RODNEY HIDE interviews MICHAEL BASSETT
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- Feb 11, 2024
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Historian, ex-politician and Waitangi Tribunal member Michael Bassett joins Rodney for a discussion on race relations: where we have arrived, and where we are heading. A fascinating reflection full of firsthand experience and insights from a New Zealander first elected to parliament in 1972 to serve under the leadership of Norman Kirk.
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Welfare is indeed a very large part of the problem and getting something for nothing has far too much attraction for too many, as Ngata identified around a century ago.
Chris B, above identifies a good way to motivate those not getting their kids to school - a massive problem that is only going to get worse and cost everyone increasingly more in both money and crime as it works it way through the system.
As part of that action, we also need to stop incentivising the indiscriminate breeding in the first instance, and to also positively promote (by incentivising) a return to the two parent family, which is a root cause of much of the malaise in society today.
There is one message within this interview that came through loud and clear......:
Whilst NZ persists with the Treaty as a means of establishing its future, NZ is wasting its time.
Because: Under the current arrangements any successive government can alter it at will.....
Micheal Basset stresses that option will always exist under the Treaty of Waitangi.
As a society with supposed awareness we would have to acknowledge that fact.
FFS. Currently NZ cannot even predictably establish its past.
Winnie Peters ( a man for all seasons) also declares it as a pile of crap.
NZs major parties (under MMP or FPP) cannot agree and will never agree, irrespective of whom they are composed of.
Have a look at where…
Woolie Jackass, of the "Let's revisit the street-fighting of 1981" ranting, is a fine example of a semi-educated savage. The tragedy is that many (most?) of the MSM can't identify this, or possibly just do not wish to take the trouble of exposing his racist crap.
The side of politics that he occupies cried "mis-information! dis-information!" when sensible folk sought alternative and valid views on the Wuhan 'flu' and the Pfizzzer medication, for example. And now they spread lies about "Seymour wanting to get rid of the treaty" like fertiliser. The dopey media wonks don't pull them up -- they repeat and magnify it.
Of course this leads the indoctrinated Yoof to chant in the streets. It's lunacy. Jack…
I like Michael's sage advice: henceforth all political leaders should give Waitangi a miss. Waitangi 'celebrations' have become a great opportunity for a group of narcissists to grandstand on the national stage. Without targets for their ammunition, the whole pointless drama would fall flat - the most constructive idea I've heard on the subject!