Bill English wants violence at 2012 Budget protest

Bill English had nothing but scornful remarks for the students protesting the 2012 Budget outside the Langham Hotel in Auckland. Apart from being an ugly motherfucker who looks like a date rapist, he's about as smarmy as John Key and deserves the smile physically wiped from his face.

How dare he tell students that, ""they need some Greeks to show them how to do it".
Really, English? Is that what you really want happening in central Auckland?

I mean, you must know that there are those of us who believe that violence is a legitimate force of political protest. You do know that, right? You just sentenced two Maori men on the assumption that they would bring about imminent rebellion in a violent fashion. So why taunt students like that?

English then goes on to say, "Yes, there's a protest movement out there but who's really listening to them?"

Certainly not you, English. Not with all those notes and coins you have coming out of your ears.

"Most people actually think the students got a pretty fair go and they should count themselves lucky that they've still got interest free loans and get on with it because, you know, get your training finished and get a job and start contributing."

Who the fuck are most people, Bill? Are you talking about the average New Zealander? The very person who voted you in? Fuck that, Billy Boy. The average NZer is a cow. They're absolutely brain-dead, trotting around in a herd, being milked by their owners, and ruining the climate without even knowing it. New Zealanders are fuckin' cattle, dude.

NZers seem to have an intrinsic distrust of academics. I don't know where it comes from, perhaps from our rural origins, but it's fuckin' shameful when the average NZer shits on students. Without students, without people bettering themselves, this country wouldn't be the innovative, creative wellspring that National touts it as.

Students contribute. To say they don't is to shit on the students who dug deep and physically got involved in the Christchurch Earthquake Relief effort. To say they don't is to shit on those students from poor backgrounds who dream of one day climbing out of their lower socio-economic circumstances so they might help their whanau and community.

The only time Bill English doesn't look like a smarmy advocate for the "ten no's make a yes" method of sexual conquest is when he's sitting in a room full of other rich, old, White men. Then he just looks like everyone else in the room: a carbon-copy image of Evil incarnate.

Fuck you, Bill.

Te Karauna Vs. Urewera Four

And we're almost there, almost at the end of another farcical episode in Crown-Maori relations.

Again, Te Karauna (the Crown) has a bunch of prosecutors who think the Urewera Four should serve jail time for their firearms offenses. The last time I checked, people generally aren't given jail time for firearms offenses. They're given fines.

But in true Karauna fashion, the Urewera Four will be given jail sentences because that's what happens to Maori. Pakeha get a slap on the wrist, a fine perhaps. Maori generally get jail time.

I think Te Karauna needs to give it up. Wash their hands of the whole sorry mess and wait for the next time when Nga Pirihimana (the Police), their urban militia, can roll over another iwi in true goosestepping fashion.

EDIT: Yep, true to fashion, the two men with ta moko kanohi, were sent to prison. Who couldn't see that coming?

Typical shit, ne ra?

Fuck the GC: Give us back our money!

I listened to an interview with Bailey Mackey, the creator of the GC, on Te Ahi Kaa (the exceptional kaupapa Maori show on Radio New Zealand) this week. I found the interview enlightening because Mackey made several very good points about the show.

One point that he made is that Maori media offerings don't always have to be tuturu (I'm paraphrasing). Not every Maori television show has to be staunchly Maori, authentically Maori, deep and meaningfully Maori. Not all Maori are staunchly kaupapa-driven. Just as there are tauiwi/foreign shows on our televisions that aren't meaningfully depicting those particular ethnicities, there is nothing that says every Maori show has to be about tikanga Maori, taha Maori, or particularly kaupapa-driven. Some shows will be tuturu and some shows will be loose and escapist.

I agree with Mackey's sentiments here. It would be absurd to expect that every single Maori media offering were meaningfully Maori. Sometimes, it would be nice to kick back and watch some meaningless TV bullcrap to pass empty time. I personally don't watch meaningless bullcrap unless its comedy, but even then a lot of the comedy I watch is social commentary and satire. I don't find the GC to be particularly funny in a positive way, but perhaps funny because of how vacuous the cast is.

Now while that is all fine and dandy, what I take offense with is the fact that Mackey lied about the content of the show in order to secure taxpayer dollars to fund it. Almost $420,000 was given to him and his production company to produce the GC. He represented the show as being about a group of whanau Maori living in Australia and their attempts to maintain and/or recapture their Maoritanga. Tikanga Maori was presented as being an integral part of the show.

