Softly softly catchee monkey – the alphabet community’s grab for our children

The link to the Spectator article below contains some highly relevant comments from Christchurch residents overwhelmingly rejecting the proposal for a rainbow crossing to be established in the city.  

https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/04/kiwi-life-23

Their comments make interesting reading.  And as The Spectator allows non-subscribers access to three links before subscriptions are needed, I hope that as many of you as possible will read this article. If not, a subscription to The Spectator, which highlights issues our mainstream media either refuses to acknowledge –  or gets spectacularly wrong – is well worth considering.

The thoughtful and sensible sentiments expressed by those who reject the ongoing activist moves by the LGBT community to gain more and more opportunities to centre-stage themselves in the name of “diversity”,  to persuade councils to finance rainbow pedestrians crossings, to insert themselves into our schools and children’s libraries,  aiming  to propagandize them (why else are they there?)  is a concern to many who are by no means homophobic, but are now too intimidated to speak, out lest they be accused of homophobia.

In other words, many New Zealanders now feel they’re being bullied. When accusations of homophobia get deliberately targeted at an individual or a group- who,  while by no means  condemnatory of actual individuals, are nevertheless perturbed at sexual behaviour they may regard as deviant being praised, as even somehow superior – as with the Gay Pride sloganizing – then the attack on free speech has become a subversive tool.

It’s deplorable that even the police can use extravagant accusations such as “hate speech” for actions which can be described as vandalism, but which some citizens are very possibly going to imitate, given the growing concern  among New Zealanders that they are being compelled to tolerate actions and behaviour which are thoroughly undemocratic. As one correspondent says, “Why should anyone use our public carriageways and public spaces as a billboard to promote their specific interests?” And far from indulging in homophobia, a majority of New Zealanders would certainly identify with, “I don’t care what people are, or nor who they identify with, and neither do I NEED to know if it doesn’t affect me or my life…People can do what they like,  as long as it is within the law,  as far as I’m concerned. Just don’t keep pushing it on me, or seeking attention.”

 In fact there will be quite a few New Zealanders who have friends or acquaintances who for some reason or another have found themselves – or have become  – homosexual – but who are themselves basically private individuals and who strongly disapprove of the demand for special rights by LGBT groups.

 New Zealanders are undoubtedly a tolerant people, but they do not like the feeling that they are now being  virtually bullied by aggressive activists demanding special treatment. Pushing  for the “right” to target children in libraries, and demanding a special right above all other activists group to have rainbow crossings, courtesy of ratepayers, repainted under the banner of  Gay Pride  (what exactly this pride consists of is not defined) goes against the important principles of any democracy .

Granting such special rights to various aggressive sectors of the community – including small groups of activist part-Maori  – apparently as a policy of appeasement- inevitably contributes to social divisiveness and resentment. Allowing LGBT groups to virtually hijack our roads to advertise their cause is not only undemocratic – it is foolish – and the majority of New Zealanders will undoubtedly not be supportive of this grab for attention.

Other power grabs for special treatment by the very small  minority of activist part-Maori –  above all our other ethnic groups – are by no means supported by the majority of all part-Maori – include the replacing of the English names for all our government departments and institutions, with te Reo names. Why? The majority of  the latter were never Maori names at all, but are simply made-up “Maori.  Where in the genuine Maori language were the words for Ministry of Social Welfare, or The Ministry of Housing and Urban development,  or Inland Revenue, or Accident and Emergency Department, .etc?

To claim these are genuine Maori could well be regarded as fundamentally fraudulent, as with much of the supposed Maori language now inflicted upon children and teachers in schools and required of people being interviewed for particular jobs. Not only is it another form of bullying – cultural bullying – but the coalition government pledged to restore the English names to all government departments and institutions, so that New Zealanders could understand what they stood for

There is no excuse for that not having happened by now, and Christopher Bishop’s apparent refusal to restore the English name to Kainga Ora is completely unacceptable. He should resign if he has difficulty respecting the coalition agreement.

 Prime Minister Christopher Luxon seems not to have taken on board the fact that not only is he personally unpopular for good reason, but that National would not now he back in government were it not for New Zealand First, and ACT  – hence his propensity to rebuke the leaders of these two political parties when they are actually right, and he is wrong. Why has a directive not being given to all government departments and institutions to immediately restore the English names so that the country understands their role is more easily able to scrutinize them?

This is not happening, and it is something that Winston should be following up.

