Ministers, all that can be said about your sellout is that $210 million may be better than Judas' 30 pieces of silver for betraying Jesus, but it is still treachery.
As I have written before, all that keeps New Zealand's vital dairy industry at the forefront of the world is its hands-on knowledge and expertise.
Kiwis do dairy so well Fonterra is the one local industry that can not only compete on the world stage, but dominate it.
It is New Zealand's 900-pound gorilla and what National's selloff of the Crafar Frams does is endanger it more assuredly than Rwandan poachers could.
Now supporters of the deal will say opponents are just being xenophobic and don't want foreign investment - nice simplistic lines to trot out.
Actually we fear money-desperate, short-term thinkers selling off a national treasure - that is the knowhow to keep our exporters selling billions of dollars into China.
Without that massive and ever-growing market the future of the Shaky Isles becomes somewhat shakier.
The Chinese have massive dairy herds - on average 25-times bigger than those in NZ - and huge dairy farms, they just don't have the experience or expertise to compete with Fonterra - yet.
It won't take long, however, before those Crafar Farms are giving our future dairy rivals all they need to know to swamp our dairy industry and undercut our markets.
And yet our Government, which is sworn to protect this country, has rolled over like a puppy to have its stomach patted. And right on Anzac Day.
When did New Zealand become such a cheap whore?
It's time Prime Minister John Key and some of his bazaar vendors stopped this crazy "we'll do anything for money" attitude and looked long term.
How desperate is this Government for cash it will sell off vital parts of our future, or get into bed with casinos promising a new convention centre in exchange for ignoring gambling laws?
Worst of all is their almost fanatical push to have deep-sea oil exploration off our coasts.
The Rena showed us what 350 tonnes of oil could do to a coastline and the last thing we want is for some deep-down well to blow its top sending out millions of tonnes of the stuff with little chance of quickly capping it - a la the Gulf of Mexico.
This Government says it is worth the risk as fracking and new oil platforms could raise the oil earnings from $3 billion a year to $12 billion.
Or maybe, with no risk, we could keep all New Zealand dairy farms under our control and continue to exponentially grow dairy markets.
Yes it is slower, but it is also more sensible and with little risk.
And let's remember the Chinese proverb: "The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow."
DRIVING through Te Puke at the weekend I heard a lot of car and truck horns beeping and thought "what the heck is that?"
Up ahead was a group of placard-waving folk and I immediately realised it was a fan group welcoming me into their town.
I wound the window down, prepared my most monarch-like wave but then read the signs they had.
"Oh" thought I, somewhat dejected, it was meat workers and their supporters who are in dispute with their employers Talleys and are either on strike or have been locked out of work.
They wanted people to toot to show their support.
I tooted.
richard@richardmoore.com
