I was born in a Aotearoa in a Waikato country town hospital in the 1960s and raised on a Waikato diary farm .
I went to AUT tertiary school and got a Diploma of Business Studies , working as an assistant accountant for a big UK insurance firm
I never questioning anything I was told nor anything I was told to do or anything about society.
At 6yo i rejected the story of father christmas coming down the chimney thou believed in the tooth fairy for a few more years . I wasnt even 10 when i was taken to sunday school and rejected religion immediatly as idiotic. Fortunatey i was raised in a secular household so was able to think for myself.
When the first Star Wars movie came out in 1978 i was 14 and intentionally missed ut as i didnt want to se it because everybody else. I probably didnt for another decade, vn thou by then sci-fi was my favourite genre. The Matrix being my all time favourite movie.
But as a young adult I falsely
believed that gangs and criminals should be treated tougher and punished to
prevent crime, even thinking why anyone doesn’t become a vigilante in NZ. That
it was the workers fault they do not have have good well paid jobs/ lives, because they
were lazy or not smart. I never thought about why NZ was more white than Maori or why Maori made most of the prison statistics.
I grew up in a household whose father was very vocal politically and critical of which ever current government. While not party biased i none the less took on ideas the government wasnt good . Ergo when my legal person became voting age it voted McGillicuddy Serious (satirical political party) .
It was not until I had conversations with someone wiser and
alternative in the 1990s that I questioned the food I was eating from the
supermarket and asked why supermarkets are allowed to sell so much food that is
unhealthy and not fit for human consumption. When I realised the food we ate
affected our health and that most people getting sick and filling the hospitals
and/or dying and filling the morgues are both unnecessary wasting so much valuable lives and taxpayers dollars and the government who are supposed to look after us, wasnt. I knew there was something wrong with the system. My partner at the time is what you call a new age spiritualist. This lad to the being of taking on alot of "conspiracys" some of which ive since dropped as my knowledge increases.
At this point gaining some interst in politics i began using my legal persons vote for the Green Party which obviously had better environment including anti GMO polices. But this is a long way from being politcally savvy.
I left my full time accounting job and Auckland in 1999 and took up practicing Nichiren Daishonin buddhism, built a house truck which I travelled around the South Island in for 8 months .
While back near Auckland living on a commune I became an
activist in 2006, joining an environmental protest group “Save Happy Valley”
against a proposed coal mine near Westport. Later joining Climaction , a mixed group formed after Al Gore’s movie, “An inconvenient
truth” was released. Helen Clarks Labour government was in power then so we protested it frequently and its lack of policies dealing with climate change.
As this group was mainly anarchists and Greenpeace people i spent some time around Anarchists especially the Auckland Anarchist collective.
In 2009 I stood in Mt Albert Electorate without much success. Thou i did make some notoriety.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/2441390/Lamington-lands-on-candidates-head
Earning me the name of Lamington Steele
I have helped campaign for Green Party and later for Mana as volunteer.
In 2011 I joined a Socialist Group becoming treasurer for a number of years. The same year I was involved in Occupy Aotearoa, being one of those arrested on the last day after 3 months in Aotea Square. Occupy and its focus on increasing wealth inequality fitted with my disillusionment with governments desire or ability to look after the people, always putting corporations and their profit first.
Not long after occupy Aotea I was involved in lamington attack on Mayor Len Brown while Auckland City port workers were on strike.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/6550874/Lamington-attack-on-Auckland-mayor
In 2012 I became so disillusioned with protesting government learning about Common Law i started practising it so have spent time around those practicing and espousing freeman /sovereignty/common law . My common law surname (describing name) is taken from the freeman movement.
During COVID-19, I criticised the Labour government's handling of the pandemic, from its lack of preparation and late border policies to its prioritisation of business interests and its lack of transparency over vaccine trial data. Then as it became apparent covid-19 was only deadly to the elderly not the mases as envisaged, i increasingly criticised labours authoritarian measures especially around its vaccine-passport policy. All without directly challenging vaccines while at the same time putting the blame for the rise of conspiracies rising (especially anti vaccine ones without supporting them) at the feet of government actions and behaviour . My position wasn't opposition to lockdowns themselves, but criticism of how the government managed the pandemic and the decisions it made.
I also challenged misinformation from people on the left, using government publications and evidence where appropriate. That when the left withdraws from challenging government it leaves the space for the right.
I am still engaged in learning the truth about government and police authority and its lawfulness . I am only human and will may make errors but truth and education is at the forefront of this mission and blog.
There is so much to learn about the real politics thats important thats not the childs play, manipulation and lies you see from politicians and media and I wish to pass on every thing I have learnt. Hence the creation of this blog.
Malcolm Daniel
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