And when, with urgency, is the Marine and Coastal Areas Act going to be revoked and is effects reversed?  Meanwhile an apparently activist judiciary  is granting more Maori claimants (whose claims are, shockingly,  financed by the taxpayer (so they lose nothing by advancing them) proprietary rights over our seabeds and coastal areas – which should belong to all New Zealanders ? Luxon is dragging the chain on this one. Nor is he perceived to be wedded to democratic principles, basically endorsing co-governance when it relates to local Maori being authorized to  power-share control over lakes and waterways. He is apparently also oblivious to the fact that the word indigenous cannot possibly apply to Maori, as they themselves emigrated to this country. And what about the overdue dismantling of the Waitangi Tribunal, established  by Labour’s activist Geoffrey Palmer, and formerly described by the late well-respected  media commentator Brian Priestley as “a Star Chamber”,  adding that he had never seen an institution less well-designed to get to the truth of things. Some of its recommendations have been ridiculous,  let  alone thoroughly anti-democratic, and it serves to advance the interests of Maori activist only activists only, not of all New Zealanders.  

Luxon, in fact, is regarded as the weakest link in the coalition government, although that  is apparently not his self-assessment. And unfortunately, given the nature of today’s party political system, National Party MPs who surely must be far more aware of what is happening to this country are remaining tight lipped, controlled by an individual who is acting as if he is still in charge of a large corporation and  apparently imposing his will on his  party. Some New Zealanders would undoubtedly equate this to simple moral cowardice – not fronting up to a leader who is not taking the country in some of the urgent areas that need addressing. These  include repudiating the proven misinformation about the whole supposed climate change emergency – one of the most outrageous scams targeted against the West, but being used as pretext for  increasing taxation and control  of our lives.

While Net Zero is being hastily abandoned overseas because of the damage it causing to countries’ economies, New Zealand’s folly, fanned by the  scientifically illiterate Green Party, has  our intellectually under-powered government endorsing this – as well as the push to  prioritise EVs and phase out petrol-driven vehicles, although the increasingly recognized  disadvantages of these – let alone the horrific fire risk from their batteries  – has them being now being rejected overseas, and their production being cancelled.

Stupid is as stupid does. And there is little doubt that most New Zealanders,  looking at  the disastrous record of Labour and the Greens combined, now feel caught between a rock and a hard place, looking at the lamentable leadership of a National Party with a highly restricted focus on what  needs to be done to try to restore prosperity and democratic practices to this country.

But of course, those who simply complain have only themselves to thank. Writing to and emailing MPs, as well as ringing Parliament, requesting to be put through to the office of the relevant leader or MP to make your views known  (04 817 9999)  are not difficult ways to be involved in what should be a participatory government – by the people, for the people.

 And in the long term, even more valuable, would be the support for the  100 Days – Claiming back New Zealand, so that it  would be we  New Zealanders ourselves who, like the  highly intelligent Swiss, would make the decisions as to which way our country should go,  rather than being afflicted with what is constantly enforced on us, from the top down.

  Amy Brooke

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Unmissable…

Please note:
This is a brilliant, well-informed and highly entertaining analysis of what is actually – and has been –  happening.

 It would be a shame to miss this  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3Tfxiuo-oM&t=273s  – even if you can watch only parts at a time.
It also illustrates why so many are profiting from pushing the CO2 scam – because scam it is.

The shocking ignorance of our Prime Minister and MPs, supported by those scientists who are either ill-qualified, or have a finger in the pie,  is well illustrated  in this fascinating document. (Great dinosaurs!)

The important question is: When will Christopher Luxon and all MPs  bring themselves up to speed?  Their ignorance is costing us all – and the Green party is an embarrassment.

Moreover, even if it were true – which it isn’t  – no measures a country as small as New Zealand could introduce would (and don’t) have the slightest chance of reducing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.

This is well-recognized, so why the arbitrary controls – and increased taxation ?

 Why indeed?

The answer is in this documentary.

India and China building more and more coal-fired power stations must marvel at our government’s actions  – and folly.

A very relevant question is: who are pushing what is indeed a scam – but which our governments have bought into – and which is costing this country dearly?  These well-qualified scientists can answer this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3Tfxiuo-oM&t=273s
The illustrations alone, substantiating these scientists’ conclusions,  are excellent.

Unmissable – and do forward!

Time to walk the walk, Winston.

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 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?“

https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/04/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/

Amy Brooke

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Subversion- and the strange story of the Maori Princess.

Then and now?
https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/02/subversion-within-new-zealand

Why the strange propensity of our governments to pay annual homage to Ratana, and what of Princess Te Puea’s reported attempted bargain with the Japanese in World War  II?  To find out more, check out the link above.

We are all now pretty well aware that the majority of our left-wing mainstream media journalists are pushing their own barrows. Having sold out their integrity by agreeing to the agenda behind the Public Interest Journalist Fund,  they have the new coalition  government in their sights, and are more than sympathetic to the tiny core group of radicalized Maori activists apparently obsessed by one part only of their genetic inheritance.

