Post by Kiwi Frontline on Dec 3, 2017 5:28:23 GMT 12
Dear Editor (Sent to the Otago Daily Times 28/11/17)
Over recent decades it has become rare indeed for any branch of the mainstream news media to give give any exposure to views which beg to differ from those "approved" by the unwritten dictates of neo-Marxist, anti-Western "political correctness".
Therefore the Otago Daily Times is to be heartily congratulated for its bravery in publishing Dave Witherow's honest, truthful and therefore anti-establishment article on the Maori language delirium, ( 24/11/17 ) .
However, the central issue is not the Maori language - no one is "frightened" of Te Reo, ( as one brainwashed journalist put it ) or of anything else Maori.
The real, and well founded concern of the ignored majority of New Zealanders is the now blatant and obvious "divide and destroy" agenda of the hard Left with regard to anything vaguely racial.
How many of the protagonists involved in this ridiculous issue know that scores ( at least ) of European languages have become extinct in the course of history ?
Let us not forget that even the mighty Roman empire, the dominant and leading civilisation of the then known world, has, together with its language ( Latin), passed away. How many past civilisations, races, and languages have synthesised and evolved to become the modern language and culture we know as English? And this too shall pass, "in its season".
Ideally, the demise of ancient cultures and languages would be neither hastened nor prolonged, but be allowed to pass in dignity and gratitude and not be kept artificially alive as humiliating caricatures of their former reality.
Where any real understanding of such matters remains it is known that it's the fruits of the past we carry forward with us into the future, not the trappings. Sadly, the ( part ) Maori malcontents and their white sycophants have no wish to arrive at the truth, they only wish to win the argument.
All that was true and beautiful in past civilisations and cultures, including that of the Maori, we carry on with us as qualities of soul.
Nothing of true worth is ever irretrievably lost. Thus mankind progresses.
COLIN RAWLE, Dunedin
Dear Sir, (Sent to the Northern Advocate 13/11/17)
In his outgoing speech many years ago, Lord Bledisloe, Governor General said: “In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, and he that does not know his own country is at the mercy of every lying windbag”. Doesn’t that sound familiar? There seems to be quite a few of those about now!
In more recent days, Marama Davidson said: “It is essential that Aotearoa (just where is that?) honour its history, and that we educate our children about the injustices of our past”. Absolutely!
I am reliably informed that Aotearoa simply means “Long White Cloud,” and that is where the future of New Zealand will be if the true history is not told.
It is to be hoped that our new Government will allow legislation to pass that will enable archaeologists to examine the 105 embargoed sites, plus some, if not all, of the 4000 sites from North Cape to Bluff that could shine some light onto our true history.
Who was responsible for the rock drawings of Otago, the hierogliphs on rocks at Raglan, the Jesus watch, the stone walls and buildings in the Waipoua Forest, the ancient wooden ship which lies in dense bush about two miles from the coast in South Westland/West Otago, among many other relics from the past?
These questions demand answers!
KEVAN G. MARKS, Kaipara.
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers/unpublished-letters
Over recent decades it has become rare indeed for any branch of the mainstream news media to give give any exposure to views which beg to differ from those "approved" by the unwritten dictates of neo-Marxist, anti-Western "political correctness".
Therefore the Otago Daily Times is to be heartily congratulated for its bravery in publishing Dave Witherow's honest, truthful and therefore anti-establishment article on the Maori language delirium, ( 24/11/17 ) .
However, the central issue is not the Maori language - no one is "frightened" of Te Reo, ( as one brainwashed journalist put it ) or of anything else Maori.
The real, and well founded concern of the ignored majority of New Zealanders is the now blatant and obvious "divide and destroy" agenda of the hard Left with regard to anything vaguely racial.
How many of the protagonists involved in this ridiculous issue know that scores ( at least ) of European languages have become extinct in the course of history ?
Let us not forget that even the mighty Roman empire, the dominant and leading civilisation of the then known world, has, together with its language ( Latin), passed away. How many past civilisations, races, and languages have synthesised and evolved to become the modern language and culture we know as English? And this too shall pass, "in its season".
Ideally, the demise of ancient cultures and languages would be neither hastened nor prolonged, but be allowed to pass in dignity and gratitude and not be kept artificially alive as humiliating caricatures of their former reality.
Where any real understanding of such matters remains it is known that it's the fruits of the past we carry forward with us into the future, not the trappings. Sadly, the ( part ) Maori malcontents and their white sycophants have no wish to arrive at the truth, they only wish to win the argument.
All that was true and beautiful in past civilisations and cultures, including that of the Maori, we carry on with us as qualities of soul.
Nothing of true worth is ever irretrievably lost. Thus mankind progresses.
COLIN RAWLE, Dunedin
Dear Sir, (Sent to the Northern Advocate 13/11/17)
In his outgoing speech many years ago, Lord Bledisloe, Governor General said: “In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, and he that does not know his own country is at the mercy of every lying windbag”. Doesn’t that sound familiar? There seems to be quite a few of those about now!
In more recent days, Marama Davidson said: “It is essential that Aotearoa (just where is that?) honour its history, and that we educate our children about the injustices of our past”. Absolutely!
I am reliably informed that Aotearoa simply means “Long White Cloud,” and that is where the future of New Zealand will be if the true history is not told.
It is to be hoped that our new Government will allow legislation to pass that will enable archaeologists to examine the 105 embargoed sites, plus some, if not all, of the 4000 sites from North Cape to Bluff that could shine some light onto our true history.
Who was responsible for the rock drawings of Otago, the hierogliphs on rocks at Raglan, the Jesus watch, the stone walls and buildings in the Waipoua Forest, the ancient wooden ship which lies in dense bush about two miles from the coast in South Westland/West Otago, among many other relics from the past?
These questions demand answers!
KEVAN G. MARKS, Kaipara.
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers/unpublished-letters