Constitutional Review meeting unannounced:
Because we have been making such a noise here in Tauranga about the ‘Constitutional Review' I think they have decided they had better set up a token gesture meeting for us. So on 28 May [next week hoping it will fail, of course] so no advertising on the subject, in the smallest hall they could find at the ‘Historic Village' 9.30 am, courtesy of Sir Michael Cullen [Involved in a Maori Trust] hardly an impartial Review committee member!
All sound familiar and we are supposed to trust these people! So I hope all of you that are interested in this subject will turn up in force!
C Humphreys, Katikati.
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Constitution Con.
Posted on 27-05-2013 15:41 | By morganmail
There appears to be a very clever confidence trick being played upon an unsuspecting NZ public. You may have heard of, or even attended, one of those Constitutional Discussions that are being held throughout the country. So what is the catch? Well, several actually. It seems that these 'discussion groups” are being conducted by those who already favour creating a new constitution, whereas a major part of the discussion should be whether NZ actually needs a new constitution at all. The primary intentions of both the National government and the Maori Party would seem to be two-fold: the entrenchment of the Treaty of Waitangi (along with its questionable interpretation) as a permanent fixture taking precedence over traditional British law, and the cementing in place of the racial Maori parliamentary seats. (Did you know that the Treaty of Waitangi was an agreement made between the Queen and ALL of the people of New Zealand - not just the Maoris?) The one thing that our honourable leaders are desperate to avoid is a Public Referendum on the issue. A referendum on such an important matter is crucial to democracy, but the Government is aware that this can be side-stepped by attaining enough inter-house support to push a vote through parliament - as we have just witnessed with the marriage amendment bill. By claiming that these party MPs are the voice of the people that they represent and, (needless to say, having received glowing reports from their discussion group leaders enthusing about unanimous nationwide public support), the wishes of the people of New Zealand will trampled on again. There must be a public referendum if any changes are proposed to our existing constitution. The alternative is dictatorship by stealth. Mitch Morgan, Kaipara
Morganmail
Posted on 29-05-2013 13:32 | By YOGI BEAR
Good comments there, but I think you are under estimating the true intent of the plans of those behind all of this scheming. the CAP have widely consulted with IWI and any other Maori group but the wider public have been left to figure out what/how/why/when all by themselves, the NZ public generally is about to get shafted if the "desired" results of the CAP get the official nod, then try and figure how to undo that!
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