The referendums on Maori wards to be held in tandem with the local elections is a critical moment for the future of race-based representation. The result will either embed them for a very long time or challenge their place in a democratic society. Although Maori wards have been available to councils for 20 or so years, it was Nanaia Mahuta’s tapestry of lies to take away the petition right that removed the barrier to their introduction.
Ironically, the Clark Labour government included the petition right when it allowed Maori wards, and there was a very good reason they did so -
democracy. There is a foundation stone of democracy which says electors should
have the final say about how their representatives are elected, not the
representatives.
What could
be more basic to a healthy democracy than that?
Regrettably,
allowing electors to have a say on how their representatives are elected did
not suit Mahuta’s racist agenda, and nor does it suit a majority of
councillors. It seems they believe in local representation, when “local” means
they have the say, not those they pretend to represent.
Mahuta lied
on two counts. Those lies were repeated by racial activists and to their shame,
went unchallenged in the mainstream (activist) media.
The first lie was that the petition right
applied only to Maori wards. It didn’t.
The same
petition right is available to citizens when their council resolves to change
the voting system from First Past the Post to STV. Why? Because it is changing the voting
system!
Introducing
the Maori roll into the voting system and dividing people into either the
general roll or the Maori roll, also changes the voting system. That’s why the petition right was applied.
Those who
say the petition right is racist, are either fools or liars, or both. And the
village idiots who say “but it does not apply to rural wards” are too
simple to understand that shifting ward boundaries or creating new wards to
define a geographic community of interest is not changing the voting system.
The second
lie perpetuated by Mahuta, and one that still resonates today, is that Maori
are under-represented on local councils. The facts show otherwise, but facts
that challenge the false narratives of activists are too inconvenient for them
to accept.
The
inconvenient truth is the number of councillors who identify as having Maori
ancestry is greater than their relative share of the population, both now and
after the 2019 election (before Mahuta’s intervention). Maori are able to be
elected onto councils on their own merits – they do not need to get a free ride
via Maori wards.
This truth
does not suit the radicals because it detracts from their bogus narrative which
says, or at least implies, that pakeha don’t vote for Maori (wrong) because they are racist (very wrong). They prefer to hold
the delusional opinion that Maori are victims of the tyranny of the majority.
When the
obvious is pointed out to them – namely the examples of Maori that are elected
on their own merits - they usually say “but they do not speak for Maori”.
In other words, they are not their sort of Maori, meaning they only
want Maori who are as radical as they are.
A second
reason why the radicals are not convinced by the facts is that their objective
is not to have “fair” representation based on population proportionality. Their
“fair” is to have 50% representation and they quote the “partnership” and their
sovereignty as the reasons.
They prefer
not to talk about this because they know it will scare the public and cause a
backlash that will erode the incremental gains that they are making.
What they
also know, but dare not say, is that 50% representation will give them control. They
know some of the “non-Maori” representatives will side with Maori – the Labour
and Green party councillors for example, who may as well be members of the
Maori Party when it comes to Maori privilege.
Gaining
control of the council is the prize they are after, and what a prize to win.
They would control a huge and captive income stream into perpetuity, paid for
by non-Maori, which they can divert for the benefit of Maori. And there is
absolutely nothing those getting the juice squeezed out of them could do about
it. It’s a case of either shut up and pay up, or shut shop and move overseas.
The squeeze is already happening in some councils, like the Northland Regional
Council.
It’s a
deliberate and brazen political strategy. What is astounding is that so many
non-Maori are so blind that they can’t see it and so naive that they fall for
the mystical nonsense used by Maori to justify their position of privilege. It
is as simple as robbing a bank without security.
Unfortunately,
a casualty of the Maori rights war is democracy itself. If New Zealanders allow
our basic democratic rights to be lost, then we will forever be hostage to
racists who believe their privileges are more important.
Sadly, we are a long way down that track. It will take courage to bring it back
from the precipice.
14 comments:
I hope the SIS subcontracts intelligence gathering to the Mossad ?
Increasing Maori aggression is real, not imagined.
Karakias continue unabated, at major hospitals, in what is essentially a two fingered salute to Govt directive...it is cultural bullying in a most inappropriate manner.
This citizen fears another Tararewa 'terrorist' situation...or worse.
Thanks Labour !
Those who would seek to permanently impose Maori wards on us are helped in a major way by the lack of any real media. Our town has just one local newspaper which has an almost non-existent distribution system and seldom prints any letters. This means here is no way the public can get to hear any other opinions other than those of the council staff who run the local councilors anyway. All the local councilors vote and indeed think the way they are directed by the staff.
Who in turn are directed by the corporate state government.
I guess if the Karakias get too scary, we can call on Nicole McKee to wave a few guns at them, and scare them away...
