Post by Kiwi Frontline on Feb 28, 2022 9:42:33 GMT 12
A NEW DARK STAGE IN OUR CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY – David Round
So there you have it. As simple and blunt as that. The law forbids racial discrimination, but as long as any discrimination is in favour of Maori it is all right, because of the Treaty. No-one else is in a comparable position. The fact that the Treaty promises equality before the law is utterly ignored. The Court of Appeal, in its otherwise deplorable big 1987 judgment on Treaty principles, at least considered that Treaty principles also obliged Maori to respect the right of the Crown to govern and make laws. But there is no consideration of that principle either. In one sentence the Attorney General simply says that because of the Treaty, pro-Maori racial discrimination is entirely acceptable, even on so fundamental a matter as voting in elections.
This just goes to show, once again, what a meaningless piece of pious liberal posturing the ‘Bill of Rights Act’ is. It can be twisted by any judge or official to come to absolutely any desired result.......
Read David’s full article here > www.nzcpr.com/a-new-dark-stage-in-our-constitutional-history/
So there you have it. As simple and blunt as that. The law forbids racial discrimination, but as long as any discrimination is in favour of Maori it is all right, because of the Treaty. No-one else is in a comparable position. The fact that the Treaty promises equality before the law is utterly ignored. The Court of Appeal, in its otherwise deplorable big 1987 judgment on Treaty principles, at least considered that Treaty principles also obliged Maori to respect the right of the Crown to govern and make laws. But there is no consideration of that principle either. In one sentence the Attorney General simply says that because of the Treaty, pro-Maori racial discrimination is entirely acceptable, even on so fundamental a matter as voting in elections.
This just goes to show, once again, what a meaningless piece of pious liberal posturing the ‘Bill of Rights Act’ is. It can be twisted by any judge or official to come to absolutely any desired result.......
Read David’s full article here > www.nzcpr.com/a-new-dark-stage-in-our-constitutional-history/