Govt still 'colonising' individuals and their property

"Colonisation happened, but New Zealand is no longer a colony. Citizens [with too-few Maori ancestors] are not 'colonisers' but people with as much right to live in the country they are born in, or admitted as immigrants in as anyone else. Inferring anything else is racist, even if it doesn't meet the definition of the post-modernists.
    "Similarly, the idea that white supremacy is somehow endemic is ludicrous and deranged. However, the New Zealand state DOES erode tino rangatiratanga, for EVERYONE, by increasing its power and diminishing the freedom of citizens and residents to live their own lives peacefully....
    "There is a LOT that can be done to liberate Maori, such as decentralising education, ending the next to peppercorn leases enforced on some Maori land, granting Iwi (and indeed all) property owners real property rights to use their property as they see fit....
    "The report [from the ill-named Human Rights Commission] wants ... Maori to determine their own lives and make decisions over their own resources. This is libertarian, it is freedom and property rights. There remain two questions though...
    "Is giving Maori this power actually power as individuals with the choice to act together, or [as part of] purely collective entities? If it is the latter, it is just another form of government; I suspect it is the latter.
    "[And the other question:] Why can this not apply to EVERYONE in New Zealand? Why shouldn't we all be able to determine our own lives and make decisions over our own resources? ...
    "Colonisation saw many atrocities committed, but it is over. The non-Maori who live in New Zealand are not 'settlers.' Liberal democracy and rule of law are not invented to benefit Pakeha, and the only human rights are individual rights, for without the freedom of the individual, everyone is at risk of violence being initiated by the state, Iwi or any other collective that thinks it should govern you.
    "Set Maori free by setting us all free."

~ Liberty Scott, from his post 'Abolish the Human Rights Commission (but give everyone Tino Rangitiratanga)'