Although this certainly isn’t the case with all reporters, too many  have long ditched the journalists’ code of honour – i.e facts are sacred – to indulge in warping these, quite openly mischief-making. A striking example is with regard to misrepresenting ACT leader David Seymour’s Treaty Principles Bill – (with its intent to give New Zealanders the chance to at last examine what the supposed “principles” of the Treaty of Waitangi actually are) – as an  attempt to do away with the treaty.

Seymour  proposed nothing of the sort, and given that National’s leader Christopher Luxon (recently obligingly putting in an appearance at the  Big Gay Out festival) is now increasingly seen as weak when standing up to activists’ pressure, and saying National will not support the bill past its first reading, it’s going to be an interesting time ahead.  However, the Prime Minister’s reason for saying this -that ACT’s bill is  divisive, is regarded is feeble. Every piece of legislation can be regarded as divisive when it is promoted by one faction, and opposed by another. His was a silly statement.

Moreover, many think with reason that the Treaty of Waitangi, its intent and provisions now reinvented and distorted, should indeed be consigned to the dustbin of history. Seymour is right in emphasizing that  people have had enough of race-based rights, which was never the intent of the treaty. On the contrary.

Luxon is seen as also being far too dominating in dealing with his own party members, seemingly with a propensity to see himself as ruling over a corporation (as when he was former CEO of Air New Zealand) instead of simply primus inter pares – temporarily leader of a political party composed of individuals of varying degrees of intelligence –  some far more aware, for example, of the whole CO2 climate emergency scam so much costing us all, more than even in economic terms.

What our present Prime Minister also doesn’t seem to realize is that he is not the ruler of this county. The final say on this issue should be up to New Zealanders, and if they obviously wish ACT’s bill to be taken further, then so it should.

Most importantly, both the Prime Minister and the MSM seem to have no idea of the fact that by far the majority of part-Maori, getting  on with their  lives like all other New Zealanders, are utterly fed up with this splinter group of near fanatical extremists who are  by no means averse to twisting actual facts and making false accusations. Both ACT’s leader and Winston Peters, the Deputy Prime Minister and highly intelligent leader of New Zealand First, are themselves part-Maori. Luxon would be better to step back, talk less and listen to them more.

As for the Maori Princess…. Facts are facts. Te Puea, herself  part-European,  a woman  of extraordinary talents,  was  greatly respected during her lifetime  and undoubtedly  worked indefatigably on behalf of her own Tainui people. She was  opposed to  government conscription during the first  World War and dissuaded the Tainui men from volunteering during World War 11. She was known in her youth to be impulsive and exuberant, involved in number of relationships, including one with a European – broken off at an uncle’s  request. Were these a clue to an underlying volatility which may have made her actions as reported above more understandable –  if she thought the country at the time was going in the wrong directions?  But they remain a huge puzzle.

© Amy Brooke

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Cleaning out the Augean Stables – Danyl McLauchlan is quite wrong.

https://newsweekly.com.au/newsweekly/health-education/cleaning-out-the-augean-stables-education-reform

This excellent publication, the Australian News Weekly, well deserves the support of thinking New Zealanders. Check out the link above.

As we all well know, education reform is now a long-overdue and huge issue, and National doesn’t have a hope of  trying to reverse the shocking decline in education standards as long as the control of the curriculum and the overseeing of schools –  of education philosophy and practices – lies in the  hands of our Marxist-infiltrated Ministry of Education.

It’s by no means irrelevant that when I was given the books on education to review for the Christchurch Press in the late 80s and 90s, individuals writing of their plans for education “reform”and quite openly describing themselves as Marxist,  later became prominent within the Ministry of Education and its associated bodies. The word bourgeoisie, referring to conservative New Zealanders, was still in play, and their philosophy was to achieve the dumbing down of education in the name of “equity”. The theory was that as some children found school difficult,  standards should be lowered so that brighter, or even more hard-working, children should not have any advantage.

The new mantra they pushed was, “The teacher is not the sage on the stage, but the guide on the side.” Rather than actually teach, teachers should regard themselves as “facilitators”. Rather, they should mainly send children to the web for anything they wanted to learn. Teachers were also encouraged to dump “projects” on children to research and on which to write – to save actually having to teach,  leaving the children to supposedly fact-find for themselves. As far back as 2002, when I was asked to address a conference of primary school principals, they had been instructed by the ministry that knowledge was out –  skills were in. To acquire an important body of knowledge through systematic, thorough teaching was unnecessary as people could always access information that they needed for any subject they wished to learn.

