Post by Kiwi Frontline on Oct 26, 2020 1:44:19 GMT 12
Dear Kiwis,
In the next few days three Northland Councils plan to vote on whether to create Maori wards: see > tinyurl.com/yxrknose
Therefore I am reaching out and asking you to Copy the letter/email (below the line of asterisks) and Paste it into your email facility and send it to councillors on the Council email list (below or here > tinyurl.com/y3azau3u ), this can be done by bulk (each District Council) or individualised/personalised (each councillor).
Please start with the Kaipara District Council first, as their meeting/vote is on the 28th Oct (this Wednesday) – Time is of the essence.
The plan is to flood Councillor’s email Inbox with emails stating the reasons why they should vote NO to Maori wards in their upcoming vote. A majority vote NO would be better than trying to gather signatures for a petition to force a referendum if they majority vote YES, we would only have a short time frame (by 21st Feb 2021), and a Xmas period making it difficult to gather signatures.
Please feel free to alter the letter/email or draft your own email/letter, it does not have to be this draft (but feel free to use this draft if you want to). - The main aim is to get emails to the councillors, in similar vein.
This mailout is not confined to Northland only constituents, wider NZers can take part and make their thoughts known to the Councillors. The more the better.
Please circulate/forward this request to your likeminded contacts as well, many thanks for your help in this regard.
Kiwi Frontline
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Dear Elected Councillor
I understand in the next few days Councillors will be voting on whether or not to install maori ward/s.
The purpose of this email is to put forward the cogent and valid reasons why you must vote against this undemocratic aberration.
1) Race-based wards should not be brought in at the whim of Councillors, any decision should only be made after full public consultation including submissions and most recent polls show that constituents do not want these wards with an average 75% no vote against them. Why then would Council spend (waste) around $200,000 on a referendum when the result looks like a foregone conclusion based on past experience.
2) Unelected by the public at large, any separate Maori representation in local government subverts New Zealand’s one-person-one-vote democracy that is based solely on citizenship, not ethnicity thereby undermining our tried and true democracy.
3) Any race based candidates inherently will be focused on securing entitlements for local maori interests, not the interests of the wider community as a whole and that is wrong.
4) Those with maori ancestry are members of our community and not a separate entity which require anything different from Council than what all other citizens receive, such as roads, clean drinking water, sewerage, drainage/stormwater, parks and reserves, libraries, sports facilities, pools, and community centres etc. which everyone benefits from.
5) Maori wards imply that those with some Maori ancestry are incapable of achieving without race-based favouritism, therefore insults this group of people who can achieve positions in governance, evidenced by an over representation in Parliament compared to the population percentage of 16.5% who claim maori heritage as currently 20 percent (23) of MPs in Parliament are of Maori descent (the figure was 23 percent in 2017).
Maori people are capable of standing for and winning general seats and when they do they usually contribute significantly to governance.
6) In any event what special skills or knowledge etc can these people bring to the table particularly when many have more other ancestry than their Maori ethnicity.
7) The 1840 Te Tiriti o Waitangi does not state nor even imply race-based representation in governance (Local or Central) – however it does state and record the ceding of sovereignty and granting Maori all the rights and privileges of British subjects (now New Zealanders).
8) A major downside is Maori voters will be locked in – Maori, on the Maori electoral roll would compulsorily have to vote for Maori ward candidates only, as they cannot participate in the general public vote also.
9) Special privileges based on ancestry or ethnicity are discriminatory, tribal and archaic, they divide families, neighbours and communities – we must have one set of rules for all Kiwis regardless of ancestry or ethnicity and anything else is apartheid.
Wrapping up, to avoid a state of racial segregation Governance must be based solely on citizenship, not ethnicity, there must be no preferment for any individual or group based on ethnicity, religion or culture - matters of governance are entirely separate, except for the basic right of freedom of expression and belief.
Thank you for taking the time to read this factual material and I trust you will vote wisely with awareness to all the pertinent points outlined above.
