Well you may ask? What has insanity and government got to do with each other and why put it in this headline?
To understand the answers to these questions we should first look at the common definition of insanity – “doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result”.
We would then need to look at history and compare that to the current Labour government decision making and we can clearly see the relationship between the two.
Labour is making divisive decisions based on race that will fail and result in further worsening relations between different sectors of New Zealand’s population (Insanity).
Examples of this can be seen in the He Puapua report, a document prepared in 2019, under the guise of implementing the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. That report is a blueprint for the tribal control of New Zealand by 2040.
While the Government claims He Puapua is not policy, its objectives are being implemented now.
One of the key concepts supporting He Puapua, is the claim that Maori are ‘Treaty partners’ with the Crown. Since it is constitutionally impossible for a subject to be partner to a Sovereign, the concept is false, yet it is being given official authority by the government.
This supposed Treaty partnership is driving the Three Waters proposal to give control of billions of dollars of freshwater, wastewater, and stormwater assets to iwi.
We are about to enter a dangerous new era, in which a little bit of Maori blood means you are racially superior to the rest of us no matter where you come from or how long you’ve lived here.
Nobel Prize winner, Milton Friedman stated: “A free society releases the energies and abilities of people to pursue their own objectives. Freedom means diversity but also mobility. It preserves the opportunity for today’s disadvantaged to become tomorrow’s privileged and, in the process, enables everyone, from top to bottom, to enjoy a fuller and richer life”.
From the very beginning new immigrants came to New Zealand seeking a better life for themselves and their children. It didn’t matter where you were born or who your parents were. If you worked hard and did your best you could get ahead.
Times have changed. It seems we have regressed almost two hundred years in the last twelve-months. Now who your ancestors are does matter – according to Jacinda Ardern’s Labour Government. The consequences will be severe and long-lasting.
Former US President Barack Obama an outspoken critic of tribalism stated: “Ethnic-based tribal politics has to stop. It is rooted in the bankrupt idea that the goal of politics or business is to funnel as much of the pie as possible to one’s family, tribe, or circle with little regard for the public good. It stifles innovation and fractures the fabric of the society. Instead of opening businesses and engaging in commerce, people come to rely on patronage and payback as a means of advancing. Instead of unifying the country to move forward on solving problems, it divides neighbour from neighbour.”
Racial discrimination is insidious and destructive. It divides peoples and communities, and it is dividing our nation. It’s also a class system that enriches the tribal elite, while leaving the most vulnerable mired in disadvantage. Yet this is exactly what our Labour Government has embraced and it is accelerating the pace since gaining an absolute majority in October last year.
The claim of a supposed Treaty “partnership” is being used to support the planned abolition of District Health Boards and setting up of a Maori Health Authority that gives Treaty partners veto rights over the entire health system.
There have been new guidelines published, from Pharmac (the government pharmaceutical agency), which reveal that as Treaty partners, “Maori now have priority”. Essentially, those with Maori ethnicity will now be guaranteed priority treatment ahead of others with greater health needs.
In education, the Tertiary Education Commission has proposed changes to the Performance Based Research Fund – to better reflect the Maori partnership agenda – which not only strengthen race-based incentives for Maori, but they change the focus from ‘research excellence’ to ‘cultural inclusiveness’.
In conservation, an Options Developments Group set up by the Department of Conservation to better recognise the ‘Treaty partnership’ recommends “the delegation, transfer and devolution of functions and powers within the conservation system to tangata whenua”.
The claim of a supposed Treaty Partnership is being used by Jacinda Ardern’s Government to justify the transfer of significant public resources and power to Maoridom’s tribal elite.
Scrutiny of that claim (that Maori are Treaty partners with the Crown) by the media has effectively been prevented by the offer of funding from the Government’s $55 million Public Interest Journalism Fund.
Under condition three of the Public Interest Journalism Fund, all fund recipients are required to “Actively promote the principles of Partnership, Participation and Active Protection under Te Tiriti o Waitangi acknowledging Māori as a Te Tiriti partner”.
With the Media effectively silenced by Labour, it’s now up to all New Zealand citizens to highlight what is happening.
Collectively we should call the partnership agenda what it actually is, a fraud, and we also need to end the insult of being defined by race.
We should demand that New Zealand removes race from our Statutes, and again returns to being a democratic society, where everyone is treated as equals under the law and support is provided on the basis of need not race.
Removing all references to ‘ethnicity’ from legislation and regulation would stop He Puapua, the Maori Health Authority, Three Waters, Maori seats in local government – and Parliament – and all other race-based initiatives.
History has shown many times over that racial discrimination always eventually results in failure of that system of governance.
The main problem is that society has to pay the bills for that failure and the worst hit financially will always be the lower socio-economic section of society that can least afford to pay for the governments mistakes.
Just like the definition of Insanity, this current Labour government is guilty of repeating the same mistakes over and over and expecting a different result which is not going to happen!!!!
Andy Loader