Seymour trolls Waitangi and protesters take bait
Microphone taken away from David Seymour during Waitangi speech
The ACT leader was giving a speech at Waitangi when someone snatched the microphone away from him.
He went to Troll and protestors took the bait by removing his microphone.
David can now whine on about Free Speech and how Māoridom don’t want a debate and play the victim which is exactly what he wanted.
This is a tactic that could have worked late 1990s, early 2000s, but this is 2025, and a whole new generation doing see the celebration of Māori as a lessening of their identity and are proud of the Treaty.
Instead of seeing David as a Free Speech Champion, people feel he’s being a dick and he’s lucky he’s not getting a hiding from the Aunties!
He’s on tea towel duties fort the rest of his life on a Marae!
This sort of stunt would have worked 20 years ago, but people have an enough respect for Māori tikanga to know Seymour’s being a smart alec jerk.
When you consider all the damage ACT has managed to do in just a year, that Māori merely turned their backs and symbolically removed the microphone until it was returned is a level of humble magnanimousness that New Zealand European culture is incapable of appreciating.
Meanwhile, when the Fascists strut, don’t feel blue this Monday…
Happy Waitangi Day Comrades!
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He’ll do all that anyway . His speech dripped of arrogance
We didn’t “take the bait”. It was an action that was agreed upon. He still had the freedom to speak, just no with the microphone. Cmon now. And correct yourself – we aren’t “protestors”, we’re tanagata whenua, and we call the shots here. All tikanga was upheld, he was just not afforded the usual EXTRA graces that dignitaries have come to expect, and that Ngapuhi is renowned for.
I don’t agree with your conclusion bomber. I think it’s a disgrace that Seymour is allowed to use the stage of Waitangi for his politics. Denigrating the mana of that place with his vile and heinous intentions and acts, grabbing the mic away is the correct move to do.
The left tolerate BS too long it until it becomes normalized and we need a crisis to wake up, just look at the US; you think we won’t get there, “we’re not like them” you say but what’s common is the collective dumbing down of our consciousness, when clownery is paraded with the same weight as truth (Trump/Seymour) and the population is dumb enough to go with it. When that happens to a population you get abnormal extremities like Seymour, Winston/Shane racist against immigrant views and all the other boils come to the surface.
And many on here wonder why Luxon did not go to this gathering. It would have lead to violence.
Luxon’s weakness has allowed a sociopath to run his mouth off wherever and when ever he pleases…
Seymour’s preachy speech was pathetic…he’s sich a simpleton.. so naive…
Taking away the microphone was a heads up to the media as to how they should treat this little dweeb …who…by the way… 92% of the country did not vote for and is only there because he and his cohorts corrupted the MMP system using big money.
Just ignore him and don’t give him any air…no air…oxygen.
Yep Humpty Dumpty could of had his yolk spilt
Agree Trevor but who is causing the division in our society.
You can be assured that if Luxon at Peters support Seymour after the select committee wasting 6 months and millions of dollars what we saw today will pale into insignificance.
Best you and yours get your doomsday plans in place.
and?
He deserves a dildo. And mud.
Xenophon ‘Violence is ok, hmmm?’ Well Netanyahu thinks so. ( the only thing Palestinians understand is force).
Luxon was uncharacteristically smart going to Kai Tahu and avoiding the Waitangi show.
A few weeks ago representaves of Ngapuhi sent Seymour a letter advising that because of his behavior towards the Treaty he was not welcome to visit the marae.
Rather than acknowledge the rejection from the hosts he decided to front up, no doubt hoping to cause some sort of conflict.
In previous times a stranger abusing protocol like that would have had faced something more ferocious than having backs turned and the mic taken.
He really is an “arrogant prick”.