Broadcaster Michael Laws has accused Te Pāti Māori of moral cowardice and political negligence following the alleged murder of three-year-old Catalya Remana Tangimetua Pepene.
On The Platform, Laws challenged the party’s co-leaders – Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi – for their silence: “Colonialism didn’t murder this child. A 45-year-old Māori man did.”
“Where are you?” he asked repeatedly, directing his comments at Māori leaders and activists who often mobilise around colonial grievances but remain, in his view, “complicitly silent” on Māori child abuse. “You’re not silent when the Crown’s involved. You’re not silent when police are involved. But when it’s your own? Nothing.”
Laws said the data is irrefutable: Māori children are disproportionately represented in child abuse and homicide statistics, and much of the violence occurs within Māori households. Yet Te Pāti Māori – whose platform centres on tino rangatiratanga and systemic reform – offers no serious plan to address what he called “our greatest scandal.”
“I wouldn’t just hold Te Pāti Māori solely responsible – although they’re meant to be. This is their job. But there are a whole series of other white liberals and brown liberals who’ve walked away from this, including the mainstream media, who’ve walked away from this issue for decades because it doesn’t fit the narrative,” he said.
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“Where are you?” he asked repeatedly, directing his comments at Māori leaders and activists who often mobilise around colonial grievances but remain, in his view, “complicitly silent” on Māori child abuse. “You’re not silent when the Crown’s involved. You’re not silent when police are involved. But when it’s your own? Nothing.”
Laws said the data is irrefutable: Māori children are disproportionately represented in child abuse and homicide statistics, and much of the violence occurs within Māori households. Yet Te Pāti Māori – whose platform centres on tino rangatiratanga and systemic reform – offers no serious plan to address what he called “our greatest scandal.”
“I wouldn’t just hold Te Pāti Māori solely responsible – although they’re meant to be. This is their job. But there are a whole series of other white liberals and brown liberals who’ve walked away from this, including the mainstream media, who’ve walked away from this issue for decades because it doesn’t fit the narrative,” he said.
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The state owned and controlled mainstream media, have been instructed not to report on this issue for decades because it doesn’t fit the narrative of the corporate apartheid agenda.
I don't know why Michael Laws is really surprised at this child's murder because infanticide was a common, one could say customary practice, among maori in pre-European times, and being so ingrained and acceptable among maori has continued on today. The silence from maori activists and politicians signals apparent acceptance of this abhorrent practice and should be a clear warning to the rest of us New Zealanders that the Stone age has not moved far from the present day.
And they want all New Zealand children to learn how to live a life guided by a Maori world view. Nuts.
Never mind the evidence, they will always find a way to somehow blame colonialism. Speaking of Maori children being killed, what has happened to the case in Lower Hutt a while back, when the three adults in the house at the time closed ranks to protect themselves? Big, brave people, not
Statistically, predictably there will be at least 3 more Maori children murdered this year.
Classically, the adults involved will close ranks with no successful prosecution.
Why do we need a Child Protection Investigation Unit ?
Because Maori still practice infanticide.
So much for joining the civilized world while te parti Maori want to revert to their pre 1840 standards.
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