John Porter
“Cometh the hour, cometh the man.” Generally meaning that leadership, even of one’s self, is absent and desperately needed in a time of greatest necessity, so someone is forced to step up whether they seem capable or not.
Prime Minister Luxon I think your hour has cometh!
And who has come calling at your door? Why it’s Mr Waititi and his band of rabble-rousers issuing a Declaration of Political Independence, proclaiming Maori will no longer allow Parliament to dictate their right to exercise authority and will assert Maori sovereignty!
Do you consider the anarchy, the separatism, the unjustified bigotry and contrived victimhood preached by the Maori Party to be bordering on seditious and must stop? Are you ready to say to Maori separatists, NO MORE?
You should be. You should be well and truly ready to step to the front, and know exactly where you stand on the co-governance and Maori sovereignty issue. After all, we have had decades of National leaders and prominent MPs discreetly and quietly leading us to the point New Zealand now finds itself at.
National governments have a long history of placating Maori activists’ demands with, quite often, surreptitious favouritism. Jim Bolger, Sir Douglas Graham, John Key and Chris Finlayson to name a few.
John Key, in particular, along with Minister Finlayson were extremely inclined to bend to the Maori Party’s wishes. Key secretly (although he wants to claim otherwise) sent Pita Sharples to the United Nations to sign the UN Declaration of Rights of Indigenous People, UNDRIP.
Just as Labour did on many occasions during their 2017–2023 tenure and at no stage did Parliament have an opportunity to debate that issue!
Post the signing, Foreign Affairs Minister at the time, Murray McCully, stated that “…the signing the document will allow New Zealand to clarify its position and exclude itself from some aspects of the agreement which relate to the law in this country”. How has that worked out Murray?
Finlayson has never been shy about making known his endorsement of co-governance. He has asked. “Why should the state be the one to control everything? Why can’t there be principles of sharing power?”
And “I will continue to talk about co-governance as something to be embraced, not feared — and some people won’t like it. Bad luck.
“‘Co-governance’ has become a term that people don’t understand. They think it means co-government.” Ask Waititi what he thinks co-governance means Chris!
Prime Minister, appeasement is the name of the game for National Governments. Are you going to try to take New Zealand down that, now proven to be, very reckless, dead-end path?
I hope not because one cannot contain a lunatic with appeasement. A straitjacket is what is required!
Of course, there is another direction you could take the country. You could throw off the shackles of placation, abandon the constraints of previous National Governments and do what you were elected to do!
Given the escalating dissension and subversion promoted by the Maori Party you are no longer able to hide behind a planned or organic strategy whereby ministers Seymour and Peters take the lead roles on Maori separatism issues. You are now standing at what could be a pivotal point in your political career.
Unfortunately, we know National will not support David Seymour’s Treaty Principles Bill. More appeasement by National?
That bill sets about restoring the integrity of our founding document by ensuring the same rights and duties for all New Zealanders, but National could vote it down. This bill is essential for the continuation of a democracy in New Zealand.
Or do National actually want to see an ethnocracy installed in New Zealand?
How do you think the Maori Party and the Maori elite and activists will react if your government sponsors enacting the Treaty Principles Bill into law?
What about this scenario Prime Minister:
After a lengthy but expected period of ranting and raving, demonstrating, inflammatory rhetoric and threats and possibly civil unrest, the country eventually emerges into a phase of tantrums, sulking and fatuous demands.
Then someone, probably a respected Maori personage such as the Governor General suggests a reconciliation through a ‘peace conference’.
But then don’t be surprised if a new Constitution for “Aotearoa” is proposed. Indubitably based on ‘partnership and co-governance’. Liberally entwined with references and articles interlinked to Te Ao Maori and the Treaty.
One wouldn’t be surprised if that document is already drafted! Probably by Prof Claire Charters, He Puapua author and Human Rights Commission employee who specialises in indigenous peoples’ rights, and possibly with patronage from a Supreme Court judge with strong Maori rights leanings.
From there we see Maori, remarkably, accepting of this option (I wonder why) and the traditionally well-meaning but apathetic New Zealanders agreeing, for the sake of peace in NZ and the ‘quiet life’. The sheeple will end up signing away their democracy.
Life bumps along, except for the too few people who can see through this charade and endeavour to open the eyes of the ‘blind’. Without support from what is left of the MSM, a MSM that is still firmly far left of centre, the task of getting the blind to see becomes enormous.
In this new ‘semi–ethno’ state you have helped create Prime Minister, a state where obviously Maori keep all benefits paid by the previous democratic state, a state where democracy is but a descriptor, we find an amendment to the Constitution is proposed.
A Maori only Chamber with final veto over all legislation! Yes, MATIKE MAI AOTEAROA/HE PUAPUA finally comes to pass! The long-planned version of tribal rule is upon us!
Fanciful I know but only to a certain extent. There is a strong element of actuality in there.
I wager Maori leaders, activists or the elite have a plan very similar to the above. A plan that they are refining regularly as your Government allows incremental advances of their cause.
Incremental advances gained through appeasement!
So what is it to be Prime Minister? Appeasement or defiance?
Cometh the hour, cometh the man?
