It’s got to be bad in New Zealand when American political commentator Matt Walsh starts talking about us after that threatening haka (war dance) in Parliament over the Treaty Principles Bill, a Bill that is seeking equality for all New Zealanders. Would Maori behave that way on a marae? How can a bill that provides every citizen with equal rights be highly controversial!!
Author: Jo Bloggs, https://jobloggz.wordpress.com
This bill threatens a sacred cow.
The bill was introduced into parliament by Act MP David Seymour, himself part-Maori. It has three principles;
- Principle 1: laws are to be made in the best interests of everyone; and in accordance with the rule of law and the maintenance of a free and democratic society
- Principle 2: the rights that hapū and iwi Māori had under the Treaty of Waitangi will be respected at the time they signed it. However, if those rights differ from the rights of everyone, the rights of hapū and iwi Māori applies only if those rights are agreed in the settlement of a historical treaty claim under the Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975
- Principle 3: Everyone is equal before the law. Everyone is entitled, without discrimination, to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law; and the equal enjoyment of the same fundamental human rights.
The Treay of Waitangi, Te Tiri o Waitangi Sacred Cow
The sacred cow is Principle 2 where special rights are only accorded for historic claims on the Treaty of Waitangi. The politicians, lawyers and iwi leaders don’t want only historic claims to be settled. It threatens their power base.
After billions of dollars spent on treaty claims, and a “full and final” settlement promised by John Key’s government in 2014, we find the Treaty of Waitangi has now been embedded into our legislation and the government have become “treaty partners” with Maori. How and when did THAT happen?
In 1975 the Treaty of Waitangi Act was introduced after the 1975 Maori land march. It gave the Treaty of Waitangi recognition in New Zealand law for the first time and established the Waitangi Tribunal. In 1999, to speed up settlements, parliament under the Bolger-Shipley National government changed the process so that claimants could go straight to settlement with the Office of Treaty Settlements without engaging in the Tribunal process.
Since then laws are being made and interpreted by high-priced lawyers and politicians without the assent of the people. Iwi (tribes) have grown rich and powerful. They maintain their chiefs never ceded sovereignty to the crown in 1840. The history books that aren’t yet expunged say the Treaty of Waitangi was signed in 1840 to bring peace after the Maori musket wars. Maori are warlike. The musket wars had raged from the early 1800s to 1840 and the tribes had fought themselves to a standstill. It was also to protect Maori from the French who were here and also wanted to colonise NZ.
I know from my own history. My ancestor James Gilbert arrived in Cloudy Bay, Marlborough in 1839, before the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. He knew Samuel Ironside, a witness to the treaty who arrived at Cloudy Bay on the 20th December 1840. On February 6 1840, Ironside signed the Treaty of Waitangi as a witness, reportedly because of his help in convincing the Māori of the protection they would receive from the British Government. Ironside’s amazing ability to pick up the Māori language meant that he was a crucial mediator in negotiations.
The desire for equality
This sacred cow has not been fenced in. Consequently it is out of its field and trampling on the rights of others. New Zealanders are heartily sick of the corruption and unequal treatment. I said this and was challenged about how things are unequal.
Where do I start?
When I was at secondary school people from the Education department were looking for Maori or part-Maori students to give grants to. I wanted to go to uni but being Pakeha I had to leave school without help.
I was talking to my cousin about it a few months ago. She has two sons by different fathers. She told me the oldest son has some Maori blood. I wouldn’t have known it looking at him. He has advantages with education, grants and loans that his younger non-Maori brother does not. And yet they live in the same house!
I wanted to go back into the education system after our business was destroyed during the lockdowns of 2021. In late 2022 I considered applying for a job at a former workplace which would have suited me just fine, but there was one problem. I would have to work under the framework of “Te Tiriti o Waitangi.”
I didn’t understand until recently how work in a college library connected with an old treaty that was signed for the benefit of Maori 180 years ago. I still naively believed the Treaty of Waitangi was to settle claims about LAND. Silly me!
