WHAT DID THE TREATY REALLY SAY?

It's time we all decided, "What did the Treaty of Waitangi really say", and not leave it to the lawyers and the Waitangi Tribunal to distort it for their own personal $$$$$ gain and hidden $$$$$ agendas. Over the last 30 years, we have been led to believe it was a "Partnership between Maori and the Crown" and "It only gave non-Maori the right to be in New Zealand", but let's take a closer look to see what it really said.

First of all, there is only one Treaty version and it is in the Maori language, "Te Tiriti o Waitangi" translated from Governor Hobson's final draft (the Littlewood Treaty document) by Rev Henry Williams and his son Edward, on the 4 February 1840 and signed at Waitangi on the 6 February 1840. Many copies of this document were then signed over the following months and New Zealand became British soil under British Rule/Law. Governor Hobson never authorised or made an English version of the Treaty.

The Treaty consists of a Preamble, Three Articles/Laws and the Consent. Over the last 20 years, the Preamble has been deliberately omitted from the Treaty to allow the Waitangi Tribunal, using the "Five Principles", to interpret the Treaty to suit the claim it is hearing at the time. The Waitangi Tribunal is now the sole interpreter of the re-written Treaty of Waitangi. By removing the Preamble, the Treaty has no meaning and the Articles/Laws relate to nothing. Today, The Treaty is interprets to be, "A Partnership between Maori and the Crown". This was never Hobson's or the Chief's intention.

"The Preamble of the Treaty is its essence"

The Preamble of the Treaty is its "essence". It explains why a Treaty was needed and once signed; New Zealand would become British soil under British Rule/Law, stating. "Now the Queen is desirous to establish a Government, that evil may not come to the Maoris or the Europeans who are living without law. Now the Queen has been pleased to send me, William Hobson, a Captain in the Royal navy, to be Governor to all places of New Zealand that may be given up/ceded now or hereafter to the Queen; and he give forth to the chiefs of the Assembly of the Hapus of New Zealand and other Chiefs, the laws spoken of here". (Britain could only make laws if she had full sovereign rights over New Zealand. The Articles were the Laws Britain would impose on both Maori and European, if Britain obtained Sovereignty.) Over 540 chiefs signed the Tiriti o Waitangi and New Zealand was declared; British soil under British Rule/Law on the 21 May 1840.

It must be remembered, Hongi Hika had returned from England in 1820 with over 300 muskets and had gone on a rampage South; slaughtered thousands of his fellow countrymen to avenge old scores or just for the sport and the feast that followed. The Southern tribes were now arming themselves with muskets to travel North for revenge - utu. The Northern tribes were in fear of this and in 1831, wrote to the King asking him to be their protector.

In 1832, Britain sent a Resident, James Bubsy to bring peace to the Tribes and the Europeans, but without armed forces or any authority in New Zealand, this was an impossible task. Busby did get the Chiefs to sign a Declaration of Independence in 1835. The signatures to this declaration pledged to assemble annually to form laws for the promotion of peace, justice and trade, but the ever presents inter-tribal tension and fighting took precedence over political co-operation, as always, and it was abandoned. It finally became evident that the chiefs could not form a united working Government.

The Chiefs and the Settlers, then asked for more protection and after many years of debate - Britain did not want any more Colonies, especially so far from home - she reluctantly agreed to intervene. To intervene with authority, Britain had to obtain Sovereignty by Treaty, without force, over the whole of New Zealand.

The Preamble of the Treaty ceded Sovereignty of New Zealand to Britain and New Zealand became British soil under British Rule/Law, taking away all Maori Rights, including customary rights and indigenous rights within New Zealand forever. The British Subjects inherited the same rights within New Zealand as if in Britain.

The Articles returned to Maori the same rights as a British Subject. "Ki nga Rangatira - ki hapu - ki tangata katoa o Nu Tirani - To the Chiefs and Tribes and to all the people of New Zealand". Article Two gave the same rights, "To all the people of New Zealand", both Maori and non-Maori.

It is true, the Crown has not always honoured the Treaty, but most of the major claims against the Crown by Maori were settled in the 1940's with "full and final settlements" but many are being re-negotiated and resettle again today. This will be repeated over and over again as "Generation Settlements" if we do not honour the Treaty and put a stop to it now.

It must be remembered; Maori assimilated by force, the "original" inhabitants of New Zealand. Maori have never been "indigenous" to New Zealand, they just arrived about 300 years before other people then surrendered New Zealand to the British by Treaty in 1840, which then gave Maori the same rights as a British Subject. No More - No less!

