Post by Kiwi Frontline on Nov 26, 2016 5:37:02 GMT 12
Weekend Sun / Sunlive 25/11/16
CONSTITUTIONAL OUTRAGE?
Environment Minister Nick Smith, backed by the Maori Party has announced changes to the RMA Act with the requirement for local Councils to enter into agreements with iwi on how they can be involved in the resource management process.
The Labour Party's David Parker labels the changes as horrendous, and it is opposed by developers, environmental groups, the Law Society and others. Sir Geoffrey Palmer calls it a constitutional outrage.
The John Key-led National Government further entrenches racism within our society by giving one race priority over other cultures. This they have done under cover of the brouhaha during the United States of America elections.
MJ A
Pyes Pa.
BITING THE HAND THAT FEEDS ME
I get annoyed when I read letters such as those written by P Dey and M Leabourn as published in The Weekend Sun of November 4. Regardless of who got here first (P Dey's letter), Maori lore has told us forever that when they arrived on these shores they were met by a fair-skinned race of people.
Their history, handed down by word of mouth, also states they copulated with this race of people before they killed them or ran them off to what is now The Chatham Islands. Thus began the dilution of the Maori bloodline, which continued unabated with every subsequent race who helped to colonise NZ. The race of people we now call Maori is so diluted as to be non-existent, and members are permitted to claim Maori blood if in fact they “feel like Maori”.
With regard to M Leabourn's letter other races and countries have been colonised and have adapted to their new way of life without too much difficulty, so why not Maori? Before the arrival of the colonisers, Maori were basically a stone age people who had the most basic weaponry and apparently led a hunter gatherer existence. They were a warrior people and were well on the way to extinction, by means of fighting and killing themselves when the British arrived.
And when Queen Victoria offered them the same rights as British subjects they accepted with no questions asked. It is the modern day interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi and in my view the benevolence of successive governments which has compounded the plight of Maori along with their reluctance to drag themselves into the 20th or 21st Centuries. It is a statement of their ability to succeed, when you see the success a lot of Maoris make of their life when they get out from under the welfare system of NZ and make a new life for themselves across the ditch or in any other country.
As for their culture, if my people headed the statistics for incarceration, poor education, teenage pregnancy etc etc etc I would be doing everything in my power to turn them around and make it a people to be proud of. And I certainly would not be biting the hand that feeds me as appears to be the case today.
P B
Katikati.
CONSTITUTIONAL OUTRAGE?
Environment Minister Nick Smith, backed by the Maori Party has announced changes to the RMA Act with the requirement for local Councils to enter into agreements with iwi on how they can be involved in the resource management process.
The Labour Party's David Parker labels the changes as horrendous, and it is opposed by developers, environmental groups, the Law Society and others. Sir Geoffrey Palmer calls it a constitutional outrage.
The John Key-led National Government further entrenches racism within our society by giving one race priority over other cultures. This they have done under cover of the brouhaha during the United States of America elections.
MJ A
Pyes Pa.
BITING THE HAND THAT FEEDS ME
I get annoyed when I read letters such as those written by P Dey and M Leabourn as published in The Weekend Sun of November 4. Regardless of who got here first (P Dey's letter), Maori lore has told us forever that when they arrived on these shores they were met by a fair-skinned race of people.
Their history, handed down by word of mouth, also states they copulated with this race of people before they killed them or ran them off to what is now The Chatham Islands. Thus began the dilution of the Maori bloodline, which continued unabated with every subsequent race who helped to colonise NZ. The race of people we now call Maori is so diluted as to be non-existent, and members are permitted to claim Maori blood if in fact they “feel like Maori”.
With regard to M Leabourn's letter other races and countries have been colonised and have adapted to their new way of life without too much difficulty, so why not Maori? Before the arrival of the colonisers, Maori were basically a stone age people who had the most basic weaponry and apparently led a hunter gatherer existence. They were a warrior people and were well on the way to extinction, by means of fighting and killing themselves when the British arrived.
And when Queen Victoria offered them the same rights as British subjects they accepted with no questions asked. It is the modern day interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi and in my view the benevolence of successive governments which has compounded the plight of Maori along with their reluctance to drag themselves into the 20th or 21st Centuries. It is a statement of their ability to succeed, when you see the success a lot of Maoris make of their life when they get out from under the welfare system of NZ and make a new life for themselves across the ditch or in any other country.
As for their culture, if my people headed the statistics for incarceration, poor education, teenage pregnancy etc etc etc I would be doing everything in my power to turn them around and make it a people to be proud of. And I certainly would not be biting the hand that feeds me as appears to be the case today.
P B
Katikati.