Chris Brown and His Execrable Music Must Proceed.

Here’s the argument for letting Chris Brown in to perform his execrable music.

It has nothing to do with Chris Brown.

He has ‘done his time’ for his crimes. End of.

After that, I don’t want politicians and bureaucrats deciding who can, and cannot, come into New Zealand. It has to be left up to the choice of the individuals of New Zealand whether they want to see, buy tickets, or whatever interaction they desire, with people such as Brown when they are in-country.

The argument he has a criminal record doesn’t wash. Blasphemy is criminalised in Saudi Arabia, and if you are a woman, driving: so should women from Saudi Arabia with criminal records not be allowed in? (Assuming – as you can’t – they have their heads connected to their necks still.) The devout of Saudi Arabia would view blasphemy every bit as evil and repugnant as we rightly find domestic violence. 

Should the countless thousands of Kiwis with criminal records for the victimless crime of cannabis possession not be able to travel freely in the Free West? (Noting that they can’t and that is significant.)

Identity politics wants to disappear Chris Brown. But identity politicos always want to exclude and excommunicate what they see as wrong. And that is always wrong.

I have seen those saying Chris Brown is unrepentant: unless you have talked to him - so that's not a single Twitter account I've seen saying this - that must be an opinion. Excluding him on that ground is purely an emotive one. And that is always wrong.

Free countries have open borders, and not just for immigration, but for ideas and art also. Progressivism and identity feminism, in this instance, and via that, politicians, don’t get to decide who free people associate with if they do no harm (and have fulfilled their punishment for previously doing so). Prohibition is always wrong; is always harmful, and here's why: because of Chris Brown New Zealand is discussing domestic violence. His visit will afford greater light thrown on this dreadful crime.

Next thing we’ll be told a member of the Israeli Defence Force is not free to enter New Zealand and give their side of history in our universities, because campuses have been turned into that anathema of the free-mind: safe places.

Chris Brown must not have his trip banned for the same reason that Ted Dawes should never have had his book banned.

Chris Brown must be free to bring his shite show to New Zealand, because if politicians get to choose who crosses our borders to discuss their ideas, or perform their art - when such people hold no physical threat to us - then New Zealand is not a free land and we all are living in Progressivestan.