Post by Kiwi Frontline on Sept 18, 2016 9:19:10 GMT 12
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Dominion Post 4/6/16)
$4 million is earmarked in the budget for "Land Wars Commemorations". (.Dominion Post., 4/6/16) Why? There were no such things as land wars but tribal rebellions which were quelled by Government forces and loyal Maoris. That the leader of the Maori Party is spearheading this activity strongly suggests that it is part of a racist agenda.
BRUCE MOON
Nelson
Dear Editor (Sent to the NZ Herald 2/6/16)
Rewriting history and propaganda are tools used by power-hungry people, so their self-proclaimed superior status can never be questioned.
It’s fascinating to read how groupthink and blind public obedience has evolved in authoritarian states like Russia, China and North Korea.
It is frightening to watch it happening here in New Zealand.
The techniques have worked well, many think that democracy is now wrong, and that the handing over of government power to private interest Maori groups is the right thing to do.
Here’s how it’s achieved:
1) Get academics to rewrite our history where Maori were goodies and Pakeha baddies. And that anyone with a drop of Maori blood is kinder to children, old people, ancestors (only Maori ones count) and nature.
2) Brainwash students with this fake history.
3) Get the media to peddle the fake history, to stoke Maori grievance and Pakeha guilt.
4) Brand as ‘racist’ anyone who questions the fake history or special Maori entitlement.
5) Entrench processes whereby private Maori groups are entitled to take control of government and resources, and taxpayers to pay for it – thus ensuring permanent Maori power and wealth.
6) Threaten countrywide violence if New Zealanders object. (John Key's “hikois from hell”.)
7) Pretend that Maori are a separate, superior race, and ignore the fact that they are all part-Pakeha.
Fait accompli! Tribalism rules and R.I.P. democracy
GEOFFREY T PARKER
Kamo
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Wairarapa Times-Age 28/5/16)
The problem with the treaty principles that Vince Cholewa (27/5/16) cites is that they are capable of justifying any tribal demand, no matter how exorbitant.
The principles that Mr Cholewa cherrypicked appear to be mostly Justice Cooke's six principles in the 1987 Court of Appeal case New Zealand Maori Council v Attorney-General.
Mr Cholewa may not be aware that numerous other lists of treaty principles exist. They include:
NZ Maori Council to Court of Appeal 1987- 10 principles
Crown to Court of Appeal 1987- 5 principles
Waitangi Tribunal 1983-1988- 12 principles
Royal Commission on Social Policy 1988—3 principles
Hiwi Tauroa (former race relations conciliator) 1989- 4 principles
Office of Treaty Settlements 1999- 4 principles
Douglas Graham (in his book Trick or treaty) –11 principles
Centre for Maori Studies Lincoln University 1994 –4 principles
New Zealand Law Commission 1999-13 principles
NZ Attorney General 2000 – 6 principles
Minister of Health/Privy Council (undated) – 3 principles
The government published its own set of treaty “principles of Crown action” on July 4, 1989.
Mr Cholewa appears unaware that the so-called treaty principles are somewhat of a moveable feast and are used to push a Maori supremacist agenda.
GEOFFREY T PARKER
Whangarei
$4 million is earmarked in the budget for "Land Wars Commemorations". (.Dominion Post., 4/6/16) Why? There were no such things as land wars but tribal rebellions which were quelled by Government forces and loyal Maoris. That the leader of the Maori Party is spearheading this activity strongly suggests that it is part of a racist agenda.
BRUCE MOON
Nelson
Dear Editor (Sent to the NZ Herald 2/6/16)
Rewriting history and propaganda are tools used by power-hungry people, so their self-proclaimed superior status can never be questioned.
It’s fascinating to read how groupthink and blind public obedience has evolved in authoritarian states like Russia, China and North Korea.
It is frightening to watch it happening here in New Zealand.
The techniques have worked well, many think that democracy is now wrong, and that the handing over of government power to private interest Maori groups is the right thing to do.
Here’s how it’s achieved:
1) Get academics to rewrite our history where Maori were goodies and Pakeha baddies. And that anyone with a drop of Maori blood is kinder to children, old people, ancestors (only Maori ones count) and nature.
2) Brainwash students with this fake history.
3) Get the media to peddle the fake history, to stoke Maori grievance and Pakeha guilt.
4) Brand as ‘racist’ anyone who questions the fake history or special Maori entitlement.
5) Entrench processes whereby private Maori groups are entitled to take control of government and resources, and taxpayers to pay for it – thus ensuring permanent Maori power and wealth.
6) Threaten countrywide violence if New Zealanders object. (John Key's “hikois from hell”.)
7) Pretend that Maori are a separate, superior race, and ignore the fact that they are all part-Pakeha.
Fait accompli! Tribalism rules and R.I.P. democracy
GEOFFREY T PARKER
Kamo
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Wairarapa Times-Age 28/5/16)
The problem with the treaty principles that Vince Cholewa (27/5/16) cites is that they are capable of justifying any tribal demand, no matter how exorbitant.
The principles that Mr Cholewa cherrypicked appear to be mostly Justice Cooke's six principles in the 1987 Court of Appeal case New Zealand Maori Council v Attorney-General.
Mr Cholewa may not be aware that numerous other lists of treaty principles exist. They include:
NZ Maori Council to Court of Appeal 1987- 10 principles
Crown to Court of Appeal 1987- 5 principles
Waitangi Tribunal 1983-1988- 12 principles
Royal Commission on Social Policy 1988—3 principles
Hiwi Tauroa (former race relations conciliator) 1989- 4 principles
Office of Treaty Settlements 1999- 4 principles
Douglas Graham (in his book Trick or treaty) –11 principles
Centre for Maori Studies Lincoln University 1994 –4 principles
New Zealand Law Commission 1999-13 principles
NZ Attorney General 2000 – 6 principles
Minister of Health/Privy Council (undated) – 3 principles
The government published its own set of treaty “principles of Crown action” on July 4, 1989.
Mr Cholewa appears unaware that the so-called treaty principles are somewhat of a moveable feast and are used to push a Maori supremacist agenda.
GEOFFREY T PARKER
Whangarei