Hypocrisy abounds
Labour and the Maori Party are lining up with their new Messiah Winston to agree that awful Don Brash is evil for what he said. I mean how dare he bring bloodlines into it.
Now according to NewstalkZB, guess which politician in 2000 called for an end to a dual electoral system in which the only qualification to vote is based on race, in some cases as diluted he said, as one part in five hundred and twelve?
Only three guesses allowed.
Give Up?
It was Winston Peters!!!
UPDATE: Oh I have found the full speech. It makes Peters look incredibly stupid as he went well beyond what Brash has said. Some quotes:
We say it is time for them to go. We must end a dual electoral system in which the only qualification to vote is based on RACE – in some cases as diluted as one part in five hundred and twelve.
Under the Electoral Act, anybody of Maori descent or claims to be a Maori can apply for registration on the Maori Roll.
(Maori can also apply to go on the General Roll and in fact over half of them are on it!)
In 1993 there were four Maori seats – in 1999 there were six.
It has been estimated that over the next forty years or so, up to thirty per cent of the population will have some Maori blood – in many cases only a few drops.
What is to be feared is the prospect of demands for 30 or 40 Maori seats.
That would be plainly ridiculous.
And it is just as ridiculous to look at some of these benefactors of Treaty claims who are of mixed descent.
Ask yourself, if a claimant is one eighth Maori, does he or she get one eighth of the amount they would have received from the claim if they had been of full Maori blood.
Or does the seven eighths European part of that person pay?
What is to stop a very wealthy person, say with less than one per cent Maori blood, benefiting from a Treaty claim. Does the other ninety nine per cent pay?
The mind boggles.
In New Zealand we have been caught in a time warp, obsessed with the past, we neglect our present and our future and Maori and New Zealand is paying an enormous price for this failure.
Hence forth economic and social policy must be based on need not race.