NEW Zealand is a basket case example of the work of UNDRIP – the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People. The country is under attack by indigenous extremists who essentially want the nation ruled by an indigenous dictatorship.
This has been all but admitted in Parliament by Maori Party MP Rawiri Waititi, a tattoo-covered racist loon who likes to parade himself around with a cowboy hat and oversized tribal ornaments around his neck.
Waititi’s demands for an all-Maori electoral is based on his warped understanding of the Treaty of Waitangi, in which most of the Maori tribal chiefs of the early to mid-1800s knowingly ceded sovereignty to the Crown of England and it’s colonial representatives.
Waititi exploits the cultural-Marxist indigenist claptrap taught in NZ schools and universities – the idea that the English and other colonists were simply intent in undertaking genocide against the Maori population. It was the Maori themselves who undertook genocide against the earlier inhabitants, the Moriori, who were forced to flee to the Chatham Islands.
Indigenism was put on steroids by ex-Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, and the country’s university law schools now require that students qualify not only in law, but “tikanga”, defined by Wikipedia as, quote: “a Māori term for Māori law, customary law, attitudes and principles, and also for the indigenous legal system which all iwi abided by prior to the colonisation of New Zealand.”
There was no indigenous legal system comparable to that which had been established in Britain over the centuries. Maori law was tribal law, enforced by the tribal leaders, who fought with other tribal leaders for territorial dominance.
NZ First leader Winston Peters and other Maori on the conservative side of politics, not having a bar of this modern indigenist baloney, ran a fairly successful election campaign on it and related issues, as did David Seymour of the libertarian Act Party, who wanted a restatement of Treaty of Waitangi principles put to a referendum.
Both parties went into coalition with the Opposition National Party who needed their numbers to run the Parliament. But the latter, especially its leader Christopher Luxon, were a bitter disappointment. Luxon has turned out to be little more than a globalist turncoat, a CEO-technocrat and banker’s yes man.
The best that Luxon’s team could do to stem the indigenist tide was to end the renaming of government departments in Maori. Even now, the foreign, English-speaking visitor to New Zealand is faced with a bewildering array of Maori language when trying to negotiate a government website or document.
Peters meanwhile has come out in strong support of a leading Kiwi KC Gary Judd, who filed a complaint against the compulsory teaching of Maori customs and language in law schools.
“Tikanga is not law. It is cultural indoctrination,” Peters posted on X last week. “A senior, highly respected King’s Counsel with decades of experience in our law courts, Gary Judd KC, has filed a complaint about compulsory tikanga Māori studies for law students – highlighting the utter depths of absurdity this woke cultural madness has taken our society.
“The tikanga regulations will compel law students to be taught that a system, which does not conform with the rule of law, is nevertheless law which should be observed and applied. As Judd KC points out in his complaint, tikanga is not law.
“Law students should not be force fed this kind of woke indoctrination from some culture warrior’s slanted version of what tikanga means.”
Peters noted with disgust that the Dean of the AUT (Auckland University of Technology) Law School, Kylee Quince, funded by the taxpayer, “decided to typically stoop to a gutter level and call Judd an ‘old racist dinosaur’ who should ‘die quietly in the corner’.”
“This is from someone who is in charge of teaching our law students. How has this kind of insipid, cancerous, woke indoctrination taken a hold within our education system?” he asked.
Judd KC pointed out what is written in law, and said it was ridiculous to require students be indoctrinated with “irrelevant cultural interpretations having no reason, being part of a law degree.”
“Someone in Quince’s position, with this septic and out of touch modus operandi, raises the question of the proper use of taxpayer funding. She does not represent New Zealand or what we expect in our tertiary institutions,” said Peters.
Peters, at various speaking engagements around the country, has expressed alarm at the cultural revolution happening within NZ, the same cultural revolution being turned on its head by President Trump.
