Mike Butler: Maori TV shows anti-white bias

Bias is prejudice for or against one person or group, especially in a way considered to be unfair. Maori TV showed anti-white bias as it launched an attack on jailed Northland farmer Allan Titford and supporters on Monday night, failing to treat the subject fairly and accurately as required.

What lies beneath revisited the Te Roroa claim at Maunganui Bluff north of Dargaville, Titford’s battle with claimants, his conviction for allegedly burning his home, and included interviews with claimant Alex Nathan, Maori rights academic Ranginui Walker, activist/unionist Justin Taua, treatyism critic John Ansell, pre-Maori New Zealand researcher Martin Doutre, treatyist academic Paul Moon, and old footage of former MPs Muriel Newman and Ross Meurant.

Mike Butler: Bombers’ anti-West influence

“Dzhokhar was a normal American kid,” the flabbergasted, politically correct media reported after it was discovered that the Boston Marathon bombing was carried out by two Caucasian Muslim brothers, one an American citizen, the other likely a green-card holder. Talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh came under liberal media attack for linking the bombers’ behavior to the “liberal elite intellectual thought” that infects the Boston community.

Mike Butler: Clarity on Maorified protocol

It takes a visiting Danish politician to bring a moment of clarity to the rent-a-powhiri madness that occurs at any official function. Marie Krarup, who was welcomed on to the navy’s Te Taua Moana Marae last month, decried the wero or challenge, objected to being welcomed by a “half-naked” man “shouting and screaming in Maori”, and objected to being forced to touch noses.

Mike Butler: The hunger for a special Maori deal

At some stage demography will trump the apparent insatiable appetite for a special deal for Maori, and there is a hint of this in ethnic projections near the beginning of “New Zealand’s Constitution – the conversation so far”, a discussion booklet released by the Constitutional Advisory Panel on September 11. The mid-range population projection by self-identified ethnicity, shown on page four of the booklet, expects Europeans or other to make up 70 percent of the population in 2026 with Maori making up 16 percent, the same as Asian, and ahead of Pacific Island at 10 percent. Aside from the curious unexplained fact is that these figures total 112 percent, the notion of an equal partnership deal between the government and 16 percent of the population based on an 1840 agreement looks increasingly quaint and poorly founded.

Such a demographic doomsday appears not too far away considering the panel leading a Constitutional review was been told a bicultural focus on the Treaty of Waitangi won't be fair to Pacific and migrant communities, according to a Radio NZ report on August 21, 2012.