Lertwef

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[Rachel Stewart @stew_rachel]

I honestly thought they wouldn't dare do this. It is political beyond belief.

I recorded this below two days ago, and I stand by every word. What has happened to @BrianTamakiNZ is wrong on every level.

https://t.co/jwc4Qj257R

[Brian Tamaki @BrianTamakiNZ]

POLICE TO BRIAN TAMAKI: YOU CAN NEVER HOLD A GUN AGAIN.
Passionate Speech is not Hate Speech.

If it can happen to me, you could be next.

Yesterday, New Zealand Police issued me with a notice revoking my firearms licence.

According to the Firearms Safety Authority, I will not be getting my firearms licence back.

This follows the temporary suspension issued to me on 30 June and the subsequent submissions made by my lawyer opposing that suspension.

The decision goes even further.

I am now prohibited not only from possessing my own firearms, but from possessing or using a firearm even under the supervision of a licensed firearms holder.

After holding a firearms licence for many years without issue, Police have now decided I am no longer a “fit and proper person”.

And why?

Four of the five matters relate to statements I made concerning the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi.

To recap…I was publicly challenging serious human-rights issues in India under Modi’s leadership, including reports of:

▪️ Christians being killed and persecuted.
▪️ Sexual violence and attacks against Christian women and girls.
▪️ Churches being attacked and burned.
▪️ Child marriage and the treatment of vulnerable children.

These are serious matters worthy of public debate.

I was speaking passionately. I was protesting. I was challenging what I believed needed to be challenged.

Passionate speech is not hate speech.

And controversial political speech should not suddenly become grounds for removing someone's legal rights simply because those in authority dislike the language being used.

That is why this case should concern more New Zealanders than just me.

POLICE SAY THEY SUPPORT FREE SPEECH

Inspector Glenn Nalder, who made the decision to revoke my licence, says his decision was made independently, impartially and in accordance with the Arms Act 1983.

Police deny political interference.

The decision itself acknowledges the importance of freedom of expression.

Police state:

“Police is not concerned, either generally or in this particular case, with expressions that another person might find confronting.”

They also say:

“Police is not concerned with your apparent desire to protest the visit by the Prime Minister of India. Police is not concerned with low level disobedience in the context of protest.”

That sounds reassuring.

But then comes the paragraph that should concern every New Zealander who values free speech:

“The Police position is that your words speak for themselves. Your speech appears prepared and considered, and your statements were calculated, direct, unequivocal, and repeated. This is not a situation where an off the cuff or spur of the moment remark or phrase escaped without proper forethought. You encouraged and promoted violence and significant property damage. You say you have no history of threatening violence or ‘causing social harm through such fears.’ Police disagree.”

Think about what is being said here.

My words are central to the decision.

Not an allegation that I misused a firearm.
Not an allegation that I threatened somebody with a firearm.
Not a history of unsafe firearms handling.

In fact, the decision itself acknowledges:

“I have taken into account that you have held a firearms licence for many years and, until recent events, no question has been asked of your fitness to possess firearms.”

Yet the verdict is:

“On balance I am not satisfied you are fit and proper to possess firearms.”

That contradiction deserves scrutiny.

I WILL BE SEEKING A REVIEW

I now have 28 days to apply for a review of this decision.

You can be certain that I will.

Before doing so, I am awaiting the investigation file I have already requested from Police. My lawyer needs to examine the evidence and material relied upon before the review is lodged.

If necessary, we will take this further through the courts.

I will fight this.

I will fight for free speech.

I will fight for my right to hunt and put meat on the tables of South Auckland families.

And I will fight to make sure no Kiwi has their rights stripped away simply because the Government doesn’t like what they say.

Today it’s me. Tomorrow it could be you.

WHAT ABOUT MARK MITCHELL?

I will continue asking questions about Minister Mark Mitchell and the obvious conflict of interest between his two portfolios.

Mark Mitchell is both Minister of Police and Minister for Ethnic Communities.

Ethnic community groups complained about my statements concerning Modi.

I was publicly challenging Modi’s human-rights record and opposing his visit to New Zealand.

Mitchell, meanwhile, was part of the Government welcoming Modi to New Zealand.

Then Police moved against me.

Police say there was no political interference.

Fine. Then there should be nothing to hide.

I’m not simply going to take their word for it when the consequences for me are this serious.

If this ends up in court, I intend to call Mark Mitchell and have these questions answered under oath.

Was there any communication about me or my firearms licence…formal or informal (in the backseat of a car)…involving Mitchell, his office, Police or Ethnic Communities?

If there wasn’t, they need to prove it.

If there was, New Zealanders deserve to know.

THIS IS BIGGER THAN MY GUN LICENCE

Some people will say:

“It’s Brian Tamaki. It doesn’t affect me.”

Wrong.

You don’t have to agree with me.
You don’t have to like what I said.
You don’t even have to like me.

Because free speech isn’t just about protecting speech you agree with.

It’s about protecting the speech you don’t.

Today, my words have been used to declare me “unfit” to hold a firearms licence.

So where does it end?

Today it’s my gun licence.

Tomorrow could it be your licence? Your job? Your livelihood? Your rights?

Because once we accept that authorities can punish a Kiwi for political speech they consider too confronting, every New Zealander should be concerned.

That’s why I’m fighting this.

Not just for my firearms licence.

For the right of every Kiwi to speak freely against them without fear of what the State might take from them next.

