Come late 2023 when election time rolls round, the New Zealand voting public will have one of their most important decisions, maybe ever, to make.
I firmly believe that the way we vote in the next general election will have a huge impact on our lives, our children’s lives and, quite possibly, our grandchildren’s lives.
The next election will determine the character and integrity of how we are governed and what rights we will have.
There will be a not so simple choice between voting for a democracy or allowing democracy to perish by voting for the party that is demolishing democracy and replacing it with an ethnocracy.
Democracy – A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives. This includes the imperative, one person, one vote principle.
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John Porter is a citizen, deeply concerned about the loss of democracy and the insidious promotion of separatism by our current government. This article was first published HERE
There will be a not so simple choice between voting for a democracy or allowing democracy to perish by voting for the party that is demolishing democracy and replacing it with an ethnocracy.
Democracy – A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives. This includes the imperative, one person, one vote principle.
or
Ethnocracy – A state where governance, including the distribution of power, control and your rights is based on specific ethnic factors such as your ancestry.
Ardern’s Labour Government has already set us on the dangerous pathway to an ethnocracy using two contrived validations: the spurious and fabricated fallacy that the treaty was signed as a partnership and the hugely undemocratic, all-encompassing, co-governance.
In 2018 the government created a new agency: Maori Crown Relations. At the launch, Minister Kelvin Davis announced, “The agency…will help facilitate the next step in the Treaty relationship – moving beyond the settlement of treaty grievances into what it means to work together in partnerships.”
That agency was charged with developing a new engagement model between Maori and the public sector. It would also provide leadership across the public sector on other matters “including the constitutional and institutional arrangements supporting partnerships between the Crown and Maori”.
This was the genesis of the partnership fallacy, and its work continues, unconstrained today.
Co-governance arrogantly dispenses with the time-honoured principle of 1 person, 1 vote.
Co-governance would distribute decision-making power to the NZ population as follows:
50% to all non-Maori persons and 50% to all proclaiming to be of Maori ancestry.
Co-governance for just 17% of the entire population?
But the sinister and never mentioned aspect of Co-governance is that it confers the power of veto to the group proclaiming to be of Maori ancestry.
This is the absolute power to block, stop and finally control. Full control in the hands of the minority! Full control by 17% of the NZ population!
No decisions can be made without the approval of iwi. In effect iwi, through the veto right, would eventually be in control of all New Zealand!
Full control is what Ardern’s Government have bestowed on Maori, wrapped up in the bullsh*t terminology “co-governance”!
Want an up-to-date, simple, classic example of how Co-governance works?
Then look no further than Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf Management Plan. The Department of Conservation propose that specific zones would be “no-take” fishing areas. However, Maori would be exempt from this ruling.
Now let’s have a quick look at the treaty.
The Treaty of Waitangi was signed on 6 February 1840 by Captain William Hobson and Maori chiefs from the North Island of NZ. It has become a document of central importance to our history.
The treaty has played a major role in framing the political relations between New Zealand’s Government and the Maori population, especially from the late 20th century.
But what is not widely known is that sovereignty was not established by the Treaty – it merely gave us a tenuous connection to the Crown.
Sovereignty was established later – on the 16th of November 1840, with the signing of Queen Victoria’s Royal Charter/Letters Patent.
Letters Patent are a type of legal instrument in the form of a published written order issued by a monarch, president or other head of state: generally granting an office, right, monopoly, title or status to a person or group.
Queen Victoria’s Royal Charter/Letters Patent of November 1840 made New Zealand into an independent British Colony on the 3rd of May 1841; having its own governor and constitution to form a government to make laws, with courts and judges to enforce those laws.
All under one flag and one law, irrespective of race, colour or creed.
Many consider Queen Victoria’s Royal Charter to be New Zealand’s “true” founding document. A document that would completely remove any doubts about “partnership” or that Maori have rights different from any other New Zealand citizen.
I would wager big money the Maori caucus or activists do not want a bar of this, for it would completely extinguish the basis for nearly all their undemocratic, ethnic-centric claims!
What I haven’t spoken about, and will do in another broadcast, is the Matike Mai Report of 2016.
