New Zealander aiming to undo 185 years of Maori rights

ISLANDNa Bluff, who overlooks the pristine bay, where Maori executives signed their country to the British rule 185 years ago, stood a boyish constitutional revisionist called David Seymour to speak.

In four months, the 41-year-old will become Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand, but already has radical plans to change the course of a story that began here in Waitangi in 1840. When Seymour began his speech on Wednesday in the birth to modern New Zealand, Maori, who had gathered, turned the back.

An elder even approached and tore the microphone from Seymour’s hands and ended his address too early. When Furore died, Seymour had harsh words for the nearly a million Maori who may feel marginalized by his suggestions. “Maybe accuses me