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Gilda Kirkpatrick on 2022 Wellington Protests & NZ's Covid Response

November 22, 2023 / 10:22

This episode discusses personal freedoms, government mandates, and societal responsibility with a focus on the COVID-19 vaccine and its implications. The conversation features perspectives on human rights, political accountability, and the challenges faced by individuals expressing dissenting opinions.

The guest shares experiences from Wellington, where they observed people struggling due to job losses and the impact of government policies. They emphasize the importance of speaking out against injustices and the erosion of freedoms.

They reflect on the societal reaction to differing opinions, particularly regarding vaccination, and how individuals who question mainstream narratives are often labeled as conspiracy theorists. This highlights a perceived hypocrisy in how personal freedoms are respected.

The discussion also touches on the political landscape in New Zealand, expressing concerns about the lack of accountability among elected officials. The guest advocates for a system that ensures government promises are upheld.

Overall, the episode raises critical questions about individual rights, societal norms, and the responsibilities of both citizens and governments in maintaining freedom.

TLDR

The episode critiques government mandates and societal responses to dissenting opinions on COVID-19 vaccinations and personal freedoms.

Episode

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I see you know during the process for example when I went down to Wellington I saw all these people from all walks of
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life some had nothing they were living in you know their cars because they lost their
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jobs and you that was triggering for me that that's when I was like you know nobody should ever sit and be quiet
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about what's happening people should have a sense of responsibility towards their fellow humans um
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because you know once your human rights is gone it is very hard to get it back you know when things are taken away from
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you it is very hard to get them back yeah that's a fact of life anywhere any
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you know political rules boundaries whatever comes in they hardly ever leave they they're there to stay and
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that that's just so your freedom shrinking and shrinking and shrinking and if you're not aware if you don't
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take it serious you know sure people tell me oh she's so like crazy she thinks you know she's a conspiracy
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theorist Etc um that's okay but you know for me then again I can put my head on
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my pillow and say I did the right thing for my children for my fellow human beings um knowing that I did my best
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whether it worked or it didn't work but at least every day I'm thinking that and
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so far I think with this uh mandates and cover issues and the way the government
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has handled stuff um I don't think I've ever made a mistake I think I've been on
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point on everything that I stood for and I'm glad that I did yeah it's quite
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funny isn't it it feels like we're um almost at a stage now in society where
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if you have any sort of opinion that's not mainstream popular it's just very
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easy to you know put you in a box and say you're an alt-right conspiracy theorist seems to be a at a a state
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we're at now that's exactly what what it that's how it works this ideological
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sort of establishments coming in the reason I don't care about that is because I grew up in one until I was 16
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the most you know important years of my life I learned how these things work you
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know I watched it happen if you open your mouth said anything you you're a heretic you don't believe in Islam you
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don't believe in the collective uh goodness and the greater you know whatever you call it uh greater
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good um that's all excuse and because you know they're absolutely taking away their rights of the
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greater population for their own ideology I I don't agree with that I've
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lived through it and I can see that it started happening um not under Islamic ideology but under a different ideology
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um where a group of people in power feel like they can dictate to everybody else
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how they should live that's not being free and it's worrisome because I don't
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want my children to go through what I went through and yes I know they've got
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a great life they we are in the most beautiful country in the world and I love this country but um looking at
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oversees what's happening there and looking at New Zealand the way they're
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going um above things in New Zealand um to me it's like oh this is all happening again different way but the
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same path did you did you um you mentioned before you went to the um the co protest in Wellington did you are you
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vaccinated did you get the vaccine or no no because it's funny isn't it because it's
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um there was definit like you look back and it's um I'm I'm a sheeple I just go
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along with whatever's going like the government tells me to get three Jabs I'll get three Jabs I just want
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to go with the path of least resistance but I look back now and there was um you
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one of my good friends got married and I was a groomsman and his mom had to have
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like a fake vaccine passport to to even attend her own son's wedding um because
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the Caterers wouldn't let her and otherwise there Al and you look back now recent it was only like two or three
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years ago and it's you think you know she was sort of um almost like a leper
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at her own son's wedding at that time and it's only like recent history and
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you look back down and go well maybe she had a faar point do you know what I mean
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and there's people that that were forced out of their jobs and you look back now
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and it's only again only a couple of years ago and you think well maybe these
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people that have had a point um you know when thinking rationally and OB objectively becomes a
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crime um and you are being judged for taking making decisions for your own health or um you know doing your own
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research at the time having W with internet obviously you have access to the best um you know virologist in the
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world the best scientists in the world and they are telling you after all their years and these are information was
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available before the vaccination came to New Zealand and they were all worried about it and they were very um outspoken
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and verbal about it it didn't take a you know you could just go and find this
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information and they were all valid um and make your mind but when talking logic or taking ownership of your own
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life all of a sudden is you being a heretic what is the difference of today and when they used to burn you know uh
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Protestants or burn anybody or scientists who spoke against the church because Church said so because the
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Catholic Church said this is the science not what soans so says not what a person
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who's dedicated his whole life has written half of the you know a scientific book and uh books and uh
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medical books uh which until now we've been practicing oh don't listen to that
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person listen to us listen to me the politician who's enforcing this upon you
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and a whole bunch of um you know other people who are par in it um and look at look what happened today like for
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example with the hatchard report coming out yesterday which now shows that 11,000 uh people were examed and a whole
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bunch of them were surgeons and doctors and health you know people in Ministry of Health etc etc
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well so what is the difference between those people who were professionals medical professionals who rejected the
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vaccine they were the best of the best in the country they rejected the vaccine you gave them exemption but also gag
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order so they couldn't talk about it but if I refused to base on my own searching
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of the best sources in the world if I was like oh that's not very good for me
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I think I'm going to wait and see what happens and then you know I'm okay to
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isolate so why was I a conspiracy theory you know like yeah again like I was saying before I think it's an easy box
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to put people into that have any sort of opinion that's not you know mainstream or
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popular it's just it's like an easy box just call them altright conspiracy
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theorists yeah well the the thing is you know what bothers me is that it's a very
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hypocritical way that um you know the our government has been dealing with a personal freedom so if I come today and
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I I say I'm a different gender and this is my pronouns this is what I think and
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everybody should respect that oh yes AB absolutely let's like raise all the flags and support um you know um what
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you're saying because you're an individual we should respect your ideology we should respect your thought
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and we should respect your feeling so I come in I'm like H I'm a mother of two I
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am worried it's not enough research I don't 100% trust this procedure I want
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to take my time oh you um you know you're just a conspiracy theory why are are you you know doing
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this it's not all about you you're being selfish so what is it either do we we
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either we have the personal freedom of thought and choice or we don't yeah don't come at me and say oh you know I'm
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I come from I don't know um some race or somewhere or some country so I you know
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I'm more accepted because um I have more thoughts and everybody's say yeah yeah
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and everybody else has to shut up that's not okay if you if you give freedom and
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choice to people then respect that and don't be H critical about it would you
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ever get into politics you got any interest in that um here I I get ask about this this question a lot um I
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don't have any interest to get into politics but but you got some very strong opinions and you're very smart as
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well but I I I definitely have an issue with how the our political system in New
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Zealand has been um sort of handled uh we V and we get these people in they go to make they're make hang on Kanye no no
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you're being very naughty he's just bored about the co chat I reckon but I'm
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not yes well so what he saying is you um um so I I believe that it needs to be kind of tackled and people we are voters
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and we have rights um but we vote these people and they go in there with no accountability do whatever they want
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nobody questions them nobody goes and holds them responsible hey you promised these things where are they what
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happened we don't have establishment like that and I believe that we do we are in dire need of an entity that
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overlooks what government does in terms of making sure they deliver in any cooperation anywhere you'll have that
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accountability except uh within this government and how you know they run it now that doesn't exist in many other
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places in the world either but it doesn't mean that it can't exist and I
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believe that it is definitely you know we need a whole bunch of people who are experts and passionate uh who can come
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and make sure the government delivers what they [Music] promise

