GUEST BLOG: Hone Harawira – “GIVE THEM A FKN HIDING!”

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In 1979 we went up to the Auckland University and “beat the shit” out of 51 Pakeha students.

Why?

Because the Engineering students had been getting pissed, dressing themselves up in Pasifika grass skirts, daubing obscene slogans on their chests, and terrorising civilians with a grotesque bastardisation of the haka, harassing women, bullying men, threatening Māori and Pasifika and causing havoc on the streets of Auckland, and nobody had been able to stop them – for more than 25 years!

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People had been writing letters, making submissions, begging, pleading, making personal representations, going to the Vice-Chancellor, the Head of the Engineering Department, the police and everybody else you can think of, to try and get them to stop, and all to no avail.

Their response? Stop being wowsers! It’s just a little fun!

So He Taua went up there and we stopped those bastards. In 3 minutes flat!

So yes you can be high-minded, and yes you can turn your nose up, and yes you can criticise, and yes you can preach, but don’t ever tell me what to do because I’ve been down this street before and I know how it ends.

Hone Harawira is the Leader of the Mana Movement 

39 COMMENTS

  1. I’ve never heard about that incident until now – that seems to be a pattern when it comes to the history of NZ racism. Reminds me of the 81 Spingbok tour – no matter the moral questions about apartheid because “it’s just a rugby match”. Another topic no-one in NZ likes to talk about any more. I guess reminding everyone how racist we can be as a nation doesn’t sit well now days.

    • The problem with the springbok tour was that if all the people who said they were at the protest were very few people would have been watching the games. Also all the politicians who take a few pass based on the work that was done by others. I remember the incident as I thought it should be replayed everywhere where people have the “only a bit of fun” line – maybe you should beat up a few Lions clubs Hone (if you could get in the door). Maybe other marginised groups should act with a bit more aggression!

      • its better than chopping their heads of and dissolving the body in acid and we and our masters are turning a blind eye to the saudis Lucy because of trade now that is very sad indeed.

  3. the difference between then and now – which should obviate any need for ‘f’kn hidings’ – is that now the mayor has been forced to apologise – most of the country has been going ‘w.t.f! – hawera..!,,you feckin; idjits..!’…

    and you could pretty much guarantee it won’t be happening again next year..

    so no real need for ‘the bash’…eh..?

    this is a ‘different’ road now…(thank goodness..!..)

  4. I heard of the ‘incident’ and I live in Christchurch (arguably the most racist city in Godzone).

    And yes, all the ‘talking’ in the world got no result but three minutes of action got the desired result. Good on ya Hone, kia kaha.

    It’s exactly the same with these neo-lib slimeballs. Voting ain’t gonna get us anywhere. Action will.

  6. I remember getting punched in the face by some Maori kids from from the local intermediate school simply for riding my bike past them. Not the only time that sort of thing that happened. I’ve always seen physical violence as part of Maori culture, like it or not.

  7. I am as about as Pakeha as they come but to be honest if I were Maori and my culture was being so openly mocked I would have done the same thing.

    • Well James now you know what battered women and children and babies live with every day, but without having Harawira’s big bullying fists and mouth.

      I would have voted Mana if Hone Harawira hadn’t been so racist and bad-tempered.I liked their social policies.

      In this violent little threshold country there are hundreds who live constantly mocked, at home and at work. It’s a rotten sort of way to exist, but they do, and they may be our true heroes. Whether you know it or not, you will know some of them.

      • Well I did vote Mana and would again as I agreed with their stance too. But violent culture and the perceived right to wield it is wrong and you clearly have suffered from that and it is sad to hear it. The fact that Hone’s nephews were in trouble for chasing and terrorizing a 14 year old a few years back doesn’t speak well for the belief that violence is a solution to any social ill, and develops and allows the bullies you have encountered in your life.

  8. Boasting about political violence is short-sighted. There will always be someone able to apply more force than you (i.e. the state) and stooping to that level only invites more.

    • Yep, but this is criminal violence, Brutus.

      Right now, someone could go out and bash up another for allegedly insulting/mocking him, and run prominent community leader Hone Harawira’s exhortations as a defense in a court of law.

      This is perfectly feasible given the number of people here who have already made it clear that they agree with Mr Harawira’s situational violence.

      Given the legal standard of ‘the reasonable man’ as exemplified by these assumed reasonable persons here, and their embrace of this violence, the basher-upper would have a good chance of getting off.

    • Otago University is worse. They have men – MEN – dress up at capping concerts as ballerinas, and what’s worse, as Russian ballerinas, forever dancing Swan Lake, which is insulting to Tchaikovsky who would never have had unshaven armpits and hairy legs in his head when he composed the dance of the little swans, and it is straight- out cultural appropriation from both beautiful sublime Russian ballerinas – who work bloody hard – plus the swans and other poultry whose role in life is to be aesthetically pleasing, or eaten, and not mocked or derided.

      I think the Russian Embassy has been very tolerant about all this – so far. No-one should tell them.

      If we appropriated Chinese culture – or opera or ballet in this way, they could well take offence – they could actually – and I don’t even know if we could stage “Fiddler on the Roof” again without upsetting you know who, and possibly Cameron Slater. Whew.

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