Post by Kiwi Frontline on Sept 27, 2016 5:00:41 GMT 12
Northland Age 27/9/16
THE TREATY THAT WAS
A pleasure to read Fiona Mackenzie's sensible and calm letter in your letters last week. How very disappointing to read Wally Hicks' (letters, September 20) perpetuation of the bizarre claim that part-Maori child abuse is an effect of British colonisation. Mind you, that once-prominent Napier barrister, Russell Fairbrother, once defended a vicious part-Maori rapist and killer of a Caucasian jogger on the basis that it was caused by colonisation.
But this has prompted me to remember how a former workmate from Argentina had, during his few years here, marvelled at the hatred of part-Maori for their Caucasian fellow citizens, and their demands for sundry privileges. He wondered if they might ever have considered what their status now would be if it had been French, Spanish or Portuguese who had colonised their part-ancestors.
And I'm further prompted to assert that a treaty ceases to exist, or certainly ceases to apply, when one of its parties ceases to exist I think that might've been what Donald Brash was trying to convey in that address to the Orewa Rotary Club.
The Treaty of Waitangi was between the British Crown and the aboriginal people of this country — the Maori, full-blooded, not part-Maori. Full-blooded Maori have ceased to exist The only successors now of those Maori parties to the Treaty are part-Maori and part the other party, as it were. While the Crown remains extant, the other party to the Treaty does not.
The Treaty has become obsolete, and it is well past the time when all citizens of this country expected nothing more or less than equal opportunity and equality under the law.
L L
Benneydale
ALL NOT WELL IN LAND OF LIES
Apparently our recent governments regard the majority of New Zealanders as being of inferior mentality, unable to face the truth. Being in a situation where they can manipulate the media, those in power bombard us with messages that "all is well," when the underlying facts reveal a radically different story.
Recently we were told that New Zealand has a rock star economy — and that is in a nation with an insurmountable national debt (interest on that debt is around $100 million each week, without repaying any of the capital), and the fact we owe more than $100 billion is swept under the carpet in the euphoria of announcing a budget surplus. This is a debt that can never be repaid under our current monetary system, and a terrible legacy for future generations, betrayed by governments that place short-term political advantage ahead of our country's welfare.
We are being progressively led into poverty by incompetent political leaders, whose only solution to the nation's financial problems is to invent another tax. The most insidious tax ever invented is GST. Here we see someone who is already taxed on any income received from providing a service being doubly taxed for pertaining that service. Governmental greed at its worst.
Another blatant lie is the benefit of unlimited free trade, but free trade agreements with slave labour countries are the root cause of unemployment and poverty in our own nation. Local manufacturers cannot compete with cheap products that are flooding our markets, and are either forced to shut up shop or move overseas. This may be helping developing nations, but it is destroying our own.
Then there is our nation's true history, with our real indigenous people concealed under a mountain of political correctness and guilt-ridden appeasement. Now we also have race-based appointments being made under the guise of cultural sensitivity. Politicians beware. Your people are beginning to awaken.
MITCH MORGAN
Kaipara
THE TREATY THAT WAS
A pleasure to read Fiona Mackenzie's sensible and calm letter in your letters last week. How very disappointing to read Wally Hicks' (letters, September 20) perpetuation of the bizarre claim that part-Maori child abuse is an effect of British colonisation. Mind you, that once-prominent Napier barrister, Russell Fairbrother, once defended a vicious part-Maori rapist and killer of a Caucasian jogger on the basis that it was caused by colonisation.
But this has prompted me to remember how a former workmate from Argentina had, during his few years here, marvelled at the hatred of part-Maori for their Caucasian fellow citizens, and their demands for sundry privileges. He wondered if they might ever have considered what their status now would be if it had been French, Spanish or Portuguese who had colonised their part-ancestors.
And I'm further prompted to assert that a treaty ceases to exist, or certainly ceases to apply, when one of its parties ceases to exist I think that might've been what Donald Brash was trying to convey in that address to the Orewa Rotary Club.
The Treaty of Waitangi was between the British Crown and the aboriginal people of this country — the Maori, full-blooded, not part-Maori. Full-blooded Maori have ceased to exist The only successors now of those Maori parties to the Treaty are part-Maori and part the other party, as it were. While the Crown remains extant, the other party to the Treaty does not.
The Treaty has become obsolete, and it is well past the time when all citizens of this country expected nothing more or less than equal opportunity and equality under the law.
L L
Benneydale
ALL NOT WELL IN LAND OF LIES
Apparently our recent governments regard the majority of New Zealanders as being of inferior mentality, unable to face the truth. Being in a situation where they can manipulate the media, those in power bombard us with messages that "all is well," when the underlying facts reveal a radically different story.
Recently we were told that New Zealand has a rock star economy — and that is in a nation with an insurmountable national debt (interest on that debt is around $100 million each week, without repaying any of the capital), and the fact we owe more than $100 billion is swept under the carpet in the euphoria of announcing a budget surplus. This is a debt that can never be repaid under our current monetary system, and a terrible legacy for future generations, betrayed by governments that place short-term political advantage ahead of our country's welfare.
We are being progressively led into poverty by incompetent political leaders, whose only solution to the nation's financial problems is to invent another tax. The most insidious tax ever invented is GST. Here we see someone who is already taxed on any income received from providing a service being doubly taxed for pertaining that service. Governmental greed at its worst.
Another blatant lie is the benefit of unlimited free trade, but free trade agreements with slave labour countries are the root cause of unemployment and poverty in our own nation. Local manufacturers cannot compete with cheap products that are flooding our markets, and are either forced to shut up shop or move overseas. This may be helping developing nations, but it is destroying our own.
Then there is our nation's true history, with our real indigenous people concealed under a mountain of political correctness and guilt-ridden appeasement. Now we also have race-based appointments being made under the guise of cultural sensitivity. Politicians beware. Your people are beginning to awaken.
MITCH MORGAN
Kaipara