Results from five referendums opposing Maori wards demonstrates up to 80 per cent of Kiwis are against them. Bleating from mayors and councillors who unilaterally chose to actively promote and endorse Maori wards for Western Bay, Whakatane, Palmerston North, Manawatu and Kaikoura is offensive and preposterous.
Referendum costs are not caused by those seeking honesty, accountability and transparency, but by councillors never consulting with, nor seeking submissions from citizens, while kowtowing to vested Maori interests.
All race-based hogwash should be consigned to the trash can – it has no place in New Zealand. But look at the Labour Party and Greens' horrific Maori policy manifestos and the recent utterances from Ms Mahuta, the Minister for Local Government and Maori Development, countenancing legislation to foist elected/unelected part-Maori representation onto local authorities and making Maori compulsory in schools. It is very easy to see where this fanaticism is heading so New Zealand First MPs must oppose any race-based legislative interference.
The apathetic, silent and irrelevant majority of Kiwis (80 per cent) must get off their butts and speak out. Thomas Jefferson said 'If any law is unjust a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obliged to do so.” Civil disobedience on race-based nonsense is long overdue.
Next step: get rid of the seven Maori seats in Parliament.
R Paterson, Matapihi (Abridged).
5 comments
Onward and backward R.Paterson,
Posted on 29-05-2018 10:28 | By R. Bell
Your call for "civil disobedience" is yet another pathetic utterance from your twisted sense of race based nationalism. Remember the 1lawforall party you supported? where are they now? As for N.Z.First you have got to be joking, they suck you in, then blow you out. Perhaps you will work it all out one day. Robin Bell.
Onward and backward Tinker Bell
Posted on 29-05-2018 16:42 | By crazyhorse
Robby goes on about race based "nationalism" , meaning people who do not agree with treaty troughers their apologists and the culturally hypnotised people that can't think for themselves, Robby never say's a word about the maori party, they talk about unelected seats on council when maori themselves sent a short sharp little lesson to the troughers at the last election maori all voted for major parties the average maori does not want to be seen as a loser, bludger, racist or a separatist!.
we have made enormous progress as I wished
Posted on 30-05-2018 15:45 | By crazyhorse
The "binding" referendums taken in Palmerston North, Kaikoura, Manawatu, Western Bay of Plenty, and Whakatane on unelected maori on council show what people including maori really want, and it's not separatism!, Pete talks about taking away the "democratic right" of people to go to the polls for maori wards, around the country we are making big inroads into separatist policies as I wish, the Democracy Action group has made big inroads into the treaty troughing around Auckland and fighting hard for keeping "our" coastline for everyone, Pete talks about maori wanting a say that's a crock, and he knows it, it's the political and corporate arm of iwi that wants those seats for the control of natural resources and anything else not tied down.
There are no separatist policies
Posted on 31-05-2018 08:41 | By R. Bell
How can inclusion be seen as separatist? It can't, it exists only in the minds of deluded mono cultural nationalists. Trading on fear to the extent that crazy now claims IWI want "those seats" to control natural resources. What kind of daydreaming bollocks is that. At best Maori would ELECT one in twelve councilors. Democratically elected should be the norm for all N.Z citizens including Maori who have the treaty bound right to their own (all be it) minority representation. Robin Bell.
Treaty bound rights??
Posted on 03-06-2018 08:18 | By crazyhorse
Bollocks, tell that to the people of Auckland, if not for the democray Action group Auckland council would have become one of the biggest "troughs" in the country, would all councils with "unelected" undemocratic maori seats have an instant "wish list" for maori as Auckland did? how much would they "require" for their share of building, planing consents and how much extra time would it take?.
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