Seabed Issue Rocks Maori MPs Foreshore
From the open publishing newswire:
As the final campaign week countdown began to the 2005 election, a 'beacon of remembrance' was left at a number of Maori electorate Member of Parliament offices. This is a sign that the tangata whenua, those required to elect them into office again, will not forget those that sold out over the Seabed and Foreshore fiasco last year.
A nationally coordinated attack on the offices saw every MP who sat in a Maori Electorate that voted for the Seabed and Foreshore Act received the same message delivered through their front windows (while the windows were closed), stating 'sell out, we have not forgotten'.
An unidentified spokesperson declared "Over 30,000 people gathered at Parliament in May to protest to the passing of the Seabed and Foreshore Act. That Act extinguished any form of customary title and allowed for the Crown to acquire our lands.
"Those that represent tangata whenua in Parliament have more than just a duty, but an obligation to be the voice of those that they represent.
"As tangata whenua we have a responsibility to protect this whenua. How can we do that when those that purport to represent us in Parliament refuse to acknowledge first, that the whenua is an extension of ourselves and our commitment is to protect Papatuanuku; and secondly, such a cession of sovereignty will carry detrimental consequences for many a generation to come.
"This act today was a nationally coordinated attack; it was a reminder to those that we will not forget their betrayal to us as tangata whenua by siding with the political majority.
"This act today was to let the sell-out MP's know that they can not ride into Parliament this election on the crude comparison of being a lesser of two evils, by stating that another party is going to treat tangata whenua worse then them.
Speculation as to whether this seemingly small act of terrorism was to coincide with September 11th remains a mystery.
- The Homer Simpsons
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Comments
Re: Seabed Issue Rocks Maori MPs Foreshore
I notice that in the newspaper they reported two attacks and said that they were 'definitely unconnected'. I wonder if this was a deliberate attempt to cover the political nature of the actions, or just plain ignorance on the behalf of the reporters.
Re: Seabed Issue Rocks Maori MPs Foreshore
lets just say a rock gets tossed through don brashes office window at midnight monday with a note saying, 'we will never forget', then lets just say a rock gets tossed through lockwood smiths office window same time, same message...
how fuckin stupid would a reporter have to be not to make the connection. so going by how bright some reporters are id have to say that they just stupid.
Re: Seabed Issue Rocks Maori MPs Foreshore
In what I might say a miracle come back against enormous National sponsors who spent substantial amounts on smear campaigns, a biased Media, and opened Electioneering to influence the outcome. Had it been a natural election, more people would have voted and the outcome more clear.
We need a Leftist Media and independent observers. I thought this site was slightly left, but it seems it was sold out as not to cover the election. I wonder how much was it worth?
Anyway, if you understand what Mr. Brash is unbending about, the Maori Party will also have to go, because it is a race based party. His white brush will soon paint the Maori seats, the terms of the Tiriti, and then all peoples in a whiteland.
Re: Seabed Issue Rocks Maori MPs Foreshore
"sold out as not to cover the election..." - what are you talking about Pilan?
I would say this site was more anarchist than it is left but hey. And that is probably why no-one covered the elections 'cos most of us don't care and don't see it as making much of a difference to the current state of things in Aotearoa. Helen to Brash is like Clinton to Bush... equally nasty just sneakier.