The Government has re-jigged Three Waters and added more complexity, but the essential parts of the reforms remain racist and undemocratic. You’d think they’d pull back, but, no: they are ramming it through in the remaining months before the election.
Heather du Plessis-Allan comments:
Credit to Kieran McAnulty for being honest.
For the first time in the history of Three Waters, the responsible minister just told the truth. No spin. No semantics. Just yes and no.
Do non-Maori get the same level of say as Maori in the Three Waters set-up?
“No, they don’t.”
Does he realise that’s not strictly a one-person, one-vote model?
“Yes.”
It was refreshing. And then it was alarming. Because it was a Cabinet minister admitting that he was introducing a reform that he knew was undemocratic. In a democracy.
And then it was even more alarming because he couldn’t explain why. At least, not in a way that stood up to scrutiny.
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They can’t explain because they have subscribed to a lie: that the Treaty of Waitangi gave co-governance to Maori. It’s a lie because we are supposed to believe that the greatest empire on the face of the Earth in 1840, where more than half of the Earth was coloured pink on maps, the same empire that had driven Napoleon Bonaparte out of Spain and Portugal and defeated him at Waterloo and had the mightiest navy in the world, was now treating Maori as equals; writing a treaty that shared governance of New Zealand with a disparate bunch of tribes who were more at war with each other, couldn’t even boil water and were Stone Age in every respect before Europeans arrived here.
It is a lie and a fantasy, yet it has taken hold and anyone who dares question the lie is routinely called a racist, when the racism is largely from entitled iwi elites towards anyone (which ironically includes them) with European heritage.
He said Maori special rights in water have been tested in courts and found to be New Zealand law, except they haven’t. He talked about the ownership of water when Three Waters is about the ownership of pipes.
He suggested it was okay to tinker with democracy because lots of stuff we do in NZ “wouldn’t stand up to a purely academic democratic framework”. Except one person, one vote is not really an annoying academic technicality in democracy. It’s the whole point of democracy.
Then he rolled out the example of the Maori seats to prove that we don’t always do one person, one vote. Except, great care is taken in calculating the Maori seats so that no one person’s vote is worth more than another’s.
This isn’t how things were supposed to play out. McAnulty was supposed to make the Three Waters problem go away for Labour. Not open new lines of attack.
Luckily for him though, he seems to be getting away. There’s been hardly anything more than a few squeaks of outrage.
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The truth dies alone in the face of unchallenged lies. This Government lies like a flat fish and yet the Opposition silently does nothing for fear of being called racist.
When one of their MPs correctly points out the co-governance lies, then his leader, like the spineless jellyfish he is, shouts down the MP.
Mooney’s view did not have the backing of National Party leader Christopher Luxon.
“I have confidence in Joseph Mooney as a hard-working spokesperson,” Luxon said.
“However, I don’t think it is helpful to start a debate on constitutional arrangements on Twitter and I don’t think he’s got it right on this occasion,” Luxon said.
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Never mind that Joseph Mooney was quoting directly from the Waitangi Tribunal website: his leader silenced him and said that he was wrong, despite it being the position of the Waitangi Tribunal. Were they wrong too? Or is it just the incredibly woke Christopher Luxon trying to out-woke Labour?
Heather du Plessis-Allan has the answer for why Luxon has shown himself to be a political cuck.
A generous explanation is that critics have been caught off guard. They weren’t expecting this level of honesty. So they didn’t know what to say next. They hadn’t prepared their argument. They couldn’t tell voters why they should care.
A less generous explanation is that they’re afraid of the eternal threat of being labelled racists.
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And that is where we have landed, with this the most divisive NZ Government ever – a point where critics are labelled racist and shouted down by academics, politicians and the media themselves as they all compete with each to see who is more virtuous, and more brazen in perpetrating the lie that the Treaty of Waitangi conferred co-governance.
He seems to have conflated property rights and political rights.
Property rights might be a legitimate reason for co-governance. For example, if mana whenua can prove their ownership of a river, then fair enough to give them a say over the river. Co-governance is a simple way of settling the ownership claim.
But political rights are not a legitimate reason for co-governance. Mana whenua can’t prove their ownership of water pipes because they don’t own them. So, giving them co-governance can’t be because of property rights. It must be because of special political rights. This means they get more of a say than everyone else because they’re more special.
Voters should also care because it’s not just water pipes. It doesn’t stop there. The same argument’s been used to justify the co-governance of the health system. And giving two unelected seats to mana whenua on ECan. And the government proposal to do the same on every council across the country. This is a principle, not a one-off.
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Heather doesn’t say it, but what we are witnessing is a bloodless coup, where democracy is being subverted in favour of division based on race and tribalism and all the evil that begets which, ironically, the Treaty of Waitangi was supposed to end, not spawn.
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