Hurricanes Poua Haka – the Front Line is everywhere now
Deputy PM Winston Peters criticises Hurricanes Poua after haka again calls out Government
The Hurricanes Poua have again called out the Government with their haka, defying orders of the team’s chief executive not to take a political stance and now drawing the ire of Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters.
The side caused a massive controversy this week after their pre-match haka against Manawa made reference to a “redneck government”.
Normally I don’t care about rugby, but if these women doing a haka annoy Winston this much – I love them and am now a huge supporter of the Hurricanes Poua!
They can sing whatever they like in their Haka, watching free speech champions like Winston and Seymour melt because they said ‘redneck’ is snowflake level triggering.
Winston and David could accidentally make this a Colin Kaepernick moment.
Please make it a Colin Kaepernick moment because the backlash will go with the Hurricanes here not fringe right wing Political Parties!
The reason they are sounding so frightened is because they are realising the blitzkrieg of their 100 days has made the frontline for resistance everywhere.
This is what they fear, that their hard right racist climate denying beneficiary bashing agenda has sparked a resistance that sees the frontline everywhere.
Because it is.
The frontline is everywhere now.
If you thought the first 100 days was vandalism of the public good, then wait until you see the lobbyist election talking points stretched out into actual policy.
Look at how Chris Bishop celebrated after passing 100 days of counter productive knee-jerk culture war revenge fantasies masquerading as social policy…
…Crayfish for them.
Austerity for the rest of us.
This is the horror of what we have mutated into under this hard right Government.
The Hurricanes Poua Haka about a redneck Government is light relief right now.
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Go the Hurricanes Poua. I am so proud of them and yes, governments do change but the Treaty is and will be an enduring document. Saying this in a haka is not a political statement. This is freedom of expression which cries out for freedom from this red-neck government. The Hurricanes Poua speak for all of us
Yet again, Peters is displaying his petulance, arrogance and ignorance and getting all huffed up over young women, Maori and Pasifika, standing up for themselves and telling it like it is, yet he and Seymour take some sort of glee out of gnarly, angry damning and slamming the media and individuals in the media.
Also, it hasn’t gone unnoticed that it is Peters and older men of his ilk, including the older white male so-called Hurricanes management, who are doing all the tut tutting and angry spluttering, but in doing so they give strength to the Poua and to all other young women.
The haka is the only part worth watching. The rugby is played by, well large people running into other large people.
Pfft. Who cares about women’s rugby anyway.
Yep, if Seymour is caught stuffing his face in a restaurant somewhere–demo time–“Feed the Kids!”. Ditto Baldrick, Winston and the rest of the vandals.
The female rugby players have set a good example, when are the male players going to do the same?
Maori women are much more prominent in the women’s game than Maori men in the men’s game. In the women’s game teams generally follow te ao Maori principles more than in the men’s game. In the Black Ferns 7s apparently a fair amount of instructions on the field are in Te Reo.
This is their standard haka from a year ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEZ_cdCgP0k
The line-up has changed since last year.
You two have no idea what you are talking about
You go girls .Because you are brown and female these fuckers will be pissed right off .Keep up the good work
I’d be surprised if this really annoyed Winston or anybody very much. Tough on any team members who may not share the conveying of this sort of messaging, but she’s quite a big lady.
I’ve noticed on Trotter’s blog their right-wing commenters are all in favour of freedom of speech -as long as they agree with the sentiments. Otherwise not so much. They’ll complain about censorship on MSN but want the team ‘disciplined’.