Post by Kiwi Frontline on Feb 5, 2017 5:45:51 GMT 12
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Southland Times 30/1/17)
Your correspondent Nobby Clark feels that Gareth Morgan and his Opportunity Party could be the answer to the plethora of ridiculous claims to the Waitangi Tribunal.
One of the aims of the Opportunity Party is to have an upper house in Parliament of 50% Maori, and 50% of the rest of us.
Thus 15% of the population would have 50% of the power and with a few bleeding-heart-greenie liberals from the other side, common-sense would be down the drain.
Of those 15% of the Maori population, it would certainly not be your everyday good Kiwi Maori - the upper house would be peopled by the radical Treatyists intent on running the country under a constitution enshrining the Treaty of Waitangi at its core. It would be apartheid where we would be divided by race.
The definition of democracy is that we are all equal under the law regarding race religion and gender.
If the treaty became superior law, permament race-based laws would be with us forever.
The democracy we currently enjoy would be a thing of the past!
Mr. Clark - you may wish to reconsider which politicial party would be in your best interests.
ROBIN BISHOP
Tauranga
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Bay of Plenty Times 30/1/17)
I read your recent article of an unpremeditated attack on a man playing with his grandchildren in a park in Remuera.
The offender was described as Caucasian, with olive skin, of medium build and in his late teens or early 20's.
I remember when it became politically correct, or perhaps even forbidden, for the media to describe an offender as Maori or Polynesian.
Thus, on reading this description of the "Caucasian" offender, I can now fairly safely assume that if the offender is not described as Caucasian, Indian, Asian, etc, we can take it for granted that the offender is a Maori or Polynesian.
That adequately removes the politically-correct nonsense of failing to describe the race of the offender.
ROBIN BISHOP
Tauranga
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Northern Advocate 28/1/17)
The Government has set aside $4 million dollars to celebrate the land wars over the next four years, starting this year. Bill English said at Turangawaewae Marae that “it is on this day we start the process, the recognition and the retelling of histories that we have not heard before”, he said. “There is an obligation to tell the full story.” I agree. Let’s have the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help all of us! A date and name has yet to be set.
Cherry Grove is a beautiful, quiet spot in Taumarunui, on the confluence of the Wanganui and Ongarue Rivers. Some 600 Patupaiarehe people lived there in peace and harmony until 1832, when 1000 Maori attacked, killed and ate some of them, took most of the rest as slaves, leaving few to escape.
Let us hear about the atrocities that the warlike Maori committed against peaceful Maori, Moriori, Turehu, Patupaiarehe, and Waitaha.
Why did DOC cut down some 12 oak trees in the Bay of Islands, almost 2 metres thick, and reputed to be over 800 years old? These, and many other stories, would have told a story!
If we are going to have a rememberance day of the land wars, let us not have it in sepia and white duotone, but have it in full colour!
KEVAN G. MARKS
Kaiwaka
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers/unpublished-letters
Your correspondent Nobby Clark feels that Gareth Morgan and his Opportunity Party could be the answer to the plethora of ridiculous claims to the Waitangi Tribunal.
One of the aims of the Opportunity Party is to have an upper house in Parliament of 50% Maori, and 50% of the rest of us.
Thus 15% of the population would have 50% of the power and with a few bleeding-heart-greenie liberals from the other side, common-sense would be down the drain.
Of those 15% of the Maori population, it would certainly not be your everyday good Kiwi Maori - the upper house would be peopled by the radical Treatyists intent on running the country under a constitution enshrining the Treaty of Waitangi at its core. It would be apartheid where we would be divided by race.
The definition of democracy is that we are all equal under the law regarding race religion and gender.
If the treaty became superior law, permament race-based laws would be with us forever.
The democracy we currently enjoy would be a thing of the past!
Mr. Clark - you may wish to reconsider which politicial party would be in your best interests.
ROBIN BISHOP
Tauranga
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Bay of Plenty Times 30/1/17)
I read your recent article of an unpremeditated attack on a man playing with his grandchildren in a park in Remuera.
The offender was described as Caucasian, with olive skin, of medium build and in his late teens or early 20's.
I remember when it became politically correct, or perhaps even forbidden, for the media to describe an offender as Maori or Polynesian.
Thus, on reading this description of the "Caucasian" offender, I can now fairly safely assume that if the offender is not described as Caucasian, Indian, Asian, etc, we can take it for granted that the offender is a Maori or Polynesian.
That adequately removes the politically-correct nonsense of failing to describe the race of the offender.
ROBIN BISHOP
Tauranga
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Northern Advocate 28/1/17)
The Government has set aside $4 million dollars to celebrate the land wars over the next four years, starting this year. Bill English said at Turangawaewae Marae that “it is on this day we start the process, the recognition and the retelling of histories that we have not heard before”, he said. “There is an obligation to tell the full story.” I agree. Let’s have the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help all of us! A date and name has yet to be set.
Cherry Grove is a beautiful, quiet spot in Taumarunui, on the confluence of the Wanganui and Ongarue Rivers. Some 600 Patupaiarehe people lived there in peace and harmony until 1832, when 1000 Maori attacked, killed and ate some of them, took most of the rest as slaves, leaving few to escape.
Let us hear about the atrocities that the warlike Maori committed against peaceful Maori, Moriori, Turehu, Patupaiarehe, and Waitaha.
Why did DOC cut down some 12 oak trees in the Bay of Islands, almost 2 metres thick, and reputed to be over 800 years old? These, and many other stories, would have told a story!
If we are going to have a rememberance day of the land wars, let us not have it in sepia and white duotone, but have it in full colour!
KEVAN G. MARKS
Kaiwaka
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers/unpublished-letters