If I was to promote a Pakeha only political party you would hear the screams of protest from around the world not just here in New Zealand, yet we still put up with a political party which is race based; “Te Pati Maori”.
This is nothing more than racism cloaked as some sort of obligatory right for Maori.
The Maori Party is only in Parliament because they have guaranteed Maori seats, but in today’s times this is an anachronism that should have been done away with a long time ago. In fact it was recommended by The 1986 Royal Commission on the Electoral System, in their report titled; Towards a Better Democracy which recommended:
They warned that if New Zealand adopted MMP without removing the reserved Maori seats, Maori would be over-represented in Parliament and would have a disproportionate and dangerous influence on the running of the country and that’s exactly how it has turned out.
Maori make up 12.3% of the population that is of voting age yet there are currently 33 MPs of Maori descent across all six parties in Parliament.
In his 1985 book Shadows over New Zealand, the former Communist Geoff McDonald revealed how the Maori Sovereignty movement was using Marxist strategies to gain power:
They believe that the key to destabilising New Zealand is to show how badly the Maori is treated. When enough lies are told and often enough people begin to believe they are actually truths.
For decades we have seen tribal leaders scheming how to get control of our country and the use of claims of partnership under the Treaty of Waitangi have been to the fore in their attempts to achieve co-governance of New Zealand.
The truth is that there is no real oppression of Maori within New Zealand and if the history is researched it is easily proven that since the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, Maori have generally seen a vast improvement in their personal circumstances.
Prior to the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi the rule of tikanga was followed and loyalty was for those in the hapu or iwi; all others were of no importance and could be robbed of land, killed, and eaten. War bred war, as frequently a group would escape a stronger tribe and move to attack another. Fighting was strengthened by the demand for revenge, (utu) and the call to defend the mana of relations and ancestors.
The current calls for a system of “Race Based Co-governance”; effectively a return to tribalism is promising disruption and the potential of race war. New Zealand has never been so divided. The challenge of the 21st century is to oppose any talk of race based governance; support that as the Treaty stated “now we are one” and to move from division to unity with all persons being equal under the democratic system of one person one vote irrespective of colour creed or gender.
The minority of so-called elite Maori who are attempting to seize control have been working mainly in silence in the background, on infiltrating our public service and indoctrinating it into their ideological beliefs around the colonisation of New Zealand.
This ideological groundwork has been carried out since the seventies, by radical activists such as; Donna Awatere Huata, now Maori Climate Commissioner and a former Member of Parliament, and Ripeka Evans - currently Deputy Chairman of TVNZ, with the fundamental objective being to secure control of New Zealand land. Donna Awatere wrote a series of articles about Māori sovereignty which were published in the feminist magazine Broadsheet in 1982, and later published as a book.
Today we see that the development from this ideological work has resulted in the formation of the Maori Party in our Parliament.
The Maori Party website confirms a key policy is the return of land: private land, as well as government-owned land including the Conservation Estate, along with council land and the country’s entire foreshore and seabed.
They plan to secure power through a new constitution based on the Treaty of Waitangi. They want all Waitangi Tribunal recommendations to be made binding, the country to be called Aotearoa, with all ‘official’ names of places and agencies in Maori, control of Education and Health, Corrections and the Police - in other words, they want to turn New Zealand into a Maori Nation State.
To achieve their goal, they have replaced their real history of tribal warfare, slavery and cannibalism, with a narrative of victimhood and grievance in order to drive a radical campaign of disinformation against the Coalition Government. Calling for mass rebellion, tensions are now so high that Maori Party insurgence has become a real threat to social order.
Insistence on a separate Maori government has built up over the decades since the formation of the Waitangi Tribunal in 1975. The Tribunal has over time constructed and publicised a complete rewriting of history – the “retrospective recrimination” and “counterfactual history” of the Tribunal, quoting the words of historian Bill Oliver. This fundamental reversal of the message and meaning of the Treaty has been aided by a captive media and the crippling of free speech.
The Waitangi Tribunal was set up to hear claims related to issues around the Treaty of Waitangi and also the actions of the early European settlers to NZ.
What began as a well-meaning effort to settle all such claims and offer an apology to those affected has since that time developed into nothing more than an industry that is focussed on claimants’ getting every last cent they are able to extract from the Crown (read taxpayers of NZ) for any and everything they can possibly dream up to make a claim in relation to.
The Tribunal was originally about redress in relation to the actions of our first European settlers but has now ended up as a vehicle which is used to try to claim as much financial reward as possible and to give absolute power to a very small section of our population.
