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Mahuta with Aussie counterpart Marise Payne: "strange"is hardly the word for it - or her |
‘You don’t even have to prove you’re Maori – just to say you are’.
Within a couple of generations, New Zealanders might all be speaking pidgin English. That's the way it looks, folks, with RNZ National and TvOne 'News' indoctrinating us all, willy-nilly, into the esoteric (given that only 4 per cent of us spikka da lingo) charms of 'te reo', sprinkling news and current affairs programmes with an increasing number of Maori phrases that mean absolutely nothing to 56 per cent of their audience.
We're told that Maori children in the past were harshly punished for speaking their first language at school. That of course would have been manifestly unfair, not to say cruel. But is a sense of collective guilt over that unfortunate aspect of our history now being manipulated to racist and separatist ends?
Amy Brooke writing in the Australian Spectator today would seem to think so:
It was a strange spectacle, the recent televised presentation of Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne with Nanaia Mahuta, whose portfolios inexplicably include the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, without her having any apparent qualifications in this role.
However, chosen by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who promised to govern for every New Zealander – but has obviously only remembered the governing part – Mahuta signals with what some regard as a disfiguring facial tattoo that she’s thrown in her lot with identity politics. As was evident in her astonishing attack on ratepayers’ established right to mount referenda to prevent councils endorsing racist policies.
On this occasion, the contrast between the carefully diplomatic address by the pleasantly-spoken Australian, in relation to the important Five Eyes alliance, with NZ now perceived as the weakest member – and the reaction of our own minister – was troubling. Far from looking calm or attentive, Mahuta seemed largely disengaged, her eyes darting here and there, apart from occasional glances towards her Australian counterpart."
Brooke asks Prime Minnister Ardern:
"You are continuing to stir the pot of racist divisiveness within this country, which is called New Zealand - a fact you don't seem to like, why?
This is not Aotearoa, and you have no mandate for promoting extremism..
Are you unaware that an independently commissioned poll found that 90% of New Zealanders rejected Aotearoa to replace - or place alongside - our long-established name New Zealand?
It never even was a Maori name for New Zealand.
... Who gave various government organisations the go-ahead to replace, or prioritise, Aotearoa by stealth on semi-official websites, even on our passports, our banknotes?
What makes you think that you can override the wishes of the majority by promoting a language which is now overwhelmingly not authentic Maori... to replace our far more important national and international language. And that is English, isn't it...
Why should immigrants to this country from India, France, Germany, Hungary, Croatia, the Philippines, Asia, etc, speaking the language of their own people - but for whom proficiency in English is also of paramount importance - be expected to also learn a now largely reinvented language of no relevance to them whatsoever!
Not only is this culturally insensitive - it can also be regarded as cultural bullying.
Possibly about 80% of what is now touted as "Maori" has been simply been reinvented in recent years. And, given that only about 4% of the country speak this overwhelmingly newly-coined language, why are you having it sprinkled throughout government documents - and trying to replace our well-known place names with Maori names?
It has become farcical, isn't it? For example, the Maori for Inland Revenue? Recycling Centre? Accident and Emergency Department? Social welfare? Cycle lanes? As with many thousands of other word and phrases, simply made up...
While every language gradually assimilates new words, for politicised academics to set to inventing thousands of new words, if they are authentic - and foist them on children in schools and make them compulsory learning for teachers and others may well be regarded as fraudulent.
New Zealanders are now feeling bullied by your government's attempts to force the country to prioritise all things supposedly Maori - particularly when there are no longer any full-blooded Maoris in this country.
Not only do many of part-Maori descent also object to this, but it is also sad that those who would have wished to perceive the authentic language of one part of their ancestry will now find it impossible to do s
New Zealanders are also deeply uneasy that you have embarked on a policy of extraordinarily anti-democratic moves - sad that we now have government versus the people - not government by the people. ...
Since Labour ditched Anzus, New Zealand is basically defenceless against any external threat from what this extraordinary Minister of Foreign Affairs envisages, in a recent sycophantic address, as the Chinese Dragon."
She is humiliating herself with her metaphorical nonsense of New Zealand represented in turn by a mythical Maori monster, a ubiquitous Taniwha. Such mumbo-jumbo parallels her tendency to say as little of substance as possible, buried in verbiage, in response to questioning by those querying the divisive directions on which she is fronting up for Ardern.
Like voters worldwide, we are accustomed to incompetence in our politicians, where the Peter Principle sees so many rise to the top, with disastrous consequences. At the very time when we invoke the spirit of the Anzacs, laying down their lives for our countries and the freedoms our governments are now removing, our glib Prime Minister is presiding over attacks on individuals and local institutions in every possible area. This crucially includes the basic right of all individuals to be treated equally, regardless of colour, gender, sex, race and creed.
This is not purely a New Zealand move, of course. Worldwide the far-Left, basically communism in drag, has ramped up its attack on democracies, promoting the anti-democratic policies of centralisation, removing as much control as possible from local organisations and individuals – together with identity politics, disguised as ‘diversity’ – so very useful in creating tension and divisiveness.
Communism’s philosophy of undermining cohesiveness in every possible area is advanced not only by its disciples, but by its ‘useful fools’, and apparently Nanaia Mahuta, directly or indirectly, is a very good fit for our leader’s own ambitions.
