Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jan 16, 2016 8:04:25 GMT 12
The Southland Times 16/1/16
DEMOCRACY IN TATTERS
Recent correspondence about conflict of interest within Environment Southland is timely because exposed is a concept known as co-governance that completely undermines the ethos of democracy and property rights; founding principles of our nation.
At heart, corruption of democratic processes is the Prime Minister’s under-the-radar ambition to give iwi a nationwide co-governance role with elected councils over fresh water management, gaining him Maori Party support for National’s RMA changes.
Citizens have been well apprised of the need to pay reparation to make good to Maori for historic injustice.
I doubt there was meddling in that democratic process, so why should citizens now accept new special rights for Maori under fresh water management?
Representation the way we know it is sacrosanct and if the prime minister is, as has been reported in media, mandating unelected representatives to full governing roles, then it’s a constitutional outrage, so why the silence?
Waikato Tainui says it works, but, then, who collects the rent?
So what do our local MPs and councillors say? Their silence speaks volumes about their capacity to understand basic tenets of a democracy. Whose agenda are they kowtowing to and what legislative framework affords them such latitude? I'd like to know.
D N
Waimatua
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers
DEMOCRACY IN TATTERS
Recent correspondence about conflict of interest within Environment Southland is timely because exposed is a concept known as co-governance that completely undermines the ethos of democracy and property rights; founding principles of our nation.
At heart, corruption of democratic processes is the Prime Minister’s under-the-radar ambition to give iwi a nationwide co-governance role with elected councils over fresh water management, gaining him Maori Party support for National’s RMA changes.
Citizens have been well apprised of the need to pay reparation to make good to Maori for historic injustice.
I doubt there was meddling in that democratic process, so why should citizens now accept new special rights for Maori under fresh water management?
Representation the way we know it is sacrosanct and if the prime minister is, as has been reported in media, mandating unelected representatives to full governing roles, then it’s a constitutional outrage, so why the silence?
Waikato Tainui says it works, but, then, who collects the rent?
So what do our local MPs and councillors say? Their silence speaks volumes about their capacity to understand basic tenets of a democracy. Whose agenda are they kowtowing to and what legislative framework affords them such latitude? I'd like to know.
D N
Waimatua
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers