Te Pāti Māori rages over FBI office
While ignoring murdered Māori babies
Te Pāti Māori is once again in full activist mode, this time calling for a ban on the FBI opening a permanent office in Wellington. According to them, it's a threat to sovereignty, a breach of Te Tiriti, and an attempt to turn Aotearoa into “Donald Trump’s South Pacific Spy-base.”
The FBI has had a quiet presence in Wellington for years. The only real update is they’ve gone from unofficial to official. Te Pāti Māori is acting like this is a colonial invasion.
Meanwhile, where is this same outrage when Māori babies are being abused, murdered, or discarded like rubbish
Just days ago a toddler was found in a suitcase in the luggage compartment of an InterCity bus in Kaiwaka. Where was the statement from Te Pāti Māori then?
What about the string of horrific cases, tamariki being beaten, starved, suffocated, often by people in their own homes? No press releases. No petitions. No karanga for justice. Just silence.
If Te Pāti Māori is genuinely worried about surveillance and injustice, maybe they should be more concerned about who is abusing children in our own backyard, not just who is wearing a suit in the Beehive.
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The reality is, the FBI might actually help. It may help our own police find high-level offenders like former Deputy Police Commissioner Jevon McSkimming, currently facing charges involving child abuse and bestiality material. Maybe some outside help is not the worst idea.
It is all well and good to cry “sovereignty” and whip up fear about American influence, but it rings hollow when they stay silent on the far more pressing issue: the continued abuse and killing of our most vulnerable.