MEDIAWATCH: If even Damien Grant can see it…
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?
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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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?
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.
There isn’t anything controversial about asking the public what they think about their form of government, of course. Especially when it relates to splitting the government into two racially segregated parts, endless land redistribution, and trying to make a minority language into the only official one.
That is not the danger of the referendum idea. The problem is that a semi-libertarian party like A.C.T. only knows how to do slash and burn austerity — and that kind of threat to living standards will bring out black workers onto the streets (even if it is diverted into misguided black nationalism, or simply aimless rioting and looting).
Recall the period when there was still slum clearance, mass construction of new low-cost suburbs, high wages, and both unemployment and homelessness had been abolished. The idea that the government would be totally segregated seemed ludicrous at that time. The black nationalist scam simply doesn’t work when actual poverty eradication is going on, because it becomes clear that black and white workers in fact have identical interests, and thus are inevitable allies.
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.
Exactly Bonnie.
Go read this site and educate yourselves folks.
http://www.nwo.org.nz
180 years of laws and actions against Maori laid out all for you people who choose to ignore NZ history.
Are you joking Ada? You don’t think non Māori have had a say in our “constitutional arrangements”? FFS
THIS is just a taste of what is coming https://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/300933786/pull-her-pants-down-woman-dragged-from-palmerston-north-anti-cogovernance-meeting 500 plus outside and 100 inside.
Exactly Bonnie.
Go read this site and educate yourselves folks.
http://www.nwo.org.nz
180 years of laws and actions against Maori laid out all for you people who choose to ignore NZ history.
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.
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.
Yes, I read that article & had a low opinion of those holding the meetings.
Maybe Bonnie, but they have a right to meet and to have their say. The alternative is unthinkable.