Post by Kiwi Frontline on Sept 18, 2016 9:16:20 GMT 12
Dear Sir (Sent to the Wanganui Chronicle 13/5/16)
In response to Gaylene Kendrick’s comments entitled “Beware of Brash Tactics”, I would hope that the Year 13 students she refers to are mature enough and perceptive enough to recognise veiled censorship when they see it.
Readers who prefer to make their own judgements on various writings and who believe in New Zealand's secular democracy and the right to free speech will be able to draw their own conclusions as to why Ms Kendrick does not want you to read One Treaty, One Nation.
By the way, Don Brash is one of eight authors who have contributed to the book which contains a brief biography for each author and comes complete with an index and references for each chapter.
May I recommend people start by reading chapters 1 and 2 by Bruce Moon and then read the preceding section entitled "Some of the myths on which the treaty industry is based”.
C L
Tauranga
Dear Editor (Sent to the Hawkes Bay Times 13/5/16)
CAREFUL WITH THOSE CLAIMS OF UNCONSCIOUS RACISM
Bruce Bissett wrote that the presumptions of too many pakeha are racist. Bissett looks like a pakeha so is he being unconsciously racist?
Bissett’s rant was triggered by racism allegations in turn sparked by a comment by TV presenter Mike Hosking on outgoing New Plymouth mayor Andrew Judd.
Hosking’s full comment was: "Sad to say I'd never personally attack him obviously but he's completely out of touch with middle New Zealand - there's nothing wrong with Maori representation on councils cause any Maori that wants to stand for a council is more than welcome to do so and you can sell your message and if you're good enough you'll get voted on."
Is that true, false, racist, or fair comment?
Our Hastings council shows that there is no impediment to Maori and everyone else to get voted in should they choose to. Look at the website and count up the numbers.
If Hosking’s comment is deemed racist then it is clear that:
(1) our democratic system of one person one vote is on the way out, and
(2) there is no longer freedom of speech in NZ.
MIKE BUTLER
Hastings
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Wanganui Chronicle 13/5/16)
As an author of "One Treaty, One Nation" I reply to H Norton. Some of us have higher degrees in science. We are trained to look at evidence objectively unlike so many historians who write with an agenda and distort the truth when it suits them. For examples of the false claims of those he lauds see the following.
In "Twisting the Treaty", Orange: pages 45, 295-310. Salmond: 45 & 48, Kawharu: 11,46,159 & 257
Belich in "When two cultures meet" by Robinson: pp 8,39-40,51,77-83,116-117 and more
Keenan: nearly everything he writes in the "Wanganui Chronicle" and "Taranaki Daily News"
Olsen: who was grossly wrong in writing about my own grandfather
King had a spotty record - good in writing about Maori genocide of Chatham Islanders, deeply flawed in his account of the writing of the Treaty of Waitangi
None of us is a racist nor do we write "repetitive, ill-based anti-Maori rants." We stand for the truth which is under attack at every level in the education system, the Waitangi Tribunal and frequently in the courts. There is a profound sickness growing in New Zealand society and we are doing our very best to arrest its dangerous and insidious advance.
BRUCE MOON
Nelson
In response to Gaylene Kendrick’s comments entitled “Beware of Brash Tactics”, I would hope that the Year 13 students she refers to are mature enough and perceptive enough to recognise veiled censorship when they see it.
Readers who prefer to make their own judgements on various writings and who believe in New Zealand's secular democracy and the right to free speech will be able to draw their own conclusions as to why Ms Kendrick does not want you to read One Treaty, One Nation.
By the way, Don Brash is one of eight authors who have contributed to the book which contains a brief biography for each author and comes complete with an index and references for each chapter.
May I recommend people start by reading chapters 1 and 2 by Bruce Moon and then read the preceding section entitled "Some of the myths on which the treaty industry is based”.
C L
Tauranga
Dear Editor (Sent to the Hawkes Bay Times 13/5/16)
CAREFUL WITH THOSE CLAIMS OF UNCONSCIOUS RACISM
Bruce Bissett wrote that the presumptions of too many pakeha are racist. Bissett looks like a pakeha so is he being unconsciously racist?
Bissett’s rant was triggered by racism allegations in turn sparked by a comment by TV presenter Mike Hosking on outgoing New Plymouth mayor Andrew Judd.
Hosking’s full comment was: "Sad to say I'd never personally attack him obviously but he's completely out of touch with middle New Zealand - there's nothing wrong with Maori representation on councils cause any Maori that wants to stand for a council is more than welcome to do so and you can sell your message and if you're good enough you'll get voted on."
Is that true, false, racist, or fair comment?
Our Hastings council shows that there is no impediment to Maori and everyone else to get voted in should they choose to. Look at the website and count up the numbers.
If Hosking’s comment is deemed racist then it is clear that:
(1) our democratic system of one person one vote is on the way out, and
(2) there is no longer freedom of speech in NZ.
MIKE BUTLER
Hastings
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Wanganui Chronicle 13/5/16)
As an author of "One Treaty, One Nation" I reply to H Norton. Some of us have higher degrees in science. We are trained to look at evidence objectively unlike so many historians who write with an agenda and distort the truth when it suits them. For examples of the false claims of those he lauds see the following.
In "Twisting the Treaty", Orange: pages 45, 295-310. Salmond: 45 & 48, Kawharu: 11,46,159 & 257
Belich in "When two cultures meet" by Robinson: pp 8,39-40,51,77-83,116-117 and more
Keenan: nearly everything he writes in the "Wanganui Chronicle" and "Taranaki Daily News"
Olsen: who was grossly wrong in writing about my own grandfather
King had a spotty record - good in writing about Maori genocide of Chatham Islanders, deeply flawed in his account of the writing of the Treaty of Waitangi
None of us is a racist nor do we write "repetitive, ill-based anti-Maori rants." We stand for the truth which is under attack at every level in the education system, the Waitangi Tribunal and frequently in the courts. There is a profound sickness growing in New Zealand society and we are doing our very best to arrest its dangerous and insidious advance.
BRUCE MOON
Nelson