It has become a tool used to side-line democracy and to force the total population to accept that there is some unchallengeable right for Maori through their use of “Te Reo & Tikanga”, to have a right of veto (or power) over all other races which call NZ home.
We now have what is a very small number of self-appointed so-called elite Iwi who are trying by any and every means at their disposal, to assert some sort of moral superiority over the rest of the NZ population and to try to gain power of control.
We are constantly being told that the Treaty of Waitangi created a partnership between the Crown and Maori and to fulfil this we need to adopt a system of Co-Governance with Maori.
These claims around the so-called Partnership & Co-Governance were given a huge boost by the Labour government lead by Jacinda Ardern with the preparation of the “He Pua Pua” report.
This whole idea of Co-Governance is nothing more than a racist attempt to gain control based on an erroneous interpretation of the Treaty.
Co-governance is not about the Treaty it is solely about control and getting the monetary benefits that go with having control. It’s about a small percentage of the population (approximately 17%) getting fifty percent of control based on their ethnicity and the others (approximately 83%) getting the rest.
We are told repeatedly by the so-called elite from Iwi that this is the only way forward to honour the Treaty. But in fact this is nothing more than moving from the democratic system of government we have had since the signing of the Treaty to a system of racial discrimination where equality in government has no place as it will be replaced by a person’s ethnicity.
Over decades since the signing of the Treaty, the so called Maori elite have gained positions of power and influence through division and deceit. The Waitangi Tribunal has morphed into an almost permanent commission of inquiry into contemporary breaches of the Treaty with jurisdiction extended to include already-settled historic claims and anything else that can be quantified, giving rise to what has become a multi-billion dollar Treaty gravy train.
It was also during this period of time that the claim that Maori are a Treaty ‘partner’ with the Crown gained traction, with special Maori consultation rights and privileges included in the new Resource Management Act; Although there was no mention anywhere in the Treaty that related to partnership.
What we have now is a system of ideological indoctrination which is cloaked in cultural empathy, enforced by social shame, and hidden behind a virtue signalling sea of Maori culture with our public servants scrambling to prove their cultural credentials and enforcing a cultural ideology across every aspect of national life rather than concentrating on delivering basic services.
The so-called elite have used Maori culture and Te Ao Maori (the Maori world view) to assert their claims for some type of right under the Treaty of Waitangi, to be given the right of co-governance, when in actual fact there is no basis in truth for this assertion.
You’re not allowed to question it. You’re not allowed to ask for clarity. If you do, you’re dismissed as backward, racist, colonial; a problem to be fixed or, preferably, ignored.
In the nineties, when MMP was introduced, instead of the Maori Seats being abolished - as recommended by the Royal Commission on the Electoral System to prevent an over-representation of Maori in Parliament - they were retained. As predicted, with 27 percent of MPs now of Maori descent, the reserved seats have become discriminatory, denying non-Maori New Zealanders fair representation in Parliament.
Introduced in the early years of our new Parliament to ensure Maori had the right to vote, the Maori seats should have actually been abolished in 1893 when New Zealand adopted universal suffrage, and all adults gained the right to vote.
Attempts to racialise New Zealand through implementation of co-governance, has provoked significant public complaint. Government has a duty to uphold the Rule of Law and protect the democratic rights of all New Zealanders.
And yet, here we are: using race-based politics and reinvented Treaty theology to alter the democratic systems which we have always stood on. It’s not a brave attempt to implement some erroneous interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi, it’s not being bicultural; IT’S BLINDINGLY STUPID.
It’s important to remember that the Maori Party is only in Parliament because they have guaranteed Maori seats. The question that needs to now be asked is why those seats are tolerated, given they have become a power base for dangerous extremists who wish to destroy our democracy.
The Maori Party (which claims falsely, to represent the Maori population of NZ) and the self-appointed so-called tribal elite of Iwi are pushing to go back and reinstate a system of race based governance as seen in that He Puapua document.
Maori make up 12.3% of the population that is of voting age yet the Maori Party only managed to gain 2.8% of the vote in the last election.
The Maori Party are the worst enemy of our democracy with their daily activities promoting treason, rebellion, division, separatism and lying hate-filled propaganda and indoctrination.
They claim to be the indigenous people of NZ but Maori are NOT indigenous to New Zealand they arrived by boat like everyone else.
The Co-leader of Te Pati Maori Rawiri Waititi has said : “Caucasian (white people) as a species are doomed to extinction as a new Aotearoa is on the rise.”
