“Imagine the government leasing your land to someone else, against your wishes, and with an endless right of renewal. You remain the owner in name only. You can’t use it, you can’t cancel the lease and you can’t charge a market rent. For over a century, Māori landowners have had to live with perpetual leases they never agreed to … how does that not create stress, bitterness, hurt, anger, hopelessness … and despite decades of opposition, successive governments have failed to bring them to an end.

If a group of Remuera land owners went to their member of Parliament and said my land’s been leased for a hundred and twenty years, I didn’t agree to it, I can’t stop it, there’d be some outrage. There might be a law change”.

This scenario is a seldom told story. It wasn’t in our educational texts. This and others like it (witness the land-locked Māori lands that cannot be accessed) have been tucked away under tomes of verbiage that those who would control us prefer we didn’t know. An underlying agenda of dividing the populace ensures we don’t unite. Listen with an open mind and have a heart for those affected. Nobody has the will to correct this situation. Lands taken illegally then tied up in long term (perpetual) leases that the owners cannot extricate themselves from. They even pay for the administration of this monstrosity of illegalities. How so? It is unjust. It is not right. And remember, those affected who try to tell the world, they are immediately accused of wanting special treatment. In this instance it should be one rule for all.

Where are all the ‘one rule’ advocates?

Listen at the LINK

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Note: I’ve reposted this story because the original attempt at adding explanatory text (among other things!) failed. For those who watched the original, thank you… for those who didn’t, the info may surprise you. EWNZ

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