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As if you’d ever win the seat anyway … you crackers!

From Scoop
“The caucus agrees with a decision by the Party board that National will
campaign only for the party vote in the Maori electorates. We will not be
standing candidates in those seats.” says Dr Brash.

“National has a policy to wind up the Maori seats. That was the intention of
Parliament in 1867 when they were first established. As a party, we are
determined to deliver a process that gives all New Zealanders equality in
our democracy.”

He’s right too, they were meant to be temporary. What he neglects to mention
are the main reasons they were established. In 1867 the Government decided to
act, they were running out of excuses as to why they were denying Maori the
right to vote. So what they did, was create special seats, now on a
population basis the same as Pakeha representation, Maori should have had 15
seats; they were lucky to get four. Trying to pretend the seats are about
special rights is downright dishonet. They were set up as a way to deny
Maori their full rights.
Theres no way National were gonna win one of the seats so its hardly going
to make any difference if they stand candidates or not. Its just another
chance for Brash to court the uneducated redneck cracker moron vote.

Its 10.43am and already 4 things have broken

Its gonna be one of those days I can tell. Ah well, at least they were all
pretty easily fixable. On the plus side Laurel won us tickets to go see
Garden State tonight so thats good. Zach Braff is in Melbourne doing promo
work for said film today, and then he is on his way to NZ. Hopefully he
comes to Wellington, that’d be kinda cool.
Right back to work I go.

Whats an Eb horn, I’ve never heard of an Eb horn.

So Laurel and I went to see Farr: Blitz last night at the Soundings theatre
at Te Papa. It was a combined performance by
Strike and the

NZ Army Band performing works by Gareth Farr. Wow, what a fantastic
concert. We enjoyed every minute of it, if you ever get the chance to see
either Strike, or the Army Band .. take it, they are great live.

PS The eb horn thing was what someone behind us said, its an E flat horn ..
but I guess the flat symbol does look like a b 🙂

No you cant have the beaches, here have some cancer instead.

From the NZ herald today “The Cervical Cancer Audit released by the Ministry
of Health today said the programme was not reaching women and making sure
they were adequately screened.

It said Maori women were screened for cervical cancer less often than
non-Maori women and when abnormalities were found, they waited longer for
investigations such as biopsies.

Maori women were twice as likely to develop
cervical cancer and four times as likely to die from it than non-Maori
women, said auditor and Maori public health physician, Dr Sue Crengle.”.

Poxy little Islands in the Pacific

Well we are sure acting like it. Today was the third and final reading of
the Foreshore and Seabed legislation, amended after the select committee
process to put into Crown ownership of all the seabed and foreshore rich
pakeha dont already own.
So basic logic here “Logic 101 : Its THEFT mate” if the crown needed
legislation to get ownership, then it stands to reason they didnt legally
own it already. Under international law (and basic common sense) the
indigenous people must then have owned it. Therefore the crown has confiscated a
huge chunk of propery. This comes as no suprise, the crown has been doing
this for 164 years already.
Lots of NZers like to think we live in a clean green, progressive, liberal
place. Perhaps I should buy a pair of the rose tinted glasses they must be
wearing, cos frankly this place is turning into a craphole.