Letter from the 13 Chiefs Asking for Protection
The Treaty of Waitangi was instigated by 13 tangata Maori chiefs to stop the intertribal fighting and bring all the people of New Zealand together as one people.
“He iwi tahi tatou – We are now one people”.
Why are we allowing a few greedy part-Maori, with government funding, support, and encouragement to tear us apart? If Government will not stop them, then we must stop them for the benefit of future generations, whichever way we can!
These people seem to have forgotten their Maori ancestors were completely out of control in 1831 with intertribal fighting causing thousands of their people to be slaughtered, eaten, or taken as slaves, with many being forced off their lands. They were also petrified the French were coming to take away their land, so they decided to write to the King of England in 1831 asking him to be their guardian and protector.
Britain did not want to get involved in New Zealand, so sent a Resident, James Busby to New Zealand in 1833 to try and bring peace to the tribes of New Zealand. Busby also tried to get the Maori tribes to claim sovereignty over New Zealand with the Declaration of Independence to stop the French, but the ever-present intertribal fighting took precedence over political co-operation between the tribes, as always, and it failed without one meeting taking place and only 56 signatures. James Busby had no troops as he was not to use force to bring peace amongst the tribes, therefore, the Maori called him, “A man of war without guns”!
With the Maori population rapidly declining, Britain reluctantly decided to take a more active role to bring peace, law, and order to New Zealand in 1839, but to do this, Britain had to ask the Maori by Treaty to give up their governments and in return they would become British Subjects with the same rights as the people of England, under one flag and one law.
Over 500 Maori chiefs on behalf of their people decided it was in their best interests to sign the Treaty of Waitangi. In fact, they were so keen, they could not wait until 7 February 1840, the day Lt Governor Hobson had arranged to meet again, and summonsed him on 6 February and the signing began from one end of the country to the other. Over 500 chiefs signed the Treaty of Waitangi on behalf of their people. Lt. Governor Hobson only made and authorised one version of the Treaty to be signed and that was in the Maori language, Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
Once signed, it had achieved its purpose and was filed away. The Treaty of Waitangi was followed by Queen Victoria’s Royal Charter Letters/Patent dated 16 November 1840 that made New Zealand into a British Colony on 3 May 1841 with a Governor and Constitution that set up New Zealand’s political, legal and justice systems under one flag and one law, irrespective of race colour or creed.
There is no other document in New Zealand’s history that comes anywhere near to a Founding Document and first Constitution than Queen Victoria’s 1840 Royal Charter/Letters Patent, but the Government has hidden the Royal Charter from the Public to hide the mistake that they have made in the past by recognising the Treaty of Waitangi as our Founding Document.
“If you think these things are wrong, then blame your ancestors who gave away their rights when they were strong”. Sir Apirana Ngata.
This article was written from documents held in the New Zealand, Australian and American Archives, plus the British Parliamentary Papers by the One New Zealand Foundation Inc.
For further information: http://www.onenzfoundation.co.nz Email: ONZF@bigpond.com.au
One point though is that rather than Glavish (hesitate to refer to her as “Dame”) being racist because she “believes that her (part) race is superior to other races, more likely it is an aggressive defensiveness of almost the opposite. That is that Maori culture is a demonstrable failure, not even having advanced to develop written language, hunting themselves nearly to starvation, then coming close to wiping themselves out almost as soon as they were able to gain access to modern weaponry, which might well have occurred if not for British intervention. There is no racial deficiency in brainpower that would prevent Glavish and other part Maori deep down understanding that their’s is not a great culture as cultures go; but whilst the more mature amongst those of Maori ancestry would accept this and move on, others who are wedded to tribalism, who don’t have the internal fortitude to break free, or perhaps because like Glavish, they are a big fish in that particular pond, instead deal with their cognitive dissonance by fabricating an aggrandised version of the culture whilst blaming others for the inability of its people to thrive in the modern world.
You mean she is like someone with a very low self esteem expressing their emotional poverty by bullying and intimidating others?
If so, I think that is definitely in the mix for Maori.
People with an inferiority complex usually end in trouble. How so? They want to be loved and accepted so badly, that they get into trouble to get attention.
To clarify, Maori activists like Glavish aggrandise the status of the tribal culture that they see as defining who they are, railing against others, i.e. racist colonialists, for not doing the same.
Yes Ron. I think like you, that a lot of the anger from Maori comes from feelings of inferiority. It is what it is folks – and you and I who have inherited from a vastly achieving civilization, can not claim that we are responsible for its achievements either.
