The National Party, in NZ, is the gubbermint because it has two coalition parties that back have promised to back it up. These two parties are the Maori party which was founded to promote Maori interests and the ACT party which was founded to promote
Now the Maori and Act parties do not get on, generally. Arseholery is no respecter of race though, and they have a few areas they can agree on. BUT now the National party has sent the co-leader of the Maori party to the UN to affirm the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Yikes! we'll all be murdered in our beds and our land stolen of us which is so unfair since we stole it first and that was ages ago and it wasn't me anyway.
This has outraged the other government supporter and their Leader Rodney Hide slashed at the government about "two laws etc" blah blah blah. This has been countered by the National Party leader and Pita Sharples (who went to the UN, and used to have a unique station in NZ politics of not provoking a gag reflex when seen on TV)) saying such things as it is aspirational not legally binding i.e. "We had our fingers crossed behind our backs so it doesn't count"
Frankly this excuse seemed to me to be hornswoggling of the highest order UNTIL I read the speech that Sharples gave in The Vancouver Sun and who could argue with a newspaper from that neck o' the woods, indeed.
But in offering the support, he said, his country reaffirmed its legal and constitutional frameworks. These, he said, "define the bounds of New Zealand's engagement with the aspirational elements of the declaration."So that much appears to be true. There are some interesting aspects to the affair
1) Why was no one told that Sharples was going to the UN except for Maori TV channel?
2) Why are Hide and the media overlooking what Sharples actually said.
3) How's this for reporting only the facts, ma'am
NZ Herald.:Nats give in to Maori over rights declaration
4) What does National want in return?
5) Rodney Hide is a dork
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Vanocouver fixed for grated justice
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Arseholery is no respecter of race
Bumper sticker...t-shirt???
[wv "rateses", says Gollum]
The Vanocouver[sic] Sun [sick] and who could argue with a redneck newspaper from that neck o' the woods
...just to enlighten your less P(acific)C(oastal) readerate.
The only comment at The Sun:
I am an aboriginal from Scotland. How come I can not go back there and claim my traditional lands, territories and resources? Maybe we are defining aboriginal too narrowly. We are all aboriginals somewhere, and if this goes through, then I will be making my land claim.
That gentleman is setting the cause of Scotsmen back by two full months.
I am an aboriginal from Scotland
...would that be a Pict, a Gael, or a Brython? ... (and living off the reserve, one would assume, if the comment is appearing in the Sun)
...perhaps the traditional lands are the Olduvai Gorge
The Scotsman who migrated to the Pacific Coast is just as much a victim of colonial oppression as the tribes who were previously living in that patch of Vancouver.
He should lay claim to Suchiehall Street and see where it gets him.
I am an aboriginal from Scotland. How come I can not go back there and claim my traditional lands, territories and resources?
Because your grand dad got paid when he sold them and moved?
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