New Zealand MP Defends Osama Bin Laden on Maori Morning TV

[Small Geezer]

Click on the 'cc' on the bottom right-hand corner of the youtube box thing to get subtitles. Harawira is a veteran Maori rights activist and leftist. His new Mana Party is supported by many leftists across the sectarian divide.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in3dErz-u2w (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in3dErz-u2w)

[Stranger Than Paradise]

This guy is painting Bin Laden as some kind of freedom fighter, he certainly wasn't.

Just a snippet of some of his reactionary views: "These Jews are masters of usury and leaders in treachery. They will leave you nothing, either in this world or the next."

[Sperm-Doll Setsuna]

This guy is painting Bin Laden as some kind of freedom fighter, he certainly wasn't.

Ronald Raygun fancied he was, though, that's a funny thing.

Who is this guy anyway? Wouldn't praising Laden as a freedom-fighter be more or less political suicide?

[Commissar Rykov]

This guy is painting Bin Laden as some kind of freedom fighter, he certainly wasn't.

Just a snippet of some of his reactionary views: "These Jews are masters of usury and leaders in treachery. They will leave you nothing, either in this world or the next."

Exactly, bin Laden was just your typical militant theocrat who felt his God Fanclub was more correct than the others.

[gorillafuck]

This guy thinks Mujihadeen fought for freedom? That's what Bin Laden was.

Lol.

(this is accurate).

[Trigonometry]

Is it me or are they not speaking English?

Because it seems like you other guys are understanding it fine

[Crux]

Yeah, pretty much everyone on revleft also speak maori. Strange coincidence.


You could try clicking the CC-button to get subtitles though if you need them.

[Small Geezer]

Who is this guy anyway? Wouldn't praising Laden as a freedom-fighter be more or less political suicide?

It's not necessarily political suicide in NZ due to the Mixed Member Proportional system where you can have MPs from small parties with some strange views who attract votes from a small segment of the population who don't give a fuck about such things, for example.

Hone's supporters are leftists and Maori who are sick of the compromises the mainstream Maori Party have made with the governing 'centre right' party in it's semi-coalition agreement.

Another issue which has troubled alot of sovereignty-minded Maori was the October 15th 2008 so called 'terror raids'. This was the anti-terrorist units' raid on a small town in the remote Ureweras region which really terrorised the completely civilian and peaceful community in the process of clamping down on some fucking bizarre idea of a terrorist plot concocted by anarchists and Maori sovereigntists. The Security Intelligence Service have been reading too many Tom Clancy novels I think.

So we have a segment of the Maori population, quite significant actually, who are sick of this bullshit and are excited by the prospect of a left-wing, pro-Maori party with left wing policies (rebuliding unions, financial transactions tax, abolition of Government Savings Tax or 'Value added Tax', housing for the poor and retention of state owned enterprises.)

So these supporters wouldn't be too concerned about some gaffe like the Osama comment.

One problem with all this however is the wrath of the New Zealand 'mainstream' who are the comfortable workers, the professionals, small businesspeople and assorted dumb fuckwits who will see the emergence of a party like Hone's as an excess of MMP.

There is a referendum in the next General Election in november on whether to retain the current proportional electoral system.

The Mana Party is a red rag to a bull for a lot of these types and it would probably increase the anti-MMP vote.

[Small Geezer]

This is Hone in the NZ parliament asking about another thuggish act of settler-state power demonstration. Don't worry, it's in english.

This is in regards to a government deal with the Brazillian state-owned Petrobras company exploring off shore oil that until recently, due to state confiscation, would have been Maori waters.

There was a protest by the local tribe or Iwi which was dealt with by the army.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw25JFaIwQo&NR=1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw25JFaIwQo&NR=1)