop believing it too.
“In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.” —James Madison
There are some, however—mostly notably, the 1,000 years of Brehon Law in Ireland, and the successful tenure of private merchant and marine law codes from the Middle Ages up until the modern era.
Love this piece! Thanks for highlighting that there are other options besides us asking to be governed by other non-fully formed humans who are corruptible by power they haven’t earned and yet learned to wield with conscience.
Side message to all brave, good-faith whistleblowers:
First, Godspeed, and thank you for your bravery. Second, please consider documenting all your key information privately for storage on a "dead-man's switch". Once per month (or so) the information will be released via email to multiple addresses you choose *unless* you manually disable the release.
Do a search on "dead-man's switch", and you'll find multiple services that will manage the switch for you, including provisions to avoid accidental release. You may need more than one of these services for safety.
And consider making it known publicly that you have info stored on a dead-man's switch. If Big Govt grandees and their enforcement goons *know* you have Kompromat stored on a dead-man's switch, they'll be less likely to abscond with you, jail you, (or worse).