For example, not only has Mahuta removed ratepayers’ rights to prevent councils introducing Maori wards, we are now faced with compulsory Maori wards for all local bodies being imposed with voting rights and payment for non-elected Maori on full councils. Backing none of these apartheid-type moves is any legitimate definition of who is actually Maori. Farcically, the very small minority of part-Maori so successful in claiming disadvantage for themselves because of a smidgen of Maori genetic inheritance are overwhelmingly largely European or Eurasian and often from wealthy and privileged backgrounds, although they find it convenient to ignore this.
It has been a massive con trick, long practised on all our major parties. However, Ardern has ramped up the attack on our country by authorising a plan to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples – a proposal never put to New Zealanders when the then Prime Minister John Key, in utmost secrecy, not even allowing the media to know, snuck wily Pita Sharples, the former leader of the Maori Party, to New York, without New Zealanders even being consulted.
Separatism? Against the wishes of 90 per cent of New Zealanders, according to a recent poll, this destructive government is pushing to replace our name with Aotearoa – featured now behind televised government speakers.
The push is on to hand over New Zealand to Maori ownership, or co-ownership, in as many possible areas. For example, all 20 of our Primary Health Organisations are to be replaced by one national authority called Health New Zealand, responsible for running hospitals and commissioning primary and community health services. However, a newly created Maori Health Authority is to have a co-lead role, with a veto over decisions affecting us all, as part of this iron-fisted government’s commitment to separate systems based on race.
Already Maori and Pacific Islanders are prioritised for medical treatment and surgery. As a local doctor remarked, ‘You don’t even have to prove you’re Maori – just to say you are’.
A new census form is designed to increase the number of those identifying as Maori. Government documents are to be in a mixture of Maori and English – already causing confusion among New Zealanders, only 4 per cent of whom actually speak Maori. Road signs are to be bilingual – an immensely costly and unnecessary move – but part of the radicalised aim of achieving Maori co-governance of this country by 2024.
With local governments now to be amalgamated – removing the very concept of local – plans are under way for a new government body to control water supplies and allocation, underpinned by part-Maori activists planning to gain control of New Zealand’s water supplies – claiming ownership of streams, rivers, lakes and coastal areas. So far-reaching are the tentacles of central planning that even home owners using their own rainwater will not necessarily be exempt.
A Maori parliament, Maori court system, plus more treaty-based institutions and public education (indoctrination) programmes to deal with ‘structural racism’, ‘subconscious bias’, etc., are to accompany the return of Crown lands to Maori ownership – in addition to the billions of dollars already given in treaty settlements.
Every possible area of our national life is now being removed from individual and local control. As this predatory government reaches out further and further, all the evidence points to it being held in Jacinda’s hand.
Tom Brown" A Moauri Christmas dinner or turkey or goose?
ReplyDeleteKrauss Miles:
Bye bye New Zealand. Welcome to the next bankrupt banana republic.
Adelie Reid says:
ReplyDeleteWorrying times.... discernment is a gift of the Holy Spirit...or at least of a well examined conscious and critique of a current situation, identity is irrelevant in that...... yet freedom of identity is a fruit of that... do they think Hong Kong'ers have freedom or the muslim population in China... 5 eyes is necessary.... discernment is necessary... otherwise we enter into the madness of one or two leading to the madness of crowds.... Have you read the book https://www.thenile.co.nz/.../the.../9781635579949...
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity - The Nile
THENILE.CO.NZ
Krauss Miles:
That thing above represents me and my adopted country. Obviously of the upper-class.
Chris O'Brien:
Exactly. How do we resist this nonsense?
I say: Chris you're probably familiar with "when injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty" (Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president of USA). We must pray for guidance on your question by the Holy Spirit .
Piripi Thomas:
I can recall a time when Amy (Agnes- Mary) Brooke and Karl du Fresne were columnists for the Dominion (Post). Fearless and truthful. As part of Stalinda's reset, columnists have been replaced by communists, or so it seems. Is revolution the only just response?
I say:
Piripi Thomas it may well be revolution. Please see my reply to Chris O'Brien.
Tom Brown:
Let’s just see who gets their way then.
Will Moyle:
ReplyDeleteAotearoa New Zealand
Im of both pakeha and Maori heritage
I will always call the nation I was born in
Aotearoa New Zealand
Piripi Thomas:
DeleteWill, and that is your prerogative. It's just that not everyone agrees that this should be foisted on the rest of us. The TV networks are slipping in phrases which most of the population (including most Maori, I suspect) do not understand and have little interest in learning. And the small number who do understand will also be fluent in English. If we really wish to make a difference, maybe a greater emphasis on learning our other approved language -- sign language -- would make more sense and be a of greater social benefit. Pax vobis.
Will Moyle:
Piripi, time for Aotearoa New Zealand to grow up and learn
Im of both pakeha and Maori heritage
Im from the generation in the south island that can't speak te Reo because there was zero te Reo in the school curriculum
Im sticking with Aotearoa New Zealand to honour both my Maori and pakeha heritage
Richie Steventon:
FACT
Dale Evans:
Racism
David Cheeseman:
ReplyDeleteYes it's designed to cause division within NZ.
The system of propaganda we have now is based on forceful virtue signalling and woke politics which base themselves on individuals feelings and group think all mixed together!
DeleteI'm retiring to Queensland.
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