New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced her resignation, which VICE attributes to a “global hate campaign.” Actually, it’s “experts” who claim that.
Ardern was an authoritarian. Not only were New Zealand’s COVID lockdowns extreme, but just a week after the Christchurch shooting, she announced a ban on all assault weapons and “military-style automatic weapons.” (With six weeks to go until the deadline, approximately 20 percent of guns had been turned in.) In a speech at the United Nations last fall, she said that freedom of speech on the internet was a “weapon of war.” “How do you tackle climate change if people don’t believe it exists,” she argued.