Post by Kiwi Frontline on Dec 20, 2022 10:50:11 GMT 12
ESCAPING THE GUILT TRAP: WHO REALLY BROKE THE TREATY - John Robinson.
Many councils have spoken out against the Three Waters proposal, with most focussing on the high cost and the taking of ownership and control by a new centralised national organisation. The public organisation Democracy Action has spoken against the proposal, “since the undemocratic co-governance provisions will bring more complexity, more bureaucracy, more costs – and a whole lot less democratic accountability”. The Taxpayers’ Union has pointed to “the lies about ‘ownership’, the unsuccessful buy off of the local government sector, and the parliamentary skullduggery”.
There was considerable publicity when a group of law academics (professors and PhDs), publicised their opinion that the development of Three Waters raised constitutional concerns, because an entrenched privatisation provision (which was dropped following widespread condemnation) “creates a dangerous precedent”. That provision was a last-minute amendment that the Green Party had insisted on, supposedly in order to block possible future privatisation.
The claim that the Greens are opposed to privatisation is smoke and mirrors, a diversion and a con designed to misdirect public attention away from what is going on. The Three Waters legislation takes all those resources out of public control and gives effective control, that key feature of ownership, to an undefined Maori organisation. That is privatisation in all but name.
Most Three Waters critics have missed this major point and failed to notice, and emphasise, the key feature in that Bill which is a further and significant step in a slow ongoing coup. None of these criticisms get to the heart of the matter; none identify the elephant in the room — apartheid, the setting up of a system that divides New Zealanders further into Maori and others. It asks Maori to organise a separate government system to choose and appoint representatives who will have effective control over all of New Zealand’s ‘three waters’ – to take the control of drinking water, sewage and waste water disposal from local bodies and hand all this to (initially) four imaginative regional structures, ‘entities’, to be governed through an absurd, complicated and divisive structure......
Read on here > www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/John-Robinson-ideology-and-breaking-the-treaty.pdf
Many councils have spoken out against the Three Waters proposal, with most focussing on the high cost and the taking of ownership and control by a new centralised national organisation. The public organisation Democracy Action has spoken against the proposal, “since the undemocratic co-governance provisions will bring more complexity, more bureaucracy, more costs – and a whole lot less democratic accountability”. The Taxpayers’ Union has pointed to “the lies about ‘ownership’, the unsuccessful buy off of the local government sector, and the parliamentary skullduggery”.
There was considerable publicity when a group of law academics (professors and PhDs), publicised their opinion that the development of Three Waters raised constitutional concerns, because an entrenched privatisation provision (which was dropped following widespread condemnation) “creates a dangerous precedent”. That provision was a last-minute amendment that the Green Party had insisted on, supposedly in order to block possible future privatisation.
The claim that the Greens are opposed to privatisation is smoke and mirrors, a diversion and a con designed to misdirect public attention away from what is going on. The Three Waters legislation takes all those resources out of public control and gives effective control, that key feature of ownership, to an undefined Maori organisation. That is privatisation in all but name.
Most Three Waters critics have missed this major point and failed to notice, and emphasise, the key feature in that Bill which is a further and significant step in a slow ongoing coup. None of these criticisms get to the heart of the matter; none identify the elephant in the room — apartheid, the setting up of a system that divides New Zealanders further into Maori and others. It asks Maori to organise a separate government system to choose and appoint representatives who will have effective control over all of New Zealand’s ‘three waters’ – to take the control of drinking water, sewage and waste water disposal from local bodies and hand all this to (initially) four imaginative regional structures, ‘entities’, to be governed through an absurd, complicated and divisive structure......
Read on here > www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/John-Robinson-ideology-and-breaking-the-treaty.pdf