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MNN Maori post "20 ways to take away treaty rights"‏

Posted by Pono Kealoha on March 9, 2008 at 7:00am
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HOT FLASH COLONIALISM LIVES! MAORI SEND
“20 WAYS TO TAKE AWAY TREATY RIGHTS”
MNN Mar. 7, 2008. On March 5, 2008, MNN put out
the story, “The Infinite “Red-X” discovers Secret
Instruction Manual: “Advanced Strategies on
Stealing Indigenous Resources” – Two Dirty
Colonial Reptiles – Chris “ODB” Reid & Robin
“Rotten Egg” Aitken cited as Slimey “Authroties”.
The same day the Red-X entered a black hole
and discovered a parallel universe at the other
end of the so-called “British Empire!”. Here's
what the Maori told him:

“20 WAYS TO TAKE AWAY TREATY RIGHTS
1/ Make the Maori a non-person. Convince
them that their ancestors were savages.
2/ Convince Maori that they should be patient.
What's 158 yrs?
3/ Make Maori believe that things are being
done for their own good.
4/ Get some Maori people to do the dirty
work.
5/ Consult Maori but don't act on what they
tell you.
6/ Insist that Maori people go through the
” proper [colonial] channels”.
7/ Make the Maori believe that you are putting
a lot of effort into working for them.
8/ Allow a few individuals to make the grade.
9/ Appeal to the Maori sense of fairness or
aroha. Tell them that even though things
are pretty bad, it's not good for them to
make strong protests.
10/ Encourage the Maori to take their case
to court, even to the Privy Council. This is
very expensive [and doesn’t do any good].
11/ Make Maori believe that things could
be worse.
12/ Set yourself up a “pretend court” with
no power like the Waitangi Tribunal.
13/ Pretend that the reason for the loss
of human rights is for some reason other
than the fact that the person is a Maori.
14/ Make the situation more complicated
than is necessary.
15/ Insist on “unanimous” decision-making
[rather than traditional Maori form of decision
making].
16/ Select very limited alternatives which
have little merit and tell Maori that they
indeed do have a choice.
17/ Convince Maori that the leaders who are
the most beneficial to them are actually
dangerous and not to be trusted.
18/ Talk about what's good for everyone.
Tell the Maori that they can't consider it
for themselves.
19/ Remove rights gradually.
20/ Rely on [colonial] reason and logic instead
of [Maori view of] rightness and morality”.
Contact the Maori at tepaatu@gmail.com
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