The actions of the useful idiots cannot be excused by their blood or religious ties. They act out of ignorance or, worse, a mob mentality that abdicates moral or political decision-making to whatever will get them the most likes on social media.
On Saturday, once again, the streets of Auckland resounded with calls of support for Palestine.
That would be the sympathetic mainstream media’s way of putting it. An alternative would be the calm of a sunny Saturday afternoon in Auckland was once again shattered by bellicose support for malevolent forces half a world away from our peaceful nation.
The support is offered not by the bulk of the New Zealand populace, but by a relative few useful idiots and bloody fools.
The idea is to take existing Māori land (already defined in legislation) and create a local council for each iwi or hapū that wants to take this model. The largest bits of contiguous land any iwi or hapū own would be sufficient.
People are different, and that’s both entirely OK and entirely the problem.
We need to get the Ministry of Culture to fund some kind of dance development project.
We can have democracy or we can have indigenous sovereignty. We can’t have both.
