As New Zealand slides into poverty status, our worst-ever government determinedly wages war against the very concept of a democracy – where individuals have the same rights and responsibilities, regardless of their ethnic background. Nowhere has this been more flagrantly demonstrated than in the recent shocking pay-out of $NZ835 million to groups of part-Maori individuals, although their spokesman, Willie Jackson, Minister of Maori Development, openly admits that this nearly $900 million is not going to go to most Maori.