Category: Constitutional Reform
If the Coalition refuses to honour its election pledge to amend the Marine and Coast Area Act to deliver what Parliament intended instead of what activist judges have ruled, our coast will end up in the hands of hundreds of tribal groups, who, at the stroke of a pen, could sign lucrative deals with China to exploit the invaluable mineral wealth in our seabed.
A legislative response is both necessary and appropriate. Parliament is sovereign in our constitutional hierarchy. Courts gain their legitimacy from being impartial. When they insert themselves into policy debates or try to influence legislation, they risk undermining public confidence. They also undermine the rule of law by creating legal uncertainty.
As we reflect on 185 years since the signing of the Treaty, we need to recognise that national unity and pride in our country are being undermined by tribal leaders. Driven by greed and self-interest, they are sabotaging race relations to destabilise society so they can seize control of the country. The sooner race and ethnicity are eliminated from our Statutes, the sooner they can no longer be used as weapons to divide and conquer New Zealand.
President Trump acknowledged the Inauguration was held on Martin Luther King Day: “In his honour, we will strive together to make his dream a reality” and he pledged: “We will forge a society that is colour blind and merit based.” That's essentially what our Coalition promised, but while they have made good progress, they still have a long way to go.
Readers are excused if they do not know what this means. That is because it is an entirely new system of law for New Zealand advocated by Justice Christian Whata our latest judicial appointment to the Court of Appeal. The fact that it is practiced in no other country does not concern its advocates. It involve the merging of Maori tribal customs with the Common Law.
Christmas and New Year! It is a time for relaxation and celebration; a time, too, to reflect on the past year, and wonder about and plan for the days to come. So let us gaze, if not into a crystal ball, at least into the clouds of the future.
While some claim the Supreme Court’s judgement was a major victory that would somehow make all the problems with the claims process go away, nothing could be further from the truth. Its decision has made a bad situation even worse by essentially pronouncing that “tikanga” should be at the heart of all decision-making over the claims process.
The Rule of Law requires that the legal principles relied on in any litigation must be certain, knowable in advance and applicable equally to all citizens. This introduction of notions of spirituality and ancient tribal practices for which there is no written record merely the recollections of claimants and their witnesses is the anthesis of a Rule of Law.
The former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her Labour government made things much worse: through an act of the gross betrayal they implemented the secret He Puapua agenda of radicalised Maori, weaponising State institutions to deliver sovereignty goals.
Parliament’s failure to assert Sovereignty on behalf of the people and put an end to this separatist race- based movement is the primary cause of the recent riot in Parliament by members of the Maori Party and their had picked acolytes in the Public Gallery.
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