Bruce Moon: Prepare For A Dirty War

“The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief.”
- Jacques Ellul

The observation by French philosopher Jacques Ellul which we quote above could hardly be more accurate than as a description of the relentless fabrication about the Treaty of Waitangi and New Zealand’s history by many a part-Maori commentator so freely featuring in the news media today.  Such a one is “treaty educator” Te Huia Bill Hamilton with a long article in E-Tangata for 27 August 2023.  In it he starts by claiming that “Opposition to co-governance is fuelled by racism, ignorance and fear. And it continues the colonising which asserts European superiority over Indigenous peoples.”

Mike Butler: Iwi leaders feeling heat?

A comprehensive rant from a spokesman for the National Iwi Chairs Forum is a rare display of a privileged and powerful elite apparently feeling the heat of public criticism.

In a piece titled “Co-governance is good for us”, published in E-Tangata on August 27, 2023, Te Huia Bill Hamilton tries to counter Julian Batchelor’s Stop Co-Governance campaign. (1)

Hamilton, who declares that his ancestry is “Ngati Kahungunu, Ngati Raukawa, Nga Rauru, Scotland”, is described as “a Treaty of Waitangi and human rights specialist and a lead adviser for the National Iwi Chairs Forum, who has spent 25 years educating Pakeha and tauiwi about Te Tiriti through his company Treaty Solutions”.