Peters Winston: General Debates 
Peters Winston: General Debates 
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Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First) 
: 
 It certainly has to be that this country is a land of opportunity when Mr Tamihere and Mr Cunliffe can be Ministers. They told me he was good! Did members hear that speech? He was all over the place. He does not know whether he is Arthur or Martha and he forgets that when New Zealand Rail was sold on 20 July 1993 his party supported it because in those days they were right-wingers. 
Hon David Cunliffe 
: That gentleman doesn’t work here any more. 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: The member has had his speech. I know it was a waste of time but he had his 5 minutes. We have just had official confirmation from the Department of Statistics that we in New Zealand will become the latest colony of Asia. For some bizarre reason that no sensible person understands this Government has started people-importing on a scale not seen since the Irish fled the potato famine in Ireland.  
Today I want to talk about one of the many less desirable imports encouraged by this Government—and there are thousands of them. I want to talk about a man called Edmund Poh or should I say one of Lianne Dalziel’s overstayers who goes by this name. There are about 20000 overstayers and she claims to be on top of this job. This man should have been deported years ago but under this Minister’s open-door amnesty policy this so-called entrepreneur was allowed to set up companies in New Zealand and go into the business of farming dogs for food first in Waiuku then in Albany. That is just what New Zealand needs—dog farms for food! He even advertised in the  
New Zealand Herald  
of 17 August last year asking for farm workers who could speak Mandarin and Cantonese and the company director of course is a sole director called Edmund Poh—if that is his real name.  
 He comes from a country where dogs are very popular—as a delicacy on the dinner table after they have been killed in the most cruel vile inhumane and bestial circumstances. 
Government Members 
: Ha ha! 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: Oh those people can laugh. John Tamihere said that he did not believe in selling out our sovereignty. But all Maori in this country know that shortly they will be overrun by people who are imported because Maori come second where Maori members are concerned—and where John Tamihere is concerned. He is a real lion back on the marae but down here it is: “Yes Helen yes Helen. Three bags full!” That is him.  
People in the area I have referred to have spoken about the screams and cries of pain of dogs in the night. Others have told of a large number of dogs that have suddenly disappeared and of the stench of death that hung over that property. It is doubtful that the authorities without action being taken will ever really know what happened there but we have been told that the dogs were tortured prior to being killed because that enhances the taste of the meat. 
Hon David Cunliffe 
: What’s this about? 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: What is it about? It is a foreign practice alien to this country which Cunliffe and people like that in their obsequious politically correct way will never confront and never face up to. [ 
Interruption 
] It does not I tell Mr Cunliffe belong in New Zealand. We have laws here. That man has a variety of devices and firearms and he has been apprehended by the authorities on a charge of cruelty to animals. [ 
Interruption 
] Over there like an ill-bred dog barking at everything that comes to the front gate is Mr Cunliffe. Mind you he could not be a pedigree. He does not look like a pedigree to me. He looks like a thorough crossbreed—a little bit of the wrong thing everywhere and no hair salon and dye can fix it up.  
A number of Asians have invested in that project. Their money has gone straight down the drain at Waiuku. I say that this man should have been given his marching orders but he was given a temporary visa. Thanks to the naive Minister of Immigration Dalziel he was not put on the next plane. He is there in Auckland contaminating the lifestyle of New Zealanders. We say that he should be sent back to where he came from taking his dog farming for food and other despicable practices like torture elsewhere. That is a form of social contamination and pollution and we have repeatedly warned this Government that we cannot throw open the doors to thousands of people from alien cultures without creating social and cultural dislocation and serious problems. We think that people like Poh know that New Zealand is a soft touch. He knows that he can get on in this country and do what he likes. In other countries he would have had his marching orders. When Mr Tamihere talks about sovereignty I ask him to think about that.