It is not hyperbole in any way shape or form to call what happened last week in Parliament with the banishing of Hana, Debbie and Rawiri as the darkest day in NZ Democracy.
The Government of the day destroyed the bipartisanship of the Privileges Committee so that they could lash out at their political opponents.
This ruling was about revenge, it wasn’t about justice.
The pretence that ACT felt threatened by finger guns when Nicole McGee is attempting to bring back real guns highlights the double standard.
That a white middle class women like Brooke Van Velden can say the C word in Parliament and face no charge of disruption is another double standard.
So to is the fact that many other MPs participated in the Haka and weren’t punished. Green Party MP Steve Able made this point last week, he argued that had participated in the Haka, and yet he wasn’t punished.
The manner in which Hana was sanctioned twice alongside the disproportionate punishment handed out to Debbie and Rawiri all add up to a white settler privilege from the Privileges Committee, not a measured justice.
The Government not only banished their political opponents from Parliament, they set in motion the need to now use the Privileges Committee as a Partisan weapon to use the moment you gain power.
This entire fiasco falls on one person, the Prime Minister, who showed no leadership whatsoever in de-escalating this situation and now the damning image we have internationally is Rawiri holding up a noose.
Winston describing Rawiri’s facial tattoos as ‘scribbles’ is a new low point for an old politician who should know better.
History will be damning of this moment, it will view the banishment of 3 Māori MPs righteously performing the Haka against an atrociously racist piece of legislation as a mutilation of our democracy.
The Political Right should hang their heads in shame for this abomination.
I do the school run with my 3 grandkids daily .One goes to primary and ALL of the kids mix in with each other regardless of race .The college is a different story .A conversation over heard last week between 2 12 year olds ,went like this
White farmers kid to local Maori boy
“White people kicked Maori arses in the 1800s and the current government is doing the same now .”
Where the hell do 12 year olds get that shit from ,Mum and Dad 4th generation white farmers who have farmed that stolen land since 1865 would be my guess .
Maybe the Maori boy should have reminded the Pakeha that that very school is built on 50 acres of stolen land which was taken from Maori in the early 1900s .
You do know that, that type of abuse is not a one way street don’t you? Try being a poor white boy living in Rotorua.
So what happen BG? Are you a victim?
Yes, I’m sick of the racist rhetoric as well.
I work in a place dominated by progressive white women and to a she/her they’ve absorbed the new rules of the game but at the end of the day they’re still mean girls so I guess we’re square then. The one thing that gives me respite from these pro-trans shrills is that my Maori colleagues hate them as much as everyone else does.
Hate is better left alone.
Doesn’t that land go back to Maori when no longer required? So maybe appropriated, but not quite stolen. The Maori boy could remind the white boy that his education is being assisted by being undertaken on Maori land and the white boy could remind the Maori boy that his education is being assisted by being educated in buildings paid for by taxes provided from the majority of the population….
Martyn, TPM got the martyrdom they craved. The RNZ poll shows voters do not sympathise with TPM on this issue. You are flogging a dead horse. Even Willy Jackson asked them to behave better.
Anus, another poll says that TPM will benefit significantly from this Maori bashing exercise remember Maori as a group traditionally don’t vote however that gonna change next election
That poll shows the public don’t take the same lenient and highly forgiving approach to TPM that the journalistic class takes towards TPM’s antics and policies – such as they have.
Still, TPM is a millstone around Labour’s neck – so long may they continue to act out.
“Still, TPM is a millstone around Labour’s neck – so long may they continue to act out.”
Ada the prostitute to big business shows her true colours by laying down for the CoC.
Your right Ennius I heard Hipkins on the radio. confirming his opinion was the same as Willie Jackson. which was less drama more action on the serious business of promoting Maori Health education and jobs . If more Maori vote it will be aclose to Labour as Hipkins said he wanted to win the Maori seats back
Absolutely. This isn’t just racial hatred, it’s also hatred for all patriotic New Zealanders, who don’t want filthy foreign puppets like Luxon and Seymour selling out this nation to dodgy characters like Peter Thiel (who got his seed funding from Mossad pedophile Jeffrey Epstein) who have little hiccups like their ex-boyfriends ‘accidentally’ falling over the balcony at their homes.
Seems that here in the South Island we, Pakeha and Maori get along better and are trying to move forward, not backwards.
If you’re historically literate the NZ wars were fought mainly in the NI which is why settlers were eager to travel and settle in the SI were Maori numbers were less and easy to stand ova
There was less Maori because the Northern tribes had attacked them killing many at Kaiapoi and Akaroa. Ngi Tahu worked with settlers and they retained some areas which they have turned into a very successful business worth billions which is helping tribal members to improve themselves.
The darkest day in NZ democracy? Banning those state sponsored activists? Nothing like. If you want to consider Maori issues Parihaka, or the more recent foreshore & seabed confiscation rate higher. Otherwise the great betrayal, in which Roger Douglas shafted New Zealanders so thoroughly neither our economy nor our society have yet recovered, leaves recent trivia in the dust.
Waititi et al are small potatoes of no particular relevance.
Privileges Committee chairperson and National minister Judith Collins is not fit to judge shit ,,,,, she has previously used fake manipulated statistics to pretend she was better than she was as a then Police minister ,,,,,
Later she pretended that the NActs corruption and crime enabling legislation was not riddled with corruption and crime,,, despite the numbers saying otherwise when her / Keys Government were forced to partially fix it .
,,, back in 2017 when they were last in Govt –” “.. new foreign trust disclosure rules came into effect in New Zealand on June 30, which meant foreign trusts have to register with Inland Revenue and provide particulars of all parties, including the settlor and beneficiaries, and assets. ” ,,,,,, “New Zealand had 11,645 trusts in April last year but fewer than 3000 have registered with Inland Revenue under the law changes”…………
……., – ““Revenue Minister Judith Collins said the drop in trust numbers was not surprising and it shouldn’t be assumed that was because many had been handling the proceeds of illegitimate activities. ”
… ” “There is a much heavier compliance burden under the new regime with more disclosure required than ever before.”.. she said, adding New Zealand now had a “world class regime”.[Stuff NZ]”
“Who believes that – after all, how burndensome is it to write down your own name?
Nor is this system yet ‘world class’. The New Zealand Government have notably refused to extend to the full transparency that would actually be expected of a benchmark regime i.e. an open register where journalists and others could cross reference potentially illegal activity.” https://www.sarawakreport.org/2017/07/australia-and-new-zealand-slide-from-their-responsibilities-over-mass-corruption-and-malaysia/
https://www.sarawakreport.org/2019/10/no-profits-from-malaysia-and-papua-new-guinea-but-vast-assets-in-nz/
A person like Collins who runs cover for corruption and hides (some) crime from view let alone prosecution is the last person to be judging anything,,,,
she’s bent and will serve up Dirty Judgements as her Dirty Political career slithers on.
Whenua, almost sixty YEARS, THIS place to get Aotearoa, place i come from apprentiships where built off, how to subject and demand rule, lies and else, are not only known to you, oor place, they did do their apprenticship.