Post by Kiwi Frontline on Sept 10, 2017 5:50:45 GMT 12
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Otago Daily Times 5/9/17)
Peter Carey (ODT 4/9/17) is disingenuous in attacking Dr Muriel Newman’s factual article about freshwater. She advocates for this fundamental necessity of life to remain a public resource, managed by impartial, elected government for the benefit of all Kiwis (and not just those with some Maori ancestry).
In stark contrast, Mr Carey supports privatisation so that the greedy and power hungry can exercise control over the economy and the population, while charging exorbitant sums for rights to use it.
While some regional summer shortages suggest that the current system could do with a tidy up, his complaints are farcical. He says that existing freshwater resource consents of 35 years are too long, whereas he’d be quite happy to give ‘control’ to the tribal elite in perpetuity.
Concern for the health and availability of our waters is not a race-based issue, felt only by those with Maori bloodlines. That’s just absurd. It’s an issue for all New Zealanders and not one which would be fixed by privatisation. That would be a recipe for disaster.
Carey’s spin is that Maori are more honourable and environmentally conscious than all other New Zealanders. Well that is one claim that certainly isn’t supported by fact or even observation! As one example, it only took approximately 120,000 Maori to make the moa and about 33 other species extinct under their “guardianship”, well prior to British colonisation.
Water isn’t and must never become a race-based entitlement.
GEOFF PARKER, Whangarei
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Weekend Sun/Sunlive 2/9/17)
P Dey (Weekend Sun,1/9/17) would have us believe the tales of our “professional historians” but regrettably the best that can be said for most of them is that they are careless with the truth. In a short letter one cannot give details but some of them are A Salmond, C Orange, J Kelsey, M Mutu, P Moon and H Kawharu who have made blatantly false statements about the Treaty of Waitangi while J Phillips and V O’Malley have written grossly distorted accounts of General Cameron’s humane occupation of Rangiaowhia.
Although P Dey himself on 12/2/16 stated in the “Bay of Plenty Times” the brazen falsehood that the book “Twisting the Treaty” (ISBN 1-872970-33-8) has been “totally discredited”, it contains a wealth of information about our true history and deviations by “professional historians” from it. My own article in the second issue of “New Zealand Voice” (March 2017), based on the accounts of participants on both sides, tells the true story of Rangiaowhia. John Robinson’s book “The Kingite Rebellion” (ISBN 1-875970-486) gives an excellent account of the gross provocations by the Waikato tribes which led to their rebellion, ultimately suppressed with some confiscation of land in accordance with Maori tikanga.
BRUCE MOON, Nelson
DearSir/Madam (Sent to the NZ Herald 4/8/17)
Over the past couple of weeks we have had the Greens co- leader Winz circus, the Labour leader has thrown in the towel now the Auditor General has quit and recently we had the National Party MP employment mess with police involved.
We still have the Treaty Minister spewing out settlements and abject apologies willy nilly now being caught short along with ex PM when stating there would be very few Marine and Coastal (MACA ) claims -well sorry they are coming out his ears.Then there are the continuing and increasing departmental type money frauds , regular school ripoffs not to mention the secret squirrel meetings to blindside the public .
What is wrong with this damn country it looks to be rotting from the head down !!
ROB PATERSON, Mount Maunganui
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers/unpublished-letters
Peter Carey (ODT 4/9/17) is disingenuous in attacking Dr Muriel Newman’s factual article about freshwater. She advocates for this fundamental necessity of life to remain a public resource, managed by impartial, elected government for the benefit of all Kiwis (and not just those with some Maori ancestry).
In stark contrast, Mr Carey supports privatisation so that the greedy and power hungry can exercise control over the economy and the population, while charging exorbitant sums for rights to use it.
While some regional summer shortages suggest that the current system could do with a tidy up, his complaints are farcical. He says that existing freshwater resource consents of 35 years are too long, whereas he’d be quite happy to give ‘control’ to the tribal elite in perpetuity.
Concern for the health and availability of our waters is not a race-based issue, felt only by those with Maori bloodlines. That’s just absurd. It’s an issue for all New Zealanders and not one which would be fixed by privatisation. That would be a recipe for disaster.
Carey’s spin is that Maori are more honourable and environmentally conscious than all other New Zealanders. Well that is one claim that certainly isn’t supported by fact or even observation! As one example, it only took approximately 120,000 Maori to make the moa and about 33 other species extinct under their “guardianship”, well prior to British colonisation.
Water isn’t and must never become a race-based entitlement.
GEOFF PARKER, Whangarei
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Weekend Sun/Sunlive 2/9/17)
P Dey (Weekend Sun,1/9/17) would have us believe the tales of our “professional historians” but regrettably the best that can be said for most of them is that they are careless with the truth. In a short letter one cannot give details but some of them are A Salmond, C Orange, J Kelsey, M Mutu, P Moon and H Kawharu who have made blatantly false statements about the Treaty of Waitangi while J Phillips and V O’Malley have written grossly distorted accounts of General Cameron’s humane occupation of Rangiaowhia.
Although P Dey himself on 12/2/16 stated in the “Bay of Plenty Times” the brazen falsehood that the book “Twisting the Treaty” (ISBN 1-872970-33-8) has been “totally discredited”, it contains a wealth of information about our true history and deviations by “professional historians” from it. My own article in the second issue of “New Zealand Voice” (March 2017), based on the accounts of participants on both sides, tells the true story of Rangiaowhia. John Robinson’s book “The Kingite Rebellion” (ISBN 1-875970-486) gives an excellent account of the gross provocations by the Waikato tribes which led to their rebellion, ultimately suppressed with some confiscation of land in accordance with Maori tikanga.
BRUCE MOON, Nelson
DearSir/Madam (Sent to the NZ Herald 4/8/17)
Over the past couple of weeks we have had the Greens co- leader Winz circus, the Labour leader has thrown in the towel now the Auditor General has quit and recently we had the National Party MP employment mess with police involved.
We still have the Treaty Minister spewing out settlements and abject apologies willy nilly now being caught short along with ex PM when stating there would be very few Marine and Coastal (MACA ) claims -well sorry they are coming out his ears.Then there are the continuing and increasing departmental type money frauds , regular school ripoffs not to mention the secret squirrel meetings to blindside the public .
What is wrong with this damn country it looks to be rotting from the head down !!
ROB PATERSON, Mount Maunganui
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers/unpublished-letters