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1Law4All – The Anti-Racism Party of New Zealand

1Law4All – The Anti-Racism Party of New Zealand

By Aamy Hall

In Response to T.K. Lewis’s article titled “Are Maori Nazis ruining NZ? 1Law4All’s racism.

T.K. Lewis’s article is full of lies, misinterpretations and presumptions about an article that he must have only skimmed over in order to have such a poor understanding of what it actually said.

He says our article “attack the Treaty of Waitangi and any real form of cultural integrity in New Zealand.”

This is simply not true. We attack the tribal elites who use, and miss-use the Treaty of Waitangi for financial gain – Not the Treaty itself.

Secondly, he presumes, (he must because we have never said it), that we want a mono-cultural New Zealand. This also is simply untrue. We like living in a multicultural society and wish to continue to do so. What we don’t support is that ONE CULTURE in that multi-cultural society is financially supported by the taxpayers who are mostly of the other cultures.

He then goes on to say that I compared Maori to Nazis. This is also untrue. Nor did I associate New Zealander’s with the Jewish people. I mentioned Hitler and the Jewish people because they are the most well-known example of use of the Big Lie Theory, which is what the article was about. I was explaining the theory as part of a longer article on propaganda, and how Tribal Elite use the different techniques of propaganda in order to persuade people that we should happily fork over millions, nay, billions of our hard earned money for things that never happened.

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Maori Nazi rule? I never said anything like that either. Lewis is dreaming and using more lies to try and demonise us. That happens to be another propaganda technique Maori have used very effectively. You don’t dare, in this country, disagree with anything Maori do or say, because if you do they shout RACIST at you, or tell you that you are being culturally insensitive. Demonising – it’s been very effective hasn’t it. We live in a world gone PC mad.

Lewis claims that Maori are not privileged in this country. Yet it’s obvious everywhere you turn. The maorification of New Zealand has gone so far now as to be obstructive in many ways to our ordinary lives. Every time you go to any kind of event, even work or business events, you have to sit through speeches in a language only a tiny minority can understand, waiata’s, powhiri’s. Not to mention the fact that certain cultural niceties are insisted upon, at all kinds of occasions, then you have to pay them a koha for the privilege. It’s not safe to open a broom cupboard these days!

Then we have the billions of taxpayer dollars spent on Maori only initiatives. Or should I say initiatives available only to Maori, although paid for by the rest of us. The Maori Affairs Department, for example, has a taxpayer funded annual budget of over $2 billion to spend on Maori privileges. It costs the taxpayers over $1.2 billion dollars every year, just to finance the Waitangi Tribunal and handle the claims process, and that does not include the settlements, which are on top of that.

There are clauses in the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000 that give Maori priority for health treatment. Treaty claimants have access to taxpayer funded legal aid for their Treaty claim lawyers – they don’t have to prove hardship to get it like everyone else, and they don’t have to pay it back like most people do. Yet these same settlements are in the millions of dollars.

And there’s more, much more, you’ll be able to read about it all on our website. No Maori privilege?

1Law4All believes that everyone in New Zealand should be equal under the law with no special treatment or funding allocated on the basis of race. The definition of racism is treating people differently because of their race, either through giving them advantages, or disadvantages. We are the one party that is truly opposed to racism in all its forms. We believe in democracy and equality of opportunity. How can that be called racist?

ENDS

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