For years now, people who should know better have been spreading misinformation about Ihumātao. Now that a deal has been made, it’s time to set the record straight on some of these repeated falsehoods.
Didn’t ‘the iwi’ sell the land in the first place?
Nope, the block of land named the Ōruarangi block was stolen by the government in 1865. The 81 acre block was then granted to the Wallace family in 1867, who sold the land to Fletcher Residential in 2016.
The block was part of more than 1.2 million acres of confiscated land, stretching from Auckland through King Country under the New Zealand Settlements Act, that allowed the confiscation of land belonging to any tribe who were judged to have rebelled against the Queen’s authority. This breached the Treaty of Waitangi. At Ihumātao, 1,100 acres were confiscated. 260 acres were eventually restored to Māori deemed not to have engaged in acts of ‘rebellion’ against the Crown. Ihumātao is stolen land.
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Photo: Pania Newton, front and centre of the protectors at Ihumātao. (Photo: Jess Thompson Māori Mermaid) .. @ thespinoff.co.nz
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Nice little Marxist trick the government has pulled here. Obviously the protestors don’t want the land becoming “private property” ie Fletchers. So Aunty Jacinda comes to the rescue. Who owns the land now?
The Government, our Globalist/Socialist Labour Government, bought it for $30 million.
Under Marxist Communism, all “private property” is abolished and the government owns it all. Not the Tangata Whenua. That would amount to “private property” under Maori ownership.
What happened at Ihumatao is pure Marxism in action.
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Yes & the govt stole it in the very first place. As they do. Agenda 21/30.
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