Free Speech Space with MJ - Leao Tildsley

Laeo Tildsley – Democracy NZ Candidate

MJ: Hi everybody and welcome back to another episode of the free speech space with MJ. And today we’re talking with Laeo Tildesley. And Laeo is with Democracy NZ. She’s a candidate currently in the in the mix master of the voting machine. And we’re going to be talking to her about why is she standing? And what does she want to bring to the table?

LT: Thank you. Protecting and upholding our Bill of Rights is something we haven’t really thought about for a long time until it was actually stomped on. And so we didn’t realize how important it has been until now. And we look back at how we were treated over the last few years around our freedom to speak, around our freedom of religion. All of these things have have pushed us to actually start to look at how important the Bill of Rights is in our country. Democracy is listening to the people. You know, this is supposed to be a democratic land. And what we actually did discover (at the Wellington Protests) is not at all. And they were able to treat the people outside and also filtrate that to the police to treat them the way they did, you know, and being able to, and seeing that unfold in the River of Freedom was just a little bit shocking, you know, just to...see how mainstream media said one thing and even reporting down there, the absolute opposite, was really vital and really important.

Yeah, so it’s no longer about the people. This is why we need to change our government this year. We can say it every year or every election, but we need to have good people in there to change the rhetoric, or else we will continue saying that every three years, and every three years there’ll be more corruption, more and more corruption.

MJ: So, the 5% threshold, which I know, I understand that there’s a recommendations being made at the moment to lower that down to 3.5%, as I believe. So that will make it slightly easier, but we still need to get an umbrella party in there so that we get more of good people in parliament to actually put the handbrake on the other parties, on the majors that are doing stuff.

LT: I got something to say about that. I think about, okay, everyone’s jumping up and down and saying the leaders need to come together, they need to do things together. You know, when is the churches coming together? You know, it’s one thing to blame, you know, these parties that have just been formed to try and get together, but they are the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff. You know, the churches are the the fence at the top. And when they come together and they stand together, they’re powerful….. But a lot of them, a lot of them, you know, segregated their congregation.

MJ: And this is part of their strategy, isn’t it? Divide and conquer. You know, and that was no, it was incredibly apparent in the last three years how they purposely isolated everybody. And that’s part of a system which they called mass formation. To give fear, to fear it’s a Psi-op, you know?

LT: It’s a part of history that has happened over and over. This is not something new and creative. They’ve done this throughout history. And so history should have been an important part of our education to go, we will not do this again. But no, we continue to be bamboozled, continue to be caught up in this, you know, whatever plan it is. They have, but this division over the last three years. It has got right into our very bedrooms, husband and wife, children, grandparents. And so for me, I think the strength from the church would have been an incredible part of healing. But no, we’ve got angry people now that have left and never coming back because they relied on the church or they relied on.

you know, religion to be their rock, and didn’t end up being it. You saw that in the River of Freedom, where a man, a Catholic man was, they called the police on him, you know, for wanting to come and have communion. This is what, this is the kind of healing that has to come now from something that you would, you know, normally have as a close.

And so we stand, Democracy NZ, as wanting to give you, or wanting to uphold these Bill of Rights for you, for not just our generation but the one to come.