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

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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.


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