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Otago Daily Times 9/12/16
IS RACIAL DISHARMONY PART OF KEY'S LEGACY?
YOUR balanced editorial "The John Key legacy" (ODT, 6.12.16) was spoiled by repetition of the nonsense that Don Brash "played the race card" via his oft-mentioned Orewa Rotary Club speech and that he continues to do so in the name of Hobson's Pledge Trust.
How on earth can it be racist to advocate for a society in which all citizens enjoy equal legal status and entitlements regardless of their ethnicity and regardless of when they or their ancestors arrived here?
You claim that such an ideal "would have meant putting New Zealand on the edge of racial disharmony". Perhaps you should explain what different sort of society you would prefer to live in.
If anyone has brought New Zealand to the brink of racial disharmony it is the current John Key-led National Administration which, via its reform of the Resource Management Act, plans to give substantial control over the nation's natural resources such as fresh water to unelected, unaccountable iwi nominees. Once the wider public finally wakes up to the reality of the back-room deals that have been done with the iwi leaders group. we may very well endure a period of significant racial disharmony. but that will not be Don Brash's fault.
J B
Dunedin
IN the eulogy of John Key, your editorial states "Dr Brash played the race card ... putting New Zealand on the edge of racial disharmony".
Nothing could be further from the truth. What he spoke of at Orewa was "the dangerous drift towards racial separatism ... and ... the now entrenched Treaty grievance industry", saying "there can be no basis for special privileges for any race". That is the basis of his "Hobson's Pledge" movement today — "He iwi tahi tatou" —"We are one people now".
It has been John Key who has played the race card in deals with the Maori Party to get his own way. Sending Peter Sharples secretly to sign the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and six or more special rights for the Maori tribal elite in amendments currently proposed to the Resource Management Act are but two examples.
Recent reports show that, in Taranaki for example, Maori extremism is increasing while much is corrupt in the so-called "Treaty of Waitangi" settlement process. Examples are the false Tribunal claims that Ngapuhi never ceded sovereignty and Ngati Tuwharetoa never gave Tongariro National Park to the nation. My Key has played his part in that.
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BRUCE MOON
Nelson
Sunlive / Weekend Sun 9/12/16
‘MADAM, THERE IS NO PARTNERSHIP!’
The new Governor General, Dame Patsy Reddy, in her opening speech said: “I will respect and honour the unique partnership between the Crown and Maori as enshrined in our founding document…” in doing so she has shown extreme ignorance of the wording and intent of the Treaty and a racial bias that is grossly inappropriate for her role as the representative of the Queen. It is judicially, constitutionally and logically impossible for the Sovereign to be in partnership with her subjects. Prime Minister John Key picked a real ‘patsy' to promote his party's exclusive pro-Maori patronage. It is surprising one of Dame Reddy's professional experience should make such a false and deleterious statement. “Madam, there is no partnership!” Check the Treaty.
B J
Omokoroa.
IS RACIAL DISHARMONY PART OF KEY'S LEGACY?
YOUR balanced editorial "The John Key legacy" (ODT, 6.12.16) was spoiled by repetition of the nonsense that Don Brash "played the race card" via his oft-mentioned Orewa Rotary Club speech and that he continues to do so in the name of Hobson's Pledge Trust.
How on earth can it be racist to advocate for a society in which all citizens enjoy equal legal status and entitlements regardless of their ethnicity and regardless of when they or their ancestors arrived here?
You claim that such an ideal "would have meant putting New Zealand on the edge of racial disharmony". Perhaps you should explain what different sort of society you would prefer to live in.
If anyone has brought New Zealand to the brink of racial disharmony it is the current John Key-led National Administration which, via its reform of the Resource Management Act, plans to give substantial control over the nation's natural resources such as fresh water to unelected, unaccountable iwi nominees. Once the wider public finally wakes up to the reality of the back-room deals that have been done with the iwi leaders group. we may very well endure a period of significant racial disharmony. but that will not be Don Brash's fault.
J B
Dunedin
IN the eulogy of John Key, your editorial states "Dr Brash played the race card ... putting New Zealand on the edge of racial disharmony".
Nothing could be further from the truth. What he spoke of at Orewa was "the dangerous drift towards racial separatism ... and ... the now entrenched Treaty grievance industry", saying "there can be no basis for special privileges for any race". That is the basis of his "Hobson's Pledge" movement today — "He iwi tahi tatou" —"We are one people now".
It has been John Key who has played the race card in deals with the Maori Party to get his own way. Sending Peter Sharples secretly to sign the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and six or more special rights for the Maori tribal elite in amendments currently proposed to the Resource Management Act are but two examples.
Recent reports show that, in Taranaki for example, Maori extremism is increasing while much is corrupt in the so-called "Treaty of Waitangi" settlement process. Examples are the false Tribunal claims that Ngapuhi never ceded sovereignty and Ngati Tuwharetoa never gave Tongariro National Park to the nation. My Key has played his part in that.
[Abridged]
BRUCE MOON
Nelson
Sunlive / Weekend Sun 9/12/16
‘MADAM, THERE IS NO PARTNERSHIP!’
The new Governor General, Dame Patsy Reddy, in her opening speech said: “I will respect and honour the unique partnership between the Crown and Maori as enshrined in our founding document…” in doing so she has shown extreme ignorance of the wording and intent of the Treaty and a racial bias that is grossly inappropriate for her role as the representative of the Queen. It is judicially, constitutionally and logically impossible for the Sovereign to be in partnership with her subjects. Prime Minister John Key picked a real ‘patsy' to promote his party's exclusive pro-Maori patronage. It is surprising one of Dame Reddy's professional experience should make such a false and deleterious statement. “Madam, there is no partnership!” Check the Treaty.
B J
Omokoroa.