I think if Maori were humble and admitted that they feel inferior, and asked for help, they would get a much better reception. But no. They have chosen pride – the ‘we know it all and we are superior’ attitude, plus bullying and intimidation. Add all this together and what do you have? A very toxic culture. There is a proverb which says ‘God humbles the proud, and He exalts the humble”. So true.
BreakingViews.co.nz has a very good piece on it’s site today written by Mike Butler headed, $681m for Waikato, meter running. Well worth a read, but not if you have high blood pressure.
My thoughts went to what Sir Geoffrey Palmer said in his book, “New Zealand’s Constitution in Crisis’ where he stated, “It is true the Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975 and all the other statutes, which give explicit recognition to the Treaty are not entrenched. They can be swept away by a simple majority in Parliament”.
Also to the Legal Term that being that, “Fraud vitiates (unravels) everything”.
Your comments are absolutely true Julian. Well said. That Glavish (I can’t use the Dame bit) woman is living in the violent tribal past of her forebears, but has tried to make it sound peaceful and caring, which it was not, and obviously hasn’t progressed beyond that. She has elevated her Maori side and suppressed her ‘other’ side which is such a shame because today we do live in peace among many decent hard working part-Maori and there is no need to revert back to the divisive racist past. We should be moving forwards together and leave the past where it should be – in the past. Times change.
Mayor’s are chair persons of local councils and the public relations face of the locality. So I wouldn’t go so far as to say they are the “government’s representative”. As elected council chair they have the right to set the rules as well as the tone of council meetings that is all.
In a free speech democracy, people have the right to challenge, to speak out against the way a Mayor runs council meetings, but they do not have the right to be rude, abusive and threatening in doing so. Craig Jepson would have been within his rights to summon the police to have the unruly protesters removed.
“Everything local authorities do is within the legislative framework established and maintained by Parliament or central government. Some statutes also establish councils’ accountability to central government for delivering a function or for the expenditure of some grants and subsidies.”
Certainly, we all live within a legislative framework, which God forbid means that we are government representatives. Councils are often forced by legislation to implement Government policies contrary to what they might believe is in the best local interests, or even national interests. Others act exactly like Government lackeys.
Donald K. McKenzie
on December 18, 2022 at 4:10 pm
As Steve says, Glavish is the type to light the wick.
From Glavsh we hear “it’s our land”
” the land was stolen”
“colonialism”
‘racism et al”
People like her indoctrinate younger impressionable people, lacking life experience and certainly lacking history. The younger chap on the video is no doubt one of her disciples. No amount of debate or rational thinking will change their outlook on life. The next step could be isolated incidents of destruction and serious vandalism which could be quite indiscriminate.
The Dargaville district has over the last 20-odd years seen the burning down of Alan Titfords house in Aranga by the Ngati Raroa. The burning down of a shed and a cowshed vandalised belonging to the late Noel Hilliam because he stood up to Maori who argued that they were the “first people”, The chap Nathan that vandalised the America Cup was a resident of Mamaranui just North of Dargaville.
The wick is smouldering. Radical Maori and non radical Maori are let down by the current so-called leaders, especially when compared to the likes of Sir Apirana Ngata. We are all let down by our current leaders in parliament who have let matters arrive at this current sorry state. We have let ourselves down by not protesting earlier at the “separatism” we see gathering speed.
The radical Maori attitude of “my way or the highway” amounts to bullying of the first water. Must be met with stiffness, firmness and great resolve. The sooner the better.
Unfortunately, I did not notice politicians of any stripe supporting Mayor Craig Jepson. Perhaps the media did not give them the platform.
If our Prime Minister was doing her job, in my opinion, she should have asked Dame Glavish for a cup of English Tea and a chat. By Jacinda Ardern’s silence, the radicals are encouraged.
I wish I could be more positive but as Steve says, Dame Glavish will light the wick.
Yes Don, good summary. The Govt silence is deafening – but they are all on holiday now..
The disciples of Glavish will one day have their own disciples. That is the way things get way off base.
The police, generally, will not get involved if its a Maori. It’s seem that the government have given the police an instruction to ‘let Maori express themselves without restriction or impediment’. Why? Because the government are funding and promoting the elite Maori coup.
It’s funny how Naida Glavish does not like the Colonial way of government, but is quite happy with a Colonial title in front of her name. In by gone times, it could have been grilled or battered, but definately not tenderised!
Well done Julian. That was an excellent blog.
Letter from the 13 Chiefs Asking for Protection
The Treaty of Waitangi was instigated by 13 tangata Maori chiefs to stop the intertribal fighting and bring all the people of New Zealand together as one people.
