Co-Governance or Co-Government?
A Christian man has been travelling the country, in a bid to warn people of the danger of dividing our society by race. The response? Racist and baseless claims of racism.
I have my perspective on this new issue coming out of the mouths of those bound to the Crown, and Julian Batchelor has his. Generally, we agree that Co-Governance in its current form is not good for this country at all. Would I deliver this pitch in the same manner as Julian Batchelor? No, but that’s because society is made up of different people who have different views and different presentation styles. Would we really want to change that for a world where everyone is the same? Or, do we want to be completely dominated by a group of individuals who believe that the truth should only belong to a select few? Whether you’re aware of it or not, that’s the direction we’re all being corralled down, and the only way to check that or overcome that is to have the damn difficult conversation.
Thanks to the media and the militant arm of corrupt “Māori” Incorporations that work with the Crown, the conversation is being screamed out of meeting halls and misrepresented by mainstream media. We’re not surprised, practiced liars who are starting to look like foolish liars need to shut down a rational conversation before it gains traction. If they don’t, they may end up losing the public and if that happens it’s all downhill for them. I have been a “Māori” activist before, I know the struggles of our people well. I just realised that blaming all our struggles on everyone else is what put us in this victimhood hole in the first place. I know there are systemic problems, but if we don’t stop self-identifying as victims of the past, we will never get ourselves out of the bottom of the statistics. And, if you’re stuck at the bottom of everything, you’re never going to be a part of the solution to existential problems that affect everybody.
The relationship between unbound “Māori” Incorporations and the Crown has not generated a thriving “Māori” population. At this point, you might be wondering why I’ve put the word “Māori” in quotations. It’s because it’s not a Te Reo word, it’s a word we’ve incorporated into our language to make it our own. If you take apart the word and define the two syllables separately you get white prey. Now, put it in the correct Te Reo format (right to left), it would be ori o mā (prey of whites). Now, let’s look at the word iwi, which was a mechanism to takahi (trample) on the mana (integrity) of hapū. An iwi corporation gives the I the power to speak for the we, which is not something our culture resonates with. When you put things into context, you start to learn that regardless of race, power-obsessed Iwi Incorporations are no different to the Crown. An entity all common-sense based hapū and communities oppose. Different skin colour and language, same Ponzi scheme, same censorship tactics, same desire to radically centralise everything.
My observation of the Kerikeri Co-Governance talk was very valuable to the continued growth of my perspective. Once upon a time, I thought the under-handed planned subversive tactics of smashing a meeting that was espousing “racist rhetoric” was justified. Now I can look at it from a birds-eye view and ask, “wait, are they racist?” What proof do we have that their concerns are coming from a racist perspective? Whose agenda am I rolling out? Does it benefit me, my people and our common values? If the answer is no, what the hell am I doing? What is actually going on here? Am I an unwitting pawn in someone else’s power play? Who stands to gain from us refusing to have the damn conversation and instead choosing to shout and accuse each other of the same things we are doing right now.
In order to answer those questions we need more context and that’s why it’s important to go to these meetings with a respectful and mindful attitude. He PuaPua being a proper example of a Co-Governance that benefits this entire country will be determined by the details. As the old saying goes, the devil is in the details, and I believe it would be unwise to ignore or blow off the details in Julian’s presentation. My opinion is simple, in the history of societies, empires and nations, a division based on race, religion, or creed has never benefitted the entire structure. In fact, history shows that if you divide anything by religion, race, or creed it is the beginning of the end for that collective.
Proper consideration of the details shows that the title of this initiative is a misnomer, it’s not an example of Co-Governance because we don’t have governance, we have a government. If the government has found it difficult to control the minds of Tangata Whenua or hapū in order to get their initiatives going full steam ahead, the most obvious solution is to train their “leaders” to think like them. If the Crown are struggling to get Natives in line because the Crown does not have jurisdiction over Natives, then their “leaders” may need their own government. Catching on yet?
He Whakaputanga is a declaration of independence, gifted by the Hanover Crown of England. Te Tiriti is a treaty between the United Tribes and the British Crown of The Holy Roman Empire. It enabled that Crown to set up governance and an institution of law. If Gregory Bowen agrees that the Crown of England has been vacant for a generation, then that must mean there’s only one party left in the agreement that gave the first Nation ship independence. If that’s true, why is there a group connected to the Kingiitanga trying to set up a new government? Why are they calling it Co-Governance? Where’s the 1852 Constitution and why does it not apply to that government down in Wellington? Who is that Government? What’s going to bind this new racist government that’s being proposed? Who’s going to write their Te Ture Mo Te Mana? The chains for authority. Why would we want two unbound Corporate States when one is already wreaking so much havoc with the racists who want to build another one?
Ask more questions before you incorrectly diagnose your fellow man as the problem.
Good to see you back Brad, this country sure needs every clear and honest person it can get. Keep up the good work.
Julian Bachelor played into the hands of the gvnmt very well. He created even more division. Not a very clever move but probably well intended