Thomas Newman

Lawyer in Auckland 👨🏻‍⚖️ Bringing the profession into disrepute 🤡 Founder and President of the Men in Law Association of New Zealand 👨🏻‍💼

[Thomas Newman @ThomasMNewman]

Cancel Culture and Employment 🗣🤷🏻‍♂️

Over the weekend a doctoral student studying law at Victoria University of Wellington emailed my employer objecting to the contents of my posts on X and accusing me of the cliched litany of sins: racism, sexism, homophobia etc.

They also labelled me an a "incel."

The only purpose for sending such emails is to undermine my employment relationship i.e. to get me fired.

This is not the first time this has been tried. It has, again, not worked.

Nevertheless, it's a quite a nasty thing to attempt.

My views and words are my own, not my employer's. This is a fairly simple point.

I encourage all of people who disagree with me and dislike me to raise their concerns with me directly. I'll even buy you coffee just for being willing to have a conversation 😁.

[Thomas Newman @ThomasMNewman]

MILANZ OPPOSES NEUTERING OF SEXED LANGUAGE IN NEW ZEALAND COURTS

MILANZ notes the concerning trend in modern society toward the erasure of sexed language. Such a project is doomed in a similar way to the USSRs project to create a New Soviet Man, in that it requires a forced change to human nature i.e. the denial of sex as such.

Of specific concern is the following comment in the most recent Courts of New Zealand’s “Guidelines for Courtroom Conduct for Counsel”:

“MODES OF ADDRESS … “Judges should be addressed as “your honour”… “Sir” and “Ma’am” are still commonly used but these forms of address are intended to be phased out.”

Observing first of all that this is “guideline” only, MILANZ encourages all practitioners to maintain the use of sexed forms of address. Human nature and the freedom of speech themselves are at stake.

For example, when appearing in the Supreme Court, the correct way to address Winkelmann CJ is “Madam Chief Justice.”

The guidelines can be found here: https://t.co/QA0KQKScJP

DISCLAIMER: MILANZ is a totally unserious organisation. All statements by or on behalf of MILANZ or its officers should be interpreted as such.

[Stephen Franks @franks_lawyer]

@NZNationalParty minister of justice and attorney general let woke judges make NZ an international laughing stock.

[Thomas Newman @ThomasMNewman]

@SimonRAnderson Whoops, might’ve mixed this up with my LinkedIn profile 👀

[Thomas Newman @ThomasMNewman]

#NewProfilePic

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

Behold, the worst women in Australia and the man they've chosen as their leader.

[Stephen Franks @franks_lawyer]

These politicians who smugly think they’ll get away with the ‘Culture war’ brush off have got a Kamala Harris moment coming.
War was declared on ordinary people when the elite changed laws and the meaning of simple words like ‘woman’ and ‘sex’. To force privileges for liars and mentally ill men.
The war isn’t over because ordinary people are now refusing to take it lying down but the elite would rather they did.
It will be over when those peddling the lies are defeated.

[Stephen Franks @franks_lawyer]

Topp channeling Orwell’s Big Brother for the ‘ Two Minutes of Hate’ is too rich for words. Did she forget it was supposed to be only 2 minutes?
As Cass Sunstein summarised that element of 1984
“In the first 30 seconds of the Hate, Goldstein’s voice is heard as he denounces the party and calls for freedom of multiple kinds. “He was abusing Big Brother,” and “he was advocating freedom of speech, freedom of the Press, freedom of assembly, freedom of thought.”
The result is to produce rage and fear in the audience,. Goldstein is a threat. Wherever he is, he commands a kind of shadow army, a network of conspirators.
In the second minute of the Hate, people become frenzied. They leap and shout, trying to drown out Goldstein’s maddening voice. “

[Hobson's Pledge @HobsonsPledgeNZ]

When regulators move beyond oversight and begin adopting the language of spiritual guardianship, it is reasonable to ask whether public institutions are drifting beyond their intended role.

Confusing Plot. Poor character development that nobody asked for.

⭐☆☆☆☆

[Stephen Franks @franks_lawyer]

Please retweet these crystallisations of the problem.
As a lawyer I never dreamt I’d be fined and censured for doing exactly what the profession is sworn to do, advise the client and represent their lawful interests without fear or favour, simply because the committee disliked the client’s cause.
As Chair of the Free Speech Union I’d expected lawyers to feel bound to defend freedom of speech against state power and suppression. I’d expected the profession to assert the lawyer’s role for beleaguered causes in defending equality before the law (a critical element of the rule of law we are obliged to serve).
It is clear the profession has been captured by ideologues for whom fashionable cause indoctrination trumps other values.
They must lose their powers to intimidate

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

My Facebook ban has been lifted.