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Episode Highlights

  • The Responsibility to Speak Up
    A call to action for individuals to voice their concerns about human rights.
    “Nobody should ever sit and be quiet about what's happening.”
    @ 00m 18s
    November 22, 2023
  • The Dangers of Ideological Control
    A reflection on how dissenting opinions are labeled and marginalized.
    “If you open your mouth, you're a heretic.”
    @ 02m 10s
    November 22, 2023
  • The Need for Government Accountability
    A discussion on the lack of accountability in political systems.
    “We need a whole bunch of people who are experts and passionate.”
    @ 10m 08s
    November 22, 2023

Episode Quotes

  • Nobody should ever sit and be quiet about what's happening.
    Gilda Kirkpatrick on 2022 Wellington Protests & NZ's Covid Response
  • Your freedom is shrinking and shrinking and shrinking.
    Gilda Kirkpatrick on 2022 Wellington Protests & NZ's Covid Response
  • If you open your mouth, you're a heretic.
    Gilda Kirkpatrick on 2022 Wellington Protests & NZ's Covid Response
  • What is the difference between today and when they used to burn heretics?
    Gilda Kirkpatrick on 2022 Wellington Protests & NZ's Covid Response
  • We need a whole bunch of people who are experts and passionate.
    Gilda Kirkpatrick on 2022 Wellington Protests & NZ's Covid Response

Key Moments

  • Human Rights Awareness00:18
  • Freedom Erosion00:54
  • Ideological Control02:10
  • Political Accountability10:08

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