New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is one of the best examples of authoritarianism in action. This is the country that implemented a nationwide lockdown over ONE case of COVID-19. Ardern was just following the science; as she told the country in 2020, “We will continue to be your single source of truth…. Unless you hear it from us it is not the truth.”
Ardern is very concerned about misinformation. As she told the United Nations, how can you fight climate change if people don’t believe it exists? These climate change deniers as using social media as a “weapon of war.”
PM Jacinda Ardern calls internet freedom a “weapon of war” in most recent UN speech. Calls for a new type of internet with “rules and transparency”.
“How do you tackle climate change if people don’t believe it exists”.
Source: https://t.co/ZaBdZq6N0U pic.twitter.com/c0V66jEvfG— Wittgenstein (@backtolife_2023) September 28, 2022
Evil communist says what?
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) September 28, 2022
Ok comrade
— ZUBY: (@ZubyMusic) September 28, 2022
Is the climate crisis in the room with us now?
— 𝔹𝕝𝕦𝕖𝕣𝕚𝕕𝕘𝕖𝕎𝕍 – Gov't Overreach Monitor (@Blueridgewv) September 28, 2022
The priestess of the Green cult
— M.N. Miller (@marknoelmiller) September 28, 2022
She’s so concerned about climate change that she flew to the UK for the Queens funeral and then flew to New York to speak at the UN. Surely if she was that worried she’d have sent the NZ Ambassador in the UK to represent her at the funeral and spoken to the UN by zoom?
— Lyndsay Hopkins (@lyndsay_hopkins) September 28, 2022
Girl power. So great!
— Daren Epstein (@darenadam8) September 28, 2022
The guillotine was invented for elitists like this.
— LCPUSA (@LCPUSA) September 28, 2022
She really is the worst.
The Authoritarians Just Admitted Your Free Speech Is a Threat to Their Rule https://t.co/E8H2uDCgfs
— RedState (@RedState) September 28, 2022
Brandon Morse of our sister-site RedState writes:
This is the left admitting where a large portion of their threat to them lies. Your ability to discuss ideas, research, and weigh the evidence for yourself makes pushing narratives far more difficult. They want to cripple the critical thinking skills you develop through the natural process of communication.
There’s a reason the founders made free speech the first God-given right on the list. There is no freedom if there is no free speech. This doesn’t just mean in the physical public square. This also means any .com or social media platform that exists must be able to allow the distribution of information without interference from the government.
Your freedom rests on your ability to communicate your ideas and in today’s world, that’s primarily done on the internet.
Allowing these authoritarians to limit or take that away is a huge stride towards assisting their domination, but the bottom line here is that they have no business being leaders of anything or anyone. As you’ve seen over the past years, these people range from incompetent to malicious, and they should be rejected at every turn.
Is new Zealand really reduced to this?
— dankbubba, MAGA man on a mission (@dank1j) September 28, 2022
She's the definition of well intended, misguided power
— Curtis Elmore (@counselorcurtis) September 28, 2022
To be honest, we think her being a woman lets her get away with things no man could get away with. “Well-intended” is a stretch.
She mistakes her position; she is a public servant, not a "leader". This type of authoritarianism must be drummed out of public offices everywhere.
— nonyaB (@shimie1) September 28, 2022
Her answer, of course, is you FORCE people to believe what she believes.
And the left just nods.
— John Stephen Walsh Loves Everyone (@jswriter65) September 28, 2022
A true tyrant.
— Damian Karras (@joeschmo1616) September 28, 2022
Watching the leadership of Australia and New Zealand during the pandemic made us even more thankful to be Americans — at least we didn’t have fenced-in quarantine camps. Just remember, if you don’t hear it from her, it’s not true.
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New Zealand PM considers delaying election after COVID-19 outbreak totaling 4 cases https://t.co/7Aki5vfBsM
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 12, 2020
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