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As someone who is half-Maori this just embarrasses me. I don't have a problem with people celebrating their heritage and culture just do it in a more appropriate time and place. I wouldn't have a problem with Irish people celebrating the Saint Patrick's Day just as long as they don't do it during a meeting at parliament.
Maori lawmakers staged a dramatic protest in New Zealand's parliament on Thursday over a controversial bill that seeks to redefine the country's founding agreement between the indigenous Maori people and the British Crown.
Seems like as valid a way to protest vile revisionism and cowardly pandering to a foreign monarch.
No it isn't. If this was on the street then it would be fine but this was a place of law and order where if you don't like something you talk about it like an adult. It was totally unprofessional and performative.
Clearly not, given what was being proposed. This was a legislative attempt to reneg on existing agreements between the Maori People and the British State. It was wildly illegal and provoked an appropriately outraged response.
What the legislators were protesting was the legislative equivalent of a mugging. The exact opposite of law and order. ACT New Zealand's delegates are lucky they got out of there with a bit of dancing. In other countries, that kind of blatant criminality is a hanging offense.
Governments change agreements all the time. There is nothing illegal or unlawful about that. Whether you agree with it or not isn't the point. Just because somebody does something you disagree with doesn't give you the right to throw a fit about it.
I'm eager to see how this community will support the conservatives when they loudly disrupt the debate chamber and silence the Maori members of parliament, now the precedent has been set that this is acceptable behavior.
This comment is unrelated to my position. (Which, for what it's worth, is in favor of the Maori.)
Where i want congress to pick up the old tradition of thowimg raw chicken at each other