As part of preparation for our National road show, we are producing a small booklet which will help explain what co-goverance is and isn’t. You can read a draft of this HERE
I welcome your thoughts and input.. Please post them as a comment on our web site. Thanks
———————————————————————–
The original appeal email sent out on the 4th of January 2023 is below
————————————————————————
This blog is an appeal for funds to help us get the Stop Co-governance Road Tour underway!
We have 21 speaking locations locked in already and this number is gradually growing.
37 people from around the country have put their hand up to help organise a meeting in their area.
If you think the meeting might be boring, think again. Here is a sample meeting: https://youtu.be/Ny7ULqmwn-I
What drives us?
It’s the thought of reaching 1000’s of Kiwis who are presently in the dark about radical corporate Iwi plans to take over New Zealand. They are either blissfully ignorant about what is going on or they are ambivalent.
That is to say, they have mixed feelings about Iwi takeover of the country.
Now here is a key point – absolutely no one would remain ambivalent if they knew the full story of what is going on.
Hence, the need for the road tour.
Another huge driver is thinking about what New Zealand will be like in 20 years time. What kind of country will our children and grandchildren inherit?
It will be a country with tribal rule. Inflation will be out of control, taxes will be high, and corruption will be rife. Racial division and high crime will be our hallmarks.
Infrastructure will have significantly deteriorated, since the tax take will be way down. Many good hard working Kiwis will have left the country.
Tribes will be fighting over cash and assets.
Only yesterday, I talked to a Maori forensic accountant.
He reported that he is being inundated with requests from Maori to investigate fraud and corruption in various tribes around the country.
These tribes have been gifted significant funds by government, but these funds have been hoarded / misappropriated by families at the top of the tribal tree.
This is just a taste of what is to come.
These thoughts, these projections into the future, drive us on to execute this tour. Doing nothing except complaining on line – being a key board warrior – will do little or nothing to stop all this.
We have to take affirmative action before the election. The general public will not mobilise for street marches and rallies unless they have good reason to.
The tour will give them those reasons.
We are thus reaching out to Kiwis to dig deep to help fund the tour.
I have given up my job to lead this initiate. This is my sacrifice.
Others are sacrificing their time to help organise meetings in their areas.
Still others are making a sacrifice by giving financially.
One person making a great sacrifice can achieve a lot.
But when many people make a sacrifice, the impossible is made possible.
Someone has donated a truck which will carry sound equipment, signs, etc.
This truck needs to be signed with the big and bold wording STOP CO-GOVERNANCE!
Then there will be the cost of fuel, hiring sound equipment, meals, hall hire, and flyers.
We’ll ‘pass around the plate’ at the end of each speaking engagement which will help. The first $25k will get us up and running and underway.
You can either donate through this bank account : 02-0261-0025679-000
Or you can give via the credit card payment on our web site.
From now on, we’ll keep you posted each day with how much of the $25k has been raised.
In advance, I am thanking you for giving. It’s now or never. This next election is going to be the most significant in our country’s history.
We have a small window to lobby all the political parties to utterly stop co-governance, to repeal all raced based legislation, to repeal the Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975, and abolish the Waitangi Tribunal.
These are just starting points.
Let’s not miss the opportunity by holding back at this crucial time.
Donate now!
In the meantime, HERE are five things you can do practically to help in the fight.
The booklet is important. Thanks Julian.
Reading through his could do with in effect a precis at the beginning that quickly explains the issue, i.e. makes the case in a 30 seconds lift conversation. Whereas going straight into Te Tiriti up-front is likely to lose people.
E.g. to start with perhaps something like:
“Co-governance” is about directly sharing governance of the nation with unelected tribal representatives whose goal is to see policies implemented, which impact ownership, operation and financing of national and local assets and services, in order to provide the most advantage, including financial and controlling interests, to their own tribe rather than to the nation or local community generally.
This contrasts to democratic governance by publicly elected representatives via elections subject to equal voting rights. Where groups that wish to promote, express or represent their own interests, including Maori tribal entities, can do so by presenting their case to the elected representatives, to which they are provided equal access along with all others.
By the way, the special consultation arrangements with Maori tribes, already widely implemented throughout the nation, are contrary to the democratic principle of equal access to elected representatives.
OK, what you have written is great. Give me a bit of time to consider it. Thanks so much for taking the time.
Excellent effort . Complex material
Booklets must be brief ( bullet points mainly)
Suggestion: please state the basic facts on Democracy and Co-gov. in a box somewhere in the text
Text below ( to reformat – I will send the file to Julian)
________________________________________
Democracy vs. Co-governance: Fact Check
Democracy
Equal status for all citizens based on the 1 person 1 vote principle
Elected decision-makers (elected by the people)
All citizens have an equal voice
No veto power for any specific group
Co-governance
Equity-based to privilege a specific group for ethnicity, gender, culture e.g. Maori
Appointed decision-makers ( selected by the specific group’s leaders i.e. Iwi)
50/50 power sharing re-distributes rights ( reduced rights for 83% ; increased rights for 17%)
Veto power (=final authority) for one group only (the 17% Maori minority)
Julian, having explained co-governance what bout adding an example of co-gov in action such as the Tuhoe debacle? Further, the stupidity of cutting well established exotic trees down on the Auckland Volcanic Cones to endevour to replace them with natives. The Maori pre-treaty had a good reason to have the cones clear of trees to make it difficult for enemies to get close unseen. Common sense has a holiday with these two examples.
As an addition, Tremains cartoons would be a good basis for a comic double pager mocking the co gov situation. Would not be part of your booklet but would be a handout that all ages could understand and get the “drift’. A comic strip could create much outrage, (the more the better) and reach a different audience
regards
Don mac