This great madness has persisted and I recall a survey-finding from University of Canterbury first year students asking what they particularly disliked about their time at school. They said there was too much infotainment and they would like to have actually learned far more systematically.

I recall when later writing as a columnist for the then Dominion newspaper, and for Ian Wishart’s INVESTIGATE  magazine,  being contacted by fine teachers and HODS (Heads of Departments) about what the ministry was inflicting on them. They were  writing in professional journals in an effort to combat these wrong directions. Unfortunately, the real battle lay in the mainstream media, where they found it almost impossible to get published.

It is little wonder that so many New Zealand children do not turn up at school, when so much of what takes place there is so very boring, with the lowering of academic standards. Many now arrive at university without even having read a book in their lives! And National’s plan to have children practise writing for an hour a day will achieve absolutely nothing  – if they have not learned the tools of language, the grammar and syntax which also provide the tools of thinking – as George Orwell so rightly pointed out – emphasising that if people are not taught to think, others will be only too happy to do their  thinking for them. And this is certainly what has happened to education in recent years.

Unfortunately,  too, we no longer have a majority of English teachers who are even competent enough to do this, to teach the language consistently and thoroughly – as with teachers of Maths. Genuine education reform would check that these teachers are able to prove their competence in the subjects they are supposed to be teaching. If not, why are we paying them?

However, like most of today’s politicians, they themselves are the products of a thoroughly dumbed-down education system, where the subject that originally taught me to stop, to think and analyse, Latin –  which I regarded as the most valuable of all I studied –  has now, thanks to Chris Hipkins (whose own mother works within the ministry)  been discarded, as part of that ongoing attempt to ensure that education remains a valuable tool for government propaganda. We see its result in our brainwashed MPs and our young, convinced that CO2 is contributing to catastrophic global warming, and that Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, is responsive for the murderous attack by Hamas Palestinians on the country they want to wipe from the face of the earth. This, in spite of Hamas’s butchering of Israeli citizens in its  surprise attack, and the deaths and tortures released hostages have described taking place at their hands.

To ensure a country gets thoroughly dumbed down, to steer our young towards participation in sport –  without any balanced attempt to ensure they also cultivate their minds –  it is necessary to gain control  of the education system. The Marxist-infiltrated Ministry of Education has done just that, leading around by the nose successive ministers from both major political parties This is the greatest needed reform of all. While it may be the government’s job to ensure that all children get an education, it is not the job of the government to supply one. And what a disadvantage is being inflicted on those poor part-Maori children sent to te Reo immersion schools.

A ministry website giving information about its staff offers little prospect for hope. The six people it features as Senior Leaders all use highly politicised terminology referring inaccurately to Aotearoa, rather than our correct name, New Zealand, and introducing themselves in what passes for today’s largely reinvented Maori language. Maori’s original  approximate 2000 words cannot of course cope with providing translations from English, so most of today’s “Maori” has now been made-up, and is basically inauthentic, of no use whatever outside New Zealand. It displaces far more useful languages and important subjects in our schools.  Standards of literacy are also not likely to be assisted by one leader who apparently is not sufficiently competent to realise that ”between my partner and I” is grammatically quite wrong.

And this is the huge challenge….In a country where today’s parents, let alone their children – and apparently, including the majority of our MPs  –  are far less well-educated than their own parents and grandparents, where are those who men and women with fine intellects, able to tackle the massive task ahead?  We undoubtedly still have at least some excellent  teachers. But what should very much concern us is that those genuinely able to identify what has gone wrong are conspicuous by their absence. Least of all can they be found among our “experts”.

© Amy Brooke

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Why the annual Government pilgrimage to Ratana, who wore Rising Sun badges in World War, waiting to welcome the Japanese?

Please note.

It is simply a  fact, that in World War 2 the Ratana in Hawkes Bay were wearing badges depicting the Rising Sun of Japan with whom their sympathies apparently lay. It was known that they were hoping for an invasion. Aware of this, the government sent up police to confiscate all the guns with which they were armed.

These were kept overnight in a room in the school house at Rangiahua until they could be taken away.

The Ratana’s then affinity for the  Japanese is (inevitably) whitewashed on a Maori website as “Pakeha Paranoia”,  but it was nothing of the sort. I recall an elderly relative, son of the school teachers at the local school at the time, telling how thrilled he was to have these guns temporarily stored in what was then his bedroom (!)

Fact.

But in any case, why are governments annually making pilgrimages to this particular group of Maori?

Why are particular groups of  part-Maori individuals such as specific iwi constantly being accorded special consultation rights and access to government members?

It is more than time this stopped, particularly given that the Maori party,whom most part-Maori certainly do not support, and for whom quite obviously they did not vote, apparently don’t support the election results, thinking they should be in control of the directions in which the country is being taken.

