Solidarity with my Kiwi Cousins

“Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.” John F. Kennedy

I have a soft spot for New Zealand. I have many cousins there - a large contingent of my family emigrated during the 60s and 70s to build a new life in this stomach-punchingly-beautiful country. And that gave me an excuse to visit my extended family there - which included (through marriage and birth) a big Maori contingent.

I first travelled to New Zealand in my teens - in part because I wanted to experience, first hand, what my visiting relatives (to the old country) told us about. I visited again in 2019, just weeks before the lockdowns began and before the media made Ardern - and New Zealand - infamous for all the wrong reasons.

I’d heard about the Ardern “type”. In many respects New Zealand had imported some of the class-war attributes of post-war European (and especially British) politics. But the New Zealand version of the left seemed to ossify into a peculiarly antipodean form. The New Zealand Labour Party has gorged on the neo-Communist drivel of the globalists - turning the state and conjoined media into the ultimate gaslighting operation.

Jacinda Ardern’s premiership of New Zealand represented the apotheosis of doctrinal Covid tyranny. But there was - as would be expected from a nation that so embraced the ready-availability of freedom (it’s a tiny population occupying a land mass the size of the United Kingdom) kick-back against bureaucratic insanity.

And that’s what struck me about my visits over 30 years apart. There’s no denying people freedom when nature, and beauty, are so readily available. This is a people that readily calls out bullshit - as demonstrated by the New Zealand freedom movement.

It’s gratifying that the story of that movement is going to be told in this movie, produced by Robin Monotti. Please support it if you can.

River of Freedom is a feature documentary in post-production about Convoy NZ 2022 and the Parliament protest during February and March 2022. It tells the story of who the people were, why we were protesting, and what happened.

This film is an intimate journey with New Zealanders protesting the Government mandatory vaccine laws and human rights abuses. Ignored by politicians and ridiculed by media they peacefully occupy Parliament grounds for 3 weeks until riot police are sent in.