Peter Hemmingson: Matariki and Kwanzaa – Sister-Celebrations of Marxist-Leninist Identity Politics

Organised Matariki Festivals are a comparatively recent fabrication.

The Carter Observatory's learning and programming manager, John Field, said in a 2013 article published on www.stuff.co.nz:

"If you went back about 15 years, no-one had heard of Matariki. It was only celebrated in the far north or middle of the North Island," he said. "After Te Reo became more popular, Matariki became much more of a celebration."

Peter Hemmingson: ACT, Then and Now - Have We Seen This Movie Before?

As a long-time supporter of Richard Prebble’s original vision for ACT, I’m highly uneasy about what appears to be a familiar pattern re-emerging.

When Prebble brought Donna Awatere-Huata into the party, I questioned the decision at the time. Her background in radical Māori separatist group Ngā Tamatoa and openly expressed sympathy for Marxist economic ideas sat uneasily with ACT’s commitment to free markets, individual responsibility, and equal citizenship.

Peter Hemmingson: Sanctioning Te Pati Māori

The ongoing disrespect for our Parliament shown by Te Pati Māori puts the finger squarely on the underlying issue: whether New Zealand will be governed by democratic norms or tribal grievance politics enforced through cultural intimidation.

We’re watching tikanga being expressed not as custom or courtesy, but as confrontation, posturing, aggression, bullying, and thinly veiled threats of violence.

Peter Hemmingson: The Final English Draft That Torpedoes Treatyism

For more than a century, historians have accepted that the final English draft of the Treaty of Waitangi—the version given to missionary Henry Williams to translate into Māori—was lost to history.

In its place, the New Zealand legal system has long relied on the so-called “English version” inserted into statute law. But that document cannot possibly be the original final draft.

Peter Hemmingson: Pay Equity Racket

It is disappointing to see ACT’s Brooke van Velden going into bat for tweaking pay equity legislation rather than for blowing it out of the water altogether.

In the annals of modern political fiction, few narratives are more intellectually bankrupt—and more persistently weaponised—than the myth of the gender pay gap. 

Peter Hemmingson: Deconstructing the ‘Noble Savage’ Myth

Marxists have been pushing the Maori barrow in New Zealand since 1935, when the Communist Party of New Zealand ran in the General Election of that year on a plank which included: “Self-determination of the Māoris [sic] to the point of complete separation.”

Ever wondered why?

Peter Hemmingson: Brown Supremacist Bluff and Threats

It should by now be clear to all that after six years of Labour Government, self-entitled brown supremacist part-Māori have gained vastly increased political traction and momentum at the expense of ordinary New Zealanders.

The longer this situation continues, the harder it will be to arrest. 

As Black American political economist, Thomas Sowell, reminds us: “When people become used to special treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.”

Peter Hemmingson: We are the eighty-percenters (80%)

Radical [part-] Maori “brown necks” and post-colonial-guilt-tripping white liberals claim most New Zealanders see nothing wrong with [part-] Maori privilege; and that only a handful of benighted “racists” object to it.

WRONG.

Some poll results:

Peter Hemmingson: Maori Socio-Economic Disadvantage

The propaganda claim to a collective [part-] Maori socio-economic disadvantage has become one of NZ's most enduring tropes.

Adolf Hitler’s “big lie” technique: repeat a lie loudly and often enough and it becomes the ‘truth.’

As I will demonstrate below, aggregates are politically useful but factually vacuous.

Peter Hemmingson: 'Pinnochio' Shaw

In claiming to hold a BA from Victoria University of Wellington, Green Party co-leader, James Shaw, lied about his academic qualifications

Turned out he was a dropout who never completed his undergraduate degree.

Shaw also claims to hold an MSc. from Bath University but has never substantiated this.

Peter Hemmingson: White Settler ‘Wickedness’?

“In the Kingdom of the Blind, the one-eyed man is King. And he that does not know his own history is at the mercy of every lying windbag.” – outgoing Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, in his 1935 farewell address

Truth-telling surely obliges us to torpedo the oft-repeated assertion that 19th Century white settler governments wiped out the Maori language as part of a deliberate policy of enforced assimilation.

Hitler’s Big Lie technique: repeat a lie over and over until it becomes the ‘truth.’

Peter Hemmingson: The Trojan Horse of Te Reo

It is important to understand the key role of the Māori language in the ever-increasing Maorification of Everything.

The Māori language is of huge assistance in further conditioning the public mind into accepting the “One country, two peoples, our country” co-governance agenda of brown supremacist part-Maori.

Marama Fox, former Maori Party co-leader, admitted as much in an interview in The Listener” before the 2017 election.

Peter Hemmingson: Waitangi Tribunal

Waitangi Tribunal Reports are widely believed to issue only after rigorous historical investigation of Treaty claims.

In other words, you can take them to the bank.

The Tribunal’s findings then reach the wider public via media reports, make their way onto Government websites, and percolate throughout our education system as authoritative, objective accounts of the events to which they refer.

What if Tribunal Reports were in fact one-eyed rewrites of New Zealand history and not worth the paper they are printed on?

Peter Hemmingson: Matariki and Kwanzaa - Sister-Celebrations of marxist-lenin identity politics

Organised Matariki Festivals are a comparatively recent race-separatist fabrication.

The Carter Observatory's learning and programming manager, John Field, said in a 2013 article published on Stuff:

"If you went back about 15 years, no-one had heard of Matariki. It was only celebrated in the far north or middle of the North Island," he said. "After Te Reo became more popular, Matariki became much more of a celebration."

According to Te Ara Encyclopedia of NZ:

Peter Hemmingson: Thoughts on the Treaty Grudge Industry

The ethnocentric polarisation of New Zealanders finds its entry point in the Maori Affairs Amendment Act 1974.

Before the Act was passed, the legal definition of ‘Maori” was by blood quantum: “A person of the Maori race of New Zealand or a half-caste descendant thereof.”

After panicked complaints from its Maori MPs that soon nobody would be able to prove eligibility for the Maori Electoral Roll, Labour changed that definition tor read: “A person of the Maori race of New Zealand or any descendant thereof.”

With the stroke of a pen, anyone with a fraction of Maori blood, such as the 1/16th Maori, Stephen [aka ‘Tipene’] O’Regan, could hang a big mutton bone around his neck and identify himself as ‘Maori.’