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New Zealand has allowed itself to sink into tyranny

We said shit like this would happen.

We went to the ballot box so shit like this wouldn't happen.

But our arrogant ruling class gave us the finger - told us we were little people and they knew what is best for us.

So what am I so hot under the collar about?

These people whose livilihoods have been destroyed, their child taken from them and taken to court for strapping their son.

Their lives ruined

My friends I am of a generation that was routinely strapped and worse by parents, and by teachers.

This nation was built by men who were beaten in school - it was routine, a regular everyday occurrence to beat miscreant boys (and to a lesser extent girls) in schools until about thirty years ago.

Is  this country less violent because we have criminalized physical disciplining of children?

The answer is an unequivocable no.

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Where are the Bishops?

A few days ago KG left a comment on a post questioning why the Church is so silent on the matter of the rewrite of humanity and human history that is implicit in the "gay" marriage issue.

Why indeed? 

Why arn't the Bishops in New Zealand out there telling the Faithful why this is so wrong?

We are being forced to accept a major cultural revolution, one which goes to the very heart of how we proceed into the future as a culture and one, which I believe will be fatal to our culture - suicidal in fact because it undermines procreation as an essential activity that people need to undertake in order to continue.

And the people driving this change are not people  such as myself who have invested in the future by having children as a rule. 

They are the Jacida Arderns, Nikki Kayes and so forth, silly school girls in middle aged womens bodies and their fellow travellors.

The Church in New Zealand is dying and it is probably because the Bishops have no spines to stand up to the depredators who have systematically undermined the family and all that is good and wholesome. 

The picture is of Metropolitan Hilarion, a Bishop who will speak his mind, here is a speech he gave to the Anglicans at the behest of the Archbishop of Canterbury. In it he pulls no punches and its ripples are still felt two years later. In part

We are also extremely concerned and disappointed by other processes that are manifesting themselves in churches of the Anglican Communion. Some Protestant and Anglican churches have repudiated basic Christian moral values by giving a public blessing to same-sex unions and ordaining homosexuals as priests and bishops. Many Protestant and Anglican communities refuse to preach Christian moral values in secular society and prefer to adjust to worldly standards.

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Today, European countries as never before need to reinforce moral education, since its absence leads to dire consequences such as accelerating extremism, a decline in the birth rate, environmental pollution and violence. The principles of moral responsibility and of freedom should be consistently implemented in all spheres of human life – politics, economics, education, science, culture and the mass media.

We should not remain silent and look with indifference at a world that is gradually deteriorating. Rather, we should proclaim Christian morality and teach it openly not only in our churches, but also in public spaces including secular schools, universities and in the arena of the mass media. We do not presume to impose our views on anybody but we wish that our voice be heard by those who want to hear it. Unfortunately, we cannot convert the whole world to God, but we should at least make people think about the meaning of life and the existence of absolute spiritual and moral values. We are obliged to bear witness to the true faith always and everywhere so that at least some may be saved (1 Cor. 9:22).

Why is the Church in New Zealand dying? Because the Bishops are timid, that is why.

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Images from Nato occupied Europe

This picture was taken yesterday, it is evocative of an iconic photograph taken in China some years ago - no?

It was taken in the Nato occupied Serbian province of Kosovo and these troops are Germans whose grandfathers occupied these lands two generations ago and had to be driven out during that piece of nastiness we call World War 2.

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American space technology has sure come a long way in the past 51 years

The picture on the left was taken in 1961, the picture on the right yesterday.

When the first picture was taken no American Astronaut had yet flown in space.

Today of course American Astronauts begin their journey into space  by catching  commercial airliners to Khazikstan and hitching a ride aboard a Russian rocket.

The march of progress

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The irony will be lost on the elite

This story fills me with grief and sadness - a woman gets drunk, falls asleep and smothers her newborn.

The hand wringing starts. The woman of course is from the degraded underclass - not one of "us", not one of the "nice people".

So we will lock her up to show how distasteful we find her, and put into motion hopeless processes to protect the young of the underclasses, to get more Government functionaries involved sooner.

But I can't help but think, had this infant been dismembered before birth, the way women from the classes that contain "nice people" do nobody would have batted an eyelid.

Indeed that process happens regularly in Government hospitals, paid for by taxpayer funds and on a scale that boggles the mind.

Best not to think about it.

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Just look at all these crass people

I don't know if vapid celebrities using the F word is a really good way of advancing "the cause".

Just highlights how shallow these people really are IMHO.