WAATEA NEWS COLUMN: Another week – another threat from the Government towards Māori
This Government claim they are not anti-Māori or anti-Treaty yet almost every single month there is a new needless attack on Māori.
This time it is Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith’s threat to remove tikanga Māori from court rulings???
What on earth?
Tikanga Māori inside our Court system is a strength and a protection, it’s not a weakness!
As this Government continues to open NZ up for foreign investment/exploitation, they are finding Court rulings that favour indigenous rights are making that investment/exploitation less attractive, hence the Justice Minister threatening to remove those rulings altogether to make that investment/exploitation by foreign corporations more appealing.
Why on earth we would collectively allow the dismantling of tikanga Māori from the Court so as to facilitate our investment/exploitation from these offshore corporations hasn’t been explained to us because the Minister seems hopeful that just bashing Māori rights will be seen as enough of a justification from the rights angry reactionary voting base.
Tikanga in our Courts has created a protection against the very exploitation Minster Goldsmith is now pushing for, dismantling it so Transnational Corporations can reap from us our resources is vampire capitalism at its worst!
Tikanga Māori isn’t a ‘bespoke’ law that simply benefits Māori, it protects all the interests of Kiwis living here, it is a way of ensuring we aren’t robbed blind by foreign corporations, what Minister Goldsmith is pushing for is a Quisling Capitalism that opens the nation up to be exploited.
It is ugly politics, but that seems to be what we have come to expect from this Government.
This sounds about right. They sure don’t have ‘running the country properly for the benefit of the people’ on the agenda. It’s all games and cover-ups.
Cabinet meetings are no longer about Nactzis sitting down discussing solutions (with true expert input) for the disater and harm caused by their kmart policy rummage.
The weeks have become a predictable pattern of scam tactics for cover up and distraction
The meetings go like this…
Chwis on Monday you release a fake claim to the media instead of solving the rip off power prices.
Little Dave, you’ve got the natural ability albeit ignorance to say something contentious that will have the media barking like ignoring genocide and making a random, hateful fascists death into martyrdom..
Winnie you create a rabid squirrel on the loose and *fk the Palestinians.
Penny, we’re throwing you under the bus as a distraction and release your abuse of minister’s powers…
Witless, you make an announcement as if you actually invented it to fool and hush the mates a little longer.
And you Goldie, let’s rustle up the ‘harass the savages’ tactic again ..
Now, get to work on your brainstorming this weekend for next week’s meeting of excuses and cover ups …
Yep, let’s hope a natural disaster comes along too so the likes of Mitchie can be relevant and Chwis-trumps-ass can have a photo op again to show tongue on his IG profile ….
This sounds about right. They sure don’t have ‘running the country properly for the benefit of the people’ on the agenda. It’s all games and cover-ups.
Goldstains is from the white leafy suburb of Epsom, along with that other pale, stale, white male Seymour. Please don’t expect anything other than anti Maori and no, Seymour is no more Maori than I am except I’m more Maori as I have a Maori sister n law.
They waste their time with this linguicide agenda. Surely, they ought to be more worried about how they will replace all the jobs they’ve scrapped, the ferries, the infrastructure, the unemployed they’ve created and all the hundreds of other mistakes they’ve made.
How does it benefit any govt. to kill the tax-base. Are they going to work for free themselves?
All useless amateurs, tasked with wrecking our country. That sounds like treason to me.
The white wash that fails the colonists because Te Reo and Maori are not going away no matter how much the COC tries .And the COC needs to remember these things will be back after the next election .
It’s OK Martyn let them take this cultural window dressing away because it really doesn’t favor Maori being sent to prison it’s all tokenism hiding behind a Karakia and cultural reports that doesn’t favor no Maori that appears before a Judge unless you have money and influence which is very rare in the Maori world.