THANK YOU SO MUCH to everyone who helped - especially @mattjcan and @BillboardChris.

I appreciate it so much. We have to be able to state the truth.

Men are not women.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

It is the day after #GigglevTickle and I haven’t woken up believing that men can be women. You can try & punish me for not believing it, but you can never make me believe it.

Men cannot be women.

[Stephen Franks @franks_lawyer]

Gillard didn’t just ‘pave the way’. She did the stripping.
You highlight the uselessness of feminist accusations that trans madness is just more male oppression. Most men are sickened by it, and by our ‘leaders’ not calling it out for fear of losing the floating female vote that would term it ‘unkind’.
The courts in Aus are applying Gillard’s law.
We face similar risks here in NZ. Crown Law (under female control) has been claiming since 2006 that our human rights law prohibits gender discrimination (in distinction to sex discrimination) and our Parliament says you can change your birth certificate on demand.
I think the Crown Law claim is false, but it is relied upon by our Human Rights Commission. And this year our officials under @winstonpeters have applied the dodgy Crown Law opinion (under a female Attorney General) to tell international agencies that NZ treats men who feel like women, as women.
The @nzfirst Bill defining women is an empty parade until it is expanded to say what it is supposed to change.

[Thomas Newman @ThomasMNewman]

Sorely needed.

[ACT New Zealand @actparty]

BREAKING: We are repealing references to the Treaty in the following laws:
- Education and Training Act
- Energy Efficiency and Conservation Act
- Organic Products and Production Act
- Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act
- Crown Pastoral Land Act
- Plant Variety Rights Act

[Hobson's Pledge @HobsonsPledgeNZ]

Unelected officials shouldn't be making decisions on your behalf.

Otago Regional Councillor Robbie Byars put forward this amendment to the ORC's Integrated Catchment Management Governance Board.

It was voted down. This is co-governance, piece by piece.

[Todd Stephenson MP @toddmstephenson]

This is weak from the nurses' union.

Of course healthcare should be delivered by professionals. But regulators should also be accountable. ACT has asked reasonable questions about the Nursing Council’s proposed rules for nurses.

The Nursing Council is a statutory body set up by Parliament, with a clear mandate.

It is entirely fair to ask: when regulations shift away from competence and safety, and toward enforcing equity-based worldviews, is the Nursing Council really fulfilling its mandate? And how many nurses will be dissuaded from even applying, if they’re forced to advance a worldview they don’t share?

Nurses themselves are raising concerns with ACT. Everyone wants better outcomes for Māori, but good intentions don’t cut it. We need to be clear about what rules work, why they work, and whether they actually help the nurse on a busy ward do their job better.

And at the end of the day, ACT will never support rules that divide patients into categories based on their background, rather than their individual circumstances. Good care comes from professional judgement, backed by evidence, focused on the person in front of you.

[Stephen Franks @franks_lawyer]

The Supreme Court has been displaying political bias in cases for years (e.g. Fitzgerald, Greenpeace, Smith v Fonterra) but this new policy shows generalised contempt for the need for conspicuous neutrality. Though it is unlikely to have been decided by judges, it reflects a professional managerial class’ justified contempt for the Coalition government that has utterly failed to restore democratic supremacy.

[Thomas Newman @ThomasMNewman]

@DonaldWShimoda This would be wrong and free speech issue. I await the evidence.

[Thomas Newman @ThomasMNewman]

Unless there’s some other fact not apparent from this photo itself, I don’t see what the issue is.

Every person in New Zealand has the freedom of thought, conscience, belief and speech.

He’s a teacher. So what?

NOTE: based on the image, while I don’t vote National, I imagine this man has very different politics to mine.

[🇳🇿🏴‍☠️🐮🐱🕷🛸🚘🚜 @zipitsweety]

Is this appropriate for a teacher?

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

6 armed British police officers arrested a man named Lee yesterday at Manchester Airport as he returned to the UK from a vacation.

The arrest was made due to someone reporting that they were offended by a Facebook post Lee had made about immigration

[Stephen Franks @franks_lawyer]

And fake scholarship. Charlatanry sponsored for decades by Uni of Auckland