Clive Bibby: Immigration and assimilation - you can't have one without the other

Immigration on its own (based on an influx of people from different cultures) and provided it is limited to numbers that can be accommodated without putting pressure on existing services, is the life blood of all developing countries.

It has been the basis for all industrial growth in Ist World nations and can lead to a more tolerant society than one where there is only one cultural history.

It follows that where nations have opened their doors and accepted migrants with skills that compliment the existing workforce, society itself benefits from the injection of new blood.

But real problems exist when the numbers and backgrounds are not controlled and the public services are overwhelmed by new entrants who add nothing positive to an already stretched social welfare system.

In fact, their presence becomes an added drain on a society struggling to find a balance that ensures progress at minimal cost.

While in many countries, the government only has itself to blame for doing nothing to stop illegal immigration that includes people with criminal records, the bigger problem arises when those who come both legally and illegally, refuse to assimilate when they get here.

Recent antisemitic behaviour throughout the Western World is a direct result of poor vetting of new entrants and limp responses from authorities to those who break the laws regarding hate speech and peaceful demonstration.

Why is it that we here in Australasia must suffer daily flagrant abuses of of laws that forbids this sort of wilful activity.

I'll tell you why! Because many senior Parliamentarians in both countries actually sympathise with this anti Jewish sentiment and pretend that there is little we should be doing to eradicate it from our shores.

Consequently, we have Islamic leaders and their Kiwi accomplices being allowed to spew their hate and trash private property at will, knowing full well that the police will turn a blind eye. Police will only act when their political masters tell them to do so.

Responsibility for enforcement of laws governing peaceful coexistence lies with the Government of the day, so why are we not seeing record numbers of deportations or at least sentences to time in the slammer for offences under the act.

Unfortunately, in this country, the disruptive forces are more often than not resident citizens who were born here.

Much of the angst amongst radical Maori leadership stems from the fact that they are unwilling to accept being descendants from immigrants themselves while challenging the rest of the country's right to be here. They promote a contradictory proposition by misrepresenting our founding document, replacing perfectly clear words with "made up" interpretations that have no basis in historical truth.

They call it the "Principals of the Treaty" yet refuse to allow any debate on what the true interpretation of those principles actually mean.

It should be noted that arguably our greatest politician bar none, Sir Apirana Ngata, is on record as confirming the Treaty Clauses as being clear and in no need of interpretation. Perhaps unsurprisingly, a number of prominent historians of both Maori and Pakeha decent support his view.

So, where to from here. I believe that the next election will be fought on a correct interpretation of the Treaty Principles.

I can say to National, Act and NZ First politicians - if you fail to go to the people with any thing other than full support for Seymour's Treaty Principles Bill in the next Parliament, you will be swept out of office by the tsunami of voters who have had enough of a WOKE leadership that appeases the separatists.

PM Luxon - you have been warned.

Clive Bibby is a commentator, consultant, farmer and community leader, who lives in Tolaga Bay.