They want us to respect te ao Maori (emphasis on the importance of relationships between nature and people) and yet they show their penis, bare their buttocks, drown out speakers and show a general unpleasantness every single time.
The coalition government has faced a confronting reception at Waitangi on Monday.
The crowd booed a combative Winston Peters and drowned out David Seymour, while Christopher Luxon sombrely reflected on history at the Treaty Grounds.
ACT leader David Seymour says he believes the government’s visit to Waitangi was overwhelmingly a success – despite the attempts to drown him out.
Seymour’s speech was heckled by the crowd, with some calling on him to sit down.
He told RNZ only a small minority booed his speech, and there’s a mix of views.
RNZ
David Seymour had worse:
ACT leader David Seymour faced a kahui (group) of kaiwero (warriors)
Further to this, one of the warriors lifted his maro (loin cloth) to reveal his penis to the political parties during the powhiri. He then licked his rakau (stick) and bared his butt. This can be interpreted as a challenge to the Crown.
RNZ
Charming. How unedifying. I can’t believe I’ve just read a paragraph in which the words penis, lick and butt are all listed, ending with “a challenge to the crown”. Disgusting behaviour.
Nicole McKee was also abused, presumably because she is the ‘wrong sort of Maori’.
Some more context for what happened during ACT Party member Nicole McKee’s speech.
Te hau kainga (hosts) at Waitangi shut down a speech being delivered by McKee with the waiata ‘Maranga Mai’.
Mckee, who is the Minister for Courts and the Associate Minister of Justice (Firearms), spoke in te reo Maori.
She told those gathered at Waitangi that she and her family were very proud of the the [sic] work and policies ACT is promoting.
Members of the crowd took issue with her statements and pronunciation and the call was made by te hau kainga to stop the korero with a waiata.
RNZ
I guess te hau kainga can be translated as rude and unpleasant behaviour designed to silence people.
Hone Harawira was as unpleasant as his mother:
Veteran Maori activist and last MP Hone Harawira is speaking.
“You and your shitty ass bill are going down the toilet. That shitty ass bill is going down the toilet.”
He’s spoken about the fight for the Treaty over the decades.
“Here we are today and you buggers want to get rid of it and you think it’s just a case of bring in some legislation to strip the Treaty of its mana, to belittle the reo by making it a second class language in our land. It ain’t gonna happen.
“You need to know that. There’s more important things to be doing if we are trying to build this nation than mucking around with the Treaty of Waitangi.”
RNZ
And they want us to respect them when they can’t even respect the Government we elected.
As usual, Annette Sykes, who has literally added nothing to the discourse in her entire life, decided she’d do what she has always done and hurl insults at everyone. David Seymour pointed out a few home truths to counter the lies being spread by Te Pati Maori and Labour.
Te Arawa lawyer and activist Annette Sykes has asked how he, who didn’t speak te reo, would tinker with the Treaty. Sykes also looked to make fun of Seymour by saying he had to have a woman – his MP Nicole McKee – make the reo speech.
“You’re not off the hook either Prime Minister. How do you let him do this?”
When it was his turn to speak, Seymour responded with, “Sorry what century is that from?”
“Not even Donald Trump is calling his opponents insects yet,” he added, responding to calls that the Government are spiders and sandflies.
Security stopped a heckler who yelled, “F*** up Seymour, you don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Seymour continued to talk through the singing, saying he would continue working to make the country a beautiful country and one where all had equal rights.
“You can sing, you’re not going to beat an idea anymore than you’re going to beat an idea with a gun,” he said in reference to former minister Peeni Henare’s comments from Saturday.
“We will fight for the rights of every single person whether they have been here for 1000 years or just got here yesterday.”
NZ Herald
Winston Peters also slammed the rudeness:
Earlier Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters asked the crowd: “Whoever said we were getting rid of the treaty?
“So stop the crap, stop the hysteria.
“Some of us have been fighting for land rights for decades and where were you?
“If you think separatism and division will take us to 2040, you’ve got another thing coming.”
Peters said he was raised in a time of respect on the marae, bemoaning how he wasn’t being shown respect.
”You see, get an education,” he said to one person in the ground.
“I used to go to marae where they had tikanga and respect, not people shouting at the speaker,” Peters yelled at his critics.
Peters left the Waitangi Treaty Grounds early, making comments on the way about what he considered to be breaches of protocol.
NZ Herald
I really don’t know why politicians submit themselves to this overbearing disrespect and rudeness from Maori. They want us to respect te ao Maori and this is what we get in return.
Christopher Luxon, David Seymour, Shane Jones and Winston Peters should just do what Helen Clark did when she was made to cry by Titewhai Harawira: never return to Waitangi.
Little wonder that Ngapuhi are yet to settle their treaty claims – the same treaty that they now argue never ceded their sovereignty, yet they have their hands out for alleged breaches. Surely they should take their grievances up with the leadership of Ngapuhi, since they apparently are still the paramount governors of their area.
Modern Maori agitators say they never ceded sovereignty, yet they go cap in hand to the Government for everything. Te Pati Maori want to decolonise New Zealand, whatever the hell that means, yet also want a Maori Parliament – presumably paid for by the same colonisers. Add to that the so-called Maori King, a laughable Tainui construct designed to emulate the Crown of Great Britain. I say laughable because they also want to decolonise New Zealand, yet they’ve set up a Kingitanga movement precisely emulating the colonisers.