Kind regards
*** your name
In the next few days three Northland Councils plan to vote on whether to create Maori wards: see > tinyurl.com/yxrknose
Therefore I am reaching out and asking you to Copy the letter/email (below the line of asterisks) and Paste it into your email facility and send it to councillors on the Council email list (below or here > tinyurl.com/y3azau3u ), this can be done by bulk (each District Council) or individualised/personalised (each councillor).
Please start with the Kaipara District Council first, as their meeting/vote is on the 28th Oct (this Wednesday) – Time is of the essence.
The plan is to flood Councillor’s email Inbox with emails stating the reasons why they should vote NO to Maori wards in their upcoming vote. A majority vote NO would be better than trying to gather signatures for a petition to force a referendum if they majority vote YES, we would only have a short time frame (by 21st Feb 2021), and a Xmas period making it difficult to gather signatures.
Please feel free to alter the letter/email or draft your own email/letter, it does not have to be this draft (but feel free to use this draft if you want to). - The main aim is to get emails to the councillors, in similar vein.
This mailout is not confined to Northland only constituents, wider NZers can take part and make their thoughts known to the Councillors. The more the better.
Please circulate/forward this request to your likeminded contacts as well, many thanks for your help in this regard.
Kiwi Frontline
**********************
Dear Elected Councillor
I understand in the next few days Councillors will be voting on whether or not to install maori ward/s.
The purpose of this email is to put forward the cogent and valid reasons why you must vote against this undemocratic aberration.
1) Race-based wards should not be brought in at the whim of Councillors, any decision should only be made after full public consultation including submissions and most recent polls show that constituents do not want these wards with an average 75% no vote against them. Why then would Council spend (waste) around $200,000 on a referendum when the result looks like a foregone conclusion based on past experience.
2) Unelected by the public at large, any separate Maori representation in local government subverts New Zealand’s one-person-one-vote democracy that is based solely on citizenship, not ethnicity thereby undermining our tried and true democracy.
3) Any race based candidates inherently will be focused on securing entitlements for local maori interests, not the interests of the wider community as a whole and that is wrong.
4) Those with maori ancestry are members of our community and not a separate entity which require anything different from Council than what all other citizens receive, such as roads, clean drinking water, sewerage, drainage/stormwater, parks and reserves, libraries, sports facilities, pools, and community centres etc. which everyone benefits from.
5) Maori wards imply that those with some Maori ancestry are incapable of achieving without race-based favouritism, therefore insults this group of people who can achieve positions in governance, evidenced by an over representation in Parliament compared to the population percentage of 16.5% who claim maori heritage as currently 20 percent (23) of MPs in Parliament are of Maori descent (the figure was 23 percent in 2017).
Maori people are capable of standing for and winning general seats and when they do they usually contribute significantly to governance.
6) In any event what special skills or knowledge etc can these people bring to the table particularly when many have more other ancestry than their Maori ethnicity.
7) The 1840 Te Tiriti o Waitangi does not state nor even imply race-based representation in governance (Local or Central) – however it does state and record the ceding of sovereignty and granting Maori all the rights and privileges of British subjects (now New Zealanders).
8) A major downside is Maori voters will be locked in – Maori, on the Maori electoral roll would compulsorily have to vote for Maori ward candidates only, as they cannot participate in the general public vote also.
9) Special privileges based on ancestry or ethnicity are discriminatory, tribal and archaic, they divide families, neighbours and communities – we must have one set of rules for all Kiwis regardless of ancestry or ethnicity and anything else is apartheid.
Wrapping up, to avoid a state of racial segregation Governance must be based solely on citizenship, not ethnicity, there must be no preferment for any individual or group based on ethnicity, religion or culture - matters of governance are entirely separate, except for the basic right of freedom of expression and belief.
Thank you for taking the time to read this factual material and I trust you will vote wisely with awareness to all the pertinent points outlined above.
Kind regards
*** your name