Very true, Frank. Despite my own Council (Lower Hutt) already having a third of the seats at the table identifying with Maori, in addition to an existing unelected Iwi representative; all bar one voted for the creation of a new Maori Ward. Far from signalling any virtue, they showed their racist, group-think stupidity, in not only undermining our democracy, but also their very hypocrisy in ignoring the many other ethnic minorities that make up our local community. They are in effect racist traitors and one can only hope the referendum will prove them so but, as Goebbels would have attested, one can never underestimate the power of propaganda and our MSM are currently rife with it.
For info of any who did not catch that aside from the fact that, without reference to the ratepayers, the FNDC adopted a Maori primary name that is unpronounceable, the FNDC also took it upon themselves to conduct their Maori ward decision meeting primarily, in fact almost exclusively, in te reo. (Source Northern Advocate). 70% of the 11 councillors are Maori, 4 of these are from the dedicated Maori ward. So, without these undemocratically imposed seats, representation would be relatively proportional. As it is, there is no vestige of proportionality. It was no surprise that this meeting, which was deliberately overborne with local iwi/hapu attendees, decided to continue the Maori ward and the 4 attendant seats at the trough (sorry table).
The NZF-National coalition agreement contains a requirement that public service departments communicate primarily in English. The FNDC used ratepayer funds to employ a translator for this 3 hour meeting. As it also states in the Advocate article that the Mayor said "said the increasing use of te reo Māori and tikanga across the council was about honouring the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, in line with the Local Government Act requirements." and that" FNDC has a two-year goal of all staff having been through introductory te reo lessons by October 2025. It has recently appointed its first in-house te reo Māori and tikanga specialist to assist."
While te reo is an official language of New Zealand, tikanga is certainly not law. Reference to the Treaty needs to be ripped out of the Local Government legislation (by its entrails) as soon as practically possible in accordance with another coalition agreement. Is anyone else appalled and absolutely against what amounts to blatant indoctrination on our dollar.
The only way that this travesty of affairs can be dealt with is through the ballot (I almost wrote bullet) box. Any candidate that owns up to part-maori ancestry is not voted for. In addition, get as many candidates to stand who are not part-maori and who do not have any sympathy for race-based politics, and vote overwhelmingly for them. Last, tell everyone who will listen that New Zealand is heading for apartheid and get them to read about how that screwed South Africa.
National have to read the room beforethe next election . NZ wants out of the direction of maori & ethnicity rampant division of our nation. NZ together as one is just fine . PM Luxon is just weak and pathetic towards debate or even discussion about Maori division.
In the Waipa District the Maori population is a little below average and more than half are on the General role. All councillors pledge or swear that they will act for the entire District. I doubt if our one Maori Ward councillor can truly meet that commitment. Our wise, but possibly short term, councillors voted overwhelmingly, with only one dissenter to keep the non democratic ward.
For quite a while I have wondered why councils and business have jumped on the treaty bandwagon and imposed all sorts of propaganda on unknowing and naive people.
The treaty is with the CROWN, not with the general population.
But the general population is bearing the brunt of all the maorification everywhere.
The continual maorification of everything will end only one way, and it won't be pretty.
Interesting you mention this anon@11.26. I know that very issue (of the declaration of office) was raised at at least one Council's hearing of the Maori Ward matter.
Their silence on the issue was deafening. So all others (that is, elected Councillors) declare doing their level best for all, but it seems not Maori? For obviously they can't claim they have the support and mandate of all, for only those on the Maori roll elected them.
So, whomsoever thought this undemocratic racist nonsense up, never really thought it through.
People said the same thing before the 2023 election...... now overdue.
Yes, Ray S, the question of why every council and private company jump on the band wagon and say they are bound by the treaty principles is interesting. Only the Crown has to meet any obligation! Unfortunately, I think the Local Govt act also obliges Councils also, but that can be rectified by amending said Act. The other question anon 7:14 brings up about where a councillors loyalty lies, is very valid. They can't sign an oath saying they will act in the best interests of their ratepayers when elected into a Maori ward; can't have it both ways. Which is a good reason for Maori wards to go
Earlier this week, I attended my overseas-born wife’s citizenship ceremony, held in the Westlake Girls HighSchool auditorium.
The ceremony began with a wigger MC welcoming everyone in the brown supremacist part-Māori pidgin hobby language.
For the next half-hour, our largely bemused new citizens, along with their equally bemused family and friends had to sit through an ugly, aggressive-sounding performance from the Westlake Girls kaoa haka group (every last one mostly white by blood quantum) followed by some ratty old kaumātua w*nking on indeterminable in the pidgin hobby language.
I old our children that this was not the ratty old kaumātua’s marae but the marae of our new citizens, and that he should sit down and STFU.
Citizenship recipients were given the option of taking the oath or affirmation in English or in the pidgin hobby language.
Of around 500 new citizens, all but one elected to do this in English, highlighting a clear lack of interest in the pidgin hobby language.
While Māori language and culture may be a selling point for the local tourism industry, that’s as far as it goes.
Atavistic war dance performances and long harangues in a language almost nobody wants or understands have no place in any public ceremony.
Back to the marae where they belong!
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