“He iwi tahi tatou – We are now one people”.
Why are we allowing a few greedy part-Maori, with government funding, support, and encouragement to tear us apart? If Government will not stop them, then we must stop them for the benefit of future generations, whichever way we can!
These people seem to have forgotten their Maori ancestors were completely out of control in 1831 with intertribal fighting causing thousands of their people to be slaughtered, eaten, or taken as slaves, with many being forced off their lands. They were also petrified the French were coming to take away their land, so they decided to write to the King of England in 1831 asking him to be their guardian and protector.
Britain did not want to get involved in New Zealand, so sent a Resident, James Busby to New Zealand in 1833 to try and bring peace to the tribes of New Zealand. Busby also tried to get the Maori tribes to claim sovereignty over New Zealand with the Declaration of Independence to stop the French, but the ever-present intertribal fighting took precedence over political co-operation between the tribes, as always, and it failed without one meeting taking place and only 56 signatures. James Busby had no troops as he was not to use force to bring peace amongst the tribes, therefore, the Maori called him, “A man of war without guns”!
With the Maori population rapidly declining, Britain reluctantly decided to take a more active role to bring peace, law, and order to New Zealand in 1839, but to do this, Britain had to ask the Maori by Treaty to give up their governments and in return they would become British Subjects with the same rights as the people of England, under one flag and one law.
Over 500 Maori chiefs on behalf of their people decided it was in their best interests to sign the Treaty of Waitangi. In fact, they were so keen, they could not wait until 7 February 1840, the day Lt Governor Hobson had arranged to meet again, and summonsed him on 6 February and the signing began from one end of the country to the other. Over 500 chiefs signed the Treaty of Waitangi on behalf of their people. Lt. Governor Hobson only made and authorised one version of the Treaty to be signed and that was in the Maori language, Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
Once signed, it had achieved its purpose and was filed away. The Treaty of Waitangi was followed by Queen Victoria’s Royal Charter Letters/Patent dated 16 November 1840 that made New Zealand into a British Colony on 3 May 1841 with a Governor and Constitution that set up New Zealand’s political, legal and justice systems under one flag and one law, irrespective of race colour or creed.
There is no other document in New Zealand’s history that comes anywhere near to a Founding Document and first Constitution than Queen Victoria’s 1840 Royal Charter/Letters Patent, but the Government has hidden the Royal Charter from the Public to hide the mistake that they have made in the past by recognising the Treaty of Waitangi as our Founding Document.
“If you think these things are wrong, then blame your ancestors who gave away their rights when they were strong”. Sir Apirana Ngata.
This article was written from documents held in the New Zealand, Australian and American Archives, plus the British Parliamentary Papers by the One New Zealand Foundation Inc.
For further information: http://www.onenzfoundation.co.nz Email: ONZF@bigpond.com.au
Agree on the excellent blog.
She is a hypocrite, bully and a thug!
Spot on Julian.
One point though is that rather than Glavish (hesitate to refer to her as “Dame”) being racist because she “believes that her (part) race is superior to other races, more likely it is an aggressive defensiveness of almost the opposite. That is that Maori culture is a demonstrable failure, not even having advanced to develop written language, hunting themselves nearly to starvation, then coming close to wiping themselves out almost as soon as they were able to gain access to modern weaponry, which might well have occurred if not for British intervention. There is no racial deficiency in brainpower that would prevent Glavish and other part Maori deep down understanding that their’s is not a great culture as cultures go; but whilst the more mature amongst those of Maori ancestry would accept this and move on, others who are wedded to tribalism, who don’t have the internal fortitude to break free, or perhaps because like Glavish, they are a big fish in that particular pond, instead deal with their cognitive dissonance by fabricating an aggrandised version of the culture whilst blaming others for the inability of its people to thrive in the modern world.
You mean she is like someone with a very low self esteem expressing their emotional poverty by bullying and intimidating others?
If so, I think that is definitely in the mix for Maori.
People with an inferiority complex usually end in trouble. How so? They want to be loved and accepted so badly, that they get into trouble to get attention.
To clarify, Maori activists like Glavish aggrandise the status of the tribal culture that they see as defining who they are, railing against others, i.e. racist colonialists, for not doing the same.
How very true Ron.
Yes Ron. I think like you, that a lot of the anger from Maori comes from feelings of inferiority. It is what it is folks – and you and I who have inherited from a vastly achieving civilization, can not claim that we are responsible for its achievements either.
