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The Coastal Coalition is dismissing claims being made by the Maori Party co-leader Tariana Turia that it is a fringe or racist organisation that her political party wants to lead a racial equality debate against.
"The Coastal Coalition is a grass roots movement of tens of thousands of New Zealanders from all walks of life, of all political persuasions, and of all races , who fundamentally believe in one law for all New Zealanders", Coastal Coalition spokesman Dr Muriel Newman said today. "The Maori Party has fewer members than the Coastal Coalition and is itself a fringe and racist organisation that just happened to make it into Parliament."
"The Maori Party shares with the National Front and the Right Wing Resistance Movement the common belief that some races are superior to others and that other races are inferior to their own. The Maori Party has no moral authority to defend the rights to racial equality of Asian New Zealanders when everything it does and stands for aims to reduce all New Zealanders who are not of Maori descent to the status of second class citizens in our own country.
"It is ironic that accusations of racism are being hurled at us by the co-leader of a racial supremacist Parliamentary Party. Her actions are appalling and are clearly designed to intimidate and shut down the debate. But it is time that this debate about racism was held in the open."
"The vast majority of people want all New Zealanders to be treated equally under the law. It is those that support race-based privilege that are the racists in this country, not those of us who stand for one law for all."
"Standing for equality is not racist. New Zealanders want to be free to openly discuss these issues without being threatened. The Coastal Coalition will continue to speak up about our commitment to return the foreshore and seabed to Crown ownership on behalf of all New Zealanders - in spite of what opposing vested interests like the Maori Party say."
"The Maori Party and John Key's National Party crossed a line when they repealed Crown ownership of the foreshore and seabed in order to privatise the coast to corporate iwi. They had no mandate to introduce this law change and New Zealanders - both Maori and non-Maori - are overwhelmingly opposed. "
"The Coastal Coalition is united in our belief that the foreshore and seabed belongs to all New Zealanders equally and should remain in Crown ownership - not carved up along race-based lines," Dr Newman said.
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Uncomfortably for some the
Uncomfortably for some the Coastal Coalition is correct in its stance for racial equality for NZers. Years of political correctness in this country have led to many accepting the racial privilege of Maori entrenched in legislation over the past 25 years or so. While there is a genuine concern for eliminating economic disadvantage for Maori, the patronizing effect of affirmative action has created a divided society with unrealistic expectations of favored status driving many young Maori into a feeling of lost opportunities.
Many NZers have also completely lost the awareness that racial preference is by definition racist. Paramount in this is the recent invention of "Treaty Partners". The ToW never included or even intended that there were to be governance structures based on The Crown and Maori. On the signing of the Treaty we became all 'one people'... British Subjects with the rights and responsibilities of citizenship undistinguished among all.
The stance of the Coastal Coalition seems for be entirely consistent with the Articles of the Treaty as intended and agreed upon. Where divergence has appeared, this has come from thinly stretched re-interpretations of the Treaty, aided by the UN's Indigenous Rights declarations. As NZ's society evolves, it is quite evident that the inevitability of change, the relevance of the Treaty will diminish, no matter if it was, as all agree, the document which created NZ and citizenship for all. Move on NZ, there can be a great future for this country if good sense, not sentiment prevails.
Totally behind you Muriel,
Totally behind you Muriel, all the way. The worst thing that's ever happened to this beautiful country is John Key. He will go down in history as the most damaging person to have ever held power.
Well done Muriel!! Isn't it
Well done Muriel!!
Isn't it time we had a binding referendum on whether NZ's want to keep the Treaty as it stands, or go by pre 1985 Treaty, not the revamp one done by Labour and National in the 80s and early 90s. We need to get some feed back on this how about a F/B page?
My full support Muriel My
My full support Muriel
My vote will go to those who stop saying yes to the maori grievance machine and the division of this nation. I have had enough of endless claims from new generations, the endless protest to get more for less and the Wilson's and Finlayson's who aid the cause at huge cost.
At last common sense - We
At last common sense - We are one people , under one flag , with equal right
Well said Muriel !
Well said Muriel !
So is "Coastal Coalition"
So is "Coastal Coalition" the name of your party or are you the Act party maybe, Um so according to you the majority rules I suppose,cause Maori only make up 16 percent of the population so let's get them. Obviously you are all the descendants and inheriters of millions of acres stolen by your people.
It seems weird that you of all peoples want to talk about equal rights considering you and your people are "colonialist" who have a major history of "inequality" throughout the world.
The fruit of where you have been is evident all over the world,where you have literally raped indigenous peoples of there wealth and left a mess.
So no I dont believe you.
Same old song, same old
Same old song, same old anger. Same old loser mentality
Where you born in the 1800's
Where you born in the 1800's ? You seam to be living back then - I was born in NZ , where you ? - Yes - Then you where born with the same capabilities as the rest of us New Zealanders with equal rights under the law. You had free education and health care like everyone else - yes ?-
So there you are - you where never raped as you say by colonialist or had any of your land stolen did you? - That was in the past. I believe that you are born with all the rights of that country , just like any other baby , you then make your way in the world and eventually die. All your rights die with you. You can not pass on right to others !! That is bullshit ! My Father was born in NZ and he fished the waters and tilled the land just like many at that time - also his Father before. Therefore should I be able to claim rights above anyone else - no
There is nothing special about your people or the way they lived. They had no written language and achieved some skills with stone work. This is what is called Stone Age. They killed more of their own that in tribal fighting than where killed by Colonialists. The land was not looked after by them - many species where wiped out - Moa etc
I find Tariana,s extremely
I find Tariana,s extremely insulting.All people born in New Zealand their rights are enshrined in article 3 of the Treaty of Waitangi.We have equal rights as British citizens ie we have equal rights.It is time to stand up to people who would take away our rights and say we are second class citizens.
When the Maori Party, ie:
When the Maori Party, ie: Sharples and Turia agrred to support Key's ETS scam, they did so at a cost that very few Maori are aware of. Only months previously, a Maori academic put her signature on behalf of all Maori to the One Nation Mandate that named and shamed the Kyoto Protocol as being racist in both its inception and implementation.
Following Key's offering of the gold ring that is the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Maori Party stabbed every other One Nation member in the back through their overt and largely covert turnaround. They did this at the expense of the International integrity of Aoateroa and all Maori. And all Mr. Key's instigation.
A dark stain on our International reputation.
How can one Maori academic
How can one Maori academic speak for all Maori on the one nation mandate??
We live in a democracy or would you prefer the stone age tribalism that was the model way back in the dark ages !!
I am reminded of Honie's comments that people should "Harden up " when faced with the abuse offered by his mother. I think that is also the advise offered to young babies that " appear have been in a fight with an adult"