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Waikato Times 5/3/16
MAUNGATAUTARI PROJECT
I read Monday’s opinion column by David Wallace ( Waikato Times, February 29) on the Maungatautari project losing its way with much sadness. My partner and I have very fond memories of the trek over the mountain and of our stay and dinner at Out in the Styx.
However, the situation should not be a surprise to anyone. Some of the Maori at Maungatautari are not interested in practising genuine kaitiakitanga. For them, as with their separatist fellow travellers elsewhere in New Zealand, kaitiakitanga is a pre-emptive right.
C L
Tauranga
Wanganui Chronicle 5/3/16
ABOVE THE LAW
The more astute readers kill have deduced that I have little affinity with some of the lowlifes in our fine country. However, I have discovered a man who, despite his actions, is worthy of my respect. This is the chap who adorned Gerry Brownlee with the brown gunk. Sure, it was a premeditated act, driven by his personal grief, but a criminal offence nonetheless. He is rightly charged with assault, appears in court where he pleads guilty and has no qualms about facing his punishment. He accepts responsibility for his actions.
A few weeks prior, another "protester" took it upon herself to throw her favourite toy at Steven Joyce — another premeditated act of assault, unless she just happened to have it in her handbag for periods of boredom. She was not charged with assault, became the focus of anyone who wanted to have a bitch about anything, and returned home a hero in the eyes of the idiots who found her actions laudable. Why were these two similar assaults treated differently?
After hours of in-depth contemplation, there is only one logical answer —the decision to prosecute or not was made on the basis of "appearance". The chap in Christchurch was shown as a member of the lower socioeconomic community and was white. The offender at Waitangi was given huge publicity, stressing the fact that she was a nurse and that her motivation for her crime was "possible loss of Maori sovereignty" under TPP. That she had a smidgen of Maori blood in her was certainly a bonus. Only one conclusion can be drawn— as long as you have a drop of native blood in you and you protest at Waitangi on Waitangi Day, you are above the law. This immunity status has occurred in the past and quite frankly, it stinks. (Abridged.)
D P
Eastown
WATER OWNERSHIP
The proposed bill on water appar-ently has some parts that will make water available for private owner-ship. How can that be when water is for everyone free? You can't sell what is not yours to start with. This needs public consultation before any decisim is even thought about.
M S
Bulls
Waikato Times 5/3/16
MAUNGATAUTARI PROJECT
I read Monday’s opinion column by David Wallace ( Waikato Times, February 29) on the Maungatautari project losing its way with much sadness. My partner and I have very fond memories of the trek over the mountain and of our stay and dinner at Out in the Styx.
However, the situation should not be a surprise to anyone. Some of the Maori at Maungatautari are not interested in practising genuine kaitiakitanga. For them, as with their separatist fellow travellers elsewhere in New Zealand, kaitiakitanga is a pre-emptive right.
C L
Tauranga
Wanganui Chronicle 5/3/16
ABOVE THE LAW
The more astute readers kill have deduced that I have little affinity with some of the lowlifes in our fine country. However, I have discovered a man who, despite his actions, is worthy of my respect. This is the chap who adorned Gerry Brownlee with the brown gunk. Sure, it was a premeditated act, driven by his personal grief, but a criminal offence nonetheless. He is rightly charged with assault, appears in court where he pleads guilty and has no qualms about facing his punishment. He accepts responsibility for his actions.
A few weeks prior, another "protester" took it upon herself to throw her favourite toy at Steven Joyce — another premeditated act of assault, unless she just happened to have it in her handbag for periods of boredom. She was not charged with assault, became the focus of anyone who wanted to have a bitch about anything, and returned home a hero in the eyes of the idiots who found her actions laudable. Why were these two similar assaults treated differently?
After hours of in-depth contemplation, there is only one logical answer —the decision to prosecute or not was made on the basis of "appearance". The chap in Christchurch was shown as a member of the lower socioeconomic community and was white. The offender at Waitangi was given huge publicity, stressing the fact that she was a nurse and that her motivation for her crime was "possible loss of Maori sovereignty" under TPP. That she had a smidgen of Maori blood in her was certainly a bonus. Only one conclusion can be drawn— as long as you have a drop of native blood in you and you protest at Waitangi on Waitangi Day, you are above the law. This immunity status has occurred in the past and quite frankly, it stinks. (Abridged.)
D P
Eastown
WATER OWNERSHIP
The proposed bill on water appar-ently has some parts that will make water available for private owner-ship. How can that be when water is for everyone free? You can't sell what is not yours to start with. This needs public consultation before any decisim is even thought about.
M S
Bulls