PETER WILLIAMS: Give us a break Chippy
- Administrator
- Sep 7, 2023
- 2 min read
You could at least say sorry
The Prime Minister has a cheek doesn’t he. He said on Monday that there was no compulsory Covid-19 vaccination. People, he said, made their own choices. Tuesday, he doubled down.
Now let’s cut him the tiniest little bit of slack. What he says is technically correct, although if he had things his way it would definitely have been compulsory.
Remember he was the guy who said that “they” would go looking for the unvaccinated. Something tells me he may have even used the phrase “we will hunt you down.”
But he is really splitting hairs by invoking the use of the word “compulsory.” Yes, nobody was forced to - as in being physically taken in for jabbing. But the mandates in so many jobs meant that you couldn’t stay in work if you weren’t vaccinated.
It was despicable coercion of the highest order, so let’s call it a virtual compulsion. Hipkins really was quite vile when he made that assertion a couple of days ago because he must know that many, many people lost jobs and careers because of the mandates imposed by their employers, both public and private.
The least he could have done was apologise for what they did. But you know what - I don’t think he and they, as in the Labour Party, are sorry.
In many respects I almost wish I’d stayed on at Mediaworks instead of resigning – it's two years ago this week - and had a showdown with management over the mandate they brought in about a week after I left.
But Hipkins insistence on there being no compulsion is bordering on fiction in the minds of thousands of us. The arrogance and rejection of people’s rights as displayed by Jacinda Ardern’s admission of two classes of people, and then Hipkins saying words to the effect of “we will hunt you down” make this Labour leadership the most personally despised of any political party in my lifetime.
They were at 24 percent in the Roy Morgan poll yesterday. I don’t think they’ve hit the bottom yet.
They deserve everything coming to them.
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Yep. Labour is a goneburger!
Gosh the whole thing is horrendous. It's far too late to hit the gangs now and they aren't even the problem they told me that they are been pushed into a corner from the other overseas 501's and that they do not know what to do. I would like my land and assets back from the raids on the gangs to which my family and I have given them these land and assets and of course these guys don't know how they got them because it is me. At this present moment the Regulators of Real Estate Block & Grant not only ripped me off over $20 million they manipulated the indigenous gangs to provide them with security from me.…
Deserving what's coming to them is wishful thinking. What will come to them will be way too little for the damage they have caused - and not all the damage is evident yet.
The next government won't prosecute them for criminal negligence because they would be afraid that that could happen to them in the future. So, the mutual backscratching in Wellington will continue as if nothing happened.
Ardern and Hipkins (and the rest of those clowns) will sleep well believing their own publicity.
This is 1984 doublethink!
If they had coming to them what they deserve there would have to be an extra 200+ cells in prison!
(I'll stop there - before the Thought Police come looking for me!!)
In the Crimes Act, 'gimme or I'll bash you' is called Demanding With Menaces. It's sect 239, 7 years prison. It relates to property but really, it's just the same.
Why is "Here, jab this or we'll take your job, livelihood, children, health, home, sanity" etc etc, not also a crime?