MEDIAWATCH: If even Damien Grant can see it…

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Martyn Bradbury
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There’s a saying in NZ politics, ‘When even Damien Grant can see it…”.

Damien Grant: The principles that ACT should be sticking up for

The policy is to have Parliament pass a law defining the principles of the Treaty, with an emphasis on their impact on our democratic institutions, and then ask the electorate to vote on this at a referendum.

This is a mistake.

…when even Damien Grant can see that a referendum to redefine the Treaty and then force it upon Māori using nothing more than a naked majority is wrong, then come on, the rest of you have no excuses either!

There seems to have been a belief amongst some of our whiter friends that the 420 000 non voters (many of whom are Māori) were simply going to sit the next election out.

There seems to have been a belief that Māori should just allow ACT to generate a referendum that would renegotiate the Treaty and then just foist it upon them with no complaint whatsoever!

What about our 180 year history suggests to you Māori will accept that?

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White Kiwis are treating Māori angry at years of abuse the way a parent who has beaten their children behaves at Christmas Dinner, with unforgivable rage that the beaten children are playing up at Christmas Dinner and not wanting to play nice for the occasion.

You can’t keep shitting on a people and get angry when they don’t want to be shat on any longer!

Let’s be very clear, ACTs call for a referendum to redefine the Treaty and then simply force that redefined Treaty upon Māori will start a race war.

Game it out:

  • David Seymour cuts a deal with National in 2023 and launches its purge of every Maori political win since the Treaty was signed.
  • Shutting down every co-governance arrangement would provoke absolute outrage within Māoridom and spark a vast number of immediate legal cases which would jam down any legislative process as every single decision made after Parliament passed  the law ending co-governance would become challenged. Political protests would erupt around the country and local councils would find local resistance as Māori groups universally set up occupations of shared governance assets.
  • Likewise, forcing a redefined Treaty using nothing more than a majority referendum will immediately provoke an enormous backlash.
  • The New National/ACT Government would then attempt to find anyone within Māoridom who would willingly negotiate new Treaty ‘provisions’ with them. No one within Māoridom would willingly negotiate these and so the New National/ACT Government, while dealing with increasingly violent weekly protests in the street, would announce that they are universally negotiating these new provisions on behalf of Māoridom. The news that not only has the New National/ACT Government ended co-governance but are now redefining the entire Treaty by themselves inspires all out violent protest and the New National/ACT Government respond with increasing use of special terror laws and paramilitary Police Mark Mitchell promised would just be used against gangs to keep a lid on the escalating fury within Māoridom at the loss of their political rights.
  • Increasingly global media attention is scathing towards the New National/ACT Government as NZ quickly becomes a pariah on the world stage.
  • Donald Trump calls the New National/ACT Government ‘wise’.
  • A vast and angry Hikoi makes its way to Wellington refusing the authority of Parliament to redefine the Treaty.
  • Protestors refuse to disperse, the New National/ACT Government order Police to open fire on protestors.
  • This sends issues spiralling out of control.

David can be as much of a smart arse as he likes, but selling raw meat racism to the angry whites with policy promises that would lead to a race war isn’t clever politics, it’s fucking dangerous and it’s fucking ugly.

If even Damien Grant can see it…

 

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29 COMMENTS

  2. Martyn – Many Maori Leaders are not happy with the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi, their ancestors signed the Treaty, not the Principles…

    • Neihana, so if we take the principles out of the TOW and just have the literal wording, remembering that Majority of Maori leaders signed the Maori version that favours Maori rights continued control ova their lands and resources “Tino Rangatiratanga”. Which means Maori would today be in full control of the majority of NZ.

      The English version is irrelevant because Maori collectively didn’t agree to secede sovereignty. The principles suits pakeha more so than Maori.

      http://www.enzb.auckland.ac.nz/

  3. Can someone tell me what the principles of the treaty are ? And are they like the Usa constitution and it’s amendments that can be redefined by different courts?

    • There are none – they were a legal work around to allow go ahead of privatising state owned assets under neo liberalism without having to compensate Maori resource owners.
      They were always bullshit.

  4. Would have been good to know what people think the Treaty is in the Census. Fkn missed opportunity there govt.
    This would have given stats to say to ACT leave it alone or show most are uneducated about it.
    A referendum not binding might be a good thing to educate NZ more about a fascinating document.

  5. Martyn when I apply for promotion at work I’m expected to show what I have done to “uphold the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi”. This ridiculous state of affairs isn’t the fault of Maaori – it’s the fault of the silly white liberals who’ve called most of the shots for the last 50 years.

    • Pope Punctilious 11. An applicant short listed for a receptionist position in the radiography dept of the Hutt Hospital about 10 years ago, was asked to define the Treaty of Waitangi at their job interview. Next they were asked how they would apply the Treaty in the reception area of the radiography dept at Lower Hutt Hospital. Both women interviewers were Pakeha.

  6. If Country Calender can mention in last night’s episode that Maori land is about 6% of the country & only 20% of that land is arable (1.2% of the country) from a situation where they originally had all the land then any fair-minded person can see that the continual complaints about Maori settlements lack the evidence to prove that they are unfair. It seems that populist politicians are happy to say that a contract is a contract unless it goes against any unfair advantage they have gained over many generations then they decide that new rules are needed to allow them to keep any ill-gotten gains.

  8. Well that looks like a good list!
    All these laws are to protect Corporate Maori Elites. Which have no relationship with everyday Maori, so fuck’em!

    • True but at least those outcomes were arrived at democratically. You cant expect the populace to all be equally cognisant of the implications but it also doesnt mean you allow the elites to railroad them. I’d rather watch NZ sink under the weight of poor democratic choices than authoritarian ones.

  12. https://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/132555225/police-respond-to-disorder-at-stop-cogovernance-event-in-tkaka
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/300933786/pull-her-pants-down-woman-dragged-from-palmerston-north-anti-cogovernance-meeting

    15 POLICE protect the racist and none do shit for the women dragged from the venue.

    The longer this goes on the worse it is going to get.
    Maori signed a deal pakeha shit on it and todays racists are doing what the same racists did 180 years ago.

    Julian is a sad old man
    A money grifting evangelical pastor
    A vengeful businessman who cant get his own way against a local iwi because he wants to build on a maori graveyard.

  13. Exactly Bonnie here is a classic example of your last paragraph.

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/132555225/police-respond-to-disorder-at-stop-cogovernance-event-in-tkaka

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/300933786/pull-her-pants-down-woman-dragged-from-palmerston-north-anti-cogovernance-meeting

    15 POLICE protect the racist and none do shit for the women dragged from the venue.

    The longer this goes on the worse it is going to get.
    Maori signed a deal pakeha shit on it and todays racists are doing what the same racists did 180 years ago.
    Going to war to get what they want.
    This is the beginning of a civil war.

    Julian is a sad old man
    A money grifting evangelical pastor
    A vengeful businessman who cant get his own way against a local iwi because he wants to build on a Maori graveyard.

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