I contacted my former manager and asked him about this fly in the ointment and he strongly advised me not to got there. The place had gone ‘woke’, where it appeared that social justice issues for one group, the Maori, had taken root. He said it was “stupidity gone to seed.” Baffled and bewildered, I looked for a job elsewhere. It had been the best place I’d ever worked at and I was sad it was no longer like that.
I recently found out about the minimal tax iwi were paying. We ran our own business for 23 years where we had to pay 28% company tax as well as tax on our income. The Maori Authorities only had to pay 17.5% company tax. Some paid no tax as they set up their businesses as charities.
Voting has left me weary and disillusioned. I want people in parliament that truly represent us but the people I back can never get across the 5% threshold. The Te Pati Maori party have no such problem. They receive less than 3% of the popular vote, while all the other parties require >5% to qualify. They wouldn’t even be in parliament if not for our anachronistic race-based seats.
Most New Zealanders will have their own stories of inequality to tell but these are just mine. We are not free to talk about it, if we do its either minimised or we’re immediately branded as ‘racist.’
Agenda 2030
I wondered why the iwi leaders began to refer to themselves as “Treaty partners.” The treaty partnership and take-down of NZ society is what is needed to implement Agenda 2030. Jacinda Adern kicked it off. I found this clip on the MFAT website of Jacinda telling NZ what she’s going to do, straight out of the horse’s mouth. I warned about it in 2019.
“In the spirit of goal 17, we are committed to partnership,” she finishes her pretty little speech with.
Really? Most people wouldn’t have known what she was talking about. Goal 17 is the “Global Partnership for the Sustainable Development Goals.” It’s a mix of fascism through corporate welfare and socialism with wealth transfer and a global carbon tax. Part of the globalist’s plans, officially dubbed “Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals,” aims to reduce inequality worldwide by forcing individual governments and citizens alike to share their wealth under the guidance of a one world government.
Agenda 2030 is now being sneakily embedded into our legislation via the Treaty of Waitangi without consultation or referendum.
Here’s a quote from a UN document in 2019;
“Agenda 2030 is to be implemented in NZ within a Te Tiriti o Waitangi partnership model and through meaningful engagement with civil society.”
Well, the iwi leaders and politicians knew all about it obviously, but has there been any “meaningful engagement” with the rest of NZ?
If you think that Agenda 2030 is a good thing you need to do your research on the UN Agenda 2030 sustainable development goals (SDGs).
This is what is happening to our culture, character, welfare and soul while our leaders implement Agenda 2030. It is destroying NZ and the racial harmony that existed between Maori and Pakeha and it leaves the rest of us descendants of the British, Scots, Irish and European people unrepresented in our own country.
People like Te Pati Maori MP Rawiri Waititi will tell you we don’t matter because we’re white and should pay for the sins of “colonialism.” This a member of parliament!
Why the Treaty Principles Bill will not be passed
This bill is never going to see the light of day, the government have no intention of passing it and we have a prime minister who is a coward.
Brent Steven Pierson NNP (New National Party) explains it very well.
We have a government of three parties, National, ACT and NZFirst. All three parties have completely different ideas around the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi. National believes in the Principles and that Partnership is one of them.
ACT also believes in the Principles, but doesn’t believe in Partnership. and NZFirst doesn’t believe in the Principles or partnership. which is the most historically factual. National is the Party with most to lose. Their argument is the least convincing. If Partnership is a principle, then co-governance is it’s child. National needs to lay out a clear argument for supporting Partnership and co-governance. I am sure Nationals voters don’t see things the same way.
Someone needs to get Winston and Seymour to come to an understanding around the Principles.
They need to amend the bill to state that the principles are not real, but have been made up by the courts and as such can not be used to understand the Treaty. The Treaty principles bill is more about defining how the courts and others interpret the Treaty, not so much about the Principles themselves. The object here is to stop courts / judges from interfering and inventing principles that are not real and are not part of the Treaty.