Christoper Luxon, Chris Bishop,  and Maori Development Minister Tame Potaka in particular are perceived, rightly or wrongly, as now failing to represent the will of the majority of the country, who voted for an end to all these racist provisions for part-Maori only.

Why on earth do we have a Minister of Maori development?

 The Maori economy, after almost two centuries of assistance from  all taxpayers, is now worth about $70 billion – yes, billion dollars. Most part-Maori are engaged in making their  way, like all other  New Zealanders, many  highly paid and very prosperous – as with those complaining most loudly about disadvantage…

Moreover, iwi who are presently  paying no tax, but profit hugely from being engaged in property development, etc, should be taxed like all  other New Zealanders. The only charitable organisations they represent are themselves.  This has gone on for years, and it’s time it stopped.

For any underclass who are not achieving so well, help needs to be targeted to those in need – not on racial grounds –  together with inducements to stop relying on welfare handouts, to take personal responsibility for themselves and their children,  and to get out and earn a living.

Christopher Luxon’s underling, Nicola Willis, is quite wrong.

In spite of one judge’s clumsy wording, nowhere in the Treaty of Waitangi is there any mention of a partnership, or anything like it,  between the disparate, scattered and warring Mari tribal groups and the Crown.

She should get her facts right. The intent obviously was that we should go forward as one people, with equal democratic rights.

Nor should Luxon be disparaging ACT’s efforts to hold a referendum to clarify what the treaty obviously meant at the time, not what it has been conveniently reinvented to say.

It is time for this National coalition  to start representing most New Zealanders, not kowtowing to those radicalized Maori implying violence if their  essentially bullying demands are not given preference over  what the majority of New Zealanders have voted for- equal rights for all – European, Maori, Indian, Pacific Islanders – all those – whatever their ethnic background, living not in Aotearoa, but in New Zealand.

Time for National in particular to turn its back on tribal politics. At present  it is letting New Zealanders down.

Nor is the left-wing media helping, by acting as a willing mouthpiece for those  intent on undermining our democracy- or what was our democracy- and  continually producing inflammatory headlines.  Time to protest here, too.

  Amy Brooke

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War against New Zealanders?

We should make no mistake: it’s gloves off for our left-wing media, our bureaucracy and the fringe groups of part-Maori radicals.

https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/01/war-against-new-zealanders

Far from conducting themselves fittingly as citizens in a democracy, very  possibly disagreeing with, but acknowledging that the majority have spoken and made their wishes plain, what have become the fifth columnists of the mainstream media, well- paid to toe the line under the previous Labour government, are making no secret of the fact that they are intent on kneecapping the coalition of the three parties that New Zealanders voted into power.

Apart from the sheer nonsense of complaining about “the tyranny of the majority” (it’s called democracy….i e. what most people want…)  they would like to see this replaced by what would be a real tyranny – that of a minority intent on getting their own way, regardless of what most people want – or of the optimum way forward for this country. A path back to a peaceful Eden of Maori tribes happily living side by side, eschewing constant internecine warfare, slavery and cannibalism, is seemingly the pipe-dream of today’s minority-only of radicalized part-Maori sporting anachronistic facial tattooes, off-putting to so many in what until fairly recent years we would have regarded as a civilization.

Moreover,  sheer hypocrisy is involved in this grouping of extremist activists  (often by far predominantly genetically European – even to the extent of being, like the wily Tipene O’Regan, apparently only 1/16 Maori – or even, as with others, with merely 1/32nd  Maori genetic inheritance)  finding it convenient to act as if their European heritage does not exist. Apparently, it’s fine to disrespect one’s ancestors on one side of the family tree – insulting these forebears, and essentially the majority of New Zealanders, if it is far more lucrative to posture as victimized, and continually claim more funding from taxpayers on the grounds of racial disadvantage.

In fact when the constant mantra of Maori disadvantage is chanted, it’s past time to point out that most-part Maori, as with all other New Zealanders, have their heads down, working to provide for themselves and their families. Where there is obviously an underclass, this fact can often be sheeted home to a lack of personal responsibility,  no work ethic, and less than adequate parenting –  all disadvantages by no means felt only by some part-Maori. And New Zealanders have long made it  plain that they want genuine need to be addressed, where exists – but not on racist grounds

Shame then on National’s Dr Shane Reti, one of the National Party’s more respected members, deciding to award $30 million  to Whanau Ora. To whom? Most New Zealanders haven’t a clue what this phrase means,  and  isn’t it time that what was proposed pre-election  (thanks to Winston listening to New Zealanders) actually happened, in the interests of transparency and accountability? So far only the NZTA is doing what New Zealanders have asked for – restoring the original English names to all our institutions so we can see what they stand for and scrutinize their activities – paid for by us all.

