DEMOCRACY

A Maori and a non-Maori co-own a $1000 car.

With democracy, they put in $500 each to make the purchase.

They wash the car together, pay for the registration, warrant, and maintenance together, and have equal time driving it.

They also have 50/50 ownership of a car park. All the expenses connected with the car park are shared equally.

Then the Maori moves up the ladder and becomes a tribal representative.

He wants to change how things are done with the car and the carpark.

He wants to change from democracy to co-governance.

CO-GOVERNANCE

With co-governance, the tribal representative claims 100% ownership of the car and the carpark.  He insists the non-Maori continues to wash the car, pay for the registration, maintenance and warrant.

The tribal representative gets to drive the car whenever he wants. The non-Maori only gets to drive it when the tribal representative is not driving it and pays the tribal representative a fee every time he uses it.

He also charges the non-Maori an on-going fee for parking the car on the car park. When the car is sold, the tribal representative takes all the money.

If the 99.5% NZ sheeple (i.e. the non-tribal representative population of New Zealand) are ready to cede rights and submit to the ultimate authority of a 0.5% tribal representative minority, being pushed through illegally, they should at least do so after studying a clear explanation.

As ex Labour PM David Lange said, co-governance and democracy are absolutely different.

Maori politicians deliberately use terms like “tweaked democracy” or “sophisticated governance” “a new kind of democracy” “co-management” to muddle and confuse the public.

Don’t buy into it. Keep firmly in mind the story of the $1000 car.

Co-governance replaces democracy by a system which redistributes political rights and powers.

How?

It reduces the rights and powers of the 99.5% non-tribal representative population (including 99% of Maori) and gives those rights and powers to Maori tribal representatives  – perhaps less than 0.5% of the population – with power of veto giving them ultimate  power.