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Waikato Times Weekend 2/4/16
IS THIS DEMOCRACY?
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 has rising anger against multiculturalism, immigration, racebased 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 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
Bay of Plenty Times 2/4/16
NEW NAME DEFIES TRADITION
Your editorial writer Stephanie Arthur-Worsop ( March 18) seems to think that the proposed new name Toi Oho Mai for the new combined polytechnic will be okay if it is allowed to hang around long enough.
She claims it is a new institute and therefore needs a new name. As it is actually a combining of existing institutes, what happened to tradition?
Deputy mayor Kelvin Clout is right on the money in opposing the proposed new name for the polytechnic.
Toi Oho Mai is almost unpronounceable and has no geographic reference.
Bay of Plenty Polytechnic or Institute of Technology requires no further embellishment.
If by chance a bit more pizzazz is thought necessary then what about the BeBoP Polytechnic or Institute? (Abridged)
R P
Welcome Bay
Wairarapa Times Age 2/4/16
NZ HISTORY
Only an MP because of the idiotic “coat-tailing” provision, foolishly included in MMP by Parliament, Marama Fox speaks of distorted views of New Zealand history ( Times- Age, March 28).
She would do well to be more careful with the truth herself. Her much-revered Te Whiti was no more than a cult leader who preached a mixture of Old Testament Christianity, traditional Maori beliefs and his own makebelieve. As Minister John Bryce, who humanely occupied Parihaka without bloodshed, reported of Parihaka inhabitants: “They adhere to Te Whiti and obey him because they dare not do otherwise. . . . the horrible dread of being makatued, bewitched, or bedevilled to death is an everpresent fear.” Her comparison of this man with Gandhi is obscene.
As Homi, son-in-law of Tohu, said at Te Whiti’s funeral in 1907: “It serves you right, you tribes, to have believed these two men. These men were past masters in word-painting: that is all! You have been deceived.”
As for Fox’s “cultural genocide” — an inventive term of her own, I imagine — in the Taranaki tribal rebellions, those tribes suffered massively at the hands of the Waikato in the 1830s — 1300 killed and mostly eaten at Pukerangiora, many more taken homeward as slaves by the victorious Waikato and the rest fleeing south whence they proceeded to commit real genocide upon the peaceful people of the Chatham Islands. When peace was restored by Pax Britannica and the refugees and slaves returned, they fought amongst themselves about who owned what, then turned their aggression on the pioneer settlers, 177 of whose farmsteads they destroyed in a single year. As always, the infamous Waitangi Tribunal, will back the Te Atiawa accusations, our Government will comply and we taxpayers will foot the bill yet again. No doubt, Marama Fox would say that that is what we deserve!
BRUCE MOON
Nelson
Wanganui Chronicle 2/4/16
CELTIC PAST
An interesting letter by Potonga Neilson on March 22, but he needs to learn a bit more about our history.
For a starter, New Zealand was called many names but was never called Aotearoa. One of Potonga's favourite pastimes is searching for evidence that will confirm Maori traditions of a very long occupation of this land.
If Potonga takes on his Maori side he went get much, as they have been here only about 650 years. If he takes on his Scottis/Irish (Celtic) line he could go back to 3000 years or more of settlement in New Zealand like the ancient archaeological sites the Celtic village in the Waipoua forest, which has an embargo placed on it, or the temple construction known as the Kaimanawa Wall in Taupo, or Koro Pa, a Celtic construction in New Plymouth built about 1000 years ago.
The downside of this is there is no money in being a Celt in New Zealand.
I B
Wanganui
IS THIS DEMOCRACY?
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 has rising anger against multiculturalism, immigration, racebased 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 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
Bay of Plenty Times 2/4/16
NEW NAME DEFIES TRADITION
Your editorial writer Stephanie Arthur-Worsop ( March 18) seems to think that the proposed new name Toi Oho Mai for the new combined polytechnic will be okay if it is allowed to hang around long enough.
She claims it is a new institute and therefore needs a new name. As it is actually a combining of existing institutes, what happened to tradition?
Deputy mayor Kelvin Clout is right on the money in opposing the proposed new name for the polytechnic.
Toi Oho Mai is almost unpronounceable and has no geographic reference.
Bay of Plenty Polytechnic or Institute of Technology requires no further embellishment.
If by chance a bit more pizzazz is thought necessary then what about the BeBoP Polytechnic or Institute? (Abridged)
R P
Welcome Bay
Wairarapa Times Age 2/4/16
NZ HISTORY
Only an MP because of the idiotic “coat-tailing” provision, foolishly included in MMP by Parliament, Marama Fox speaks of distorted views of New Zealand history ( Times- Age, March 28).
She would do well to be more careful with the truth herself. Her much-revered Te Whiti was no more than a cult leader who preached a mixture of Old Testament Christianity, traditional Maori beliefs and his own makebelieve. As Minister John Bryce, who humanely occupied Parihaka without bloodshed, reported of Parihaka inhabitants: “They adhere to Te Whiti and obey him because they dare not do otherwise. . . . the horrible dread of being makatued, bewitched, or bedevilled to death is an everpresent fear.” Her comparison of this man with Gandhi is obscene.
As Homi, son-in-law of Tohu, said at Te Whiti’s funeral in 1907: “It serves you right, you tribes, to have believed these two men. These men were past masters in word-painting: that is all! You have been deceived.”
As for Fox’s “cultural genocide” — an inventive term of her own, I imagine — in the Taranaki tribal rebellions, those tribes suffered massively at the hands of the Waikato in the 1830s — 1300 killed and mostly eaten at Pukerangiora, many more taken homeward as slaves by the victorious Waikato and the rest fleeing south whence they proceeded to commit real genocide upon the peaceful people of the Chatham Islands. When peace was restored by Pax Britannica and the refugees and slaves returned, they fought amongst themselves about who owned what, then turned their aggression on the pioneer settlers, 177 of whose farmsteads they destroyed in a single year. As always, the infamous Waitangi Tribunal, will back the Te Atiawa accusations, our Government will comply and we taxpayers will foot the bill yet again. No doubt, Marama Fox would say that that is what we deserve!
BRUCE MOON
Nelson
Wanganui Chronicle 2/4/16
CELTIC PAST
An interesting letter by Potonga Neilson on March 22, but he needs to learn a bit more about our history.
For a starter, New Zealand was called many names but was never called Aotearoa. One of Potonga's favourite pastimes is searching for evidence that will confirm Maori traditions of a very long occupation of this land.
If Potonga takes on his Maori side he went get much, as they have been here only about 650 years. If he takes on his Scottis/Irish (Celtic) line he could go back to 3000 years or more of settlement in New Zealand like the ancient archaeological sites the Celtic village in the Waipoua forest, which has an embargo placed on it, or the temple construction known as the Kaimanawa Wall in Taupo, or Koro Pa, a Celtic construction in New Plymouth built about 1000 years ago.
The downside of this is there is no money in being a Celt in New Zealand.
I B
Wanganui