Passionate speech is not hate speech.

Truth is not hate speech.

And free speech isn’t free if you can be punished for using it.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Notice the look on his face as he spots the opportunity from afar.

[Winston Peters @winstonpeters]

If National think it’s a good idea to hold a referendum to “check-in on democracy” why doesn’t National support NZFirst’s legislation to “check-in on democracy” by having a referendum on the continued existence of the Maori Seats now that so many Maori are in Parliament with out them?

[Cam Slater @kaiviti_cam]

Labour's tax plans are almost always accompanied with warnings
https://t.co/hwyzY2z551

[Lertwef @Lertwef]

@NzFubar If it's Bishop, Willis or Stanford they're F*****D. It has to be a whole new approach.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A farmer in Shropshire is selling his farm this September and nobody has died.

Two hundred and twenty acres. A hundred and forty ewes, seventy suckler cows, a shed with one end held up by a telegraph pole, and a tractor bought new in 1994, which is the last thing on that farm that was bought new. His grandfather bought the place outright in 1961. He is 54 and has never had a penny of debt.

The books say the farm lost eleven thousand pounds last year. It lost money the year before as well.

He is not bad at this. The government's own review, chaired by Minette Batters, found nearly a third of British farms were loss-making in 2024.

On paper the same farm is worth £1.9 million.

Pasture in his county averaged £8,600 an acre last year, and not a pound of that was set by anything he grows. Two blocks within nine miles went to buyers he has never met. One for solar. One described in the particulars as a natural capital opportunity.

His mother is 81 and lives in the bungalow at the top of the lane. When that comes across with the other half of the ground, the two halves clear the £2.5 million threshold, and twenty per cent of the excess is a bill in six figures on a business that has not made money in three years.

His son is a radiographer in Telford and is not coming back. He said so once, kindly, and never made his father ask twice.

So it goes now, while he can still choose which fields and to whom. He is selling the good ground first, because you cannot raise a bill off the rough.

The Treasury collects nothing from any of this. The sale happens years before the tax event, so there is no tax event left to have.

What Britain loses is a hundred and forty lambs and seventy calves a year, off ground that will never produce food again, in a country that already imports forty per cent of what it eats and has just had its worst cereal harvest since records began.

That is one farm. There are thousands of them, doing the sums at the same kitchen table this month.

The beef on your shelf this Christmas will come from Brazil, and the price will be higher, and nobody will connect the two.

[Lertwef @Lertwef]

@kiwiwayne3

[Rachel Rebecca Halliwell @Rachelhalliwel5]

Never forget what Starmer said.
Police in riot gear raided my home. They arrived with a key and a saw at the ready. My 16-year-old son was handcuffed while I was detained in a room as officers searched the entire property from top to bottom. He was arrested solely for being present at the protest.
In the same town, my 12-year-old daughter was groomed, raped, beaten and died. Despite an admission of guilt, the perpetrator was only requested to attend a voluntary interview.
This is two-tier policing in practice.

[Lertwef @Lertwef]

@Hot_Pepper76 Sound of Music

[Lertwef @Lertwef]

@OnyouIrons @aniobrien The Unions run the Labour Party. The End.

[Andrew Bridgen @ABridgen]

Is the EU funding the passage of illegal migrants into Europe?

If this is confirmed would it be the end of the EU and its unelected , unaccountable president Ursula von Der Leyen ?

[Lertwef @Lertwef]

@Hot_Pepper76 INXS hands down

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

This is what happens when you play Star Wars in a cinema.

[The Redbaiter @TheRedbaiter]

One of the most devastating critiques of PM Luxon you will hear, and its worse because it comes from a real businessman.

Chris Barret is not one of those male wokesters or DEI females that head up NZ's cronyist govt owned businesses. Air NZ and the power companies. He heads Steel Worx.

Its a real business, he's a real director and he's far from happy. Especially over what Mr Luxon said in Rotorua last week.

A lifetime National voter, Mr Barret says he's not voting for them this election. He wants a coaltion made up of the existing parties, but National with far less power.

Which seems to be the way a lot of people are thinking.

On the other hand, this is getting serious. We can't put National out of the picture altogether, or fall to the point Labour/ Greens can win.

Someone needs to get a handle on things at the Nats. If indeed there is anyone there capable of doing so.

[Ani O'Brien @aniobrien]

Reposting this as Stuff contacted me to take down a photo: https://t.co/xnYnn2kHao

[Lertwef @Lertwef]

@Hot_Pepper76 The 80s hands down.

[Lertwef @Lertwef]

@aniobrien @nzherald @radionz The only thing the Media Party are not on is the Voting Paper, in everything else they are simply another left leaning political party.

[Chris Philp MP @CPhilpOfficial]

Here is the shocking truth about illegal immigration on the channel

Women and children pushed to the back. People smugglers in charge. Open borders NGOs facilitating.

Andy Burnham is totally out of touch when he says this is fixed

Only the Conservatives have a proper plan to leave the ECHR and deport all illegal immigrants upon arrival. Then the migrants won’t bother crossing the first place

[Infideliter 🇳🇿✖⚖✖🇳🇿 @Infideliter2022]

Well the absolute arseholes at DOC who recently successfully had these two wonderful souls prosecuted and punatively fined will no doubt be delighted. 30 amazing years of service needs to be celebrated and not end under the shadow of bureaucratic bullying.
https://t.co/E1X95jfJoW