Apparently, the media have also not got the message, with our Television news teams and front-persons, including weather forecasters, gabbling away about Aotearoa, together with the puerile virtue-signalling of gabbled, incomprehensible, supposedly Maori greetings. The Met Service persists in thinking the country is called Aotearoa – as do  too many other services that still haven’t got the message.

The fact is that a radicalized attempt to take over this country is causing us all enormous damage, sowing division and partisanship, when the healthy way for any country to prosper is to promote inclusivity, as Captain Hobson advocated in his “We are one people ,” which is what most New Zealanders want – not today’s push to  tribalism and identity politics.

One of the most time-wasting directions into which New Zealanders are being pressured is to embrace te Reo  which is almost a complete waste of time. It is now overwhelmingly completely inauthentic Maori, the original language, of necessity, environmentally restricted,  apparently containing about 1900 words – i.e. less than 2000, recorded by the missionaries. As English has approximately  170,000 words in common usage, what those pushing te  Reo have done is make up supposed Maori words for the difference between the 2000 and these 170000 words.  Hence we get the supposed Maori for Inland Revenue, Accident  and Emergency Department, Public Library Lending Rights, Business Class tickets to Dubai – and on it goes. But it is not Maori. 

To determinedly supply claimed “Maori “words for the English words in common usage, means that 98.88% of words in today’s te Reo are not authentic at all  – they’ve simply been made up.

Although all languages borrow from others,  to simply reinvent supposed Maori words to the tune of 150,000 produces what is obviously a largely inauthentic,  i.e  a fake language, bearing minimal resemblance to its ancestor. And given that this is not, with good reason, spoken anywhere else in the world, it can be well  maintained to be a complete waste of time to be compelling teachers, school children and others to learn it, regardless of Christopher Luxon’s enthusiasm, when there are so many more really important subjects our now vastly under-educated children should be learning in school.

Details of  how our self-serving bureaucracy has been white-anting the interests of our democracy, are in the Spectator link above – a magazine well worth support by New Zealanders. And for the attack on the wishes of the majority by the left-wing media, it’s hard go past commentator John Campbell’s  complaining abut the “kind of resentment populism ACT and New Zealand First  are increasingly experimenting with”.

 No, they’re not, John. Moreover, “populism” is the  accusation the Left love to throw around when they dislike the fact that so-called ordinary people have spoken – making their wishes known.

But of course we can’t have this, when our self-important media celebrities think otherwise. Hence Campbell’s apparent resentment of the fact that most New Zealanders, disliking the radicalized hijacking of the long-understood English names for all our government departments and institutions, don’t want to come across utterly unintelligible,  fabricated “Maori “ names providing neither transparency nor intelligibility. They are essentially a power push by radicalized part-Maori supremacists, intent on getting their own way, and always only too available for the media spotlight.

Campbell, however, inveighing against this, claims that this now inauthentic  substitute for genuine Maori  “is a unique and precious language, grown here, spoken only here. It’s completely and utterly ours.” It certainly is. And it’s certainly unique. It’s also certainly an almost complete waste of time learning it, when there are far more important things to do. But then, Campbell regards this as the “new colonialism,”

Somebody should tell him to stop insulting New Zealanders.

©  Amy Brooke

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Poor leadership is costing our county dearly

If there is one thing that history teaches us, it is that it is the ambitious men and women who want to strut the centre-stage and to dominate their colleagues who have caused the most damage to any society. It’s called leadership, but its downsides are too often immensely destructive. https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/11/kiwi-life-21/

And New Zealand certainly has not been immune from the damage caused by recent leaders, such as Jacinda Ardern, John Key and Helen Clark, for example,  dominating their colleagues to ensure the passing of legislation which has arguably caused great damage to this country. Given that this is the case, the harmful practice of expecting otherwise intelligent MPs to toe the party line, as the newbie, but dominating – if intellectually under-powered  – National Party leader Christopher Luxon  has already shown a tendency to do, is well overdue for reform. Arguably, it is high time that our party leaders climbed down from their pinnacles and took a more modest approach to the job of party leader, acting as the chairman, rather than virtual ruler of a party in parliament.

It will have struck many how ominous it is that Nanaia Mahuta is now aggrievedly admitting that she carried the racist and immensely unpopular Three Waters “reform” proposals alone, unsupported  by other senior ministers, except of course her leader, Jacinda Ardern, whose promotion of racial divisiveness launched this country into new antidemocratic directions – even to the extent of seeing government departments and institutions renamed in largely unintelligible, often completely inauthentic “Maori”. For example what was the authentic Maori for Inland Revenue Department, St John’s Ambulance, Citizens Advice Bureau, etc. ? –All are  newly coined, fake Maori  – far being from a genuine part of the Maori language – as with the many  other hundreds, in fact more accurately thousands of supposed Maori words and phrases which have simply been invented!

