Tour of Oppression: Waitangi Day procession in Wellington

hi

What does it mean to "acknowledge the on-going colonisation of Aotearoa New Zealand"?

What imperatives or demands flow from that political position?

Don Franks

Two valid points to ponder:

1) Maori is not oppressed now is it? Fisheries, Forestry, Land deals, Water deals, MTV, Special previlege Funding, Speical seats, Language and Kohanga Reo special funding, and so on.

2) It is special previlege when Maori rights are treated not the same as any other like Asians, Europeans, Pacific Islanders, or other. These other human New Zealanders' rights are deprived and given way to Maori special right.

So when Mr. Iti makes a stand for Human Rights, either universal relations extended to other humans, or specifically Maori rights thus removing Human Rights and replace it with Maori Only Rithts.

That makes the foundation of this country a racist constitution, discriminating against others on the basis of race. Oh yes, Maori too came into this land by canoe.

If Mr. Key should become a great Prime Minister, he should address this abnormality. Helen Clark hasn't got the guts to do anything about it, no wonder she stayed away...

Kia Ora

Hapu leader to Harawira: ‘Stay away from Waitangi'; Press Release: David Rankin, Thursday, 1 February 2007, 9:58
Hapu leader tell Harawiras: ‘Stay away from Waitangi’
In a shock announcement just before Waitangi Day, the leader of the Matarahurahu hapu, David Rankin, has insisted that Hone Harawira, and his mother Titewhai, stay away from Waitangi Day commemorations at Waitangi this year.
‘These people have disgraced the marae, disgraced Waitangi Day, and disgraced New Zealand’, says Mr. Rankin, who is senior to the Harawiras in the hapu. ‘If they are unable to behave themselves, then they are not welcome at Waitangi’, suggests Mr. Rankin, whose ancestor, Hone Heke, was the first chief to sign the Treaty.
Hone Harawira has come in for particular criticism from his hapu leader. ‘Hone needs to understand’, says Mr. Rankin, ‘that he cannot trample on the tikanga of our hapu for petty political gain. If he wants attention, he can get it elsewhere. We are tired of the protests, tired of people being reduced to tears, and tired of how our annual celebrations have been hijacked in this way’.
Asked what will happen if Hone or Titewhai Harawira do turn up at the commemorations this year, Mr. Rankin replied that his electorate will judge him accordingly.

Your dodging the point you don,t want to answer to the government and live under the laws of the land yet you still expect to collect all the benefits and use the health,education system.

You are living in a dream world and you can forget getting all the land back this is a multi culteral country now and Maori are no better an anyone else.

As someone said, it's a great country - if you know your place.
Watch for more racist kiwi bigots to come out of the woodwork as the economy and oil supply crashes.

People are racist because they don,t bow down to a bunch of fat lazy Maori who are nothing but a disgrace to this country sitting round on there fat arses drinking all day when there not murdering there kids.

I'm pissed off that I havn't got a serious answer to my serious question from any of the promoters of the 'Tour of Oppression'.

What does it mean to 'acknowledge the ongoing colonisation of Aotearo New Zealand' and what are the practical implications of that?

If there's no discussion between the various vacuities of :
"Awesome stuff" and "fat lazy maori" not much understanding can come about can it?

Don Franks

This is why Pakeha need to get behind Maori battles for rights. To me, any secured rights for Maori, are secured rights for all New Zealanders.

But we have bought into the myth that Maori rights means a diminishing of rights to non-Maori New Zealanders. That myth comes from another myth that non-Maori New Zealanders have ownership and access rights period. We don't. Any so called assets in this country are either in the hands of international capital, or held with the Crown pending a scrap with Maori to get them back.

We saw that with the Seabed and Foreshore legislation where some Pakeha groups that didn't get involved at the time of the Hikoi, found themselves one of the first victims of the legislation in the way of iron sands mining and the potential of gas exploration in the 12 mile limit area.

Maori lost the battle for their rights to the fish resulting in a compensation styled blood money payout for a percentage stake is a failing business venture. Now non-commercial fishing is feeling the loss (and so are of course, the fish).

The biggest one is the right to self-determination which is at the very least the basis of the Treaty irregardless of which version you believe is the legal one. This right was taken through the process of colonisation, and because colonisation is current and tenacious in maintaining the states perception of its own power, those rights will never be allowed to be regained.

Water is the last of the big ones. Right now the Crown assumes it has the right to sell water off to countries that need fresh water, China is one of our biggest consumers and to charge people for its use. It believes it can restrict access to water, force you to use town supply, ban you from collecting water in a rain catchment reservoir and sell water to you at X amount of dollars per litre.

No doubt a case will enter the courts at some stage where an Iwi will stake its claim to the ownership rights of water and the State will be forced to intervene again with special legislation removing Maori rights to water.

good work crew, real choice az to see :)

spamers arr crap.

d.