WAATEA NEWS COLUMN – Elite Class behind Treaty amputation in legislation
Unredacted Cabinet papers revealed by Māori TV last week showed the hidden scope of the Government’s Treaty rewrite to such an extreme that the question has to be asked, who is actually benefiting from these anti-Treaty and why.
The unredacted Cabinet papers show expert after expert after expert warning this Government that their desire to amputate all Treaty references would be deeply damaging.
The Cabinet didn’t care.
I’ve been commentating on politics in this country for 31 years and I have rarely seen anything of this scope achieved ‘just because’.
The effort that has been sunk into removing the Treaty from legislation requires more than basic racist populism, it requires the wealth of the elites.
If we look at who is donating to National, NZ First and ACT, we see a cavalcade of donors with alarmingly extremist views on race in New Zealand.
Exploitative capitalism has a cultural memory within the indigenous cultures they first rob, laws undermining Indigenous rights and Environmental rights are considered necessary by those exploitative capitalists because that’s where the next resources are.
There is no way the amputation of the Treaty from all legislation is occurring without elite interests privately driving them.
This election is a decision between a Government who is in it for their donors interests or one that is in it for the people.
