{"id":10058,"date":"2017-04-20T14:10:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T01:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=10058"},"modified":"2017-04-20T14:17:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T01:17:25","slug":"yankee-go-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=10058","title":{"rendered":"YANKEE GO HOME!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>MANA Leader Hone Harawira<\/p>\n

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Labour is flying in Trump supporters to tell Maori how to vote\u201d said MANA leader Hone Harawira when told of Labour Party plans to bring in large numbers of Americans to help target voter areas where Labour is struggling to get attention.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd Labour\u2019s Maori MPs don\u2019t even know what\u2019s going on, just like they didn\u2019t know about Willie Jackson being dropped in to push them off the list\u201d said Harawira \u201cThat\u2019s how Andrew Little does kaupapa Maori – tell them nothing, don\u2019t ask their opinion, just tell them to do what they\u2019re told\u201d<\/p>\n

Can you imagine the phone call \u2026
\n\u201cKia ora, who\u2019s that?\u201d
\n“Howdy pardner \u2013 its Chuck here, I\u2019ve just dropped in from Alabama in the good ole USA, to tell you to vote Labour and make New Zealand great again”
\n\u201c@#$$&*!!!\u201d click (dial tone)
\n“Hello, hello \u2026 anyone there?”<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Americans will stay on a marae paid for by the Labour Party (Labour won\u2019t pay for homeless Maori to stay on a marae but they got money for the Yanks), and they\u2019ll get a crash course in how to mangle the Maori language (the same one that Andrew Little did).<\/p>\n

\u201cThen they\u2019ll get a lecture on Labour\u2019s proud Maori history \u2013 like how Maori should vote for a party that has never had a Maori leader, a party that sold off state assets which destroyed Maori communities all round the country, that gave us GST to help deepen poverty in Maori communities, that broke up the unions which protected Maori workers, sold off state houses forcing Maori out of homes they\u2019d lived in for generations and led to the staggering levels of homelessness we face now, and introduced no go areas for beneficiaries which forced thousands of Maori to move away from their homelands and lose their lands and their homes through non-payment of rates and mortgages.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen Labour will tell them how they launched the country\u2019s first two independent Maori political parties! They won\u2019t mention the fact that Mana Motuhake was formed when Matiu Rata walked out on Labour after they demoted him, or that the Maori Party was formed when Tariana Turia walked out on Labour after they stole the foreshore and seabed – but then Labour haven\u2019t got time to tell them all the little details, right?<\/p>\n

\u201cSo why are the Trump supporters coming? Can\u2019t Labour get any Maori volunteers?
\nAnd who\u2019s paying for them? Surely not the NZ taxpayer \u2026
\nAnd after all their talk about jobs for Kiwis, how come Labour isn\u2019t using the tens of thousands of dollars they\u2019re spending on this exercise to hire Maori to do the job?<\/p>\n

\u201cLabour\u2019s arrogance in forcing their Colonial politics and their American advisors onto Maori communities is an insult to their Maori Caucus and to the Maori population at large\u201d said Harawira \u201cMaori will see it for what it is – racism – and reject it\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd as for the Americans \u2026 maybe they should go home and stop their President from starting World War III. Fix up their own back yard before coming here to tell us what to do\u201d<\/p>\n

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