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Okay but what you are talking about is civil disobedience.
Civil disobedience is the nonviolent, conscious, and public refusal to obey certain laws, demands, or commands of a government or occupying power, usually as a form of protest. A key aspect is that the person accepts the legal consequences of their actions to highlight the perceived injustice of the law or policy they are opposing.
Prominent examples include:
Mahatma Gandhi's Salt March (against British colonial salt laws)
Martin Luther King Jr. and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement
Thoreau's refusal to pay the poll tax, which he described in Civil Disobedience
The acceptance of punishment is what often distinguishes civil disobedience from other forms of lawbreaking.
Like others you mentioned these MPs will indeed take the punishment doled out by the Pakeha and like those other instances it will result in the public siding with them.
Which is exactly as I expected. I was trying to reassure the parent commenter that [regarding the punishment] things are proceeding just as the MPs wished for things to happen; that the punishment is being drawn intentionally and is something to be celebrated by their supporters; and I suppose that condemning Parliament for applying it is performative.
That's bullshit. They would have obviously preferred not to be punished and prevent from participating in the parliament like they were elected to do.
This punishment will backfire on NACT though. It will point out how racist they are and how much they hate the indigenous people of this country. Their embrace of white supremacism and MAGA identity politics is in full display.
Obviously. In that universe, they don't perform the haka at all. They don't need to protest. The haka was protest! Done illegally(*)! Knowingly and intentionally! That's called fucking civil disobedience. THE PUNISHMENT IS PART OF THE PROTEST. Jesus fucking fuck, dude. In your mind, do you imagine they expected that maybe they wouldn't get punished?? They KNEW, and that's part of the fucking reason they DID IT. Jesus fuck.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience