Post by Kiwi Frontline on Dec 20, 2023 14:47:10 GMT 12
Bruce Moon: “THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH” WOULD BE NICE FOR A CHANGE WOULD IT NOT?.
He explains that he is “Excited to be in a country with its own founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti o Waitangi (the latter being the Māori version that most chiefs signed).” Well, well! Possibly his excitement clouded his comprehension just a little bit.
For one thing, whatever many learned people may say, whether the “Treaty” was or was not our “founding document” is really a non-question. It was a semi-formal document by which, beyond a shadow of doubt, the Maori chiefs ceded such sovereignty as each possessed to the Queen – and they knew it;[ii] all Maoris – their many slaves included – receiving in return the same rights as the people of England. If you want to call it our “founding document” on the strength of that, then I suppose that you are allowed to do so. This was an enormous privilege granted to a people just emerging from a state of the utmost barbarity, in which they had killed and eaten nearly a third of their own population. Nobody should forget that![iii]…..
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/12/bruce-moon-whole-truth-and-nothing-but.html
He explains that he is “Excited to be in a country with its own founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti o Waitangi (the latter being the Māori version that most chiefs signed).” Well, well! Possibly his excitement clouded his comprehension just a little bit.
For one thing, whatever many learned people may say, whether the “Treaty” was or was not our “founding document” is really a non-question. It was a semi-formal document by which, beyond a shadow of doubt, the Maori chiefs ceded such sovereignty as each possessed to the Queen – and they knew it;[ii] all Maoris – their many slaves included – receiving in return the same rights as the people of England. If you want to call it our “founding document” on the strength of that, then I suppose that you are allowed to do so. This was an enormous privilege granted to a people just emerging from a state of the utmost barbarity, in which they had killed and eaten nearly a third of their own population. Nobody should forget that![iii]…..
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/12/bruce-moon-whole-truth-and-nothing-but.html