Back in the day with the Church finding their monopoly on knowledge being undermined by increasing understanding by peasants with intellectual abilities discovering alternative truth.

One response came with the Catholics instituting “The Inquisition” where appointed officials often chosen for their essential understanding of historical Church doctrine examined miscreants in fields they desperately desired to remain in their sole domain.

The activities usually began quite benignly with an acceptance of sinning and submission heresy had occurred being settled by penance. Should the softly softly fail then more extreme and painful measures would be employed. Fear a major component, and in the very worst cases a painful and humiliating death to bring an end to the alleged heresy.

The New Zealand Waitangi Tribunal must have delusions of grandeur, as the reasons the idiotically affected morons accessed in setting up the now long past its use by date Tribunal, are running out, with the troughers involved as assessors and legal advisers seeking new ways to perpetuate their place at the vastly enlarged trough.

The latest such way is likely borrowed from Upper House tactics to create relevancy; for example in the US and Federal Australia, where Senate Inquiry allows summoning persons to testify and be questioned on all manner of subjects, too often motivated by seeking of exposure and little in wanting facts exposed.

Last October, New Zealand voters voted to question the socialist drive to racial division across the nation. One outcome from that election saw a part Maori lady, Karen Chhour elected to parliament as an ACT MP.

A person of colorful past including close associations to welfare agencies in multiple roles, Karen is now a Cabinet Minister in the role of Minister of Children. A task littered with serious challenges, many involving perceived to be cultural and racial involving “The Special People” aka claiming Maori classification. One little problem not only has Karen a working knowledge of welfare she has Maori lineage that normally might be accepted as a positive trait.

Hell no, at best a traitor to the cause, an Auntie Tomasina, possibly.

So the now long increasingly irrelevant tribunal seeking an enhanced profile, has demanded Chhour appear before them, an absurd extra political effort Ms Chhour declined to become involved in.

Good on that woman. Who do they think they are?