I don't care about the content of the GC. It's fine to have vacuous people on television. Most people on TV are vacuous, let's be honest about that. And I wouldn't have a problem with the show if Mackey had secured funding in an honest way. But he lied. The proposal that he submitted is completely different to what is being presented every week: a group of non-related rangatahi Maori drinking, fighting, partying, etc. Tikanga Maori is essentially non-existent.

He dishonestly secured taxpayer dollars to fund the GC.

I personally think he should give it all back so it can be spent on te reo Maori initiatives or something else Maori tuturu. Because $420,000 would be a nice injection into the upkeep of te reo Maori. We have so many retarded people here in Aotearoa that believe this kind of money is being spent on te reo already (Hello, Louis Crimp) that we might as well have that money set aside for te reo!

Read Tom Frewen's investigative report into the funding proposal for the GC. It's a real eye-opener and absolutely destroys anything Mackey could possibly say to justify the money spent on his empty show.

Kia ora koe, Reesh, for the heads up. Thanks, bro! Keep it real!

Crimpy is a fool.

"The ACT donor’s alarming views were no secret in Southland. Take the time he cancelled his newspaper sub over a crossword with a clue for a Maori word."

This is a Listener article detailing just how racist and insane Louis Crimp is.

Cop that shit!

Crimp said, "also save millions by making the Maori pay for their useless language out of the money they have through treaty settlements."

Well goddamn, Louis, te reo Maori is one of three official languages here in New Zealand. It was the only language spoken here before your ancestors settled here in the 18th and 19th centuries. It's the indigenous language of this country, you Eurocentric geriatric fool. It's not "useless", it's wonderful and rich. I enjoy learning it. I enjoy teaching it to my son.

It's just a damn shame that Crimp's parents (and probably grandparents and every generation all the way back to his settler ancestors) raised him with such bigoted views. Bigotry is perpetuated through generations when parents resort to stereotypes and lies and force-feed those to their children. I pity Louis Crimp.

Old money

What is it with the Haves that they are so frightened of the Have-nots?

When you have so much material junk, so much bank that you can afford to waste it on material junk, why then do you suddenly turn your backs on the Have-nots, knowing that you used to be a Have-not?

What happens to people when they come into money?

When someone works hard, accumulates "wealth" and becomes a Have, why do they start looking down their noses at Have-nots who don't have the ability to work hard enough in this skewed and unbalanced society?

Maori do not have the ability to earn the same money as Pakeha. That's a fact.

People, regardless of ethnicity, who exist on the lower socio-economic rungs of the social ladder have a harder time becoming Haves. How do I know this?

I know it from experience. My parents didn't have the kind of money that all my friends in high school seemed to have. I had to lay-by clothing for several months while I watched the next kid walk up with his Mummy and buy that shirt on the spot. I had a kid buy the same cap I'd just put on lay-by then follow me around the grocery store all whakahihi/show-off about it.

That's right, kid. I don't come from old money. I know how old money corrupts a person and kills what goodness is in their heart, what empathy and compassion they have for their fellow people. When you don't have to work, when you don't have to desire something you can't have, you become a fat, bloated monster. When you can buy whatever you want, whenever you want it, you stop being a human being. You become a consumer, a mindless hole to sink meaningless shit into. You become a mouth without eyes that devours everything without discernment.

When you exist on the lower rungs of the social ladder, it's harder to climb the ladder. You probably weren't sent to the same kinds of schools as the Haves. You probably didn't make friends with, and therefore network with, the other old-moneyed Haves. Networking between the rich makes it easier for the Haves to maintain control of the material junk we all lust over.

Networking between the Haves, between the Louis Crimps, Don Brashs, and John Keys, means our prescription medicine prices go up, thereby making it hard for the Have-nots to seek medical attention.

Networking between the Haves, who dislike any education that doesn't directly relate to business and therefore MONEY, are the ones who make funding cuts to universities. They're the ones who raise the minimum repayment threshold for student loans.

Networking between the Haves means I have a harder time raising a family, because I'm not a Have (though I'm no longer a Have-not, those days are behind me because what I have is knowledge and intelligence and motivation and the Haves can never take that away from me) or I'm not enough of a Have, so as the cost of food, medicine, and everything else rises, I also have more of my wages taken before they get to my bank account.

Higher prices with less money to pay them means the chasm between Rich and Poor, Have and Have-not, gets bigger. It'll enlarge exponentially if old, rich White men like Louis Crimp, Don Brash, and John Key stay in power.

