Critical thinking… an action that went extinct!

From mike bee: A personal response to Alia’s letter: I do not see eye-to-eye with many of VFF’s policies, but when I read Alia’s letter today it resonated strongly as a very appropriate way of countering the evil we are all facing. When we read of the appointment of Jacinda as an expert in empathy, many of us were sickened. But what did we do about it? Alia wrote a letter that then went viral, racking up some 600,000 views in ten hours. I expressed my own agreement with the spirit of Alia’s letter in an email I sent out to people I am close to who live outside of NZ. Here is what I wrote as an introduction to the letter: Dear friends outside NZ, Alia's letter below needs to travel widely around the world. It is the voice of NZers pushing back against the hypocrisy of those who created Jacinda Ardern as a prop in their endeavours to shape the world in their own image. The depth of my own feelings about Jacinda is reflected in the fact that I have written some dozen or so poems about her. No other individual inspires in me such feelings of sickness and disgust, and thousands of NZers feel the same. One of the reasons for this is that while Jacinda goes on being honoured by the world at large it is a terrible blow to all of us who have felt first-hand what her policies have done to this country. … Read Alia's letter and reflect on the enormity of what is happening right now - the way that WE THE PEOPLE around the world are at this time rejecting the globalist lies that created Jacinda. When she is exposed for who she is, it shall be a sign that the order that believed they could use her to their advantage - possibly imagining her a future head of the United Nations - is also exposed far and wide and has lost all power that it once possessed. Best wishes, Michael

[Alia’s letter continued] Voices for Freedom grew to more than 100,000 people on our mailing list, many representing entire families. More than 45,000 people signed up to our local groups across the country, which are still operational today in 2026. We established industry groups to help people fight for their careers, provided support through employment disputes and legal challenges, organised practical assistance and hand-delivered millions of flyers to households throughout New Zealand. We did this while facing censorship, public vilification and government surveillance. Official records obtained since have confirmed that our activities and communications were being monitored and reported on. Our volunteers gave everything they could to help people who had been abandoned by the institutions meant to protect them. And now the University of Sydney wants to hold up the woman responsible for overseeing this period as a shining example of empathy and social cohesion? It is sickening. Professor Scott, did anyone at your university bother to speak with the people whose lives were destroyed under Ardern's leadership before celebrating her appointment? Have you spoken to the former nurses, teachers and police officers who lost their careers? The families who lost their homes? The people still suffering from vaccine injuries? The parents whose children no longer speak to them? Or did you simply swallow the carefully cultivated international image of Saint Jacinda, the compassionate leader who saved New Zealand? I wonder whether you have considered why this internationally celebrated former prime minister now lives in Australia rather than the country she once led. The depth of hostility towards her among many New Zealanders should give you pause. Because I can assure you, there is another side to that story. And there are hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders who live with the consequences. I have no objection to universities studying Ardern's leadership. In fact, I would encourage it. There is an enormous amount to learn from what happened in New Zealand between 2021 and 2023. Like, what not to do... But presenting her as someone uniquely qualified to teach empathy, social cohesion and civic trust, without acknowledging the extraordinary human suffering that occurred under her leadership, is an insult to the people who paid the price. We were there, Professor Scott. We saw what happened. We picked up the pieces. We are still picking them up. Some of those people will never recover what they lost. And the woman who presided over it all gets a professorship in empathy. What an absolute disgrace. Yours sincerely, Alia Bland Co-founder, Voices for Freedom New Zealand