New Zealand is drifting towards two nations, with a newly created tribal elite of unlimited greed calling the shots and everyone else increasingly becoming second class citizens in the land that was built by the sweat and toil of the pioneers. Please note the words tribal elite, as it is not Maori or part Maori who are driving this separatist agenda but a very small and elite clique of agitators, most of whom have far more European blood in them than Maori.
The treaty settlements have been enriching the tribal elite. And have these greedy grabbers of our tax dollars and our national resources ever said 'thank you'? Instead, that all-time bludger, the Ngai Tahu tribe, upon getting underserved top up of $68 million on top of their original treaty settlement of $170 million, has challenged the amount, claiming that it should be more.
The two mainstream political parties seem to regard Maori not as human beings but as voting fodder, whose votes can be bought at election time by ever increasing handouts to the tribal leaders who allegedly control the votes of their tribes. So long as we have governments that refuse to say no to these ever more imaginative demands, the situation will only go from bad to worse.
The 1law4all party is the only party that is prepared to work body and soul for the equal treatment of all citizens without special privileges, rights and funding for any particular racial group.
I Brougham, Wanganui.
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I.Brougham, the Pakeha elite still dominate
Posted on 07-03-2016 11:48 | By Peter Dey
I.Brougham is obsessed with a fiction. The fiction is that Maori activists, who make up 10% of the population at most, can ever control New Zealand, or get enormously wealthy and powerful at the expense of other New Zealanders. For some reason I.Brougham is resentful of Maori, but the information he provides simply does not show that Maori are making non-Maori second class citizens. His resentment is making him irrational. He produces no evidence that the tribal elite are being enriched. There are no Maori at all in this year's NBR rich list.
evidence
Posted on 09-03-2016 22:54 | By Captain Sensible
The evidence is the billions of taxpayer dollars handed out to tribal elite with no evidence to support their claims and all this happens behind closed doors on the say-so of the racist Waitangi tribunal and the unelected Finlayson.
Captain Sensible, Parliament approves all Treaty settlements
Posted on 10-03-2016 14:50 | By Peter Dey
Treaty settlements are not handouts. They are justified compensation for wrongs committed by the Government. The evidence for them is available from the Office of Treaty Settlements and Settlements are passed by Parliament. Captain Sensible is being ridiculous to suggest that all the MP's who voted for these settlements did not know what they were doing. None of them has produced any valid objection to any Treaty settlement. There are no Maori on the 2015 NBR Rich List. There is no evidence that Treaty settlements have been grabbed by Tribal Elite. Tribal Elite are simply Maori leaders doing their best for the Maori people.
Two nations?
Posted on 13-03-2016 18:37 | By algail
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algail, Ian Brougham produces no evidence
Posted on 16-03-2016 16:24 | By Peter Dey
Abigail says that there is no mention of anti-Maori from Ian Brougham. Ian Brougham describes Maori leaders as a small clique of agitators. He has no evidence for this. Maori leaders have simply presented their evidence to the Government. Their evidence has been accepted, and iwi have been compensated. Each settlement requires that the settlement be managed by elected trustees. Ian Brougham has no evidence that Maori leaders are greedy or misusing funds. His claims are just a baseless smear. Only earnings from settlements can be spent and iwi want settlement spending to be for development of iwi programmes not individual handouts, so obviously there is no sign of ordinary Maori getting more money. Describing Ngai Tahu as bludgers is totally anti-Maori. Ngai Tahu have got compensation for injustice. It was approved by Parliament. It is intolerance by Ian Brougham that is the real problem, not Maori leaders.
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