It doesn't matter whose face is on the National Party billboard. It matters who is pumping the money into those parties. It's the face behind the billboard that I worry about.

You should be worried too, New Zealand. One of my best friends said to me, "Only the paranoid survive." I believe him. I know he wasn't the first to say it, but the fact he did say it means a lot. He's not fooled. Nor am I. We haven't been fooled since we were kids and had our eyes opened by important lyrics and the like.

Be paranoid. The Haves want to make all of us the Have-nots. Don't vote the Haves into parliament!

New Zealand is a racist country Pt.3

Louis Crimp.

Remember that name. He's one of the ACT party's biggest donors.

If you want to read some of the most racist crap you will have seen in years, read the news story that the Herald did on him. You can read it here.

Here are some choice excerpts...

"I know white New Zealanders want the Maoris to be treated like ordinary New Zealanders."

Well, Louis, they're not treated like ordinary NZers. Not because they're given any preferential treatment, but because they're treated as second-class citizens. More on this soon.

"All the white New Zealanders I've spoken to don't like the Maoris, the way they are full of crime and welfare."

Apparently, Pakeha don't commit crime and most certainly aren't on welfare, right? Louis, Pakeha are given lesser sentences for the crimes they commit. Maori are invariably given heavier sentences. You can get a knife, chase down a 15 year old Maori boy, and stab him to death if you are Pakeha, and you'll only get four years prison. That's it. The jury will see your White skin and the boy's Brown skin and assume you had a reason for what you did. It's happened.

"Every opportunity the Maoris get they have to do this war dance, whether it is for a funeral or something happy or a wedding. They feel they have to take all their clothes off, stick tongues out and wave spears. That's not New Zealand."

Louis, it is New Zealand. If we didn't have Maori cultural expression, tourists wouldn't have many reasons to come here. It's culture they want to experience, not a Little Britain.

"The Maori language, that is the biggest waste of money that New Zealand has ever spent on anything ... $500 million a year to promote the Maori language."

I doubt that the Government spends that much on te reo Maori initiatives. Unless you consider funding Maori TV a te reo Maori initiative. Should we consider all the other television funding to be an English language initiative?

Regardless of the money that is spent on te reo Maori, which I see as an investment in this country's future, we are a weaker nation for not raising our children bilingual. Many European nations, including Germany and France, raise bilingual children. The Chinese and Japanese raise their children bilingual. It's because bilingualism is an asset. There is no other country in the world where te reo Maori is spoken. It is indigenous to this country. If we don't speak it, it will die. And there goes another tourist drawcard. Why shouldn't the Government support te reo Maori?

Oh, that's right. Because old rich White men don't think they can make money off of it.

"I don't give a stuff what I'm called. You have to look at the facts and figures. This is the problem with New Zealanders. Most of them dislike the Maoris intensely - I won't say hate - but they don't like to say so."

Louis, you're making a generalisation about the opinions of all New Zealanders. You shouldn't do that. You're obviously a businessman, not an academic. I doubt you've done any research into the views of NZers other than sitting in your big house with all  of your rich, White friends moaning about how there are too many labour laws stopping you from enslaving the brownskins.

You're basically saying that White New Zealanders are instrinsically racist and hate - you said, "I won't say hate" knowing damn well people would have that word implanted in their minds when you said it - Maori. NZers don't hate Maori. NZers have been raised to see Maori and Maori culture as substandard, worthless, and alien. That's a failing of the system. Not of Maori.

I've had enough of ranting about this "Invercargill person". I remember a New Year's spent in Glenorchy where I overheard a conversation by three gruff White men to the effect that they thought Ngai Tahu would ruin Glenorchy now that they had a say in its running. Well, shortly after that Lord of the Rings was filmed there (among other places) so I guess Glenorchy had nothing to worry about. But the very prospect that Maori might have any say in the running of things scares the colonialist mindset that dominates in our population.

The Treaty was signed 172 years ago. It hasn't even been two centuries since rapid colonial settlement took place. I think it'll take a little while longer for the myths and lies that the colonial government force-fed the population, right up until the 2000s, to be expunged from this country's collective memory.

THIS is why I'll never step foot in the USA.

The United States of America is a poisonous country. I've talked shit about them since I was a young teenager and I've never stopped. They've done nothing since I was 14 in 1997 that redeemed them in my eyes.

And THIS is the reason why I'll never visit the USA. Because police routinely beat people to death in the street.

While I'm at it: Free Leonard Peltier. If you don't know who he is, you've had 33 years to find out. Wiki that shit.