That report was commissioned by the Iwi Forum in 2016 following the signing of UNDRIP in 2010 by the National government.
Matike Mai was to clarify priorities for Maori self-determination and the pathways, including legislative, towards Maori sovereignty.
The call of Matike Mai starts with recognising He Whakaputanga (the parent document) which asserted the absolute authority of the tribes of this country in 1835.
Te Tiriti (the child document) affirmed the parent authority and allowed England to establish a governor over their people, within a Maori country.
It was a message to the world and their trading partners that this country was, and is, a Maori country.
Matike Mai may shock you but it clearly identifies that the goal of Maori activists is… MAORI SOVEREIGNTY.
And Ardern provides as much assistance as possible!
Ardern’s Labour Government has already set us on the dangerous pathway to an ethnocracy using two contrived validations: the spurious and fabricated fallacy that the treaty was signed as a partnership and the hugely undemocratic, all-encompassing, co-governance.
In 2018 the government created a new agency: Maori Crown Relations. At the launch, Minister Kelvin Davis announced, “The agency…will help facilitate the next step in the Treaty relationship – moving beyond the settlement of treaty grievances into what it means to work together in partnerships.”
That agency was charged with developing a new engagement model between Maori and the public sector. It would also provide leadership across the public sector on other matters “including the constitutional and institutional arrangements supporting partnerships between the Crown and Maori”.
This was the genesis of the partnership fallacy, and its work continues, unconstrained today.
Co-governance arrogantly dispenses with the time-honoured principle of 1 person, 1 vote.
Co-governance would distribute decision-making power to the NZ population as follows:
50% to all non-Maori persons and 50% to all proclaiming to be of Maori ancestry.
Co-governance for just 17% of the entire population?
But the sinister and never mentioned aspect of Co-governance is that it confers the power of veto to the group proclaiming to be of Maori ancestry.
This is the absolute power to block, stop and finally control. Full control in the hands of the minority! Full control by 17% of the NZ population!
No decisions can be made without the approval of iwi. In effect iwi, through the veto right, would eventually be in control of all New Zealand!
Full control is what Ardern’s Government have bestowed on Maori, wrapped up in the bullsh*t terminology “co-governance”!
Want an up-to-date, simple, classic example of how Co-governance works?
Then look no further than Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf Management Plan. The Department of Conservation propose that specific zones would be “no-take” fishing areas. However, Maori would be exempt from this ruling.
Now let’s have a quick look at the treaty.
The Treaty of Waitangi was signed on 6 February 1840 by Captain William Hobson and Maori chiefs from the North Island of NZ. It has become a document of central importance to our history.
The treaty has played a major role in framing the political relations between New Zealand’s Government and the Maori population, especially from the late 20th century.
But what is not widely known is that sovereignty was not established by the Treaty – it merely gave us a tenuous connection to the Crown.
Sovereignty was established later – on the 16th of November 1840, with the signing of Queen Victoria’s Royal Charter/Letters Patent.
Letters Patent are a type of legal instrument in the form of a published written order issued by a monarch, president or other head of state: generally granting an office, right, monopoly, title or status to a person or group.
Queen Victoria’s Royal Charter/Letters Patent of November 1840 made New Zealand into an independent British Colony on the 3rd of May 1841; having its own governor and constitution to form a government to make laws, with courts and judges to enforce those laws.
All under one flag and one law, irrespective of race, colour or creed.
Many consider Queen Victoria’s Royal Charter to be New Zealand’s “true” founding document. A document that would completely remove any doubts about “partnership” or that Maori have rights different from any other New Zealand citizen.
I would wager big money the Maori caucus or activists do not want a bar of this, for it would completely extinguish the basis for nearly all their undemocratic, ethnic-centric claims!
What I haven’t spoken about, and will do in another broadcast, is the Matike Mai Report of 2016.
That report was commissioned by the Iwi Forum in 2016 following the signing of UNDRIP in 2010 by the National government.
Matike Mai was to clarify priorities for Maori self-determination and the pathways, including legislative, towards Maori sovereignty.
The call of Matike Mai starts with recognising He Whakaputanga (the parent document) which asserted the absolute authority of the tribes of this country in 1835.
