December 22, 2024 - Personal blog of Rick Giles

If You Get Hurt Who Gets Harmed?

By NZB3

Oh bugger off Government Accident Compensation Corporation with your latest patronising propaganda campaign. New Zealanders are not kindergarten idiots in need of being told how to chop wood or reach for something up high on a shelf. Truth is the government definitely don’t care if you come to harm. They care that you might claim […]

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February 21, 2022

The Media Priesthood

By NZB3

I like this picture of a media priestess. The steeple behind conjures up the image of a church. The colored panel of screens resemble a stained glass window of a cathedral. The Fourth Estate has taken over the role previously held by the Church in our society. Using words they are a sophisticated form of […]

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February 19, 2022

Policeman’s Pirouette

By NZB3

The cops said they would tow on Friday. They said they would have it done by Monday. They said they’d do it on Tuesday, no Wednesday. Thursday came and went. Today, Friday, they said “Police Commissioner Andrew Coster said threatening to tow the vehicles of anti-mandate protesters in Wellington had escalated tensions in an unsafe […]

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February 19, 2022

“Isn’t it time you packed up your tent and went home before everything turns nasty?”

By NZB3

Kerre McIvor’s talkback editorial calls for Freedom Protesters to “pack up their tents” before “everything turns nasty.” That style of threat reminds me of a viscous old school mistress I had as a kid of Kerre’s same generation. Come to think of it, she had the same hair that probably comes from the same bottle. […]

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February 17, 2022

Freedom Protest is Stonewalled by Every Party?

By NZB3

“Has there ever before been a protest to parliament that was stonewalled by every party? What the heck is going on?” asks Lindsay Mitchell. This is a question NZB3 answered using a model taught to thousands of sociology students at our universities. Professor Robert K. Merton’s Social Structure and Anomie (1938) is the most popular […]

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February 16, 2022

Freedom Protest “Unsafe” and “Disorganised”

By NZB3

“To be amongst the protestors is both calming and exhilarating. There’s a strong sense of trust in one another which has been long denied by lockdown separations, physical distancing and masking. People are working together to overcome adversities thrown at them by nature or the state” wrote Lindsay Mitchell last night. Unsafe? Better quarantine all […]

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February 14, 2022

Take This Government Survey

By NZB3

In February 2021 the Labour 6.0 Government asked you to be a beta tester for their new forced history lessons for our kids. At that point their new compulsory history lessons were set to go in 2022. Like so many other plans of this Government they have been stalled/delayed/cancelled; This time until election year 2023 […]

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February 12, 2022

Realpolitik

By NZB3

I don’t know how long this has been going on, this current form of politics. 15 or 20 Years? That’s also when a ‘debate’ stopped being a debate but instead a point-scoring game taught at our universities. I know, I was there. Debate Society at the University of Canterbury was all about disingenuous interjections and […]

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February 11, 2022

Disruptions in Wellington

By NZB3

Glad to see ex-politician and Anarchist Rodney Hide supporting the pro-freedom protests at Parliament. “I support the protest 100 percent,” he says, on his blog BASSETT, BRASH & HIDE. I support it 100% too within the context it exists in. The proviso is that I would prefer people be Anarchists and not Statists. Watching the […]

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February 10, 2022

“Never been more than 11 COVID-19 patients in ICU at any one time”

By NZB3

The mainstream, aided by the media, aided by government PR, keep re-inforcing that narrative that a molecule is holding us hostage and not ourselves. ‘COVID means this,’ ‘Delta did that,’ or ‘Omicron means that..’ The truth has always been, as it always must be, that we are responsible for how we respond to any crisis […]

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February 9, 2022