Why Maori Activists Default To Their Biggest Tricks (PART 2)

Maori Default To Their Biggest Tricks To Stop The Act Party Referendum : Threats, Bullying, And Intimidation (PART TWO) This was a recent meeting at the Kaipara District Council. The Maori lady speaking is a guest speaker. Her name is Caren Hastings. If you Google her name, nothing comes up. She is famous for nothing.

SEE VIDEO HERE When I first saw this video, I thought “This has to be staged. It just can’t be genuine, surely?”

So I phoned the Mayor of Kaipara, just to check.

And sure enough, it was genuine.

The lady talking is not acting, she is not fooling around, she’s actually being serious! OMG! The context is a Kaipara Council meeting, where she is a guest speaker.

These are the kinds of people we are told we are in partnership with via the Treaty.

Seriously, who would want to have this lady or any like her in any kind of team?

Who would want her in any kind of leadership position? Who would want to be in any kind of partnership arrangement with her?

In my last blog, yesterday, I talked about Maori activists having a bag of tricks.

What are these tricks? Things like lying, bullying, intimidation, violence. threats, bluffing, acting, and so on.

On display in this video is one of the big ones: the desire to control .

And so what they do is use all their other tricks to achieve this end.

The desire to control people and situations is really what I call the King trick. It’s the one that over arches all others.

Activist Maori want to control people and situations. They are addicted to it.

This desire can be traced all the way back to pre-1840 when Maori chiefs had slaves.

And of course, the key thrill for the chief was that he had a group of people who were totally under his control.

This is one reason stop co-governance as a movement was formed.

What reason? We refuse to be slaves of Maori inside Maoridom.

Just watch this lady pull out a series of tricks from her bag of tricks to get control of the councilors in the room.

First trick?

She uses intimidation. Her demeanor is aggressive with a lot of finger pointing, arm waving, neck protrusion, and eye glaring.

These are designed to make the councilors feel fearful.

Second trick? Voice tone.

The tone is once again aggressive and accusative. She accuses the councilors of not listening, of being distracted by their phones and laptops, of not giving her their full undivided attention, of not answering her emails, of not being attentive to her every need.

Voice tone is designed to break down the councilors to get control of them.

Third trick? Voice volume.

This is a big one for activists. In this video, her voice volume goes up and down. Activists often raise their voices so as to talk over the top of people. This is why I never engage with them. They want to draw their opponents into a shouting match. You’ll never beat them with shouting louder. They have had a lot of practice in their homes, with police officers, court staff in our judiciary. Really it’s using bullying to get control.

Fourth trick, there is “attitude.”

She talks down to the councilors in the room like they are toddlers being told off. I am surprised she did not tell them to sit up straight and fold their arms and pull their socks up, otherwise they would not be allowed out at play time. Once again, control and manipulation.

The classic instruction from her was definitely ‘no eye rolling’ and ‘no looking at each other sideways’ and ‘definitely not looking at the important papers on your desk!’ She obviously is quite familiar with how audiences in previous meetings have reacted to her. At least she is observant.

She starts off by saying she is going to ‘set expectations’ and waves her phone around. Truly, this is the stuff of Nazi Germany and the third Reich.

Click on THIS link to see the reaction of one of the councilors during the meeting.

Fifth, she ignore the rules.

The mayor asks her to stop but she ignores him. She flatly say “No!” This goes back to the need to control and to be in control.

Sixth, there is gross hypocrisy.

She demands respect, but gives none. To behave in this way is hypocritical.

This is typical activism behaviour.

Seventh trick? Pulling out the sympathy card.

She bangs on about how she has had to take time off work to go to the council meeting, but ignores the fact that her 6 minute rant is wasting the time of 12 councilors and other staff in the room. She wants our sympathy for taking time off work.

Be wary of the sympathy card they pull. They use it a lot. Sometimes they combine it with acting, such a crying. Maori are masterful at getting control by acting. What for? To disarm opposition.

The eighth trick? Arrogance.

She thinks she is a hot shot, and amazing, but really, for all the above reasons, she is the opposite. A loser, in fact.

Number 9? She is delusional. She advises the council that they should consult with “experts”. Who are these experts?

Manu Whenua, she says.

This would make a good Tui Beer advert. “Yeah, right”.

As such, she is delusional. How so? Maori arrived in New Zealand around 1250, and when the colonials arrived here in numbers around 1800, Maori were described as a stone age people group who had not invented the wheel or shoes. So any expertise they have has been learned from Europeans.

Tenth trick? Bluffing.

She accuses the council of shirking their Treaty obligations. She sounds like she knows all about the Treaty, but really she does not. She’s bluffing.

What were those obligations?

To set up democracy and rule. What does that mean for the people of New Zealand? Submitting to the authority of the government. What does that mean?

Given that local councils are representative of ‘government’, this activist, by pulling out her bag of tricks in the council meeting, is breaching the Treaty.

How so? She is not submitting to government. Rather, she is trying to ride rough shod over it and take control.

How should we conclude?

In yesterday’s blog I talked about activists being toddlers in adult bodies.

This lady is a prime example.

The real hero in the room is Mayor Craig Jepson.

Why? He shut her down, and was applauded by other councilors for doing it.

My only criticism of Craig was that he was six minutes too late in making that call.

But all was not lost.

It was playtime anyway at the Kaipara council kindy.