ACT’s bill offers a way to clarify how the Treaty is interpreted in the modern age. It is no good Winston just saying “there are no Principles “ if everyone else believes in them. He maybe factually right, but he’s politically wrong. NZFirst needs to get in behind this bill, make amendments and offer NZ a clear way forward. Leaders lead and all the rest just follow. Source: Brent Steven Pierson NNP, New National Party
The Toitu Te Tiriti Sacred Cow and Mad hatters Te Pati
Cows eat grass but not this sacred cow. Winston Peters maintains this is not “grass roots” but rather “Maori astroturf.” Despite that, the Te Pati Maori party have been milking this sacred cow and the media have been giving it lots of nourishment.
What most in the mainstream media are not reporting is that the organiser of the hikoi is the son of the current sitting Māori Party MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi, is employed by the Māori Party, and stood as a candidate for the Māori Party.
The company that fundraised and coordinated the hikoi called “Toitu Te Tiriti” was incorporated in September by the wife of Rawiri Waititi and the daughter of the Māori Party president John Tamahere.
I’ve looked it up on the NZ Companies site and yes Toitu Te Tiriti was indeed incorporated on the 16th September 2024.
Afterward I saw this comment on social media which wasn’t up for long.
The Company organised a Hikoi for 40,000 people who probably were not aware they were there to protect a corporate Te Pati sacred cow.
Te Pati Maori traded on their people’s fears. Some Maori are afraid their culture will disappear. It hasn’t under colonialism, so why should it now there are Te Reo schools, Maori TV, radio stations, renovated maraes, and after fifty years of treaty settlements, very well funded iwi? If anyone is going to destroy Maori culture it will be the radicals. I wonder how many people like the haka now?
Some Maori think corporate NZ will exploit them. That’s a common worry to Maori and Pakeha both. If we’re divided as a nation it will happen.
Are Maori getting a fair deal? I saw this quote from a Maori on a social media post;
“I also, as a Maori, would like to see where all the settlement money goes to. I haven’t really seen a drop, and refuse to buy in to the special privilages just because of my ancestry. How many other Maori people out there see absolutely no money from the settlements? Whose pockets are being lined in the name of the greater good? I’m over it. We need this new beginning.”
The Treaty of Waitangi at the Museum of Te Papa
Visiting the Te Papa Museum in Wellington this year, this is what we were appalled to find. It’s the Maori version … and the English version of the Treaty of Waitangi. The Maori version is still there on a board. The English version is gone. Te Papa chose to project the blacked out version on a wall. The Treaty is supposed to be New Zealand’s “founding document.” Enough said.
Danegeld
I call the Treaty “Te Titiri of eternal compensation.” This cow is sacred because it’s a cash cow for iwi. It brings to mind a poem by Rudyard Kipling, “Once you’ve paid the Dane-geld, you’ll never get rid of the Dane.”
Isn’t it time to get rid of the cow and do something new? Maori and Pakeha need to unite or our society will go down the drain of Agenda 2030.
Links
The Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975
The Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975 was introduced after the 1975 Maori land march. It gave the Treaty of Waitangi recognition in New Zealand law for the first time and established the Waitangi Tribunal. Originally the Tribunal could investigate grievances only since 1975, but in 1985, a law change meant the Tribunal’s jurisdiction was extended back to 1840, the date of the Waitangi Treaty.
Originally a Tribunal investigation and report was a prerequisite for a Treaty settlement, but in 1999, to speed up settlements, parliament under the Bolger-Shipley National government changed the process so that claimants could go straight to settlement with the Office of Treaty Settlements without engaging in the Tribunal process.
2014
“Treaty Negotiations Minister Chris Finlayson also wrote, on Waitangi Day 2014, “that some people say they want an end to historical settlements. Most people agree”. Perhaps he is operating under the illusion that we can all get back to normal after all settlements have been completed.
But the treaty settlements process has created a vast industry of negotiators, lawyers, law firms and tribal corporations all relying on this form of corporate welfare, and this has expanded into local government co-governance. Heavy treaty principles indoctrination goes on at schools, universities, teacher-training colleges, hospitals, in fact through all government departments. Source: NZ Centre for Political Research, Key govt’s $1.2b treaty settlements record.” Posted on August 24, 2014 By Mike Butler.
2024
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