MEDIAWATCH: Alt-right Canadian billionaire’s far Right free speech Fascist pet keeps getting platformed by NZ Herald

Alt-right Canadian Billionaire’s Far Right Free Speech Fascist Pet says what now?

When freedom advances, tyrants panic – Jonathan Ayling

Compare, for a moment, the pearl-clutching and handwringing that has emerged in response to the American removal of Maduro, not least of all in the letters to this paper’s editors, with the response within Venezuela itself, or among Venezuelans living abroad, including here in New Zealand.

Why does this Free Speech Crypto-Fascist keep getting platformed by the bloody NZ Herald?

Because Ayling is the Far Right Free Speech Fascist Pet of Jim Grenon, our new Alt-right Canadian Billionaire Media Overlord.

Ayling recommended Grenon should buy a controlling share in NZME so that he could spread culture war misinformation.

The Centrist Far Right Hate Blog that Grenon helped establish has become a clearing house of radioactive disinformation from Right Wing Māori Social Media Influencers, Toxic Alt-Right Social Media Trolls and anything associated with the Taxpayers’ Union stable of clients.

Oh and racism, fuck loads of racism. The Centrist does racism in a way that would make Hobson’s Pledge blush.

BTW.

Let’s start calling Hobson’s Pledge, ‘Hobson’s Honky Pledge’ for the remainder of 2026.

I digress.

When he’s not pimping his Anglo-Saxon Academy with Advertorials in the Herald, Ayling’s espousing the end of the Rules Based Order as some great crusade against Democracy’s Infidels.

He’s holding up Theological philosopher St Augustine as evidence that illegally kidnapping Maduro was intellectually edgy and cool. That’s like claiming Plato supports Zero Capital Gains Tax and would have joined MAGA.

Junk Sophistry like this deserves naked contempt, so let’s do that using as much free speech as we can.

Firstly, a White African lecturing on the glory of the West while ignoring colonialism?

Yeah, I know.

Secondly, how the fuck is Trump decimating the rule based order anything other than a direct attack on the very principles of the West that Ayling supposedly strands for?

Trump illegally renditioned the leader of another country and has taken over their oil resources, that is an affront to Ayling’s treasured Western values – an independent judiciary, property rights, no taxation without representation, Free Speech and rule of law!

Trump reverse ICE’d Maduro and put in place a less hostile Dictatorship???

That’s the Triumph of the Will moment for Western Values is it? Illegally kidnapping leaders we don’t like and taking their resources to pay for it?

As former Foreign Affairs Select Committee chairman Simon O’Connor recently wrote, tens of thousands of Venezuelans celebrated on the streets while many Western leaders, academics, and commentators joined despotic regimes in condemning what occurred. As O’Connor observed, if we believe in democracy, we should want to see democracies flourish around the world. If we truly believe in human rights, we should want those rights for all humans, not simply in our own country.

Sure, but Simon O’Conner is a hypercritical, Palestinian Hating, Zionist war crime defending, ACT Party Prick, so quoting him is like quoting JD Vance, anyone in Trump’s Cabinet or a cancer tumour.

Maduro has criminal actions to pay for, of that there can be not doubt, but that is an issue for the Venezuelan people to decide, America illegally kidnapping him and taking their oil is not a fucking solution!

All Trump has done is given Xi a green light on Taiwan!

Nor is it defendable by quoting Theological philosopher St Augustine!

St Augustine argued that lex injusta non est lex – an unjust law is no law at all. The point was not that law is optional, but that legality cannot be divorced from justice. The rules-based international order rests on the same insight. Its authority comes not from procedure alone, but from the values it exists to protect. That does not mean breaches of international law are trivial. They are not. But neither are they decisive when the law is invoked to shield repression rather than restrain it.

…and stealing their oil to pay for that ex injusta non est lex is what? Just another day at the Office for Western Values is it Jonathan?

Western Values were sharpened and battle tested in countless schisms between Catholic and Protestant, Tory and Whig, King and subjects.

The very Magna Carta Ayling is trying to wave in our faces is built upon the idea that Kings don’t have infinite power FFS!

Trump is an Orange Fascist who is behaving like the King!

Western Values have been built since the Magna Carta to stop Kings from abusing their power!

Trump illegally kidnapping Maduro and taking over their oil reserves is the very worst example of those Western Values, not a positive projecting of them!

Matthew Hooton’s latest column takes Ayling’s claims of Trump being a golden moment of enlightenment out the back of the wood shed and shoots it in the face.

NZ must prepare for the end of the rules-based era – Matthew Hooton

Y-e-a-h, Hoots ain’t as glowing as Ayling is…

For 80 years, that system worked reasonably well keeping the peace among great powers. It raised more people out of poverty than ever before in human history and achieved other things such as saving the whales, protecting Antarctica, fixing the ozone layer and minimising the spread of nuclear weapons.

But US President Donald Trump’s intervention in Venezuela, musings about Colombia, Mexico and Cuba, and insistence he is serious about annexing Greenland, mean it is now time to accept the system is dead.

…Look, we all appreciate Ayling’s ability to take the positive aspects of Western Values and iron it into a Brown Shirt, but shouldn’t the NZ Herald have some obligation to not platform a Crypto-Fascist?

The very first Editorial of the NZ Herald called on white settlers to go to war with Māori, nothing much seems to have changed now Jim Grenon owns it and his pets write for it.

Charming.

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