Minister Potaka cowardly guts Waitangi Tribunal in latest right wing desecration of the Treaty
Minister overhauls Waitangi Tribunal membership
- Tama Potaka is replacing half of the Waitangi Tribunal’s members, including senior academics.
- Former blogger Philip Crump and former Defence Minister Ron Mark are among new appointments to Waitangi Tribunal.
- These changes are just the start for the Tribunal. The Government is promising to “refocus” its scope and purpose.
Totally coward move by Minister Potaka to gut the Waitangi Tribunal and fill it with hateful rednecks.
Appointing Mad Dog Press was a slap in the face, but appointing a toxic right wing leprechaun like Ron Mark is like asking Sean Plunkett to head TVNZ and appointing a far right hate blogger like Philip Crumb who is a redneck from the ZB Troll farm highlights the hollow arseholes National are stacking every board with.
To place such hateful rednecks onto offical boards is like appointing arsonists to the fire department.
Sliding this news out late on a Friday afternoon in the hope no one will notice just highlights what. gutless nothing Minister Potaka has become.
This is a move designed to damage the Waitangi Tribunal and stack it with redneck fuckwits.
If you aren’t disgusted by the naked racism of the Right then you agree to it and you are to blame.
Kiwis should be ashamed by this latest move.
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Putting murderous mercenary Ron Mark on the Tribunal is so funny. This is the guy who praised Southern Rhodesia and Apartheid South Africa for keeping Africans out of power, saying that “there was a chap by the name of Mugabe. The only person who had it right, whom I can recall, was Robbie Muldoon. He said: “He was a terrorist, he always has been a terrorist, and he always will be a terrorist.””
https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/hansard-debates/rhr/document/51HansS_20141209_00001059/mark-ron-countering-terrorist-fighters-legislation-bill
“No Haka” Potaka is in the ranks of supreme “potato’s” and Uncle Toms in NZ politics.
Members of the Tribunal should at the very least be knowledgeable of the Māori world and have empathy-the boneheads and nasties appointed are obvious spoilers and destruction merchants.
Yes an early election is desperately needed to halt the fucking madness we are seeing unfolding in front of our very eyes, those who refuse to see are going to have a sharp awakening.
I’m disappointed at the standard of journalism……. So biased!!
He was interviewed on RNZ this morning and Paddy Gower was unable ( or unwilling) to get a straight answer about the white washing of the Tribunal . Instead of getting the answers he wanted Gower accepted weasel words, he should have been cut off by Gower instead of pandering to his non answers and excuses