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Twisting the Treaty: The Tribal Grab for Wealth and Power
This is probably the most important book published in recent times as it shows how in 27 years the Treaty of Waitangi has been reinterpreted, the "partnership" myth created, tribal corporations set up, public assets transferred to those corporations which are now on the brink of securing a special place in a new, treaty based, written constitution.
The treaty was Britain's reluctant response to pleas by Maori chiefs to rescue the tribes from a culture of cannibalism, slavery and inter-tribal warfare that had wiped out about a third of their race by 1840.
The treaty was a simple and straightforward agreement by which the chiefs agreed to pass the sovereignty of New Zealand to Queen Victoria in return for protection and rights as British subjects as well as being guaranteed possession of whatever lands they were currently holding by long use, conquest or otherwise. By the treaty every Maori, including the slaves, gained a prize unheard of for native people at that time: full and equal citizenship of the world's largest and most benign empire.
In recent years a cadre of self-interested politicians, bureaucrats, judges, lawyers, academics, journalists and tribal leaders have been feeding the public a fake history ("wicked colonialists and noble chiefs"), including a false version of the treaty, so as to feed the ever growing grievance industry and line the pockets of corporate iwi, which has amassed $36.9 billion of assets while paying less tax than others or, more often, no tax at all.
Claims to culture, radio waves, petroleum and the like, let alone "partnership" with the Crown and even sovereignty itself, are modern creations not mentioned in the treaty.
This book, written by six concerned and well-qualified New Zealanders, exposes the extent of the Treaty fraud and warns of the National-Maori Party coalition's plan to hijack our constitution so as to turn all non-Maoris into second class citizens in the land that our forebears built by their sweat and toil.
The treaty was Britain's reluctant response to pleas by Maori chiefs to rescue the tribes from a culture of cannibalism, slavery and inter-tribal warfare that had wiped out about a third of their race by 1840.
The treaty was a simple and straightforward agreement by which the chiefs agreed to pass the sovereignty of New Zealand to Queen Victoria in return for protection and rights as British subjects as well as being guaranteed possession of whatever lands they were currently holding by long use, conquest or otherwise. By the treaty every Maori, including the slaves, gained a prize unheard of for native people at that time: full and equal citizenship of the world's largest and most benign empire.
In recent years a cadre of self-interested politicians, bureaucrats, judges, lawyers, academics, journalists and tribal leaders have been feeding the public a fake history ("wicked colonialists and noble chiefs"), including a false version of the treaty, so as to feed the ever growing grievance industry and line the pockets of corporate iwi, which has amassed $36.9 billion of assets while paying less tax than others or, more often, no tax at all.
Claims to culture, radio waves, petroleum and the like, let alone "partnership" with the Crown and even sovereignty itself, are modern creations not mentioned in the treaty.
This book, written by six concerned and well-qualified New Zealanders, exposes the extent of the Treaty fraud and warns of the National-Maori Party coalition's plan to hijack our constitution so as to turn all non-Maoris into second class citizens in the land that our forebears built by their sweat and toil.
414 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 2013
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John Robinson
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JOHN ROBINSON is from Scunthorpe in North Lincolnshire. He gained a BA(Hons) in Radio Film and Television Studies with Mathematics from Christ Church College, Canterbury, and took a post-graduate course in Journalism at Sheffield College before moving to Poland to teach English. For fourteen years he has taught Computing and Contextual Analysis at North Lindsey College in North Lincolnshire. He lives with his wife and two children.
JOHN ROBINSON is from Scunthorpe in North Lincolnshire. He gained a BA(Hons) in Radio Film and Television Studies with Mathematics from Christ Church College, Canterbury, and took a post-graduate course in Journalism at Sheffield College before moving to Poland to teach English. For fourteen years he has taught Computing and Contextual Analysis at North Lindsey College in North Lincolnshire. He lives with his wife and two children.
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January 10, 2014
Very interesting read -one of those hard hitting books that alters what you think you know! Lots of information, resourced and referenced. Obvious that the authors are knowledgeable and are giving us the big picture from their wealth of experience. Time for NZers to wake up and change what is happening, for truth to win for a change!
January 18, 2023
Every New Zealander should read this.
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