Post by Kiwi Frontline on Aug 23, 2023 13:02:56 GMT 12
Robin Grieve: THE WAITANGI TRIBUNAL MUST GO
The Tribunal has become a political force that is pushing for racial privilege for Maori people. The reason this was able to happen is because the law that enabled the Tribunal to be established has also enabled it to become a law unto itself. The Tribunal makes decisions on claims that only Maori people are allowed to make. Each decision becomes a precedent for the next and the next. Its decisions are not challengeable, so each decision, no matter how precarious, stands and justifies the next. Each decision a little bolder than the one before. Its re-interpretation of the Treaty is ongoing, and its recommendations and decisions have crept over time away from what may have once been reasonable (radio airwaves for Maori people not withstanding) to what is now outrageous.
The recommendation for the Crown to make constitutional changes to allow Maori people different rights is beyond the pale. This recommendation is based on its’ ‘finding’ that the Maori people in the north did not cede sovereignty. This ‘finding’ has been ridiculed by historians and any lay person who could be bothered reading through the 600 pages in stage one of the report and 2000 pages in stage two would be gobsmacked at the flaws in its argument, its banality, and its lack of intellectual grunt. The tribunal’s ‘finding’ is even at odds with itself. In this report it states that the Treaty did not give the Crown sovereignty over the Maori people, but in 1988 it said this, and I quote. “The Treaty extinguished Mäori sovereignty and established that of the Crown”....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/08/robin-grieve-waitangi-tribunal-must-go.html
The Tribunal has become a political force that is pushing for racial privilege for Maori people. The reason this was able to happen is because the law that enabled the Tribunal to be established has also enabled it to become a law unto itself. The Tribunal makes decisions on claims that only Maori people are allowed to make. Each decision becomes a precedent for the next and the next. Its decisions are not challengeable, so each decision, no matter how precarious, stands and justifies the next. Each decision a little bolder than the one before. Its re-interpretation of the Treaty is ongoing, and its recommendations and decisions have crept over time away from what may have once been reasonable (radio airwaves for Maori people not withstanding) to what is now outrageous.
The recommendation for the Crown to make constitutional changes to allow Maori people different rights is beyond the pale. This recommendation is based on its’ ‘finding’ that the Maori people in the north did not cede sovereignty. This ‘finding’ has been ridiculed by historians and any lay person who could be bothered reading through the 600 pages in stage one of the report and 2000 pages in stage two would be gobsmacked at the flaws in its argument, its banality, and its lack of intellectual grunt. The tribunal’s ‘finding’ is even at odds with itself. In this report it states that the Treaty did not give the Crown sovereignty over the Maori people, but in 1988 it said this, and I quote. “The Treaty extinguished Mäori sovereignty and established that of the Crown”....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/08/robin-grieve-waitangi-tribunal-must-go.html