Phil Green
What I believe we are witnessing is the youth arm of the tribal governance league, establishing the illegal appropriation of ‘koha’.
Koha is described as a payment-in-kind, or a gift, yet I believe in the present situation it’s also considered, by both the youths and the parliamentary squad, to be a type of reparation. Koha necessitates a giver and a receiver, and I believe that some Maori perceive Euro-centric goods and services to be a koha that they should be receiving.
It’s no surprise that the current crop of journalists aren’t joining the dots, and it’s clear just how far down the rabbit hole New Zealand as a society has gone (by caving into Maori interests) that nobody dares raise this point.
Youth crime isn’t a new phenomenon, but in this instance the horse has bolted with no interest in being tamed. And why should it, when it is all political? The scene has been set where some young Maori believe they’re taking what’s rightfully theirs.
Mike Moore stuck his head out in the early 1990s, talking about the possibility of a new ‘Maori Battalion’ to combat youth disconnectedness. To my enduring shame, I sent a letter to Mike calling the idea racist. The kindly Peter Tapsell replied dispelling my arrogance in a very decent way, which goes to show the difference 30 years makes in politics. But the politics are very different now from what they were 30 years ago.
Various commenters on The BFD have made the point that the passing into law of “all waters” by the Maori ‘squad’ in the Labour party is the greatest grand larceny ever committed in New Zealand, in plain sight and without any embarrassment. It is their inalienable and as we’re discovering, “sovereign right” to reverse 182 years of peaceful co-existence. What difference is there to ram-raiders taking what they feel is their right?
Now, in 2022, co-existence has morphed into co-governance which, considering their veto power, makes it in reality tribal diktat. When the opposition tells you that they can wave their hand or magic wand next year and overturn Labour’s legislation they aren’t being honest with you.
Every authority in New Zealand, somewhere has to get iwi consent to do something or other. It’s embedded in our political structure.
New Zealand is trapped in the past of its feel-good, “NZ pure” ethos which has made this country great. Never in our wildest nightmares could we have anticipated the present pack of activist brigands making off with the country’s silver. But they have.
It’s in this unseemly downward spiral that the tribal youth are taking their lead. Luxon saying he’s got an idea of how to combat ram-raiding and youth crime, when he has no idea how to combat the adult crime being committed before him in the house each day, is dead-pan irony.
To be fair, I don’t have the answers either, given the parameters of the constraints he has on him. It’s tough being a progressive in New Zealand.
As a society we believe the younger generation can learn from the preceding one. But what have they learnt? That it’s okay not to go to school because of a virus. That it’s okay to be forced to wear a mask for the whole school year and, most tellingly, that Aunty Nanaia and Uncle Willie think it’s okay to steal the entire water system of a democratic country for tribal ends. Clip the ticket and you will never have to work again.
If I were feckless and young again, I think I’d sign up too.
Many impressionable young minds must think that if our elder folk are doing it, why can’t we? It’s not a crime, it’s a fair and just Koha for the wrongs committed on our people. It’s just reverse koha!
And if you think that’s too much of a stretch for young criminals to believe, then you haven’t been paying attention to the political environment that’s been brewing for many years.
