Post by Kiwi Frontline on May 24, 2021 3:40:51 GMT 12
J K B writes (Credit: D H) > I have been reading a lot of stuff about early New Zealand history and the Treaty of Waitangi - and this is what I have learned.
This could be the most important thing I will ever write.
THE FACTS AND THE TRUTH ABOUT THE TREATY OF WAITANGI
It was 1840 180 years ago. Pen and paper was all they had to record stuff.
New Zealand Maori were engaged in a 30 year long Maori on Maori Genocide that by all accounts had seen nearly half of their entire population – up to 50,000 - killed and eaten by other Maoris armed with muskets against stone and wood weapons.
This is in our New Zealand history as recorded in “The Musket Wars.”
A solution – a treaty to give power and responsibility to act, must have been discussed and decided upon between peaceful Maori and the Colonists - or it would NEVER have been written in the first place.
The Treaty of Waitangi was most importantly, written by a man who could write.
He kept it simple, and was trying to be fair to the people – both Colonists - some who could read - and Maori who could not read or write.
Many people back in 1840, Maori and European, could not read nor write.
The Treaty had to be read out and explained to every Chief who signed it.
(Signatures were his 'mark' that he could make with a pen - and for most it would be the first time he had held a pen.)
That process would have including explaining that it was to give the British legal power to make laws to stop the slaughter of the Musket Wars.
Those laws had to control both the people selling the muskets and shot and powder – and the Maoris doing the killing.
Maori needed the protection of the British Crown – and the British Crown needed that protection to be legal by THEIR Laws.
The Treaty offered Maori Citizenship - protection of the British Crown and the most simple solution to the killing that they could understand, given their lifestyle as hunter gatherers - and their grasp of such concepts at the time, and that was that the British Crown would become THE PARAMOUNT CHIEF – in complete control of all – in other words – total sovereignty - and the right to make LAWS.
Maori very clearly understood total sovereignty – because they knew that their powerful people had the power of life and death over them – and in fact could kill them to eat them – as we do now with cows and sheep.
That simple solution offered in the Treaty was ceding Sovereignty to the British Crown – because that was a concept understandable by all - and anything more complicated would be too difficult to explain to disparate chiefs who could not read or write anyway.
Then of course – because it had to be translated – it had to be as simple as possible.
Sovereignty plain and simple – all day long.
Anything as complicated as the Waitangi Tribunal have made it, could never be explained to an illiterate Maori Chief living in a grass hut by a river - doing his best to protect his people from marauders with guns.
All this simple stuff has been distorted and made complicated by 20th Century people with degrees in being deceptive and disingenuous. Lawyers, liars, courts, judges who had no understanding of life in the 1840s and charlatans who could see a dollar in it.
They have done what they have done because they saw opportunities to siphon off billions from the public purse – and in my view they should be rounded up and imprisoned.
They are the criminals – and some of them are still alive – and their deceptions have cost this nation hundreds of billions. At the very least they should be recognized for what they have done.
And it was just a piece of paper they never bothered to look after.
This could be the most important thing I will ever write.
THE FACTS AND THE TRUTH ABOUT THE TREATY OF WAITANGI
It was 1840 180 years ago. Pen and paper was all they had to record stuff.
New Zealand Maori were engaged in a 30 year long Maori on Maori Genocide that by all accounts had seen nearly half of their entire population – up to 50,000 - killed and eaten by other Maoris armed with muskets against stone and wood weapons.
This is in our New Zealand history as recorded in “The Musket Wars.”
A solution – a treaty to give power and responsibility to act, must have been discussed and decided upon between peaceful Maori and the Colonists - or it would NEVER have been written in the first place.
The Treaty of Waitangi was most importantly, written by a man who could write.
He kept it simple, and was trying to be fair to the people – both Colonists - some who could read - and Maori who could not read or write.
Many people back in 1840, Maori and European, could not read nor write.
The Treaty had to be read out and explained to every Chief who signed it.
(Signatures were his 'mark' that he could make with a pen - and for most it would be the first time he had held a pen.)
That process would have including explaining that it was to give the British legal power to make laws to stop the slaughter of the Musket Wars.
Those laws had to control both the people selling the muskets and shot and powder – and the Maoris doing the killing.
Maori needed the protection of the British Crown – and the British Crown needed that protection to be legal by THEIR Laws.
The Treaty offered Maori Citizenship - protection of the British Crown and the most simple solution to the killing that they could understand, given their lifestyle as hunter gatherers - and their grasp of such concepts at the time, and that was that the British Crown would become THE PARAMOUNT CHIEF – in complete control of all – in other words – total sovereignty - and the right to make LAWS.
Maori very clearly understood total sovereignty – because they knew that their powerful people had the power of life and death over them – and in fact could kill them to eat them – as we do now with cows and sheep.
That simple solution offered in the Treaty was ceding Sovereignty to the British Crown – because that was a concept understandable by all - and anything more complicated would be too difficult to explain to disparate chiefs who could not read or write anyway.
Then of course – because it had to be translated – it had to be as simple as possible.
Sovereignty plain and simple – all day long.
Anything as complicated as the Waitangi Tribunal have made it, could never be explained to an illiterate Maori Chief living in a grass hut by a river - doing his best to protect his people from marauders with guns.
All this simple stuff has been distorted and made complicated by 20th Century people with degrees in being deceptive and disingenuous. Lawyers, liars, courts, judges who had no understanding of life in the 1840s and charlatans who could see a dollar in it.
They have done what they have done because they saw opportunities to siphon off billions from the public purse – and in my view they should be rounded up and imprisoned.
They are the criminals – and some of them are still alive – and their deceptions have cost this nation hundreds of billions. At the very least they should be recognized for what they have done.
And it was just a piece of paper they never bothered to look after.