If anyone tries to make a stand against their racist agenda they respond with threats.
Power has definitely gone to their heads; to the point where they actually imagine they are elitist and have made the outrageous claim that Maori are, quote . . . . A genetically superior race!
It was partly as a result of this situation that prior to the 2023 election the current Coalition Government parties promised to reverse race-based laws and practices.
As we approach the end of their second year in office, the big question being asked is whether enough is being done to derail the tribal juggernaut. Democracy is under threat from the claim of ‘partnership’ between the Crown and Iwi who signed the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi document.
The Prime Minister’s job is to protect our system of democracy & equality and to ensure that any threats to either are promptly and firmly opposed by, if necessary legislation, and by publicly speaking out against them.”
We are now seeing the consequences of decades of allowing vested interest groups committed to subverting democracy and seizing power for their own enrichment, to infiltrate all levels of government in New Zealand both central and local.
Insistence on a separate Maori government has built up over the decades since the formation of the Waitangi Tribunal in 1975. The Tribunal has over time constructed and publicised a complete rewriting of history – the “retrospective recrimination” and “counterfactual history” of the Tribunal, quoting the words of historian Bill Oliver. This fundamental reversal of the message and meaning of the Treaty has been aided by a captive media and the crippling of free speech.
After approximately fifty years of working to weave racial privilege deep into the New Zealand’s legislative framework, Iwi leaders are not only fighting any attempts to remove that privilege but to also extend it as far and as fast as possible before the Coalition Government can enact legislation to reverse race-based laws and practices.
The key reason New Zealanders have not resisted the tribal takeover is that activists pursued an incremental approach to avoid triggering public alarm. With operatives embedded deep within the machinery of the State decades ago, many changes were engineered from within.
In 2017, when Jacinda Ardern became Prime Minister and Labour won all of the Maori seats, the incremental approach to institutional capture was replaced by a coordinated strategy spearheaded by a new government agency working in collaboration with tribal leaders.
The Office of Maori-Crown Relations reshaped the State sector from within, embedding a radical Treaty indoctrination framework across government - and when Labour won a majority in 2020; they revealed He Puapua, their secret blueprint to replace democracy with tribal rule.
Virtually every government agency was targeted by He Puapua activists and if the Labour-appointed radicals within the State sector are not ousted, government agencies will continue their journey towards a Maori Nation State.
A classic example of this is seen in the actions of the Local Government Commission in developing a universal code of conduct for elected members of local authorities, the draft of which includes a Treaty clause aligned with Labour’s He Puapua agenda. This comes in spite of a recent High Court ruling confirming that local authorities are not Treaty partners, and that councillors therefore hold no Treaty obligations.
Over the years, with pro-active support from Labour, the tribal sovereignty movement has embedded the framework for a separatist nation-state deep within government institutions. This constitutional transformation was never approved by the public - yet it continues to shape policy, funding, and governance.
Since attempts to push back against such developments will often result in strong opposition and accusations of racism, almost everyone backs off.
Maorification of the bureaucratic processes has created a huge waste of taxpayer’s money without doing anything to ensure the provision of effective public services. And that’s a real problem.
The Maorification of our public service bureaucracy is not about creating a shared heritage and a unifying shared modern culture, it’s solely about domination of the national direction, and with it comes a cultural outlook that most of us never consented to and get punished if we try to resist.
If we try to push back, we’re dismissed, branded as bigots, called colonisers and in many cases accused of being white supremacists, no matter our actual ethnicity, background, or intent.
The cost of race-based payoffs is now millions – if not billions - of dollars. If the Coalition is serious about growing our economy, they must free the country from this cultural insanity. All race-based consultation should be removed, including from fast-track legislation, National Policy Statements, and the RMA replacements.
After fifty years of being allowed to virtually have their own way, tribal groups have become powerful and dangerous. They see themselves as de-facto rulers, and if things don’t go their way, they do not hesitate to bully and intimidate, demand and threaten, and with very deep pockets, resort to legal action through a ‘captured’ court system, until opponents cave in.
Stopping the tribal takeover is what National, ACT and New Zealand First promised to do when they agreed to prioritise “Ending race-based policies” in their Coalition Agreement.
There can be no mature discussion about our future as a country until everybody accepts that the Treaty provided for the government to have final authority, with all citizens - no matter their ancestry - having equal rights.
We must stop being afraid to say it. This is not just wrong. It is corrosive. A separatist political model based on racial ancestry belongs in 19th-century Apartheid South Africa, not 21st-century New Zealand.
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By Andy Loader, Poke the Bear