JD
The disruptions of NZ society by radical Maori, driven to some degree by Te Pati Maori and ably abetted by the MSM, beg the question of its genesis. How is it that these protests can be so readily organised?
One simple answer is that Maori are easily identified or self-identified, as a specific ethnic group (and even more easily when one has access to census records and Covid databases – but that’s another story.)
This ease of identification ensures that radical Maori politicians have no trouble in determining who to target with their ‘calls to arms’ in pursuit of redress for whatever grievances they care to dream up.
Conversely, the other four million of us are an amorphous mass: a diverse collection of races, English, Chinese, Scottish, Indian, Irish, other Europeans and other Asians, etc., making it much more difficult to identify common ground and common causes around which the rest of us – the Kiwis – can be rallied.
What is needed is a purpose, a simple idea everybody can relate to such as JFK’s “We choose to go to the moon” in the 1960s, galvanised a generation. But such a simple and easy to understand idea is not always readily to hand.
In NZ, even a concept like ‘defining the principles of the treaty of Waitangi’ may be too vague and complex to provide a simple and easily understood goal: a rallying cry to facilitate push back against the racially motivated radical separatists amongst us.
In our multi racial society it is easy to see how this particular debate may not be one around which we can readily unite.
However, there is one thing every non-Maori, the ‘Kiwi’ majority of NZ, can easily identify as a target and that is the patronising anachronism of Maori seats in parliament: a state of affairs that gives one race preference over all the other races that make up the majority of the nation.
These seats hark back to the time when the Westminster parliamentary system was introduced into NZ and personal land ownership determined the right to vote. Maori, as tribal and iwi group landowners, didn’t meet this requirement and Maori seats were created to address this potential disenfranchisement. However we have long since moved on to voting rights based on universal suffrage. All New Zealanders can now vote and the Maori seats no longer serve any constitutional purpose. The cost of a parliamentary seat over three years, with all aspects of an MP’s salary, expense allowances, etc, is $1,724,611.
With seven Maori seats plus the additional salary paid to party leaders gives us a cost in excess of $12 million dollars every parliamentary term.
So not only are the Maori seats an anachronism and throwback to the original colonial government of NZ, ironically the exact thing Te Pati Maori rails against at every opportunity, they are an expensive anachronism at that.
Of course we all know this, but Labour finds it expedient to maintain that these seats are still needed to give Maori a voice, as one would expect, since the Maori seats always vote left.
Clearly Labour’s Maori caucus severely miscalculated in the 2023 election. By legitimising the race-based separationist ideals of co-governance and He Puapua, they encouraged the Maori vote to shift even further left, birthing the extremist radical group that is today’s Te Pati Maori.
But the National Party is also afraid of any debate around the Maori seats because someone will immediately shout ‘racist’, with the MSM subsequently blowing this up until a genuine race war might be threatened, or, even worse in the eyes of a politician, a few votes might be at risk.
Thus, until enough public support is expressed to make championing of the removal of Maori seats politically worthwhile, the idea will always be deferred.
What we need to do is develop this public support so that the following message is delivered, loud and clear:
You, the three per cent of Maori who voted TPM, want race based policies, special treatment, different laws and demand a separated parliament.
We, the 97 per cent Kiwi majority, believe in universal suffrage – one person, one vote. A principle that means no separate seats in parliament based on race or any other criteria.
But these words are likely too much of a mouthful for today’s society. To make it an easily understood call to action, a simpler, shorter, snappier rallying cry is needed. Something that can imprint itself on the psyche of the nation and be reiterated at every opportunity.
Examples abound of the power of simple slogans to rally the people; this has been recognised for thousands of years.
The Roman senator Cato famously ended every speech he made, on any subject, with the words Carthago delenda est – Carthage must be destroyed – until eventually it was.
Then there was Adolf Hitler’s odious Juden Raus! to literally drive the Jews from Europe. And similar today with “From the river to the sea”, which is mindlessly parroted by the likes of John Minto, Chloe Swarbrick and the student protestors of the progressive left; seeking again to drive Jews from their Israeli homeland.
And Donald Trump has managed to co-opt Ronald Reagan’s “Make America Great Again” slogan, using it as the nucleus around which his hugely disparate group of supporters have coalesced.
It seems irrefutable then that a similar ‘great idea’ is needed if we are to rally support for NZ as one society, not divided by special concessions for one race or another.
And so we come to the slogan, the rallying cry that the non-Maori majority – NZ Kiwis – can easily recognise, remember and reiterate every time racialist radicals try to disrupt our society.
And what better slogan than one borrowed from the woke progressives we are pushing back against? I give you therefore:
DEFUND THE MAORI SEATS
Not only is this short and to the point, but it lends itself to any number of expansions, a few of which might be:
Defeat Racism – Defund the Maori Seats
Defend Democracy – Defund the Maori Seats
Repeal Preferential Racism – Defund the Maori Seats
No to Colonial Ideas – Defund the Maori Seats
Stop Patronising Maori – Defund the Maori Seats
Restore Equality – Defund the Maori Seats
Pasifika, Asian, Pakeha Unite – Defund the Maori Seats
The list could go on and on.
In summary, New Zealand is on the cusp of something truly frightening. We can allow radical racism to irrevocably split the country, leading eventually to recommencement of the civil wars of the 1800s. Or we can stand for simple equality: the firm belief that we are one people – Kiwis together – where any treatment based on race and ethnicity has no place. Including within our parliament.
DEFUND THE MAORI SEATS.
