Post by Kiwi Frontline on Apr 18, 2022 16:43:59 GMT 12
All New Zealanders should read this, the Treaty laid out and easy to understand.
Bruce Moon: THE TRUTH MUST BE TOLD AGAIN!
When Hobson arrived in New Zealand on 29th January 1840, equipped with a 4200-word brief from Colonial Secretary Lord Normanby, he knew what he had to do. If the Maori chiefs wanted the protection of the Queen they had one choice: to sign a document ceding all their rights of sovereignty, whatever they were, to the Queen.
As Hobson took pains to explain to them in due course: “as the law of England gives no civil powers to Her Majesty out of her dominions, her efforts to do you good will be futile unless you consent.”[1] Moreover, all Maoris were to be offered in due course by Article Third of the Treaty, all the rights and duties of the people of England; remarkable for its generosity in its day.
Yet today we have Jacinta Ruru and Jacobi Kohu-Morris of the University of Otago talking of[2] “concept(s) .. imposed over the top of existing indigenous nations and legal systems”, an extraordinary extrapolation from the actual articles of the treaty. The sheer absurdity of this sort of statement in the New Zealand context must surely be obvious to everybody except of course those who are determined not to see. There was neither nation nor legal system nor anything indigenous in anything Maori. They were a collection of independent tribes often in brutal conflict with each other.
Hobson set to work forthwith to make the first essential step: to draft a version in English of the requisite document. As a straightforward and experienced sailor he knew well how to make a plain language statement.....
Continue reading Bruce’s full explanation of the Treaty here > breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/04/bruce-moon-truth-must-be-told-again.html
Bruce Moon: THE TRUTH MUST BE TOLD AGAIN!
When Hobson arrived in New Zealand on 29th January 1840, equipped with a 4200-word brief from Colonial Secretary Lord Normanby, he knew what he had to do. If the Maori chiefs wanted the protection of the Queen they had one choice: to sign a document ceding all their rights of sovereignty, whatever they were, to the Queen.
As Hobson took pains to explain to them in due course: “as the law of England gives no civil powers to Her Majesty out of her dominions, her efforts to do you good will be futile unless you consent.”[1] Moreover, all Maoris were to be offered in due course by Article Third of the Treaty, all the rights and duties of the people of England; remarkable for its generosity in its day.
Yet today we have Jacinta Ruru and Jacobi Kohu-Morris of the University of Otago talking of[2] “concept(s) .. imposed over the top of existing indigenous nations and legal systems”, an extraordinary extrapolation from the actual articles of the treaty. The sheer absurdity of this sort of statement in the New Zealand context must surely be obvious to everybody except of course those who are determined not to see. There was neither nation nor legal system nor anything indigenous in anything Maori. They were a collection of independent tribes often in brutal conflict with each other.
Hobson set to work forthwith to make the first essential step: to draft a version in English of the requisite document. As a straightforward and experienced sailor he knew well how to make a plain language statement.....
Continue reading Bruce’s full explanation of the Treaty here > breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/04/bruce-moon-truth-must-be-told-again.html