We start calling something a mountain if it is this high, whatever that line was. And it was just under it, according to him. And so that was the whole thing. The back and forth between him and the villagers for them to try to get him to certify it as being an actual mountain. But it wasn’t the man, in spite of the title, the man didn’t go up a hill and become a mountain up there. He didn’t become a mountain man or a mountain. But here in New Zealand, they’re actually granting personhood, rights, and responsibilities of a human being to a mountain.

And it’s not the first time they’ve done this either. New Zealand is being taken over by the Maori. And I love New Zealand. It’s a beautiful place. Karen and I went there. We had actually heard some chatter about how this is in the late 90s. And this is after Waco and Ruby Ridge, I started thinking, you know, I better get out of here. The U.S. is crazy, and it’s headed down a really bad path. And I was right about that. But I was wrong about the idea that maybe New Zealand would be better.

So we went to New Zealand. We had a wonderful time. I stayed for a few weeks. I met with some people, some of them who were in radio. And I wasn’t in radio at the time, either. I was just somebody that was in radio through the libertarians that were in New Zealand and that type of thing. And I met with them for – Karen and I met with them for dinner. And we had a – we’d scheduled a guy who was like the Rush Limbaugh of New Zealand, but he canceled at the last minute.

But we still talk to the other people. And so we – the dinner was kind of, well, you think your country’s bad. This is what happens here. You know, we’re going back and forth as to what was happening. So they finally convinced me that New Zealand was even worse than the U.S. So we didn’t move there. And – but that was in, I think, 1998. But they were fascinated with the Maori. And I thought it was kind of interesting, you know. The Maori really gave the British a run for their money. They had earthen forts.

And as we see with Fort Fisher in North Carolina, that was stood the biggest naval bombardment in history up to that point in time by a long shot. And I think it was equivalent to some of the biggest naval bombardments even in World War I. And it was an earthen fort at Fort Fisher. And they couldn’t take out the Maori’s forts, because there were earthen forts as well with all of their stuff. And so, you know, they had a hard time. The Maori would – when they would get their weapons, they’d pretty quickly figure out how to use them and use them back against them.

And they were cannibals as well. And they still celebrate that culture, which I thought was really strange. You know, the tattoos and, you know, the cannibalism stuff that they kind of wink and nod at. And you see them do the dance, where they’re ooh, you know, and they’re stomping their feet and all that kind of stuff. And they did that in their legislative body as well. This place is really going pagan. Now we see this. And it’s not the first time they’ve done this. They’ve given some inanimate object personhood. They have now named this thing Mount Taranaki.

It’s Maori name. And they – why don’t you just call it McKinley? The latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which has previously ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred land were people before. This is paganism. New Zealand is leaving Christianity. I mean, you look at Christ Church, one of the cities that was there. It was a beautiful little English-type city. It had this meandering river that was running through it. And, you know, you see the – in the UK, you see pictures of people that call it punting, where they’ve got like a small little boat, and you’ve got a guy with a pole, and you pay him and he takes you for a ride, and they’ve got little straw brim hats.

All that kind of – very, very English. And yet now it’s going full pagan. And they don’t know the difference between inanimate objects and people created in the image of God. Isn’t that interesting? This is this kind of – it’s inherent with paganism. And yet, personhood. You know, personhood is at the core of the arguments for or against slavery in this country. Well, you know, these slaves that we got here, they’re not fully persons. Well, the baby’s not really a person either, right? And that’s the situation in New Zealand. They’ve got very liberal abortion laws.

Really, no penalties at all at any point in time. Theoretically, it’s limited to before 20 weeks. But if you do it after 20 weeks, as long as you get a note from the doctor, you’re fine. And nobody’s ever been criminally prosecuted for it, even at full term. So the babies are not persons, but the mountain’s a person. The lake is a person. The river is a person. The law past Thursday gives Taranaki all the rights, powers, duties, responsibilities, and liabilities of a person. The law views the mountain as, quote, a living and indivisible whole.

This is pure paganism. Western civilization is being removed off of its Christian foundations. And this is the kind of insanity that we can expect. A newly created entity will be the face and the voice of the mountain. The law says they will have four members from the local Maori tribes and four members appointed by the country’s conservation ministry. These will be people who are advocates for the mountain and they will speak for the mountain as we have liberals always be advocates for the environment for inanimate objects here in the US. The mountain has long been an honored ancestor, they say.

And here’s the amazing thing. It passed unanimously, unanimously in the legislature. Today, Taranaki is released from the shackles of injustice, of ignorance, and of hate. Ignorance? I don’t know. Don’t you be racist to mountains. I hate mountains. Who hates mountains? I think that would be the height of racism, wouldn’t it, to be racist against a mountain. The bill recognizing this again passed unanimously. Hello, it’s me, Volodymyr Zelensky. I’m so tired of wearing these same t-shirts everywhere for years. You’d think with all the billions I’ve skimmed off America, I could dress better. And I could if only David Knight would send me one of his beautiful gray MacGuffin hoodies or a new black t-shirt with the MacGuffin logo in blue.

But he told me to get lost. Maybe one of you American suckers can buy me some at the DavidKnightShow.com. And David is giving a 10% discount to listeners from now until 2025. At that price, you should be able to buy me several hundred. Those amazing sand-colored microphone hoodies are so beautiful. I’d wear something other than green military cosplay to my various galas and social events. If you want to save on shipping, just put it in the next package of bombs and missiles coming from the USA. [tr:trw].

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