Maori today are not the people who signed the Treaty in 1840. As Mr John Clark, Race Relations Conciliator of Maori descent stated, "Maori today, are a people with Maori ancestry as one sees in legislation", but they still have their special "Maori" seats in Parliament and their own "Maori" political party

Non -Maori also have claims against the Crown, but they do not have a taxpayer funded "apartheid" Tribunal to hear their claims using selected and/or fabricated oral research that goes unchallenged (non-Maori can not participate) to make their unfounded recommendations to Government. The Waitangi Tribunal breaches the Treaty by allowing a tribunal, fully funded by the taxpayers, to only hear Maori claims. This was never the intention of Her Majesty the Queen when she agreed to protect Maori the same as Her British Subjects.

The Tiriti o Waitangi is a very simple document, so what does it really say. It said that all the people of New Zealand would be treated the same under the same law, same flag.

This was sealed with a handshake by Governor William Hobson with each of the chiefs that signed the Tiriti o Waitangi on the 6 February 1840 at Waitangi with the words, "He iwi tahi tatou - We are now one people", under the same law, same flag!!

If you don't believe this, I suggest you get your own copy of the Tiriti o Waitangi and read it. You will be surprised by what it really said and hopefully we can all honour it and write our Constitution as Governor Hobson and the Chiefs who signed it, intended and agreed in 1840. See below, the official translation of the Tiriti o Waitangi made by the Native Department in 1869.

The Treaty said; "There is only one law, one flag for all the people, irrespective of race colour or creed".

So what went so horribly wrong?

In 1975, the Labour Government introduced the apartheid Treaty of Waitangi Act, which gave Maori only, a tribunal to hear their grievances against the Crown.

In the early eighties, Sir Geoffrey Palmer, who had just arrived back from the United States after studying American Civil Rights, decided to get into politics and force his Civil Rights philosophy on the people of New Zealand. First he allowed the Waitangi Tribunal to hear claims dating back to 1840. Then he completely rewrote the Treaty with his "Five Principles for Crown Action on the Treaty of Waitangi" to allow the Waitangi Tribunal to interpret the Treaty to suit the claim it was hearing at the time. The apartheid Waitangi Tribunal was now the sole interpreter of the Treaty of Waitangi. He also brought in the State Owned Enterprise Act, which gave Maori and the Waitangi Tribunal rights they had never dreamt of. Everything now revolved around the "Five Principles" and the "State Owned Enterprise Act" . The Treaty claims industry/Waitangi Tribunal was now completely in control. The Hon Rodney Hyde, Act Party endorsed Geoffrey Palmer's involvement in creating these fraudulent "Principles" in his speech in support of "The Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Deletion Bill". See below.

In early 1990, both Palmer and Lange woke up the terrible mistake they had made and tried to correct it on the ABC's Four Corners Programme, "Trick or Treaty" but it was too late. Palmer even wrote in his book, "New Zealand Constitution in Crisis", "It was on this background, with adaptations, I draw my basis for legislation to advance Maori, I was wrong".

They both disappeared from politics a few month later at the hight of their Political careers and left the people and the country to sort out the mess they had left behind!! Hopefully, Geoffrey Palmer's son, Mathew Palmer, the Deputy Solicitor General will correct the wrongs of his father in his new book about to be released, "The Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand's Law and Constitution", but don't hold your breath, he is, like his father, a lawyer!!.

The National Government came to power in 1990 and too afraid of upsetting Maori, which they feared could end in a civil war, continued with giving the country to Maori. The Labour Government returned to power in 1999, but by now it was too late to change, so continued to give the country and its assets to Maori but no more so than Dr Michael Cullen, the Minister in Charge of Treaty Negotiations has achieved over the last 12 months. Millions of acres of land and millions of dollars in cash and assets and in most cases, without one document of support, allowing Parliament and the people to be misled by failing in his duties as Attorney General.

The Government knows it's wrong, but feels it is too late to stop. Over the last few years it has engage in a $6.5 million dollar propaganda show, The Treaty 2 U Exhibition, aimed mainly at young children, to brainwash the people into believing their distorted version of the Treaty and to substantiate the millions of acres and millions of dollars in cash and assets it has given and will continue to give to one small group of New Zealanders who can claim some minute trace of Maori ancestry. Let's hope Mr Mathew Palmer's book, "The Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand's Law and Constitution", sorts out this mess!!

Without the Treaty and British protection the Maori asked for, it is more than likely, Maori would have joined the ranks of the Ngati Hotu, the Moriori and the Moa!!!!

It's time we checked out what the Treaty really said. It definitely did not say, "There is one law for Maori and one law for the rest of us", but this is what Government is forcing on the people today and it must stop if we are to honour the Tiriti o Waitangi as our ancestors intended!!

The Treaty said; "There is only one law, one flag for all the people, irrespective of race colour or creed".

Hopefully, this National Government will honour the Tiriti o Waitangi as our ancestors intended by deleting the "Five Fraudulent Principles", the "Unfounded Partnership" and abolishing the "Apartheid Waitangi Tribunal".

