Pride and Sovereignty

I prefer that the nation of New Zealand occupy the natural geographic boundary of these particular islands in the South Pacific.  However, given the nature of colonial arrogance, perhaps different Maori tribes should be handed back the reins of their own destiny, including the Tuhoe.  The current situation is that the status quo in New Zealand sees select white political parties selecting judges for political reasons, benefiting from the graft and corruption in the New Zealand Police, who write court submissions not from a memory of the incident but a series of legal ratios required to substantiate the claims they make, and modify the political and economic situation for their and their cronies own ends.

The Maori are peoples descended from unbroken lineages of proud warriors who have maintained personal sovereignty.  They, the white bourgois, say that no man is an island.  Well I disagree.  The Maori tribes, and also organised gangs, provide a means for the young of their group to maintain pride and self-determination through to adulthood.  The white man suffers the need for a totalising unity and uses underhanded and duplicitous means, whereas each young man or woman who has protected their own self and maintained dignity through self expression, can be considered a self-supporting thread of identity and existence.

Until a form of government and justice arises that respects this innate dignity of the Maori, until no longer necessary, the current hegemony must acquiesce to the particular demands and desires of tribes such as the Tuhoe.  To hold that secession is illegal is symptomatic of an ideology that puts itself, recall Nietzche’s ubermensche and the Nazi atrocities, above others.

Postmodernism has signalled the end of the grand narrative, such as the theology of a single, omniscient God or the totalising nature of the concept of humanity.  Now there is an emphasis on the individual threads and relations of personal narratives.  When the current hegemony recognises the differences and similarities of different peoples, allows for differences in value systems and behavioural norms and supports the similarities of rights to personal sovereignty and respect, when there is a pluralist compatability of norms, then perhaps individual tribes such as the Tuhoe would not have to insist on secession.

A confederate system would allow such independence while allowing for the advantages of cooperation which often follow the contours of the land.