We need to dump the Waitangi Treaty (updated with Treaty translations)
As it was never fit for purpose anyway
Sorry for the hit and run posts at the moment, I should be writing more on these topics but there’s a lot going on around me at the moment and it’s a little difficult to concentrate.
This is from Daily Southern Cross (an Auckland paper) on the 26 August 1843 just after the Wairoa “incident” (referred to as a massacre here) and 3 years and a bit after the Waitangi Treaty was supposedly signed. I say supposedly because this article is rather scathing of that process. It is worth reading in full if you have a horse in this race (linked in picture and caption).
There has been much debate over the last few decades about what Kawanatanga means. Now we know that it’s not a Maori word and that it means nothing (allegedly it is Hobson’s invention for “Governorship”).
It’s really time to have a country wide debate about where we want to go in the future because the so called ‘left wingers’ are actually ahead of us in this race and are desperately trying to install their shitty dystopia.
Update: Adding the two English translations of the Maori Treaty (now muddied in the waters of time). Not sure if this is to be found anywhere else but it’s capable of creating fireworks in my view.
I dumped it as soon as I investigated it, what bollocks the treaty is.
If I got you to sign an agreement ( which I just imagined you could do on behalf of all other New Zealanders = "ultra vires" in legalese) using words and having meanings you dont even understand. You would say WTF?!
You would not call it a founding document but rather a fraud.
I wouldn't believe in it.
But I guess being privileged partners in crime appeal$ to some Maori.
This treaty is what the Crown NZ govt needs people to believe as it is an illegitimate government( thus they need to have the early settler Polynesian Maori (seen as more)" indigenous "( thanks John Key and the uber corrupt UN) than others that were born here. on the land.
(And hey dont even look at the archeological proof NZ had Celtic people here well before the Polynesians).
Withdraw belief in the " treaty".
PS Its important the Apartheid NZ state that was built on the treaty also ends and that people recognizing the treaty as void isn't used to fuel more separatism.
One people.
If you have more than just a passing interest in the Treaty, I suggest you read Ned Fletcher’s book The English Text of the Treaty of Waitangi.
https://e-tangata.co.nz/history/ned-fletcher-theres-no-clash-between-te-tiriti-and-the-treaty/