The double standard crucifixion of Māori Party

I think the pile on that is occurring over allegations of electoral manipulation made against the Māori Party at the Manurewa Marae is a racist double standard by our media and culture.

The evidence is being presented by Destiny Church acolytes. If your evidential threshold is people who paint over rainbow pedestrian crossings, good for you.

If the collection of misdemeanours and jay-walking level hand wringing is over, we have real corruption at the top table!

So what if some hard to reach Māori family got a food voucher when the trans national mining industry and donor class are getting legislation written for them!

This Government promised to give dying cancer patients their drugs and then reneged on that promise while ensuring their donor mates got their landlord tax loop hole! That is a level of corruption far greater than what is being alleged on Manurewa Marae!

The truth is that if Peeni (who I love) had actually put some effort into winning the seat, we wouldn’t even be in this position.

This is a schism between Destiny Church and the Māori Party and the media are pumping Destiny Church attack lines.

Why the snarling double standards directed at Māori while far greater corruption is occurring inside the actual Government?

What is most likely to have happened is community Iwi organisations getting multiple contracts from multiple agencies and there be some bleed through of the Chinese Walls, to frame that and conflate that as equivalence to the influence buying bribery of the donor class is naked garden variety bigotry where Māori are held to higher standards than non-Māori.

Māori President John Tamihere is scathing in his response on TDB today...

So let’s confront the real issue. During and after the pandemic huge websites fully funded by the rich appeared knowing there is only one activist group left in Aotearoa and it is us Māori, the Indigenous people. We are here to protect our environment; there to protect the benefit of the majority of citizens and to tax the 2 per cent that control 50 per cent of our wealth.

They are on notice as are their friends at the New Zealand Taxpayers Union; their friends at Curia Polling; their friends at Hobson’s Pledge; their friends at Federated Farmers and their friends at Employers and Manufacturers. They all have to accept the fact that we are never surrendering and we grow stronger every day.

It must amuse our people to watch a National Party MP in Taranaki hide $180,000 worth of expenditure, not report it and nothing happens. When Te Pāti Māori made a late filing the Police were immediately called to investigate and we are sent to the Serious Fraud Office. This shows one law for some and one law for others.

We are sick and tired of being beaten up for speaking our truth on our own whenua. That is why there can be no reliance on media and I attach my response to STUFF as evidence.

So join the movement, sign up your friends and whānau, like and share. Register as members of the only activist movement who are still able and willing to contest matters in our constitution. Is it any wonder we want to set up our own parliament? Is it any wonder that we want to get our fair share of resources to self-manage and self-determine for and with ourselves?

…he also has a special message for Brian Tamaki…

PS Message to Brian Tamaki

You and your cult were bounced out of Manurewa Marae. We will never allow your cult to take over any Marae. Now here’s a helpful idea, leave politics and concentrate on bothering God and the devil in equal parts and leave Māori alone.

PPS To your cult members who were terminated at Manurewa Marae, shame on you. To their fearless, money grinder Allan Halse, its best to keep your powder dry for the Employment Tribunal, fool.

…the media have been easily led into a Māori bashing story by Destiny Church while far more egregious abuses of power and assaults on our democracy are occurring.

We are an easily led people.