{"id":9728,"date":"2016-09-30T06:52:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T17:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=9728"},"modified":"2016-09-30T19:17:35","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T06:17:35","slug":"fact-checking-don-brashs-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=9728","title":{"rendered":"Fact checking Don Brash’s racism"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"avatr\"<\/a>\u00a0Joe Trinder<\/p>\n

\"brashmudface\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Dr Don Brash is the leader of the now entrenched Treaty hate industry forming a new gravy train organisation called “Hobson’s pledge”.<\/p>\n

Dr Don Brash recently quoted on national television \u00a0“Article three says all New Zealanders should have the same rights and privileges.” Dr Brash is not quoting the Treaty of Waitangi he is quoting the Littlewood paper. A unverified document that mysteriously appeared in Manurewa South Auckland in 1989 one year before the first Treaty settlement. The Littlewood paper is a rough set of \u00a0notes on the Treaty and lacks signatures. The genuine Treaty of Waitangi text reads<\/p>\n

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“the Queen of England extends to the Natives of New Zealand Her royal protection and imparts to them all the Rights and Privileges of British Subjects.”<\/em><\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This text can be verified by a similar document the Waikato-Manukau treaty<\/a>\u00a0written in English and word for word the same as\u00a0the Treaty of Waitangi.<\/p>\n

Don Brash has an upper class English accent\u00a0and under no circumstances could be considered Native to the south pacific. Dr Brash descendants migrated to New Zealand at an invitation from the 534 men and woman that signed the Treaty of Waitangi.<\/p>\n

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“the rapid extension of Emigration both from Europe and Australia”<\/em><\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Dr Brash is quoting Captain\u00a0William Hobson’s quote after signing the Treaty of Waitangi \u00a0‘He iwi tahi tatou<\/em>‘ (We are now one people\u2019).<\/p>\n

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‘He iwi tahi tatou<\/em>‘\u00a0(We are now one people\u2019)<\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n

On the 6th Feb 1840 that sentiment was true as the Treaty of Waitangi was being honoured in full. Unfortunately two years later\u00a0William Hobson died. \u00a0Hobson’s predecessor\u00a0Sir George Grey showed total disregard for the Treaty of Waitangi and thrust New Zealand into a 30 year civil war that lead too the confiscation of 4 million acres of private land and a decrease of the M\u0101ori \u00a0population from 150,000 too 47,000.<\/p>\n

It’s unrealistic to accept \u00a0‘We are now one people\u2019 when British colonists have enriched themselves on the backs of M\u0101ori through legislative theft of land. Had Sir George Grey honoured the Treaty and the wishes of his predecessor Captain William Hobson\u00a0these events could have been avoided and private land would have been purchased peacefully.<\/p>\n

Dr Brash is insulting the memory of Captain William Hobson by intentionally\u00a0misinterpreting\u00a0the Treaty of Waitangi and ignore vast tracts of history. Hobson genuinely wanted to honour the Treaty of Waitangi and would be turning in his grave that his surname is being misappropriated to attack the\u00a0M\u0101ori people he respected.<\/p>\n

Hobson’s pledge want to dis establish the M\u0101ori \u00a0electoral seats. The\u00a0M\u0101ori electorate seats were created\u00a0in 1867 by \u00a04th Parliament of \u00a070 British born MP’s \u00a0to permit 4 Maori MP’s to participate in the decision making. Despite M\u0101ori \u00a0being the majority of the New Zealand population and\u00a0not given the right to vote. MP James Fitzgerald made an argument that 2\/3 of Parliament should be M\u0101ori \u00a0as this would be genuine democracy. He was overridden by Sir George Grey and he personally selected loyal MP’s that were K\u016bpapa officer’s from the New Zealand Armed constabulary like\u00a0Mete K\u012bngi te Rangi Paetahi.<\/p>\n

How can Brash and Hobsons pledge\u00a0make an argument they are being denied democracy when the\u00a0M\u0101ori \u00a0electoral seats was precisely that the denial of democracy by offering the majority of the New Zealand population in 1867 only 4 representatives in a parliament of 70 immigrants.<\/p>\n

Hobson’s pledge demands that “All New Zealanders should be equal before the law” yet the New Zealand criminal justice system clearly discriminates against\u00a0M\u0101ori. With incarceration rates one of the highest western world and 50% of male inmates are\u00a0M\u0101ori . Hobson’s choice refuse to see the link of confiscation of private land and the destruction of their\u00a0economic base that has caused economic hardship that leads to\u00a0making poor choices that are against the law.<\/p>\n

Dr Don Brash and its members at Hobson’s pledge are suffering from historical amnesia and refuse too accept the Treaty has been breached. Dr Brash doesn’t\u00a0accurately quote the Treaty of Waitangi \u00a0yet recites his own revised version that suits his agenda. Hobson’s pledge is the result of an education system that refuses to acknowledge its own countries history yet promotes the history of another country the UK. If New Zealander’s received an education on the New Zealand Wars these radical organisations like Hobson’s pledge would\u00a0struggle to prey on the ignorance of the New Zealand population.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Joe Trinder Dr Don Brash is the leader of the now entrenched Treaty hate industry forming a new gravy train organisation called “Hobson’s pledge”. Dr Don Brash recently quoted on national television \u00a0“Article three says all New Zealanders should have the same rights and privileges.” Dr Brash is not quoting the Treaty of Waitangi he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-tiriti","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9728"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9728"}],"version-history":[{"count":72,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9802,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9728\/revisions\/9802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}