Maori agitators only seem to come out to play when Labour isn’t in power. That should tell you something about their motives. We are yet again seeing the same old rhetoric at Waitangi: insults, disrespect and pathetic racism from Maori.
They want us to respect te ao Maori (emphasis on the importance of relationships between nature and people) and yet they show their penis, bare their buttocks, drown out speakers and show a general unpleasantness every single time.
The coalition government has faced a confronting reception at Waitangi on Monday.
The crowd booed a combative Winston Peters and drowned out David Seymour, while Christopher Luxon sombrely reflected on history at the Treaty Grounds.
ACT leader David Seymour says he believes the government’s visit to Waitangi was overwhelmingly a success – despite the attempts to drown him out.
Seymour’s speech was heckled by the crowd, with some calling on him to sit down.
He told RNZ only a small minority booed his speech, and there’s a mix of views.
RNZ
David Seymour had worse:
ACT leader David Seymour faced a kahui (group) of kaiwero (warriors)
Further to this, one of the warriors lifted his maro (loin cloth) to reveal his penis to the political parties during the powhiri. He then licked his rakau (stick) and bared his butt. This can be interpreted as a challenge to the Crown.
RNZ
Charming. How unedifying. I can’t believe I’ve just read a paragraph in which the words penis, lick and butt are all listed, ending with “a challenge to the crown”. Disgusting behaviour.
Nicole McKee was also abused, presumably because she is the ‘wrong sort of Maori’.
Some more context for what happened during ACT Party member Nicole McKee’s speech.
Te hau kainga (hosts) at Waitangi shut down a speech being delivered by McKee with the waiata ‘Maranga Mai’.
Mckee, who is the Minister for Courts and the Associate Minister of Justice (Firearms), spoke in te reo Maori.
She told those gathered at Waitangi that she and her family were very proud of the the [sic] work and policies ACT is promoting.
Members of the crowd took issue with her statements and pronunciation and the call was made by te hau kainga to stop the korero with a waiata.
RNZ
I guess te hau kainga can be translated as rude and unpleasant behaviour designed to silence people.
Hone Harawira was as unpleasant as his mother:
Veteran Maori activist and last MP Hone Harawira is speaking.
“You and your shitty ass bill are going down the toilet. That shitty ass bill is going down the toilet.”
He’s spoken about the fight for the Treaty over the decades.
“Here we are today and you buggers want to get rid of it and you think it’s just a case of bring in some legislation to strip the Treaty of its mana, to belittle the reo by making it a second class language in our land. It ain’t gonna happen.
“You need to know that. There’s more important things to be doing if we are trying to build this nation than mucking around with the Treaty of Waitangi.”
RNZ
And they want us to respect them when they can’t even respect the Government we elected.
As usual, Annette Sykes, who has literally added nothing to the discourse in her entire life, decided she’d do what she has always done and hurl insults at everyone. David Seymour pointed out a few home truths to counter the lies being spread by Te Pati Maori and Labour.
Te Arawa lawyer and activist Annette Sykes has asked how he, who didn’t speak te reo, would tinker with the Treaty. Sykes also looked to make fun of Seymour by saying he had to have a woman – his MP Nicole McKee – make the reo speech.
“You’re not off the hook either Prime Minister. How do you let him do this?”
When it was his turn to speak, Seymour responded with, “Sorry what century is that from?”
“Not even Donald Trump is calling his opponents insects yet,” he added, responding to calls that the Government are spiders and sandflies.
Security stopped a heckler who yelled, “F*** up Seymour, you don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Seymour continued to talk through the singing, saying he would continue working to make the country a beautiful country and one where all had equal rights.
“You can sing, you’re not going to beat an idea anymore than you’re going to beat an idea with a gun,” he said in reference to former minister Peeni Henare’s comments from Saturday.
“We will fight for the rights of every single person whether they have been here for 1000 years or just got here yesterday.”
NZ Herald
Winston Peters also slammed the rudeness:
Earlier Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters asked the crowd: “Whoever said we were getting rid of the treaty?
“So stop the crap, stop the hysteria.
“Some of us have been fighting for land rights for decades and where were you?
“If you think separatism and division will take us to 2040, you’ve got another thing coming.”
Peters said he was raised in a time of respect on the marae, bemoaning how he wasn’t being shown respect.
”You see, get an education,” he said to one person in the ground.
“I used to go to marae where they had tikanga and respect, not people shouting at the speaker,” Peters yelled at his critics.
Peters left the Waitangi Treaty Grounds early, making comments on the way about what he considered to be breaches of protocol.
NZ Herald
I really don’t know why politicians submit themselves to this overbearing disrespect and rudeness from Maori. They want us to respect te ao Maori and this is what we get in return.
Christopher Luxon, David Seymour, Shane Jones and Winston Peters should just do what Helen Clark did when she was made to cry by Titewhai Harawira: never return to Waitangi.
Little wonder that Ngapuhi are yet to settle their treaty claims – the same treaty that they now argue never ceded their sovereignty, yet they have their hands out for alleged breaches. Surely they should take their grievances up with the leadership of Ngapuhi, since they apparently are still the paramount governors of their area.
Modern Maori agitators say they never ceded sovereignty, yet they go cap in hand to the Government for everything. Te Pati Maori want to decolonise New Zealand, whatever the hell that means, yet also want a Maori Parliament – presumably paid for by the same colonisers. Add to that the so-called Maori King, a laughable Tainui construct designed to emulate the Crown of Great Britain. I say laughable because they also want to decolonise New Zealand, yet they’ve set up a Kingitanga movement precisely emulating the colonisers.
Maori need to get it through their heads that they were the first colonisers: their oral traditions tell us that. Their heroic re-casting of the Treaty of Waitangi seeks to make something that was never intended, to suit just them.
As Elizabeth Rata points out, Maori did cede sovereignty, how else could they have become British subjects, and in 1852 the Constitution Act superseded the Treaty.
Every year it’s the same old bulldust. Respect is earned not demanded, and Maori have shown yet again that they don’t deserve any respect.
Enough already.
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