For further information, click onto, www.onenzfoundation.co.nz or www.treatyofwaitangi.net.nz or read the One New Zealand Foundation's produced book,

"The Littlewood Treaty - The True English text of the Treaty of Waitangi Found", By Martin Doutre

Researcher Department, One New Zealand Foundation Inc.

The "Official" Translation of the Tiriti o Waitangi Made by the Native Department in 1869.

This "official" translation is virtually word perfect to Governor Hobson's final draft, the Littlewood treaty document, although they had never crossed paths. The main difference, "the People of New Zealand" was change to "the Chiefs and Hapus of New Zealand" in the Preamble and Article Three, "All the Maoris of New Zealand. Article Two was unchanged from the Hobson's final draft "To all the people of New Zealand" as it referred to "All the people of New Zealand irrespective of race colour or creed".

TIRITI o WAITANGI

Victoria, Queen of England, in her kind thoughtfulness to the Chiefs and Hapus of New Zealand, and her desire to preserve to them their chieftainship and their land, and that peace may always be kept with them and quietness, she has thought it a right thing that a Chief should be sent here as a negotiator with the Maoris of New Zealand - that the Maoris of New Zealand may consent to the Government of the Queen of all parts of this land and the islands, because there are many people of her tribe that have settled on this land and are coming hither.
Now the Queen is desirous to establish the Government, that evil may not come to the Maoris and the Europeans who are living without law.
Now the Queen has been pleased to send me, William Hobson, a Captain in the Royal Navy, to be Governor to all the places of New Zealand which may be given up now or hereafter to the Queen; and he give forth to the Chiefs of the Assembly of the Hapus of New Zealand and other Chiefs the laws spoken here.

The First
The Chiefs of the Assembly, and all Chiefs also who have not joined the Assembly, give up entirely to the Queen of England for ever all the Government of their lands.

The Second
The Queen of England arranges and agrees to give to the Chiefs, the Hapus and all the people of New Zealand, the full chieftainship of their lands, their settlements and their property. But the Chiefs of the Assembly, and all the other Chiefs, gives to the Queen the purchase of those pieces of land which the proprietors may wish, for such payment as may be agreed upon by them and the purchaser who is appointed by the Queen to be her purchaser.

The Third
This is an arrangement for the consent to the Government of the Queen. The Queen of England will protect all the Maoris of New Zealand. All the rights will be given to them the same as her doings to the people of England.

William Hobson Consul and Lieutenant Governor

Now, we the Chiefs of the Assembly of the Hapus of New Zealand now assembled at Waitangi. We also, the Chiefs of New Zealand, see the meaning of these words: they are taken and consented to altogether by us. Therefore are affixed our names and marks.This done at Waitangi, on the sixth day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty, of Our Lord.

No "Partnership" or "Principles" in this Treaty, just one law, one flag for all the people, irrespective of race, colour or creed.

RODNEY HYDE'S PARLIAMENTARY SPEECH - THE TREATY "PRINCIPLES" ARE OUTRIGHT FRAUD

Below is part of Rodney Hyde's speech in support of "The Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Deletion Bill"... to get rid of the most idiotic and destructive legislation ever forced upon the longsuffering people of New Zealand.

RODNEY HIDE (Leader-ACT): It is amazing how this real accident of the principles of the Treaty being inserted into our legislation could achieve such constitutional status and have such high-minded speeches being given about it. The truth of what happened is that in the State-Owned Enterprises Act that Geoffrey Palmer was negotiating with Maori, he thought he had pulled a fast one because he put in the provision about the principles of the Treaty. Maori felt really good about that.

Geoffrey Palmer then went back to Cabinet and told them not to worry, that it did not mean anything. That is what Sir Geoffrey Palmer said-that putting the principles of the Treaty into legislation did not mean anything. Then the discussion around the Cabinet table was that normally judges like to think that the experience of putting something into legislation must mean something, and that Parliament would have intended something. But Sir Geoffrey Palmer said: "No, it's OK. It doesn't mean anything." Of course, what has happened now is that it has grown into a huge industry. We should make a distinction between the Treaty and the principles, because it is huge.

Shane Jones: It's part of the constitution.

RODNEY HIDE: Well, Shane Jones talked about it being part of the Maori constitution. That may be true, but the problem is that if one accepts that Parliament is Sovereign, then it is for Parliament to decide what the rules are and what the law is, and it has never done it for these principles. We hear Ministers and other people getting up in this Chamber to say that the principle means this or the principle means that. What sort of jurisprudential adventure is that? They say: "Oh, the principles of the Treaty!" and wave their hands and get all solemn about it but do not actually determine what it means. They leave it up to unelected bureaucrats and judges-poor things-to interpret what it all means.

THE END.