What are your views on the hikoi? Has Hone Harawira pulled his support from it? A fellow activist calls the hikoi an embarrassment...
Maori activist calls foreshore hikoi 'embarrassment'
A hikoi due to arrive at parliament today brings shame to Maori and leaders should call it off, a Ngapuhi activist says.
A hikoi opposed the Government's Marine and Coastal Area Bill left Northland in mid-March and was expected to arrive in Wellington today.
The bill repeals the previous law and gives iwi the ability to seek customary rights and customary title through negotiation with Government or the High Court - although they will still have to prove exclusive use and occupation since 1840.
David Rankin said the hikoi would have no impact on the passage of the bill and protesters should focus on helping quake-ravaged Christchurch instead.
Mr Rankin, chair of the Hone Heke Foundation, said the small hikoi of about 100 people was an embarrassment.
"To most sensible people, this would be a good reason to call the whole thing off but these protesters are not normal and they are bringing shame to Maori."
He said Hone Harawira, former Maori Party MP, had encouraged the hikoi only to withdraw his support when it looked likely to fail.
The bill removes the foreshore and seabed from Crown ownership and makes it a public place - essentially the same as a public domain - with access guaranteed and no one having the right to sell any of it.
- NZPA (22/3/2011)
david rankin should use his family chopping skills and go and cut some firewood for his kuia and kaumatua (elders) for this winter and make a great change in his and their lives.
ReplyDeleteYou know what david rankin? 10% of men get all the girls!, (and sadly,like you!) the rest get their asses kicked in. They do not have a fricken clue what the hell is going on (they are the GIRLIE MEN) bangin the crap out of their heads (oh, yeh, and getting it banged out by their leaderless bitch) repeatedly because they do not know the truth. They are failures!
Davi rankin is the worst sort of GIRLIE MAN.
^Abuse of position david rankin!
You Insult our Tupuna HONE HEKE, HONGI HIKA and many more GREAT Tupuna! You have no WAIRUA! No MANA! You have given the public notice, that you are in fact david rankin the GI GIRLIE MAN ;/(
Someone had to drive this message home in the language david rankin excels in GIRLIEMANrerorero…and ah YES, a very sad case
Ungodly David Rankin, Even individual acts of opposition to the travesty imposed upon the Maori Nation by the settler government are God Sanctioned and God blessed.
ReplyDeleteAs you think, You are not God David Rankin
Davi rankin is the worst sort of GIRLIE MAN.
ReplyDelete^Abuse of position david rankin!
You Insult our Tupuna HONE HEKE, HONGI HIKA and many more GREAT Tupuna! You have no WAIRUA! No MANA! You have given the public notice, that you are in fact david rankin the GI GIRLIE MAN ;/(