Cheers Hone, you arsehole, I really wanted to spend $500k on a by-election

[ellipsis]

....sent my way today...



....Give this person a medal for (un)common sense. Fantastic













Wow!!! it's nice to see some people take responsiblity for their own lives .I wonder how many people will listen to what this chap is saying?





This has to be the Letter of the year - Northern Advocate 14.02.2011. A young man from Ruakaka wrote this.


Letters to the editor:


Hone's views are out of touch.
I am a 20-yr old Maori born in the Far North.
I am sick and tired of Hone Harawira saying he is speaking for all North Maori. Like a lot of my friends, we are not Hone Harawira fans. His mother say's he has always been a leader. No way is he a leader. A leader is someone who can see both sides. Hone is just all for anything Maori.
Look, when his Nephew assaulted the Prime Minister, right away Hone stated "He's a fine young man".. No Hone, he acted like a thug. You would have got my and a lot of other people's respect if you had spoken out against the attack. How verbal would you have been if a Pakeha had attacked our Maori King?
My Grandmother was a very proud Maori woman, her view was the Maori Party was not needed, we are all simply Kiwis..
There is a Statute of Limitations on most grievances; why does it not apply to the Treaty? We have Pakeha & Maori blended happily in our family. My grandmother used to listen to the "I want it's" as she called them, and told me "If you are going to to live in the past, you will never be a part of the future".
No one needs to own the fore-shore. God gave it to us all to enjoy. If Hone wants to help Maori, he could try and put a stop to Maori youth crime and Maori abusing their children. Hone, do you know or care how many Maori children are in care, taken from bad parents? I do, and it is scary.
Tourists robbed at the Falls in Whangarei, again, Maori.. When you talk about Hone's followers, why not try talking to Maori who work and who do not spend all day in pubs and playing the pokies.
Hone talks about Maori health and education being at the bottom of the scrap heap.
I stayed at school and got a degree. I have looked at an old school photo. I am one of two Maori to do this. All the rest dropped out, eight got pregnant, most smoked. Hone, this was their choice. Did their families care? No way. You can't blame Pakeha and the government for everything.
Stop spoon-feeding Maori, Far North Maori have turned into whining "you owe me" no hopers..

[oneofsix]

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Stop spoon-feeding Maori, Far North Maori have turned into whining "you owe me" no hopers..

seems the letter author doesn't understand that Hone just wants a raise in his benefit payments. He will get more as a leader of a party than as a backbencher or independent. Hone is the ultimate "you owe me" no hoper.

[LankyBastard]

Now all we need is the media to pick up on this sort of thing, would be very interesting to see how Hone would reply!!

It has restored my faith. Slightly.

[MisterD]

psst: Don Brash is an inbred (racist) beancounter.

I don't think he's racist in the slightest, but haven't made up my mind whether to vote for him yet...

On that theme, did you seen Tau Henare's quote? "Hone's so racist he puts chocloate milk in his cup of tea."

[avgas]

So, you'd prefer the current white, wealthy old men to make the rules? - which seem to be mainly about making it a great place for other white, wealthy males, and fuck the rest!

Nah what we need is a hot Filipino girl to make the rules.
She can't fuck it up any worse, and at least I would have some eye candy on the political news.
I already have Nadine in the business news.

Ahhhh Nadine. fapfapfapfapfapfapfap....

[ellipsis]

Nah what we need is a hot Filipino girl to make the rules.
She can't fuck it up any worse, and at least I would have some eye candy on the political news.
I already have Nadine in the business news.

Ahhhh Nadine. fapfapfapfapfapfapfap....

...next thing you know, the poor mans taxes are buying 10,000 dollar shoes...by the dozens...

[Bikemad]

Now all we need is the media to pick up on this sort of thing, would be very interesting to see how Hone would reply!!

It has restored my faith. Slightly.

truth is Hone wouldnt reply to that .........from what i have seen when the questions get to tough or sensible Maori like him clam up or back peddle to the ol treaty rip off wah wah

[jim.cox]

The Ratana Church's "Hikoi for Hone" has got off to a quiet start in its bid to pump up support for Mana Party candidate Hone Harawira a week before the Te Tai Tokerau by-election next weekend.

The hikoi to support Mr Harawira and his newly formed Mana Party began at the Kai Maia Ratana Church in south Auckland at first light today with 12 people on a bus for its trip north to Kaitaia.

By the time the bus got through Waitakere in west Auckland, the numbers had dropped to six, said Ratana minister Kereama Pene.

http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-sto...tly-and-fades/

[Swoop]

Interestingly in this part of West Auckland, his billboards have been graffitied, vandalised and attacked en masse.
The liarbour billboards appear untouched.

Could get interesting at election time.

[Banditbandit]

Interestingly in this part of West Auckland, his billboards have been graffitied, vandalised and attacked en masse.
The liarbour billboards appear untouched.

Could get interesting at election time.

Looking at poll results (yeah - I know - ureliable) Labour has a good chance to getting the seat back .. very interesting ... It looks like Tai Tokerau is annoyed with the Maori Party - instead of going with Hone enough voters are switching back to Labour .. enough to give the seat to Labour ...

[oldrider]

The only thing I like about MMP is that it has got Maori more involved in actually running the country!

Unfortunately this Hone circus is distracting them from the real issues and misdirecting their attention away from them.

Never the less, having now entered the political water, there is no turning back and they will get it right in the end.

IMHO running back to Labour is a retrograde step.

Good luck to them, I hope it doesn't take too long to get sorted and back on track!