Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jul 3, 2023 5:15:17 GMT 12
Don Brash: SHANE TE POU IS PROFOUNDLY WRONG
But what I am sure David Seymour is saying, and I think Christopher Luxon is saying, is that the agenda of the Maori radicals is totally inconsistent with any reasonable concept of democracy where all adults have equal rights.
How can anybody justify separate Maori representation on, for example, Environment Canterbury; or giving 50% of the representation on the bodies which are to control the water infrastructure of the entire country to tribal representatives; or giving the right to issue directives to those water entities to Maori New Zealanders only; or denying the right to citizens to decide whether they want Maori wards in local government; or giving preferential access to surgery to Maori citizens; or having a separate Maori health authority?
Unless we collectively push back against this nonsense, in short order we will find our democracy gone and we will have entrenched a deeply divided society: one where Maori have political authority out of all proportion to their numbers as envisaged by the authors of He Puapua. The irony was that when He Puapua was written by a small coterie of radical Maori in 2019, the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party was Maori, the Leader and Deputy Leader of New Zealand First were Maori, the Co-Leader of the Greens was Maori, the Leader and Deputy Leader of the National Party were Maori, and the Leader of ACT was Maori. So much for Maori being excluded from political power!….
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/07/don-brash-shane-te-pou-is-profoundly.html
But what I am sure David Seymour is saying, and I think Christopher Luxon is saying, is that the agenda of the Maori radicals is totally inconsistent with any reasonable concept of democracy where all adults have equal rights.
How can anybody justify separate Maori representation on, for example, Environment Canterbury; or giving 50% of the representation on the bodies which are to control the water infrastructure of the entire country to tribal representatives; or giving the right to issue directives to those water entities to Maori New Zealanders only; or denying the right to citizens to decide whether they want Maori wards in local government; or giving preferential access to surgery to Maori citizens; or having a separate Maori health authority?
Unless we collectively push back against this nonsense, in short order we will find our democracy gone and we will have entrenched a deeply divided society: one where Maori have political authority out of all proportion to their numbers as envisaged by the authors of He Puapua. The irony was that when He Puapua was written by a small coterie of radical Maori in 2019, the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party was Maori, the Leader and Deputy Leader of New Zealand First were Maori, the Co-Leader of the Greens was Maori, the Leader and Deputy Leader of the National Party were Maori, and the Leader of ACT was Maori. So much for Maori being excluded from political power!….
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/07/don-brash-shane-te-pou-is-profoundly.html