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Northern Advocate 20/10/16
DEMOCRACY
Fair-minded and informed readers will recognise that Rosemary McLeod's lengthy re-buff (October 10) of Brash and Craig is nasty and inaccurate.
The Treaty of Waitangi was a straightforward document written by an "upright and plain-dealing" naval officer. In essence it said the chiefs agreed to cede sovereignty to
the Queen and all Maoris be-came fully-entitled British subjects. What a boon for Maori slaves! The "historians [who] have found it to be infinitely more complicated" are deluded charlatans.
Hongi Hika brought the biggest batch of weapons to New Zealand, not "us". Then he commenced slaughter and cannibalism on a massive scale on less fortunate Maoris.
McLeod's "settler land-grabbing" was actually eager selling by many chiefs who freely sold the South Island and much of the North before 1840 and did it all again afterwards. So, yes, the European or British way is best — it is called democracy. Brash defends it for us.
BRUCE MOON
Nelson
The Northland Age 20/10/16
THEIR BUSINESS
Nobody is attempting to deny the right of part-Maori New Zealanders to affiliate to a Maori kin group and embrace what they regard as Maori culture, provided they do it in their own time and on their own dime.
That means a shared common New Zealand culture occupies the public square, and any sub-cultural affiliations are a private matter for those concerned, funded and engaged in by those who value them, with no financial or other claim of any kind on those who don't.
For those who pretend to be indigenous because they are part-Maori, and prefer to elevate that above their other ancestors, that's entirely their business.
However, it is a different matter when these opportunists start trying to put their hand in fellow New Zealanders' pockets and colonise the public square in order to force the language and culture of their adoption on others.
It then becomes the business of other New Zealanders, who are being compelled to pay or adopt something they don't want or value.
GEOFFREY T PARKER
Kamo
DEMOCRACY
Fair-minded and informed readers will recognise that Rosemary McLeod's lengthy re-buff (October 10) of Brash and Craig is nasty and inaccurate.
The Treaty of Waitangi was a straightforward document written by an "upright and plain-dealing" naval officer. In essence it said the chiefs agreed to cede sovereignty to
the Queen and all Maoris be-came fully-entitled British subjects. What a boon for Maori slaves! The "historians [who] have found it to be infinitely more complicated" are deluded charlatans.
Hongi Hika brought the biggest batch of weapons to New Zealand, not "us". Then he commenced slaughter and cannibalism on a massive scale on less fortunate Maoris.
McLeod's "settler land-grabbing" was actually eager selling by many chiefs who freely sold the South Island and much of the North before 1840 and did it all again afterwards. So, yes, the European or British way is best — it is called democracy. Brash defends it for us.
BRUCE MOON
Nelson
The Northland Age 20/10/16
THEIR BUSINESS
Nobody is attempting to deny the right of part-Maori New Zealanders to affiliate to a Maori kin group and embrace what they regard as Maori culture, provided they do it in their own time and on their own dime.
That means a shared common New Zealand culture occupies the public square, and any sub-cultural affiliations are a private matter for those concerned, funded and engaged in by those who value them, with no financial or other claim of any kind on those who don't.
For those who pretend to be indigenous because they are part-Maori, and prefer to elevate that above their other ancestors, that's entirely their business.
However, it is a different matter when these opportunists start trying to put their hand in fellow New Zealanders' pockets and colonise the public square in order to force the language and culture of their adoption on others.
It then becomes the business of other New Zealanders, who are being compelled to pay or adopt something they don't want or value.
GEOFFREY T PARKER
Kamo