Waatea News Column: The Treaty has failed us all

1. I don’t recall reading an article of the Treaty dealing with a guaranteed supply of government housing.

   The vast majority of us live in houses, even the vast majority of Maori do. So one wonders what the homeless have done wrong.

   • As your bestie mate said Andrew “They made poor choices”. sarc.

   • How morally bankrupt are you Andrew?

     To ask “So one wonders what the homeless have done wrong” shows a utter contempt for human beings which is all to common after 40 odd years a rabid individualism. It also shows your not a Christian. Or if you are, that utterance makes you close to being a heretic. I’d suggest you should talk to a priest or a nun about what you don’t understand in the Gospels.

     This shitting on the poor shows how morally bereft our country has become. Casual, brutal, blaming the weak and defenseless to make yourselves feel better. Or worse, to absolve yourselves of taking any responsibility in the mission to up lift the poor. Is where we are at. And Andrew you like so many others like you are quick to blame and slow to know grace. But you can, you don’t have to be a Christian to do it, but at least act like a moral human being, and stop beating up on those weaker than you with your indifference and scorn.

     • Andrew is a wayne kerr

2. Quote:

   The Queen of England will protect all the ordinary people of New Zealand and will give them the same rights and duties of citizenship as the people of England.

   We now have 25,000 people waiting for emergency housing, 210,500 children living in poverty, 50,000 households living in poverty, suicide rates that are some of the worst in the world, entire generations locked out of homeownership and inequality that only grows with every passing year.

   Response:

   Seems to me that the people of New Zealand do indeed have all the rights and duties as the people of England and pretty much every other western country in the neo liberal hegemony.

   The problem is not know the problem. The problem is getting from where we are now to where we want to be in the future without being manipulated, attacked or liberated. It seems to me that if large international corporations is where the power lies than we all need to become part of large, democratic, constitutionally based, international co-operations. Sovereign nations are a fallacy. We need sovereign co-operatives ‘run by the people for the people’.

3. Maori were poorly treated from the time they were invaded to the present time . All people of colour around the World are poorly treated by white people some with more hatred than others . Some white people are looked at as being inferior to others simply due to where they were born or the religion they choose but this applies to coloured races as well . This has been the way of life since mankind moved into caves and as resources get scarcer and we all scrabble to keep our heads above water I cannot see great improvement in our living in harmony . This is a sad state of affairs and all you can do is try and think before you act is this ok and fair to others End of sermon !

4. Who is the State? Aren’t we all? We have what we voted and have voted for.

5. The one good thing to come out of the disaster we are in, “with 25,000 people waiting for emergency housing, 210,500 children living in poverty, 50,000 households living in poverty, suicide rates that are some of the worst in the world, entire generations locked out of homeownership and inequality growing with every passing year with every passing year,” is that it shows us what Maori have been putting up with forever.
   We have become Maori, Tangata Whenua, and if we’re smart we will acknowledge it, make common cause with Maori, and together, force land reforms, because, as Maori have been saying forever, its all about land.
   It was for want of land reforms that our forbears fled here from the UK and then they promptly imposed the same rotten system they’d fled from, on Maori.
   Avoiding the example of Japan, Singapore or Taiwan, for instance, where the state ownership of land stabilises its value, thus freeing up billions for Capitalist investment, our rotten system is returning us to the feudalism our ancestors fled.
   Te hei Mauri ora.

   • Thank you for your insight, and I agree with you. I believe we are watching NZ become a Oligarchy {much like a large umbers of other western democracies), in slow motion. By the time we actually realise that has actually happened, it’ll be to late to do anything, except ask, “How the fuck did this happen?”

6. All tribes have evidence of the fraudulent immoral activities of the colonial invaders of Aotearoa. The biggest crook was george grey and his MO of confiscation/raupatu. His invasion of the Waikato was the lowest of lows with grey after telling Maori he was amassing troops at the Mangatawhiri river but did not intend to invade them (Russia-Ukraine). 2 weeks later he invaded Waikato to give the productive lands to his business friends in Tamaki. Rangiowhia near Te Awamutu was a village that Grey set as a model for Maori with 3 churches and 2 flour mills. 2 years later his troops invaded the village run by women, children and old men because they were supplying the rebel Maori (who were fighting to protect their lands). That is why Maori only own 5% of their original ancestral lands.

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