We have been lied to:
And now the deceitful lying pack of bastards is trying to ensure that we cannot undo their attempts at stealing the resources of NZ from the taxpayers who rightfully own them.
The Government has been caught sneaking a rarely-used legal provision into the proposed Three Waters legislation which will make it harder for Parliament to overturn.
This week, while Parliament sat under urgency pushing legislation through, Labour and the Greens added a provision that means once Three Waters becomes law; it would take 60 per cent of MPs to overturn it, instead of a simple majority which applies to almost every law passed, except for a few constitutional matters.
Let’s take a brief look at the whole Three Waters Reform Proposals and we can start by stating exactly why the government has been so intent on pushing this legislation through the house.
Right from the start, the Three Waters proposals have always been about giving control of water to Maori. The confiscation of water assets from councils and centralising them into four mega Water Services Entities, introducing ‘co-governance’ arrangements and ‘Te Mana o te Wai Statements’ were all designed to give control of water to a tribal elite of Maori.
‘Co-governance’ is just another way of describing ‘tribal rule’. It’s ‘sounds’ equitable, even though it’s profoundly discriminatory since it gives tribal minorities veto rights over those representing the majority (87%) of New Zealanders.
Through lies, devious decisions, suborning of the media and an absolute majority in the House Labour, under the guidance of the Minister of Local Government Nanaia Mahuta with support from the so-called Maori caucus has been able to progress the reforms to where they are now.
Labour has tried to use urgency to push the Water Entities Bill through parliament and it was only after our Prime Minister was caught out lying in answer to questions from Newstalk ZB’s Barry Soper that the bill was withdrawn for what she claimed was to be a clarification.
Soper asked her why the three waters (fresh water, storm water and waste water) had suddenly become five waters (with the late addition of coastal and geothermal water) in the amended Water Services Entities Bill; Prime Minister Ardern flatly denied that was the case.
For the Prime Minister to deny the facts when all she needed to do was to read the Bill that was being introduced to the house after its consideration by the select committee and their recommended changes to add geothermal and coastal waters, and she would see that they had actually been added into the bill.
For the Prime Minister to deny observable facts is evidence of either her lying to the reporter or of her incompetence in not knowing the facts behind what is the most controversial piece of legislation that has been sent into the house in recent history and can only end up leaving her deeply and shamefully embarrassed at being caught out like this.
For the Prime Minister to be caught red-handed, in such behaviour is absolutely alarming and when taken into account with all of the other instances of lies and deception in the promotion of this bill and the attempt to entrench in law a contentious policy position that would require a 60% majority to overturn it after the public consultation had been completed, without any real debate and while the House was sitting under urgency is more than enough justification for the Bill to be withdrawn from the house and put back out for public consultation on these unconstitutional changes.
But it seems that the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was ready to deny reality when questioned by Soper last Tuesday.
Ardern told Soper that: “The reference [to coastal and geothermal water] in the legislation does not change the scope of Three Waters. It’s only about the drinking water, waste water and storm water.”
Soper replied that: “It extends into coastal and geothermal, if you read the legislation, which I’ve done this morning.”
Ardern again replied, with such stilted diction it sounded as if she was reading from a press statement: “I have read the legislation. It does not change its scope… However, I can see, based on your questions, that it has caused, potentially, some confusion. So we’ll ask the drafters whether there’s a way to make it much clearer…”
“So you’re going to have it changed, are you?” Soper asked.
Ardern: “No, [I’m] just going to ask the question whether or not it could be drafted with more clarity because it’s obviously created some confusion.”
In fact, the clause Soper was referring to is perfectly clear. Confusion has only arisen because the Prime Minister decided to argue black was white.
Her attempt to blame Parliament’s legal staff alongside disputing a common-sense reading of a clause smacks of desperation, no doubt because she knows her government is in deep trouble over its underhand move to fulfil Māori aspirations to control all the water in and around New Zealand — via granting iwi the exclusive right to issue Te Mana o te Wai statements that are binding on the four Water Service Entities.
Helping achieve this aim by quietly slipping a highly contentious amendment into a bill that was shortly to have its second reading — and after public submissions had closed and been considered — has to be ranked as one of the most deeply cynical and dishonest manoeuvres in the history of modern New Zealand politics.
Yet, even after her government had been caught out in such a dishonourable move to extend the bill’s coverage beyond three waters, the Prime Minister was keen to pretend it hadn’t actually happened.
The Prime Minister has always had difficulty dealing straightforwardly with dissent or criticism and is clearly allergic to admitting she is wrong — let alone getting around to apologising. She is also not above making stuff up to defend the indefensible.
However, denying that a clause in legislation means what any reasonably intelligent person — or lawyer — would accept its meaning to be is a new and worrying expression of that deep character flaw.
When you ride a very high horse, as the Prime Minister does, falling off can be painful and spectacular.
By any measure you wish to use her government is facing multiple troubles such in education, health, crime, and cost of living, to name just a few of the disasters Ardern is presiding over.
Recently Willie Jackson the Minister of Maori Development addressed a group of 5,000 at a big marae. He shook his fist in the air and proclaimed;
When we have control of the water we have total control of Aotearoa.
Anthony Willy, (Former) Judge and Law lecturer, wrote
We are witnessing a coup designed to dismantle our democracy and the Rule of Law and replace it with the worst form of tribalism…
Opinions are incredibly polarised throughout New Zealand and not only about water. Some, like Willie Jackson, want sovereignty over all water in New Zealand. Principled Kiwis, like Anthony Willy are coming up against a powerful and destructive agenda from the Labour Party. Kiwis are being pitted against each other.
The Labour Government continues to implement their radical and destructive agenda.
The restructuring of health, polytechnics, our legal system and water services are all illegitimate policy changes designed to pass control to the tribal elite. None have public approval.
In this climate of division created by Jacinda Ardern, key institutions are being corrupted from their original purpose of serving all New Zealanders as equals, to prioritising and privileging those of Maori descent. Under her leadership, democracy is being replaced by apartheid.
Jacinda Ardern is not doing this alone. Supporting her are the powerful members of Labour’s 15-strong Maori Caucus.