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The government website states: 'By the end of 2003, there had been 18 settlements of historical Treaty claims, with a total value of about $580 million.'

In the 1960's we heard a news snippet about the United States government allocating $30 million dollars in aid for Indians living in deprived or squalid circumstances on the reservations. Although the sum doesn't sound like much by today's standards, it was a huge amount at the time. The organisation given the responsibility of distributing the money was the Bureau of Indian Affairs. By the time the sum had passed through their hands, virtually all of it had been absorbed by the internal administration and only a paltry amount was left over for the benefit of the poor and needy Indians. The "fat-cats" had taken the lion's share.

The New Zealand government would have us believe that a sum of $580,000,000 represents the total cost of the Treaty Claims process to date, when in fact it represents only a very small part of the overall "grievance industry" cost to the New Zealand taxpayer.

Alongside the sum of $580,000,000, as seen on the government website there is, conveniently, no mention of "lawyer's fees" or other very substantial costs associated with operating the largely clandestine ("behind closed doors") decision making procedures of the all-Maori "Waitangi Tribunal". Donna Hall, wife of Waitangi Tribunal judge, Eddie Durie, is, for example, purported to have "earned" about $20,000,000 out of treaty claims up until the year 2002 or so. Then there are Eddie Durie's wages to consider, as well as those of a raft of other parasites and hanger's-on, living eternally off the grievance industry. The fact is, there are floor after floor of fat-cat lawyers in high rise buildings all over New Zealand working full time on "treaty claims" continuously. It's a multi-billion dollar, growth industry.

Here's a Herald Newspaper article from 1999, indicating some of the corruption and skulduggery that are the norm or "business as usual" in the claims process:

RESEARCHERS "PRESSURED TO CHANGE FINDINGS" (New Zealand Herald Wednesday 17 November 1999).

Some Treaty of Waitangi claimants have asked researchers to change findings that would be unhelpful to their cases, says the Chairman of the Waitangi Tribunal, Chief Judge Eddie Durie. Justice Durie also said that some tribes had even tried to make the payments of researchers conditional on findings being altered in their favour. He said the issue - and several others - had raised questions about the need for a code of ethics for researching claims lodged under the Treaty.

The comments were in a paper, Ethics and Values, released on the Indigenous Peoples and the Law Website.
Justice Durie said some groups had required commissioned researchers to remove material unhelpful to the claimant's cases or amend their conclusions. Sometimes this was a condition of the researchers being paid. Some also presented biased claims, omitting evidence against their evidence that should be presented. "There are also complaints from researchers of instructions, not to consult with certain persons or only those approved by the groups", said Justice Durie. Justice Durie said that other issues covered by a code of ethics were;

A view by some claimants that kaumatua opinions and recollections should not be challenged or cross examined.

Whether all evidence presented should be publicly available.

He said, "The Tribunal is able to restrict the publication and availability of material, but blanket restrictions gives the appearance of secrecy and undermines public confidence in the process".

Click picture to enlarge. Weekend Herald of July 10-11th 2004.

Assets like The Crown Forest Rental Trust have been systematically plundered for years to provide money to research claims against our "state forests". By 1997 the sum paid to Maori researchers, out of this fund alone, had already topped $25,000,000. The Crown Forest Rental Trust is supposed to be a public asset owned by "all the people of New Zealand", but is one of many "cash cows" continuously milked by grievance industry bloodsuckers.

If the true wording of the Treaty of Waitangi were adhered to, then the grievance industry would cease to exist overnight, as it would have no lawful foundation. It is an enduring scam and deception of huge proportions, which might have cost New Zealanders over $20 Billion or more in stolen assets during the past 25-30 years.

With no wording within the Treaty of Waitangi to legitimise any such action, the government, on 18/6/04, gave away hugely valuable rights for coastal aquaculture ownership to Maori, knowing full well that international big business will ultimately end up owning the multi-billion dollar asset. This ploy by the government, without any mandate from the people of New Zealand, was a way to, once again, steal the resources and inheritance of all New Zealanders and make it available to the globalists.

The truth is that there is NO MENTION of any special "customary rights" over Forests & Fisheries in the final English draft of the Treaty or in the Maori version of the Treaty. British Resident, James Busby included mention of these items in his 3rd of February rough draft, but they were dropped from the final draft when it was upgraded to the requirements of the Colonial Office. Busby had forgotten to mention the "settlers" or family of Queen Victoria (Ngati Wikitoria)...an oversight that Hobson and other advisors rectified on the evening of the 3rd and morning/ afternoon of the 4th of February 1840. The final Treaty wording gave rights/ chieftainship (Tino rangitiratanga) to all New Zealanders equally over all their lands and possessions (taonga). Everybodies "customary rights" were included and no single group was given any form of preferential treatment over anyone else. We were, simply, all New Zealanders, altogether, who had become British subjects or citizens altogether. He Iwi Tahi Tatou - We Are Now One People.

We will endeavour to do a tally-up showing the magnitude of the overall grand-theft spanning decades, but, since about 1992, government has refused to divulge publicly the full amount they've stolen off the greater population.

Full and final settlements of "legitimate" outstanding claims were, supposedly, completed by 1947. There has, at the same time, never been redress for all that was stolen off the Europeans, who, inevitably, bought the same lands many times over in places like Taranaki...yet had to forfeit their purchases, without compensation, time and time again.

More coming soon.