Race War generating Treaty Principles Bill will cement into place 19th Century White Settler Privilege

Govt to introduce controversial Treaty Principles Bill this Thursday

In its first report following an inquiry in May, the Waitangi Tribunal found the Bill would effectively rewrite the Treaty of Waitangi.

It also said it was a solution to a problem that did not exist and little more than a “politically motivated attack on perceived Māori privilege”.

Cabinet released more details about the proposed principles in September, prompting a second hearing by the Tribunal last month.

The latest report, based on the second hearing, was just as scathing.

“We found that if this Bill were to be enacted, it would be the worst, most comprehensive breach of the Te Tiriti in modern times,” it read.

“If the Bill remained on the statute book for a considerable time or was never repealed, it could mean the end of the Treaty.”

The new report said if the Bill progressed, the damage to the Māori Crown relationship would be profound.

“Underlying the significant change across all statutory regimes that affect Māori, the Bill would end the Treaty partnership and any formal relationship between the Crown and Māori.

“At present, the progressing of the Bill is having serious impacts on the relationship but the Bill if enacted would kill that relationship. This is deliberate.”

When the Waitangi Tribunal is warning that this piece of legislation risks threatening all the work the Crown and Māori have made, we should probably sit up and take note.

Left wing genius Max Harris points out…

…in just 4 pages ACT are usurping the Treaty and enforcing a new one upon Māori without getting any agreement from Māori!

This cements into place white 19th Century Settler privilege while pretending to be about equal rights!

The late, great Dr Moana Jackson said:

“Contrary to what the Crown has always said, the Treaty did not admit either a cession of Māori sovereignty or a vesting of power solely in a political system brought here from somewhere else.

Rather, it suggested something that could be unique to this land — a constitutional framework which allowed for what the Waitangi Tribunal has called different “spheres of influence”, in which the will of Māori and the will of those who have come after 1840 could be expressed in a new and relational way.”

…Māori and those who came after 1840 have worked to find pragmatic ways of fulfilling the Treaty, yet ACT are so ideologically driven all they want to do is undermine that pragmatism with this Referendum Bill!

The Late Great Professor Ranganui Walker said:

“I have no time for the privileged people who take advantage of their privileged position to attack the weakest in society”

…we know the Atlas Network interests that are driving this attack yet we allow it!

The late, not so great member of Parliament, James Richmond, wrote in 1851:

“I look forward to the day when the preposterous Treaty of Waitangi will be overruled and the ridiculous claims of the natives to thousands of acres of untrodden bush and fern will no longer be able to dampen the ardour and cramp the energies of the industrious white man”.

How is that 19th Century White Settler privilege vibe any different to what ACT are preposing today and aren’t Maori sick of this crap?

Former Attorney General Chris Finlayson says the Treaty was between the Crown and the Maori Chiefs who signed it, where as ACT are misrepresenting the Treaty as between races and because they do this, they come to the wrong conclusions.

Treaty’s are supposed to be honoured not settled.

There are 2 versions of the Treaty, most Māori signed the Māori version, we are signed up to UN Declarations that state when there are two versions of a Treaty, the version in the indigenous language takes precedence meaning Māori did not cede sovereignty – the Principles were an attempt to recognise this – why crush the pragmatism for ideological fervour?

It is intellectually repellent to allow the majority to vote on the rights of the minority – how is this Bill – that has no chance of passing – so how is this entire exercise anything other than a divisive race baiting stunt?

Andrea Vance writing about ACTs rise in the polls said:

“The party has re-risen by stoking a culture war, peddling identity policies and putting a tale of Pākehā grievance at the heart of party identity.”

How is any of that a good faith debate on race?

Sir Geoffry Palmer in the 2013 Māori Law Journal wrote:

If there is one thing that is unique about New Zealand it is that the indigenous inhabitants of the country are Māori. They have their own language, culture and way of thinking. They were subjected to rank injustice in colonial times. It has taken a long time to remedy those injustices, and the process is not yet complete. Unfortunately disguised prejudice is never far from the surface in New Zealand whenever there is a debate on Māori issues. There is an unpleasant underside to the New Zealand psyche when questions of race are debated. These things I learned only by exposure to the issues in Parliament. Many years later I still get letters blaming me for elevating the status of the Treaty of Waitangi. I remain unapologetic, I would raise it further. I thought then and I still think now that the most serious challenge New Zealand faces is to avoid having a permanent underclass defined by race.

…how right was Geoff?

Dame Anne Salmon says:

“Debate the Treaty by all means. But let it be just and impartial, as befits a constitutional discussion, and not conducted on the basis of a bill that is highly partisan, and designed to provoke ill-will and anger.”

This debate is designed to cause redneck backlash, not contain it.

And what is National’s message to the bottom feeders throughout all of this?

National, ACT and NZF are destroying the common good for their donor interests and NZers were manipulated into voting for them.

This is why we are seeing Roy Morgan polling showing the electorate recoiling in disgust at the venal self interest of these treacherous elites.

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