by Amy Brooke
In spite of the resolution of the new coalition to grasp the nettle, and to get on with the job of trying to ameliorate the appalling damage to this country by Jacinda Ardern’s far-left government, there is real concern that things have become so bad it will take a generation, if that, to attempt to reverse the damage, outlined in this Spectator article, “Is New Zealand past the point of no return?“
It’s interesting to speculate why, completely ignoring expert advice she was given, and without consulting the country, or even letting parliament know (which is utterly unforgivable — echoing John Key also causing considerable damage by sneaking Pita Sharples off to the anti-the West UN to sign The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples) Jacinda Ardern personally committed this country to pay $30 billion, yes $30 billion dollars to the nonsensical Paris agreement on Climate change – pushing the CO2 global warming scam. And unfortunately, Christopher Luxon, also equally culpably ignorant of the fact that climate change is not being pushed by CO2, also seems to have no idea what the word indigenous means. It certainly can’t be applied to people immigrating here and actually being able to name the canoes in which they arrived. Typically, Luxon rebuked Winston Peters, who correctly said that Maoris were not indigenous.
Of the three coalition leaders of this present government, Luxon is the weakest, ambivalent about co-governance as he favours allowing this to happen by giving certain Maori groups the right to power-share the governance of rivers and lakes etc – a practice completely unacceptable in a democracy and without any genuine justification whatsoever. Luxon has also boasted about learning and promoting te reo — an almost complete waste of time. Not only does it have no validity outside New Zealand, but it is basically fake Maori, an almost completely reinvented language, with attempts made to produce supposed “Maori” words to parallel the 170,000 words in the English language in common usage. However, the original Maori is now basically a dead language with only approximately 1900 words – less than 2000 — recorded in usage at the time of the missionaries. Te reo is basically merely a power tool being imposed on the country as part of the Maori supremacy movement, diverting millions of dollars from areas which urgently need addressing such as health, and increasing Pharmac’s funding — with lucrative payments continually given to those beavering away, continually inventing new “Maori”.
That the Prime Minister is so opposed to ACT leader David Seymour’s intent to at last clarify the actual meaning of the Treaty of Waitangi, rather than accepting its reinvented “principles”, is also a bad sign. This is not a totalitarian state, and New Zealanders who want to support Seymour need to tell the present Prime Minister to step back, and to rid himself of the notion that he is the CEO of New Zealand. His National party members need to do the same, instead of virtually touching their forelocks.
However, this is where Winston Peters has been dilatory. One of New Zealand First’s promises before the election was to restore the English names to all government departments and institutions. Removing these and substituting inauthentic ‘Maori’ (what is the genuine Maori for Department of Internal affairs… or Inland Revenue, and all of the other absurd inventions substituted for their proper names?) All credit to Simeon Brown who immediately instructed Waka Kotahi to revert to its correct name, The NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) but who also needs to keep an eye on the various media and other outlets ignoring his instructions.
But what about all the other government departments and institutions which Winston undertook would be reverting to their correct, original names? It’s high time this happened. Although when various polling agencies ask New Zealanders which issues are of most concern – for example the cost of living – it’s highly doubtful that they are polling them on this particular issue. And yet it is one of the most important, in fact crucial issues, if this country is to be claimed back as a democracy.
Winston has talked the talk, but he has not walked the walk on this issue. And ringing New Zealand First’s office in parliament elicits the highly unsatisfactory response that it will happen eventually. Eventually is not good enough. Why the prevarication? There is absolutely no reason why all the ministers cannot contact their departments and issue instructions for them to now make sure that they are identified by their English names. Winston was right originally in claiming that this would help transparency and better enable New Zealanders to understand what was being done, and where. But he has not followed it up.
However, this is one of the most important moves of all to show that the destructive Ardern government’s push towards promoting special Maori-only rights, including disallowing ratepayers to vote against the establishing of racist Maori wards, is now coming to an end. In fact, special rights for any particular group in society such as the LGBT etc. community should not be permitted. No wonder so many who are by no means homophobic, and basically sympathetic to the predicament so many confused people have found themselves in, are objecting to the painting of rainbow crossings to advance the interests of this particular group only — and to serve as a useful propaganda tool.
To deface these crossings by painting white paint over them is undoubtedly an act of vandalism.
But it is little wonder so many of the public object to them, and for the police to call it “hate speech”, with no speech involved, no evidence whatsoever to substantiate this claim, is astonishing. It is reminiscent of a former police commissioner ordering a police car to be painted in rainbow colours, and and encouraging police to wear pink shirts at a former LGTB occasion — which scandalized many who expect police neutrality with regard to politicize causes — especially when they have by no means been quick off the mark protecting the public at large from extremist groups.
It is high time for this government and all its agencies to discontinue this practice of kowtowing to the most vociferous and aggressive minority groups. Undoubtedly, New Zealanders of every ethnic group, including part-Maori, are fed up with minority extremists — and with the minimally supported Maori party claiming to speak for them – when they do nothing of the sort.
Why has pandering to disaffected minority groups now become the norm, not only here, but throughout the West? And we should make no mistake. All the supposed “hate speech” legislation is fundamentally designed by the far Left to intimidate the majority who are concerned about the undue influence of woke ideology replacing our democratic traditions.
Claiming back this country from extremist groups will not happen without the so-called silent majority realizing that their lack of any action — apart from persistent grumbling — is one of the reasons why things have got so bad. Whether or not this country is now able to be claimed back — or whether we have gone past the point of no return — is something about which we are going to have to think very seriously.
Doing nothing will absolutely guarantee that we have lost the New Zealand those before us fought to protect.
Politely approaching MPs to make your views known by e-mail or by ringing parliament directly – 04 817 9999 and asking to be put through to the office of whatever MP or leader by whom you want your thinking to be taken into account — is a good start. Every individual counts — and if an increasing number do this, it will count even more.
All it takes is a little effort, and courage to help fight back to reclaim this country/
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