Post by Kiwi Frontline on Mar 28, 2016 7:13:02 GMT 12
The Northern Advocate 28/3/16
TOO PC
Labour’s Maori Affairs spokesman Kelvin Davis decries TVNZ’s survey questionnaire regarding attitudes towards “Maori should not receive any special treatment” as being “racist and offensive”.
Mr Davis seems to have become engulfed in the morass of political correctness, where words don’t mean what they really mean but are instead adapted to fit a specific agenda.
There should be no confusion over the meaning of racism. Dictionary after dictionary provides similar definitions, with a common denominator of racism being either one group of people being persecuted because of their ethnicity or alternatively, receiving favourable (special) treatment because of their race. So that is racism.
The Treaty of Waitangi is not a racist document as it espouses equal rights for all New Zealand citizens. It is the misinterpretations by those who stand to gain that have distorted a history-making document of unity into becoming one of divisiveness.
The concept of Maori receiving special treatment is indeed racist and offensive, but only to the majority who value the principles of democracy above exclusive favours being granted because of one's race.
Mr Davis appears to have swallowed the oxymoronic doctrine that those who wish everyone to have equal rights are the racists. Political correctness can make fools out of otherwise intelligent people.
M M
Kaipara
Wanganui Chronicle 28/3/16
RMA CHANGES
The NZ citizen is faced with changes to the RMA and the control of freshwater without the Government informing the general public about the proposed changes.
If government and ministries upheld their duty of care to the citizens of New Zealand, all changes to Acts should reasonably be inserted into the main regional papers every two weeks for three months prior to the opening of submissions to any select committee. The information should include the heading, the number and the subset of “what the Act reads at the moment” and the “proposed change”.
The proposed changes will write into law further tribal control over land, water and local government infrastructure without any elected responsibility. (Abridged.)
M J. A
Tauranga
Southland Times 28/3/16 Also Bay of Plenty Times 28/3/16
MISREADING
John Key has misread the nation on his flag proposal, just as he is misreading the majority of the population on proposals to give more value and racial bias to Maori over and above other citizens.
The flag referenda manipulated the nation's thoughts away from the real issues of TTPA, changes to the RMA and the proposals to give management of freshwater to unelected maori representation.
The nation's rising anger against multiculturalism, immigration, race-based agendas in Government and institutions, the Waitangi Tribunal, political manipulation of the media, crazy tax laws that have multinational corporations paying minimal taxes to the IRD, ridiculous tax exemptions for hugely profitable charitable organisations, and finally the 60 billion dollar debt National has racked up during their tenure which will have to be repaid by our children and grandchildren.
We, in New Zealand do NOT live in a democracy, it is the lobbyists who run this country to the detriment of millions of fair minded, hardworking kiwis. Political capital and expediency does not equate with good governance.
M J A
Tauranga
TOO PC
Labour’s Maori Affairs spokesman Kelvin Davis decries TVNZ’s survey questionnaire regarding attitudes towards “Maori should not receive any special treatment” as being “racist and offensive”.
Mr Davis seems to have become engulfed in the morass of political correctness, where words don’t mean what they really mean but are instead adapted to fit a specific agenda.
There should be no confusion over the meaning of racism. Dictionary after dictionary provides similar definitions, with a common denominator of racism being either one group of people being persecuted because of their ethnicity or alternatively, receiving favourable (special) treatment because of their race. So that is racism.
The Treaty of Waitangi is not a racist document as it espouses equal rights for all New Zealand citizens. It is the misinterpretations by those who stand to gain that have distorted a history-making document of unity into becoming one of divisiveness.
The concept of Maori receiving special treatment is indeed racist and offensive, but only to the majority who value the principles of democracy above exclusive favours being granted because of one's race.
Mr Davis appears to have swallowed the oxymoronic doctrine that those who wish everyone to have equal rights are the racists. Political correctness can make fools out of otherwise intelligent people.
M M
Kaipara
Wanganui Chronicle 28/3/16
RMA CHANGES
The NZ citizen is faced with changes to the RMA and the control of freshwater without the Government informing the general public about the proposed changes.
If government and ministries upheld their duty of care to the citizens of New Zealand, all changes to Acts should reasonably be inserted into the main regional papers every two weeks for three months prior to the opening of submissions to any select committee. The information should include the heading, the number and the subset of “what the Act reads at the moment” and the “proposed change”.
The proposed changes will write into law further tribal control over land, water and local government infrastructure without any elected responsibility. (Abridged.)
M J. A
Tauranga
Southland Times 28/3/16 Also Bay of Plenty Times 28/3/16
MISREADING
John Key has misread the nation on his flag proposal, just as he is misreading the majority of the population on proposals to give more value and racial bias to Maori over and above other citizens.
The flag referenda manipulated the nation's thoughts away from the real issues of TTPA, changes to the RMA and the proposals to give management of freshwater to unelected maori representation.
The nation's rising anger against multiculturalism, immigration, race-based agendas in Government and institutions, the Waitangi Tribunal, political manipulation of the media, crazy tax laws that have multinational corporations paying minimal taxes to the IRD, ridiculous tax exemptions for hugely profitable charitable organisations, and finally the 60 billion dollar debt National has racked up during their tenure which will have to be repaid by our children and grandchildren.
We, in New Zealand do NOT live in a democracy, it is the lobbyists who run this country to the detriment of millions of fair minded, hardworking kiwis. Political capital and expediency does not equate with good governance.
M J A
Tauranga