1law4all is a political party committed to the suppresion of indigenous rights in New Zealand and ignoring our founding national document, the Treaty of Waitangi. Its policies are based  on the premise that anything awarded to Maori is an attack on Pakeha rights. As well as wanting to abolish the Treaty of Waitangi and the Takutai Moana Act, 1law4all wants New Zealand to withdraw from the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

The leader of 1law4all is Tom Johnson, a former National party supporter based in Napier, and many of the its ranks are former National party supporters. 1law4all has a strong support base including  Canterbury university professor David Round, John Harrison, Larry Wood, Candy Osman and Peter Creswell. The party originally supported Alan Titford but after his convictions in November 2013 on a number of charges, including assault, sexual violation, arson and fraud, sought to distance themselves.

In September 2014,  the party failed to stand candidates in the general elections due to internal issues that involved the resignation of 4 of its board members. Recently, approximately 120 people attended the organisation’s Annual General Meeting.

When Adolf Hitler rose to power in 1936 he used a strategy of blaming the German people’s woes on a minority  – the Jewish people. 1law4all is using the same strategy of xenophobia (unreasonable fear or hatred of the unfamiliar).  The message that the  failures of  New Zealand society are due to the rights won by Maori is popular with farmers, many of whose families prospered from land confiscations in the New Zealand Settlement Act 1863.

1law4all’s message of democracy doesn’t involve indigenous rights, only their interpretation of  “majority rule”, that is: everyone else should be deciding on the political determination of Maori New Zealanders, and Maori, as a minority, should have no input into their own political self-determination. This type of ignorance could lead New Zealand to a boiling point of racial division, if these right-wing  radicals become influential enough to  return New Zealand from  an integrated multicultural society back to a colonial oppressive society.