The disruptions of NZ society by radical Maori, driven to some degree by Te Pati Maori and ably abetted by the MSM, beg the question of its genesis. How is it that these protests can be so readily organised?
One simple answer is that Maori are easily identified or self-identified, as a specific ethnic group (and even more easily when one has access to census records and Covid databases – but that’s another story.)
This ease of identification ensures that radical Maori politicians have no trouble in determining who to target with their ‘calls to arms’ in pursuit of redress for whatever grievances they care to dream up.
Conversely, the other four million of us are an amorphous mass: a diverse collection of races, English, Chinese, Scottish, Indian, Irish, other Europeans and other Asians, etc., making it much more difficult to identify common ground and common causes around which the rest of us – the Kiwis – can be rallied.
What is needed is a purpose, a simple idea everybody can relate to such as JFK’s “We choose to go to the moon” in the 1960s, galvanised a generation. But such a simple and easy to understand idea is not always readily to hand.
In NZ, even a concept like ‘defining the principles of the treaty of Waitangi’ may be too vague and complex to provide a simple and easily understood goal: a rallying cry to facilitate push back against the racially motivated radical separatists amongst us.
In our multi racial society it is easy to see how this particular debate may not be one around which we can readily unite.
However, there is one thing every non-Maori, the ‘Kiwi’ majority of NZ, can easily identify as a target and that is the patronising anachronism of Maori seats in parliament: a state of affairs that gives one race preference over all the other races that make up the majority of the nation.
These seats hark back to the time when the Westminster parliamentary system was introduced into NZ and personal land ownership determined the right to vote. Maori, as tribal and iwi group landowners, didn’t meet this requirement and Maori seats were created to address this potential disenfranchisement. However we have long since moved on to voting rights based on universal suffrage. All New Zealanders can now vote and the Maori seats no longer serve any constitutional purpose. The cost of a parliamentary seat over three years, with all aspects of an MP’s salary, expense allowances, etc, is $1,724,611.
With seven Maori seats plus the additional salary paid to party leaders gives us a cost in excess of $12 million dollars every parliamentary term.
So not only are the Maori seats an anachronism and throwback to the original colonial government of NZ, ironically the exact thing Te Pati Maori rails against at every opportunity, they are an expensive anachronism at that.
Of course we all know this, but Labour finds it expedient to maintain that these seats are still needed to give Maori a voice, as one would expect, since the Maori seats always vote left.
Clearly Labour’s Maori caucus severely miscalculated in the 2023 election. By legitimising the race-based separationist ideals of co-governance and He Puapua, they encouraged the Maori vote to shift even further left, birthing the extremist radical group that is today’s Te Pati Maori.
But the National Party is also afraid of any debate around the Maori seats because someone will immediately shout ‘racist’, with the MSM subsequently blowing this up until a genuine race war might be threatened, or, even worse in the eyes of a politician, a few votes might be at risk.
Thus, until enough public support is expressed to make championing of the removal of Maori seats politically worthwhile, the idea will always be deferred.
What we need to do is develop this public support so that the following message is delivered, loud and clear:
You, the three per cent of Maori who voted TPM, want race based policies, special treatment, different laws and demand a separated parliament.
We, the 97 per cent Kiwi majority, believe in universal suffrage – one person, one vote. A principle that means no separate seats in parliament based on race or any other criteria.
But these words are likely too much of a mouthful for today’s society. To make it an easily understood call to action, a simpler, shorter, snappier rallying cry is needed. Something that can imprint itself on the psyche of the nation and be reiterated at every opportunity.
Examples abound of the power of simple slogans to rally the people; this has been recognised for thousands of years.
The Roman senator Cato famously ended every speech he made, on any subject, with the words Carthago delenda est – Carthage must be destroyed – until eventually it was.
Then there was Adolf Hitler’s odious Juden Raus! to literally drive the Jews from Europe. And similar today with “From the river to the sea”, which is mindlessly parroted by the likes of John Minto, Chloe Swarbrick and the student protestors of the progressive left; seeking again to drive Jews from their Israeli homeland.
And Donald Trump has managed to co-opt Ronald Reagan’s “Make America Great Again” slogan, using it as the nucleus around which his hugely disparate group of supporters have coalesced.
It seems irrefutable then that a similar ‘great idea’ is needed if we are to rally support for NZ as one society, not divided by special concessions for one race or another.
And so we come to the slogan, the rallying cry that the non-Maori majority – NZ Kiwis – can easily recognise, remember and reiterate every time racialist radicals try to disrupt our society.
