Post by Kiwi Frontline on Feb 6, 2024 4:44:20 GMT 12
Mike Butler: KAWHARU’S RE-WRITTEN TREATY.
In a nutshell, the treaty partnership ideology behind these developments can be traced to Kawharu’s rewrite of the treaty and the government’s adoption of the principles of Crown action.
Bypassing Kawharu’s reinterpretation, ACT leader David Seymour has based his three brief principles on the words of the Maori text Te Tiriti. The proposed treaty principles bill would say:
1. The government has the right to govern and there is one government.
2. We all have rights to “tino rangatiratanga”, or self-determination, and to property.
3. We all have “nga tikanga katoa rite tahi” or the same rights and duties.
Seymour has posed a substantial problem for the radicals who have benefited from a treaty that seems to justify Maori self-government because for them to argue against his bill means that they are arguing against Te Tiriti that the chiefs agreed to in 1840.
Many are aware that there are two treaties, an 1840 treaty and a 1986 reinvention, and that people on both sides talking past each other when it comes to treaty politics.
But beware of everyone who alleges the coalition government is “rewriting the treaty”. The treaty was quietly rewritten long ago and that rewritten treaty is behind the division that is on display at Waitangi today……
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/02/mike-butler-kawharus-re-written-treaty.html
In a nutshell, the treaty partnership ideology behind these developments can be traced to Kawharu’s rewrite of the treaty and the government’s adoption of the principles of Crown action.
Bypassing Kawharu’s reinterpretation, ACT leader David Seymour has based his three brief principles on the words of the Maori text Te Tiriti. The proposed treaty principles bill would say:
1. The government has the right to govern and there is one government.
2. We all have rights to “tino rangatiratanga”, or self-determination, and to property.
3. We all have “nga tikanga katoa rite tahi” or the same rights and duties.
Seymour has posed a substantial problem for the radicals who have benefited from a treaty that seems to justify Maori self-government because for them to argue against his bill means that they are arguing against Te Tiriti that the chiefs agreed to in 1840.
Many are aware that there are two treaties, an 1840 treaty and a 1986 reinvention, and that people on both sides talking past each other when it comes to treaty politics.
But beware of everyone who alleges the coalition government is “rewriting the treaty”. The treaty was quietly rewritten long ago and that rewritten treaty is behind the division that is on display at Waitangi today……
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/02/mike-butler-kawharus-re-written-treaty.html