That Mahuta was not supported by her colleagues – none of whom had the moral courage to speak out to oppose what she was doing –  reflects very poorly on them. Once again, a leader with her own agenda dominated the day – costing us enormously both economically and socially.

Christopher Luxon is now, as Prime minister, heading a triumvirate of party leaders whose bargaining points to allow a new government to be formed have considerably improved what was previously a pretty inadequate National Party assessment of what needs to be done to claim back our democracy.

If there is one thing that history teaches us, it is that it is the ambitious men and women who want to strut the centre-stage and to dominate their colleagues who have caused the most damage to any society. And New Zealand certainly has not been immune from the damage caused by recent leaders such as Jacinda Ardern, John Key and Helen Clark dominating their colleagues. Against this we do recognise “Cometh the hour, cometh the man” – saluting the individual who stands against the powerful – historically viewed as rising with courage, often at personal cost. There are leaders, and there are those who, when needed, stand to oppose them.

And to achieve genuine political reform, as stated in the Spectator link above, what the Roman Republic and Switzerland today can teach us is that individuals should not be permitted to dig in for several years as the party leaders, but rather, make a year-only contribution – then step down for colleagues to take turns, thus avoiding become entrenched in a dominating position.

Both ACT and New Zealand First have made excellent contributions to the thinking about the directions we need to go, ones that National would not have undertaken.  So disastrous has been Labour’s mismanagement of the economy that this coalition is going to find it very difficult to put the bolting horse back into the stable.

 ACT intends to follow through on tackling the damage caused by the promotion of Maori supremacy by challenging the reinvention of the intent of the Treaty of Waitangi – which has by no means been supported by the majority of part-Maori.

 However, equally important has been New Zealand First’s intent to ensure that once more New Zealanders will be able to  comprehend what government departments and institutions actually stand for – largely incomprehensible when renamed in te reo.  And although this is our country,  when were New Zealanders ever consulted about our passports, drivers’ licences, banknotes, etc.  having the spurious Aotearoa added to them?

It is time indeed to claim back this country- and to actively boycott media and businesses that foist off Aotearoa on us, and prioritise gabbling  unintelligible greetings at us. It will not be done by silence, and compliance…

It will not be a short battle – the usual suspects will be up to their usual tricks. And perhaps too many individual New Zealanders need to be reminded that if they don’t help here, then they themselves are part of the problem.

Amy Brooke

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Shame on James Shaw and other politicians – plus what is the Electoral Commission up to?

Will this election help to claim back New Zealand?
https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/10/kiwi-life-19/
An emerging trend which should cause us concern is the refusal of defeated parties to accept the verdict of the majority, but to keep pushing back, inveighing  against the so-called  “tyranny of the majority”.  Apparently far from accepting that their views or causes are anathema to the majority, they would rather, as losers, apparently see the the tyranny of the minority imposed instead.

This is pretty well what has been happening since Jacinda Ardern’s Labour Party first came into power and started imposing racist policies on the country, sowing divisiveness and dissent by prioritizing the interests of a small minority of influential, well-placed part-Maori dissidents over the interests of all others.

Much of this was helped by former Prime Minister John Key’s underhand signing of the country up to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples – although he should have well known that we have no indigenous Maoris in this country. Talking to our earlier historians, such as James Cowan, the ancestors of today’s Maoris were quite open in their references to those whom they knew well had come before them.

It is simply not possible to claim Maoris were indigenous to this country when all of today’s part-only Maori are descended from tribes which proudly boasted about the names of the canoes which brought them here.

They were immigrants as much as all of our colonial ancestors, from whom most of today’s part-Maori are also descended – if not from Chinese or other ancestry. But apparently lacking any respect for this fact, they have found it more lucrative – this strident minority only – to keep claiming “our people” are disadvantaged – whereas in fact the majority of part-Maori are in the same boat as everybody else, by no means disadvantaged or prospering less because of a partial genetic inheritance. 

An underclass of part-Maori under-achievers highlighted in prison statistics, for example,  are not disadvantaged because of race. Other factors come into play here such as cultural attitudes, lack of family support and stability, and the deliberate promotion of a grievance industry among the young by highly politicized leaders looking for recruits and, ridiculously,  blaming colonialism for poor thinking and a lack of personal responsibility. Factor in a long-standing reliance on social welfare handouts with an attitude of entitlement – by no means lacking among other New Zealanders who may also have an aversion to work with similar results.