I think if Maori were humble and admitted that they feel inferior, and asked for help, they would get a much better reception. But no. They have chosen pride – the ‘we know it all and we are superior’ attitude, plus bullying and intimidation. Add all this together and what do you have? A very toxic culture. There is a proverb which says ‘God humbles the proud, and He exalts the humble”. So true.
BreakingViews.co.nz has a very good piece on it’s site today written by Mike Butler headed, $681m for Waikato, meter running. Well worth a read, but not if you have high blood pressure.
My thoughts went to what Sir Geoffrey Palmer said in his book, “New Zealand’s Constitution in Crisis’ where he stated, “It is true the Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975 and all the other statutes, which give explicit recognition to the Treaty are not entrenched. They can be swept away by a simple majority in Parliament”.
Also to the Legal Term that being that, “Fraud vitiates (unravels) everything”.
Your comments are absolutely true Julian. Well said. That Glavish (I can’t use the Dame bit) woman is living in the violent tribal past of her forebears, but has tried to make it sound peaceful and caring, which it was not, and obviously hasn’t progressed beyond that. She has elevated her Maori side and suppressed her ‘other’ side which is such a shame because today we do live in peace among many decent hard working part-Maori and there is no need to revert back to the divisive racist past. We should be moving forwards together and leave the past where it should be – in the past. Times change.
One other general point, on Mayors.
Mayor’s are chair persons of local councils and the public relations face of the locality. So I wouldn’t go so far as to say they are the “government’s representative”. As elected council chair they have the right to set the rules as well as the tone of council meetings that is all.
In a free speech democracy, people have the right to challenge, to speak out against the way a Mayor runs council meetings, but they do not have the right to be rude, abusive and threatening in doing so. Craig Jepson would have been within his rights to summon the police to have the unruly protesters removed.
I just clipped this off a government web site:
“Everything local authorities do is within the legislative framework established and maintained by Parliament or central government. Some statutes also establish councils’ accountability to central government for delivering a function or for the expenditure of some grants and subsidies.”
Certainly, we all live within a legislative framework, which God forbid means that we are government representatives. Councils are often forced by legislation to implement Government policies contrary to what they might believe is in the best local interests, or even national interests. Others act exactly like Government lackeys.
Glavish is one of a group who will light the wick.
Really, the Police should have been involved. Inciting Violence.
As Steve says, Glavish is the type to light the wick.
From Glavsh we hear “it’s our land”
” the land was stolen”
“colonialism”
‘racism et al”
People like her indoctrinate younger impressionable people, lacking life experience and certainly lacking history. The younger chap on the video is no doubt one of her disciples. No amount of debate or rational thinking will change their outlook on life. The next step could be isolated incidents of destruction and serious vandalism which could be quite indiscriminate.
The Dargaville district has over the last 20-odd years seen the burning down of Alan Titfords house in Aranga by the Ngati Raroa. The burning down of a shed and a cowshed vandalised belonging to the late Noel Hilliam because he stood up to Maori who argued that they were the “first people”, The chap Nathan that vandalised the America Cup was a resident of Mamaranui just North of Dargaville.
The wick is smouldering. Radical Maori and non radical Maori are let down by the current so-called leaders, especially when compared to the likes of Sir Apirana Ngata. We are all let down by our current leaders in parliament who have let matters arrive at this current sorry state. We have let ourselves down by not protesting earlier at the “separatism” we see gathering speed.
The radical Maori attitude of “my way or the highway” amounts to bullying of the first water. Must be met with stiffness, firmness and great resolve. The sooner the better.
Unfortunately, I did not notice politicians of any stripe supporting Mayor Craig Jepson. Perhaps the media did not give them the platform.
If our Prime Minister was doing her job, in my opinion, she should have asked Dame Glavish for a cup of English Tea and a chat. By Jacinda Ardern’s silence, the radicals are encouraged.
I wish I could be more positive but as Steve says, Dame Glavish will light the wick.
This is brilliant Don. I might post this tomorrow as my blog. Can you email a photo of yourself to julian@stopcogov.nz
Thanks
Yes Don, good summary. The Govt silence is deafening – but they are all on holiday now..
The disciples of Glavish will one day have their own disciples. That is the way things get way off base.
Steve.
The police, generally, will not get involved if its a Maori. It’s seem that the government have given the police an instruction to ‘let Maori express themselves without restriction or impediment’. Why? Because the government are funding and promoting the elite Maori coup.
It’s funny how Naida Glavish does not like the Colonial way of government, but is quite happy with a Colonial title in front of her name. In by gone times, it could have been grilled or battered, but definately not tenderised!
Like you ONZF ONZF, I can’t understand why she has the title of Dame. I think it should be revoked.