And what better slogan than one borrowed from the woke progressives we are pushing back against? I give you therefore:
DEFUND THE MAORI SEATS
Not only is this short and to the point, but it lends itself to any number of expansions, a few of which might be:
Defeat Racism – Defund the Maori Seats
Defend Democracy – Defund the Maori Seats
Repeal Preferential Racism – Defund the Maori Seats
No to Colonial Ideas – Defund the Maori Seats
Stop Patronising Maori – Defund the Maori Seats
Restore Equality – Defund the Maori Seats
Pasifika, Asian, Pakeha Unite – Defund the Maori Seats
The list could go on and on.
In summary, New Zealand is on the cusp of something truly frightening. We can allow radical racism to irrevocably split the country, leading eventually to recommencement of the civil wars of the 1800s. Or we can stand for simple equality: the firm belief that we are one people – Kiwis together – where any treatment based on race and ethnicity has no place. Including within our parliament.
DEFUND THE MAORI SEATS.
What is needed is a purpose, a simple idea everybody can relate to such as JFK’s “We choose to go to the moon” in the 1960s, galvanised a generation. But such a simple and easy to understand idea is not always readily to hand.
In NZ, even a concept like ‘defining the principles of the treaty of Waitangi’ may be too vague and complex to provide a simple and easily understood goal: a rallying cry to facilitate push back against the racially motivated radical separatists amongst us.
In our multi racial society it is easy to see how this particular debate may not be one around which we can readily unite.
However, there is one thing every non-Maori, the ‘Kiwi’ majority of NZ, can easily identify as a target and that is the patronising anachronism of Maori seats in parliament: a state of affairs that gives one race preference over all the other races that make up the majority of the nation.
These seats hark back to the time when the Westminster parliamentary system was introduced into NZ and personal land ownership determined the right to vote. Maori, as tribal and iwi group landowners, didn’t meet this requirement and Maori seats were created to address this potential disenfranchisement. However we have long since moved on to voting rights based on universal suffrage. All New Zealanders can now vote and the Maori seats no longer serve any constitutional purpose. The cost of a parliamentary seat over three years, with all aspects of an MP’s salary, expense allowances, etc, is $1,724,611.
With seven Maori seats plus the additional salary paid to party leaders gives us a cost in excess of $12 million dollars every parliamentary term.
So not only are the Maori seats an anachronism and throwback to the original colonial government of NZ, ironically the exact thing Te Pati Maori rails against at every opportunity, they are an expensive anachronism at that.
Of course we all know this, but Labour finds it expedient to maintain that these seats are still needed to give Maori a voice, as one would expect, since the Maori seats always vote left.
Clearly Labour’s Maori caucus severely miscalculated in the 2023 election. By legitimising the race-based separationist ideals of co-governance and He Puapua, they encouraged the Maori vote to shift even further left, birthing the extremist radical group that is today’s Te Pati Maori.
But the National Party is also afraid of any debate around the Maori seats because someone will immediately shout ‘racist’, with the MSM subsequently blowing this up until a genuine race war might be threatened, or, even worse in the eyes of a politician, a few votes might be at risk.
Thus, until enough public support is expressed to make championing of the removal of Maori seats politically worthwhile, the idea will always be deferred.
What we need to do is develop this public support so that the following message is delivered, loud and clear:
You, the three per cent of Maori who voted TPM, want race based policies, special treatment, different laws and demand a separated parliament.
We, the 97 per cent Kiwi majority, believe in universal suffrage – one person, one vote. A principle that means no separate seats in parliament based on race or any other criteria.
But these words are likely too much of a mouthful for today’s society. To make it an easily understood call to action, a simpler, shorter, snappier rallying cry is needed. Something that can imprint itself on the psyche of the nation and be reiterated at every opportunity.
Examples abound of the power of simple slogans to rally the people; this has been recognised for thousands of years.
The Roman senator Cato famously ended every speech he made, on any subject, with the words Carthago delenda est – Carthage must be destroyed – until eventually it was.
Then there was Adolf Hitler’s odious Juden Raus! to literally drive the Jews from Europe. And similar today with “From the river to the sea”, which is mindlessly parroted by the likes of John Minto, Chloe Swarbrick and the student protestors of the progressive left; seeking again to drive Jews from their Israeli homeland.
And Donald Trump has managed to co-opt Ronald Reagan’s “Make America Great Again” slogan, using it as the nucleus around which his hugely disparate group of supporters have coalesced.
It seems irrefutable then that a similar ‘great idea’ is needed if we are to rally support for NZ as one society, not divided by special concessions for one race or another.
And so we come to the slogan, the rallying cry that the non-Maori majority – NZ Kiwis – can easily recognise, remember and reiterate every time racialist radicals try to disrupt our society.