The meagre support for the Te Pati Maori party, sitting at about 2.6% of the vote, before any special votes are factored in, has put paid to any claim it speaks for part-Maori throughout the country. In fact those of Maori descent are found in all of the major parties. Despite an opportunistic claim by John Tamihere that part-Maori have special  interests above all other New Zealanders, this is not and should not be the case.

 The only way forward for this country is a peaceful one, not that promoted by Ardern’s and her successor’s government, with an ideological commitment to ignoring democratic principles by granting superior rights and special, never-ending funding to those opportunists whose hands are permanent held out,  causing resentment also among other Maoris to whom the trickle-down effect does not seem to apply. It is largely the wealthy iwi who wield undue influence over decision-making, particularly because of their tax-payer raided payouts.

And now we are encountering a relatively new phenomenon as a result of ACT party leader David Seymour calling for a referendum on the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi, which contains in fact no principles, and certainly did not claim an utterly impossible partnership between Queen Victoria’s government and scores of leaders of scattered, cannibalistic tribes. In essence, in return for the tribal leaders ceding authority to the Crown, Maori and non-Maori were guaranteed equality under the law and the right to their material possessions. To many Maoris this came as  a great relief, largely  putting an end to  incessant tribal warfare.

Many would now argue it is high time for the Treaty of Waitangi, like so many other treaties, to be relegated to the dustbins of history. It has been reinvented in its provisions, elasticised and falsified to gain advantage for extremists who do not believe in democracy,  and who believe they are somehow special above all other New Zealanders.  Jacinda Ardern’s government, far from promoting social cohesion, encouraged this. But why, given she must have well known it was leading to the destabilising of our society, an aim particularly dear to Marxists?

Inevitably this  has caused enormous divisiveness especially with Chris Finlayson’s and John Key’s folly in opening up of the foreshore and seabed right around our country to the possibility of it being claimed by Maori interests, aided by judicial activism. Politician of both major parties have done New Zealanders no favour with their constant kowtowing to pressure from such minority groups, rather than safeguarding the rights of all.

What now may well be perceived as an implied threat comes from Green Party leader James Shaw, stating that ACT’s  proposed referendum “could lead to violence”…that “there could be violence and social disruption.” On what does he base this scaremongering? Without evidence, such a claim  may well be interpreted by some as simply mischief-making.

 While gang-related violence has increasingly taken a hold on this once far more stable country – with judges now required to take so many supposedly mitigating facts into account when sentencing those committing violent crimes – it is hoped that National’s proposed war on gangs and requiring criminals to face up to personal responsibility and serve an appropriate term of imprisonment – rather than be soft-soaped into home-detention – will help redress these iniquities.

The Electoral Commission, too, has questions to answer. It has come as very unwelcome news to many individuals that when they deliberately cast their vote for a minor party such as New Conservatives whose policies they supported, but which did not gain an electoral seat, nor cross the 5% threshold to gain parliamentary representation, their votes were not simply discarded, as apparently used to be the practice. Inexplicably, their votes were taken instead and proportionately bestowed on the very parties for whom they quite certainly dd not wish to vote!

Since when did this change come about?  And why was the Electoral Commission making a political statement by substituting Aotearoa for New Zealand, in its tediously cartoonised television advertisements?  New Zealanders have already overwhelmingly rejected the use of Aotearoa, so comprehensively promoted by Labour.  It was as inappropriate for the Electoral Commission to foist it upon the public as have so-many other government departments obeying the edicts of the ideologues employed now as civil servants, advising and pressuring the government, rather than providing objective and neutral advice,

Time indeed to claim back our democracy…

©  Amy Brooke

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Why don’t you tell the truth Chris Hipkins?

Why don’t you tell the truth Chris Hipkins?

Firstly, it was not Europeans, but a delegation of Maori elders who descended on Parliament and petitioned for Maori not to be allowed to be spoken in schools. They wanted their children to be able to speak English with the same proficiency as English speakers. Fact.

Secondly, it is utterly untruthful of you to claim that special provisions and funding have not been made to Maori – now, of course, all only part-Maori – over the years. Literally billions of dollars have been spent advantaging only those of Maori descent – giving them preferential places at Medical School and other university departments. Don’t fib.

Thirdly, stop  implying that all part-Maori are advantaged. How insulting. The majority are in the same boat as all other New Zealanders. It is a very small minority only of part-Maori who are an underclass.  Stop implying the whole part-Maori population are.

By all means target help to those who are – on the basis of need,not race. It is your policy that is racist.

But why should we be naïve enough to expect the truth from a Labour politician fudging so much else, as well?

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