A High Court case tried to ban Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull from entering New Zealand.
According to New Zealand Law, the Bill of Rights NZ is an essential pillar of our democracy and the New Zealand Bill of Rights 1990 Letter 14 states: “Everyone has the right to freedom of expression, including the freedom to seek, receive, and impart information and opinion of any kind in any form.”
Immigration Minister Michael Wood indicated that her visit didn’t reach the threshold required to justify a ‘ministerial intervention.’
In 2015, Kellie-Jay discovered that she was no longer allowed to talk about women anymore. She did not want to use the terms birthing persons, menstruators or cervix-havers and so on, but rather ‘women’ the plural of woman – described by the dictionary as adult, human, female. She is pro-women and girls and wanted to talk about women’s rights and women’s spaces; things she believes women are desperate to talk about.
Before her arrival, our prime minister cast aspersions on her. She was interrogated at customs for two hours. The Green Party introduced her to New Zealand, casting her in the role of an anti-trans activist.
The NZ Police, who are called to protect and serve us, did not meet with her or ‘Let Women Speak’ or the LGBTQ+ community to work out a plan for the day of the rally.
While waiting to speak, a woman approached the stage and threw what appeared to be siracha sauce all over her. Why would another woman assault her, a pro-women’s speaker?
The majority of attendees were clearly at the rally not to hear about women’s spaces or rights or respect any freedom of speech but to incite violence against women – one in particular.
The mob did indeed become very enraged and the chants and mood went from anger and hate, to violent and murderous very quickly. Had not security read the signs, Kellie-Jay may have been stomped to her last breath, all before she had an opportunity to speak.
Freedom of speech was not permitted at this event it seems.
There is no balance of views here – yet tolerance was called for by the militant attendees on the day. Come Monday however, they will call themselves the minority again. Men dressed as women on Saturday will choose to be men again on Monday. Terrorism will reign within the mob on Saturday and on Monday the same people will demand kindness and respect.
Words and nuances are twisted depending on ideas of the day. Principles and even the law of physics – (for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction) are denied in favour of contrariness.
Even more alarming is the Minister of Social Development’s biased attitude. Carmel Sepuloni is not neutral when it comes to caring for the social fabric of our nation and nor are other Ministers of Parliament who peddle their own causes by adhering to unbalanced interpretations of what freedom of speech is.
What sorrow for those who say that evil is good and good is evil, that dark is light, and light is dark, that bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter.
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