Post by Kiwi Frontline on Nov 23, 2016 5:23:41 GMT 12
Bay of Plenty Times 23/11/16
REVIEW FOR KEY?
Now that some of the power of the controllers of international finances, banking, governments and a biased media has been diminished or possibly threatened by the results of American presidential elections, John Key may consider reviewing his political aims.
He may wish to rescind favouritism of Maori.
Favouritism evidenced in many aspects of our national life such as education, resources, political representation and private consultations.
Perhaps he may start to listen to and act for the other 85 per cent of the population.
When a great majority of the country firmly rejected unelected positions on councils and regional authorities they were officially ignored. The activities of the Waitangi Tribunal and the millions of dollars in Treaty settlements made by Chris Finlayson go unchallenged.
The Government intends to include the iwi clauses in the RMA reform. What kind of democracy is that?
The unfortunate premise is that, traditionally, when the next Government elections come around no other political party will have the courage or social conscience to mention or challenge these undemocratic anomalies.
I have on three occasions written a personal letter to each MP, had 10 per cent acknowledgement from secretaries but no comment from the member and no actions taken.
Is this how members regard their constituents?
And so the imbalance will continue. (Abridged)
B J
Omokoroa
The Northern Advocate 23/11/16
BEEHIVE, BEWARE
“He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”
Thus spake George Bernard Shaw. There are those who enter Parliament, and we never hear of them again, and there are those who enter Parliament and we hear from them regularly, for all of the wrong reasons.
Britain has voted to pull out of the European Union, and the United States has elected an apparent misogynist and racist for a president. Donald Trump has been elected democratically. Give the man a go. He may make America great again!
Holland, France, and Germany vote next year, and most of the citizens of those countries want out of the EU. I asked a friend of mine, who brought his wife (an English teacher) and two children out from Macedonia, why he came to New Zealand. He answered: "I looked at a map of the world and saw that New Zealand is as far from Europe as I could get." He held his hand up and shook it as if to imitate boiling water. "Europe is simmering," he continued, "And it will soon boil over, and I want my family as far from there as possible when it does."
Our Government goes to the polls as welL Either the New Zealanders will ignore the racism in the present Govern-ment's apartheid legislation, or they will deliver one powerful shock. Tighten your seat belts, folks, we are in for an exciting ride!
KEVAN G MARKS
Kaipara
REVIEW FOR KEY?
Now that some of the power of the controllers of international finances, banking, governments and a biased media has been diminished or possibly threatened by the results of American presidential elections, John Key may consider reviewing his political aims.
He may wish to rescind favouritism of Maori.
Favouritism evidenced in many aspects of our national life such as education, resources, political representation and private consultations.
Perhaps he may start to listen to and act for the other 85 per cent of the population.
When a great majority of the country firmly rejected unelected positions on councils and regional authorities they were officially ignored. The activities of the Waitangi Tribunal and the millions of dollars in Treaty settlements made by Chris Finlayson go unchallenged.
The Government intends to include the iwi clauses in the RMA reform. What kind of democracy is that?
The unfortunate premise is that, traditionally, when the next Government elections come around no other political party will have the courage or social conscience to mention or challenge these undemocratic anomalies.
I have on three occasions written a personal letter to each MP, had 10 per cent acknowledgement from secretaries but no comment from the member and no actions taken.
Is this how members regard their constituents?
And so the imbalance will continue. (Abridged)
B J
Omokoroa
The Northern Advocate 23/11/16
BEEHIVE, BEWARE
“He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”
Thus spake George Bernard Shaw. There are those who enter Parliament, and we never hear of them again, and there are those who enter Parliament and we hear from them regularly, for all of the wrong reasons.
Britain has voted to pull out of the European Union, and the United States has elected an apparent misogynist and racist for a president. Donald Trump has been elected democratically. Give the man a go. He may make America great again!
Holland, France, and Germany vote next year, and most of the citizens of those countries want out of the EU. I asked a friend of mine, who brought his wife (an English teacher) and two children out from Macedonia, why he came to New Zealand. He answered: "I looked at a map of the world and saw that New Zealand is as far from Europe as I could get." He held his hand up and shook it as if to imitate boiling water. "Europe is simmering," he continued, "And it will soon boil over, and I want my family as far from there as possible when it does."
Our Government goes to the polls as welL Either the New Zealanders will ignore the racism in the present Govern-ment's apartheid legislation, or they will deliver one powerful shock. Tighten your seat belts, folks, we are in for an exciting ride!
KEVAN G MARKS
Kaipara