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Monday, June 9, 2025

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Brian Kennedy writes > WHY a karakia to open a new highway ?

WHY Stone Age Maori myth, beliefs, customs and voodoo witchcraft ?

WHY not a blessing by a Catholic priest or an Anglican vicar ?

What extra special relevance do our part-maori citizens have to a new highway ?

Maori never had roads, so they as a group, have less relevance to a highway than any New Zealander of European descent, because it was Europeans who surveyed, planned, excavated and built New Zealand’s first roads !

Just another exhibition of Government bureaucracies surrendering to the imposition of “MAORI WONDERFULNESS”

Unnecessary, Unwanted, Irrelevant and just encouraging a False Superiority Complex and Separatism among our part-maori citizens !

It’s nothing more than a totally UNJUSTIFIABLE FARCE !

Source: Facebook

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Tribal Elite - Breaching the Treaty While Lecturing Everyone Else on Its Sacredness - Steven Mark Gaskell

Undermining the Principle of Equality Before the Law

Co-governance demands, when they Ceded Sovereignty : Some interpretations argue that co-governance in entities like Three Waters, or health systems, deviates from Article III, which promises Māori the same rights and duties as British subjects (i.e., equality under the law).

Race based decision making is seen by critics as violating the Treaty’s intent of one nation, turning unity into separatism.

Unequal Democratic Representation

Māori wards in councils: Created without referenda in some areas, bypassing the majority public will. Critics argue this undermines democratic processes and the concept of equal suffrage under the Treaty.

Treaty Settlements & "Double Dipping"

Multiple claims by overlapping iwi: Some iwi submit repeated or overlapping claims, even after full and final settlements. E.g., multiple iwi claims to Auckland harbours or parts of the central North Island.

Critics view this as disregarding the finality intended in signed settlements.

Occupation and Protest Tactics

Ihumātao (2016–2020): Despite the land being privately owned and not subject to a Treaty claim, activist pressure led to government intervention. Seen as undermining lawful property rights and Treaty intent around peaceful resolution.

Waihopai occupation (2024): Land was already returned via Treaty settlement, yet activists re-occupied and demanded more.

Selective Use of Treaty Principles

Only invoking the Treaty when it benefits Māori interests: Critics argue the Treaty is sometimes treated like a one way street used to claim resources, veto developments, or demand authority, but rarely acknowledged when responsibilities and obligations are required.

It's funny how the Treaty gets waved like a magic wand when there’s money, land, or power up for grabs, but suddenly it's colonial fiction the moment accountability or compromise is mentioned.

Source: Facebook

11 comments:

Janine said...

How can we not blame our politicians for the progression of Maorification? They can never bring themselves to openly totally oppose this. Obviously there are groups in society who are not interested in the wellbeing of our country as a whole. People are making money out of fellow citizens. The radicals are prepared to rewrite our entire history to further their aims. Maori did cede sovereignty, we would be nowhere without our European ancestry, and bringing tribal culture to the fore cannot possibly be advantageous either here or abroad.

Anonymous said...

You can see this in action on mp hana-rawhiti moo hauraki-waititi's facebook public page, where school kids at a nz state school are shown on her post, doing a very aggressive war dance against a bill going through parliament. In front of their school. They all have their colonist laptop's with them, which they slam shut in unison as part of their tribal dance. I feel sorry for these kids. Their "teachers" are telling them what to think, not how to think. It is quite similar to what hitler did with hitler youth.

Doug Longmire said...

TV1 is just a lost cause.
Last night (Saturday) they (TV 1) proudly announced that the New Highway from Manawatu to Woodville was open.
Today we went to travel this new highway.
HELLO !! It's NOT open.
Opens in ONE WEEK.

Barend Vlaardingerbroek said...

No no, we can't have Catholic or Anglican clergy opening a new highway, that would be inserting religion into public affairs, which a secular state doesn't do. So we should have a karakia instead........ um, hang on a mo'............

Robert Arthur said...

Clearly there are citizens out there with a grasp of the situation prevailing and able and sufficently unafraid of cancellation to state it . A pity the characteristic does not extend to the legacy msm, including RNZ

Anonymous said...

And now , as another middle finger to the Government and the majority of NZ citizens, on TVOne appears a segment called Maori Money.... featuring mussel farming. All good that this company is doing well business wise, but will they now have a segment on successful non Maori businesses. It makes me furious and less inclined to contribute my hard earned taxes to those rort. Most worryingly, the extended family viewing with us thought it was lovely.

Robert Arthur said...

In response to Anonymous 10.10. I guess the programme is an attempt to counter Country Calendar. It is now the only tv I watch. I am astonished it has not been closed down. It is an affront to maori. Week after week it shows highly industrious, intelligent, highly able, environmentally sympathetic, commercialy adventurous colonist desendants with their remarkably able and energetic wives and loved, ordered, included families beavering away for the NZ cuniversal good.It must make many/most maori feel very inadequate (as it does me, but I only blame myself).The program sremarkably has resisted even Willie's Board. Little or nothing on RNZ has.

glan011 said...

The vast majoriddy in NZ have not the least understanding of "sacred" having been robbed of western spiritualiddy for several generashins. So when Maori announce whatever as "sacred", they all bow down... s t u p i f i e d....

boudicca said...

The road is on Maori land - isn't that the case with all of NZ now? The taniwha and its fellow supernatural critters must be appeased (usually by greasing iwi palms)

Anonymous said...

Anon 10.40
I was watching that item on TV1 , not at home, but with fully indoctrinated family.
They didn't understand why I stormed out of the room.

No different to the lies told to the German people during the First World War, and again further Third Reich.

When will they open their eyes, ears, and brains and realize what they are doing ?

Robert Arthur said...

To 4.20. The Boards of RNZ and TV and Willie know exactly what they are doing.