Maori party should learn from Michael Somare – Gangsters can’t be trusted!
By VICTOR LAL
The agony of the people of Fiji, to a large extent, can be laid at the door of Papua New Guinean Prime Minister Michael Somare (and a few others) who constantly talked of dealing with the anti-democracy gangsters and gun-haw-haw coupsters in the so-called Pacific Way.
The Maori Party’s Tariana Turia and Pita Sharples should go to Papua New Guinea and have a word with Somare, who will give them a better picture of the psychological state of the present goons in Fiji.
He thought he was dealing with brotherly and sisterly Pacific Islanders, only to find out that they were devils in disguise, feasting on their own people.
If Somare had taken a tough stance with Australia and New Zealand, the gangsters might have thought twice before tearing up the 1997 Constitution, dismissing the Judiciary (which also had been propping them up), not to mention being thrown out of the Pacific Islands Forum.
Turia and Sharples must be told that Frankstein, at the insistence of Khaiyum and others, had been against the Qoliqoli Bill and for the i-taukei to be masters in their own land.
Whenever a taukei Fijian stands up for the rights of his or her people, he is slammed as a racist. Echoes of what Turia and Sharples have faced in New Zealand – that the two Maoaris are dangerous and racists.
Like the Qoliqoli Bill, Turia and Sharples put the Foreshore and Seabed Bills before the NZ Labour Party’s wider policies. Helen Clark sacked Turia from her ministerial posts, with Clark saying Turia had shown “an astonishing lack of perspective”.
Turia only joined the John Key government on the condition that guaranteed Maori seats will not be abolished without the consent of Maoris – something totally opposite happening in Fiji – the gangsters on the rampage, destroying Fijian culture, identity, power, land etc, etc, etc , with the help of a group of conniving and cunning Indo-Fijians.
I say to Turia and Sharples that like the present gangsters in Fiji, you two do not represent the vast majority of the Maori.
Remember 2000, the same Franskstein did not want to see the Maori when they travelled to Fiji to give their support to George Seight.
Now, when it suits him, Frankstein and Khaiyum have invited you two down to coup coupland.
We may recall Speight’s words: “Er, you might notice behind me I have some Maori brothers of mine who have come from afar, the Land of the Long White Cloud, to come and express their support for the cause and just to visit with me and to say, you know, George we think what you’re doing for your people is the right thing.”
The nonsense coming out of a few members of the Maori Party reminds me of the worlds of lawyer and Maori activist Anthony Sinclair, who not only supported but he delivered a broadside at former regional leaders like Prime Minister John Howard: “I think the comments by the Prime Minister at the moment, Howard, are nothing short of racist, inflammatory, and he’s got enough problems on his own doorstep, and he should keep his thoughts and his vision in trying to settle the issues of Aboriginal people before he starts making comments out on the Pacific.”
The people of Fiji have no intention to be helped by the likes of Turia and Sharples – please go to Michael Somare, who will give you a pen portrait of the profile of the gangsters – who had even taken him for a ride since the 2006 coup.
