John Ansell's vision

**McMurdo** · 08-14-2012

Background from a 10 July 2011 report:

"Act Party marketing director John Ansell has quit after criticising "white cowards" for not standing up against Maori radicals...

...Ansell, who designed the Iwi/Kiwi billboards, attacked "white cowards" for not standing up against the "Maorification" of the country, the NZ Herald reported. "

Act's controversial marketing guru resigns | Stuff.co.nz

Update from yesterday, 14 August 2012:

Controversial advertising guru John Ansell is whipping up a nationwide campaign dubbed "Treatygate" to stop New Zealand going down the path of racial separatism...

...The campaign will be a precursor to a proposed citizens initiated referendum at the next general election, posing the question: do you want a colour-blind nation with one law for all and free from racial favouritism of any kind?...

...Mr Ansell is confident of getting 80% of New Zealanders to support his call for a colour-blind state, devoid of the Waitangi Tribunal, separate Maori seats and Te Puni Kokiri.

“I think it will cause the National and Labour parties, who have basically run this country as an undemocratic state on this subject for the last 40 years, to have to abide by the will of the people.

“Where else in the world is the winner of a war of rebellion paying reparations to the descendants of the losers 150 years later?

“It’s absolute nonsense, but this sort of stuff is never talked about.”

So just where is the $2 million going to come from which Mr Ansell needs to fund his campaign?

It is a question he’s a little coy about, but he admits he has been in touch with multimillionaire ACT backer Louis Crimp, an outspoken critic of special treatment for Maori.

Ad man Ansell unveils 'Treatygate' and declares war on racial favouritism | The National Business Review

**McMurdo** · 10-07-2012

"John Ansell was set to give a speech at the Rotary Club of Remuera's meeting on Monday as part of his Treatygate/Colourblind State campaign.

Ansell has claimed the Treaty of Waitangi was an exercise in "mass brainwashing with false history" by the (sic) successive New Zealand governments...

...Rotary Club of Remuera president John Burrows said the organisation was firmly "non-political" and...Ansell had "stepped over the mark" after issuing his own invitation to members of the public and promoting his talk at the club as a "state launch..."

John Ansell: Rotary Club of Remuera pulls pin on... | Stuff.co.nz (5 October 2012)

John Ansell replies:

"I do not intend to be put off by the cowardice and dishonesty of the Remuera Rotary Club.

Soon I will be posting absolute proof of how they have misrepresented me far and wide, and who it was who suggested that I invite a large number of people. (Clue: it wasn’t me.)

But for now, an update on tomorrow…

Thanks to those who suggested or offered replacement halls..."

Launch meeting off – planning meeting on! « John Ansell

**McMurdo** · 10-21-2012

From We spend $1 billion on Kohanga Reo and Waitangi Tribunal demands an apology! on John Ansell's blog, 20 Ocotober 2012:

"Allow me to offer another perspective…

I have a 19 year old Taiwanese step-son. He’s been in New Zealand since he was one.

In that time, he’s never had so much as a minute’s schooling in Mandarin.

Yet despite this, he can speak his native tongue well enough to get by when he visits his grandmother and uncles in Taipei.

Why?

Because his mother made damn sure she kept the language alive in him by speaking Chinese at home.

Why can’t Maori parents do the same?

But if they can’t be bothered — if they insist that their fellow countrymen must pay to keep their language alive — why can’t they summon up the decency to say “thanks” instead of “more”?"

**McMurdo** · 10-28-2012

John Ansell writes earlier today:

"I’ve just been sent this link from the Herald and am bloody wild.

Those who think I’m exaggerating the involvement of the media elite in Treatygate may like to reflect on the unrelenting bias of the New Zealand Herald.

They sneeringly include mention of my Colourblind State campaign in a totally unrelated article about a far right racist group smashing windows and desecrating Jewish graves.

(For the record, one of my grandfathers was Jewish.)..."

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