And what better slogan than one borrowed from the woke progressives we are pushing back against? I give you therefore:
DEFUND THE MAORI SEATS
Not only is this short and to the point, but it lends itself to any number of expansions, a few of which might be:
Defeat Racism – Defund the Maori Seats
Defend Democracy – Defund the Maori Seats
Repeal Preferential Racism – Defund the Maori Seats
No to Colonial Ideas – Defund the Maori Seats
Stop Patronising Maori – Defund the Maori Seats
Restore Equality – Defund the Maori Seats
Pasifika, Asian, Pakeha Unite – Defund the Maori Seats
The list could go on and on.
In summary, New Zealand is on the cusp of something truly frightening. We can allow radical racism to irrevocably split the country, leading eventually to recommencement of the civil wars of the 1800s. Or we can stand for simple equality: the firm belief that we are one people – Kiwis together – where any treatment based on race and ethnicity has no place. Including within our parliament.
DEFUND THE MAORI SEATS.
9 comments:
"Including within our parliament".
And therein lies the cause of our problems/troubles.
Defunding the State would get their attention.
Politicians are inherently gutless cowards.They make a lot of noise about equality ,but have no intention of ever addressing the issues that divide this country..
When policy changes that are obvious, to maintaining true democracy are not made.
One can only determine that greater forces are at play and the final outcome, what ever it maybe will not be determined by the people.
Maori also have a network od state subsidsed insurgency coordination centres called marae, are united by common state subsidised hobby interests such as kapa haka compettions and matariki, and state subsidised separate but uniting kura.
The Maori seats are an anachronism and should be dispensed with ASAP. This would not go down well with the Maori "elite" who have done very well with
Treaty settlements and other government funding, often at the expense of the people they purport to represent. We also need to have our media speak and write in the language that the great majority of us knows - they continue to do very well, thank you, with the PIJF - that should be stopped forthwith, and not wait for another two years.
It is relatively easy for a unified, determined and aggressive minority to cause a great deal of suffering to an amorphous and disunited multicultural blob, which the majority of NZ is rapidly becoming. Perhaps the only or best solution is to separate into territorial segments roughly equal in proportion to the two elements. A hard border would be essential, with each segment entirely responsible for its own independent governance. Otherwise, Northern Ireland here we come.
Our democracy is wafer thin and it is up to us to protect it. The following is my suggestion: Do away with the Tea Party Maori seats in parliament. They are an anachronism and a racist rort, and ditto with the Waitangi Tribunal. Both Labour and National are responsible for this. Do away with the celebration of Matariki. Much more important to us should be a celebration of the arrival of the Royal Charter/Letters Patent from Queen Victoria on November 18, 1840. Shift that day to the nearest Friday to that date, and shift another day, perhaps Kings Birthday or Waitangi Day, to the following Monday. That would give us an opportunity to celebrate a four-day weekend being ONE PEOPLE, with food, song and dance from people who have come to make New Zealand their home, as well as the coming of summer, plus the coming of Christmas. If that makes me a racist, I will wear that label with pride!
Kevan
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Make it even shorter and to the point DEFUND MAORI
Well said, Kev.
Once the Treaty of Waitangi was signed, all Maori (including the chiefs) became British subjects, rendering it analogous to a used table napkin after a meal, and other than as a historical artefact, about as important.
As Governor Hobson unequivocally stated as he shook the hand of each chief on the lawn at Waitangi: “He iwi tahi tatou” (“Now we are one people”).
The Treaty of Waitangi can thus best be described not as “New Zealand’s founding document,” but as “New Zealand’s founding moment.”
Britain obtained sovereignty over the North Island by Treaty and over the South Island by Proclamation of Discovery on 21 May 1840.
The Proclamation made New Zealand a dependency of New South Wales as an interim measure.
Five months after Britain declared sovereignty over all the Islands of New Zealand, Queen Victoria’s Royal Charter/Letters Patent dated 16 November 1840 superseded the Treaty and the Proclamation, and was enacted into law on 3 May 1841.
The Royal Charter/Letters Patent was Our True Founding Document and First Constitution.
This separated New Zealand from New South Wales, turned New Zealand into a stand-alone British Colony with its own Governor and Constitution, and empowered a legal government to make laws with courts and judges to enforce those laws, all under the watchful eye of Great Britain.
In 1947 we became a Sovereign Nation when we adopted the Statute of Westminster.
It is not the Treaty of Waitangi, but Queen Victoria’s Royal Charter/Letters Patent, that is our First Constitution and True Founding Document.
It lies in the Constitution Room at Archives New Zealand in Wellington gathering dust.
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