Te Tiriti (the child document) affirmed the parent authority and allowed England to establish a governor over their people, within a Maori country.
It was a message to the world and their trading partners that this country was, and is, a Maori country.
Matike Mai may shock you but it clearly identifies that the goal of Maori activists is… MAORI SOVEREIGNTY.
And Ardern provides as much assistance as possible!
John Porter is a citizen, deeply concerned about the loss of democracy and the insidious promotion of separatism by our current government. This article was first published HERE
8 comments:
In any supposedly balanced arrangement maori invariably act as a united bloc, often apparently under the direction of motu wide coordinated outsider academic activists and corporate moguls. It only takes one of the balancing party to side with maori and maori effectively have total control. Often many, irrespective of the lack of merit of proposals, side with maori for various reasons; family and friendship ties, response to msm and RNZ propaganda, susceptibility to other brainwashing(including schools, teaching, nursing professiosns, unions etc), business considerations, seduction by flattery, fear of tikanga/te ao utu , desire to be seen to conform with in-fashion employer policy, instinct to associate with the winning team, etc.
But the overwhelming influence is the fact that anyone of substance daring to question or counter maori is automatically accused of being racist. They then suffer cancellation, and all the economic and social deprivation associated. Hence unless entirely independent, hardly anyone in public office, public service, business, employment ever now dares to question maori proposals. And especially when confronting face to face an equal size group of uniformly programmed pro maori protagonists.
So maori effectively gain total control.
(Applies also with just a partnership, or with maori in a "consultation" role.)
I can't wait to exercise my one puny vote against a corrupt Government John, but I am not filled with confidence. This whole saga has revealed the general complacency and the ineffectiveness of our system of law and government - that a determined numerical minority can exercise such power. There are plenty like you who can tell it like it is, while we wring our hands and wail. Would it help if we had not abandoned the Privy Council? - too late now. Did we think MMP would obviate the implicit dangers in FPP?
We simple people had faith in the law - till we discover how subject to myriad interpretations that can be. Some of course are just based on ignorance and cheek, but the most learned in the law can be more or less woke it seems.
It doesn't help a lot to read how much worse it was when people were burned at the stake for exercising free speech (or whacked over the head, gutted and put in the oven for any reason at all)
Well said and absolutely on point, John. The Treaty is not NZ's founding document and it has now well outlived its original purpose. Its principles (which require no further repeating in legislation) - that the Crown is Sovereign and we are all its subjects EQUALLY can live on, but as for the revisionists rest of it, that should be confined to history. We've moved on, or should have, as soon as we've settled the few outstanding genuine historic claims, as opposed to all those other more contemporary disputes (like the foreshore and seabed) where the likes of Finlayson & Key have meddled and created new avenues for disputation.
Robert - 'maori invariably act as a united bloc'. There are already cracks showing in this idea as various iwi try to grab more power for themselves. It is why Ngai Tahu refused to have their area of 3 waters to include the top of the South Island. Different iwi up there and they don't want to have to share control.
As Mahuta pushes her own iwi to the top, one is to head Auckland water, expect infighting and fractures in the pretend unity.
Well i agree with you Robert - but do you think we deserve to run the country if we are that pathetic? Probably not - I'm hoping we might get a shot of courage when Jordon Peterson comes next week. his three lectures are sold out, and i doubt he will take on racism, but he does seem to give a bunch of ninnies a shot in the arm. Fingers crossed.
Co-governance needs to be called by it's true name - Maori governance. It's double speak to call it anything else.
I sincerely hope we ditch this rotten government and Maori governance. There will be disruption but we need to push back. As John says it might be our one opportunity to avoid disaster for NZ.
MC
The true name for co-governance is BRO-GOVERNANCE. It's the Old Tribal Boys network. All those identifying as Maori haven't voted for this, most haven't even been consulted.
Next year's election will be too late. The damage is being done here and now, and much of it is irretrievable. This is a cancer, that will go into remission at best, only to reappear in 6, 9, 12, or 24 years time. In the meantime it'll slowly, insidiously eat away in Government departments, Local Councils, SEOs, Bureaucracies, Media, Universities, Schools and Corporations. There is only one answer to cancer and that is to cut it out, and the sooner, the better!
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