Maori need to get it through their heads that they were the first colonisers: their oral traditions tell us that. Their heroic re-casting of the Treaty of Waitangi seeks to make something that was never intended, to suit just them.
As Elizabeth Rata points out, Maori did cede sovereignty, how else could they have become British subjects, and in 1852 the Constitution Act superseded the Treaty.
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Every year it’s the same old bulldust. Respect is earned not demanded, and Maori have shown yet again that they don’t deserve any respect.
Enough already.
Cam Slater is a New Zealand-based blogger, best known for his role in Dirty Politics and publishing the Whale Oil Beef Hooked blog, which operated from 2005 until it closed in 2019. Cam blogs regularly on the BFD - where this article was sourced.
8 comments:
I love this recap and analysis. I think it won't be long before they start fighting among themselves. The moderates, who are presently invisible and may have been able to navigate a treaty discussion, will denounce the radicals, who are creating a huge backlash. No society wants to tolerate bad behavior and Christopher Luxon needs to demonstrate this asap. The Police need to keep law and order and the MSM need to be restructured shall we say, with journalistic principles firmly reestablished by Parliament.
If you wonder what life will be like under a "partnership" between Maori and the Crown, then look no further than our Waitangi "celebrations".
Supposed to be a national day of unity where all of us can celebrate New Zealand, it's morphed into a grotesque circus where a spoilt, entitled, thankless group of loud-mouthed part-Maori strut their cultural crap, abuse everyone else, expose themselves (a criminal offence, I'm sure), and are bullying and threatening to anyone who disagrees with them.
All the worst things about a tribal society, on show for all the world to see, and covered with pride by our bankrupt mainstream media, who openly gloat.
What a disgrace!
Still waiting to here what the coalition's plans are to tackle our biased state media. Still waiting........
We are learning that Maori culture/behaviour/socialisation is about intimidation, standover, abuse and aggression, greed and superiority. Tribal stone age brutal warring culture is back out front.
The courtesies and respect and the
like referred to by Winston Peters are no doubt colonialism on the marae.
It staggers me that maori, whilst insisting on a more than fair share of control of the 21st century nation, go to lengths to present themselves before the whole world as uncivilised primitive just out of the stone age. Personally I rejoice in their antics at Waitangi. Those many NZers, and especially new migrants, who are inclined to side with Labour and hence promotion of maori generally, including advancement of co governance (which leads effectively to total control) have had brought home to them just what a self centred, irrational, simple minded, indoctrinated, bunch of savages they are or were effectively supporting. The higher IQ maori who have slyly and artfully for decades been working away to infiltrate pro maori attitude into law, councils, all institutions, education etc must be dismayed by the actions of their simple minded once were warriors trace relatives.
The Tiriti o Waitangi was signed in 1840 while New Zealand was under the laws and dependency of New South Wales with the issuing of Queen Victoria’s 1839 Royal Charter/Letters Patent.
The Tiriti asked the Maori chiefs to give up their governments (Tribal control) to Queen Victoria in Article 1. Article 2 guaranteed both Maori and Pakeha the rights to their lands, settlements and property, and Maori could only sell their lands to the Crown at an agreed price. Article 3 made Maori British Subjects with the same rights as the people of England. No more, no less, no Partnership, and definitely no Co-governance.
So while a few part Maori today may want to celebrate the 6th February as the date that they were saved from themselves, it really has no relevance to the rest of New Zealanders.
The day that ALL New Zealanders could get behind, is the day that New Zealand separated from the laws and dependency of New South Wales to become an Independent British Colony with its own Governor and Constitution that created New Zealand’s Legislative and Executive Councils and granted authority to Governor Hobson to make laws.
This was done with the issuing of Queen Victoria’s 1840 Royal Charter/Letters Patent and the date of the first sitting of the Legislative Council was the 3rd May 1841, our official New Zealand Independence day.
What annoys me even more is why aren't prominent maori in broadcasting and other high profile roles, not standing up to the extremist maori? Eg james daniels newstalk zb who is on every afternoon. Never says a word in support of equality for all. If others stood up against all this as well and it was not just left to politicians like winston, then this would help.
I think that an outing to Waitangi on the 6th of February each year would be not unlike going to the circus to watch the animals and clowns perform.
There is certainly no hint of any purpose to the occasion apart from allowing immature, uneducated radicals make complete fools of themselves and make fools of any politician who shows up expecting to engage in meaningful discussion.
The whole thing should be put on hold, the likes of Henare, Jackson, Morgan, Hatfield to name but a few, should be sent to the naughty corner until they can prove themselves capable of mature conduct.
Let us instead celebrate when New Zealand became a separate Crown Colony by Royal Charter and Letters Patent issued by Queen Victoria on the 16 November 1840.
Exactly!!
How about we have 2 governments....17% if they choose to can pay their taxes to their govt, and the "Others" can pay their taxes to the elected govt. The 17% (though I suspect many would opt out) can have their own trade and education and health systems paid for by themselves. Lets see how that goes for them.
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