Post by Kiwi Frontline on Feb 11, 2018 5:16:56 GMT 12
Dear Edtitor (Sent to the NZ Herald 1/2/18)
TALK IS CHEAP
So Hoskings Column NZHerald (1February) scores Ardern's 100days plan highly solely on the basis of political announcements made which simply follows Labours manifesto. Not actually doing anything more like 100days of inactivity and deferrment.
However Ms Ardern ingratiated herself to the Ratana clan (a religious/ political /holistic type race based outfit ) threw a cat among the pigeons with her industrial relations spiel ,announced her pregnancy and confinement endorsing a surrogate stand in PM and foolishly agreed to attend Waitangi Day celebrations plus spend 5days kowtowing to the local tribes.
Seriously does that rate a pass mark - I think not and when the action does come it will be misery all round.
ROB PATERSON, Mt Maunganui
Dear Editor (Sent to the NZHerald 26/1/18)
"Just taking orders...."
In writing of the United Nations’ Holocaust Remembrance Day, Benji Flacks makes a great point about the need for us all to take a stand, and not simply be bystanders.
Seductive ideologies start quietly and benignly. They can be hard to identify in this time of western tolerance of others’ values, but we should never forget that our democracy evolved from the mistakes of previous eras.
If we carry on loosening our insistence on legal equality of all regardless of ethnicity, public access rights to rivers and the coast, private property rights, and law and order – our country too will eventually experience a fall from grace.
It’s important that people stand up for what’s right well before violence is involved.
FIONA MACKENZIE, Whangapararaoa
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Otago Daily Times 20/1/18)
I am well aware that I am dependent on your goodwill for any letter of mine to appear in the ODT. I am aware too that, primarily for reasons of space, abridgement is sometimes necessary. However, that does no entitle you – or anybody – to censor my words for the sake of political correctness or any other insubstantial reason.
My letter of 16th January at 91 words was surely brief enough. I made an important statement of fact in my third sentence, with a reference to confirm it and you chose to delete it. That is censorship, not abridgement, inappropriate in a country where freedom of speech is counted important, even fundamental.
Again, I am fully entitled to make a straightforward claim so that “believe I can” is an intrusion. Did Captain Cook say in May 1840 “I believe I can claim sovereignty etc.?” If others have, or believe they have, a stronger claim let them state it.
FYI, my reference to Harper is: “Pioneer Work in the Alps of New Zealand”. extensively quoted in “One Treaty, One Nation”, 2015, ISBN 1872970443, pp. 235-6.
BRUCE MOON, Nelson
Dear Editor, (Sent to the NZ Herald 16/1/18)
If all New Zealand children are to learn a second language - Maori or any other - what is to be left out to make room for it? Kapa Haka maybe?
BRUCE MOON, Nelson
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers/unpublished-letters
TALK IS CHEAP
So Hoskings Column NZHerald (1February) scores Ardern's 100days plan highly solely on the basis of political announcements made which simply follows Labours manifesto. Not actually doing anything more like 100days of inactivity and deferrment.
However Ms Ardern ingratiated herself to the Ratana clan (a religious/ political /holistic type race based outfit ) threw a cat among the pigeons with her industrial relations spiel ,announced her pregnancy and confinement endorsing a surrogate stand in PM and foolishly agreed to attend Waitangi Day celebrations plus spend 5days kowtowing to the local tribes.
Seriously does that rate a pass mark - I think not and when the action does come it will be misery all round.
ROB PATERSON, Mt Maunganui
Dear Editor (Sent to the NZHerald 26/1/18)
"Just taking orders...."
In writing of the United Nations’ Holocaust Remembrance Day, Benji Flacks makes a great point about the need for us all to take a stand, and not simply be bystanders.
Seductive ideologies start quietly and benignly. They can be hard to identify in this time of western tolerance of others’ values, but we should never forget that our democracy evolved from the mistakes of previous eras.
If we carry on loosening our insistence on legal equality of all regardless of ethnicity, public access rights to rivers and the coast, private property rights, and law and order – our country too will eventually experience a fall from grace.
It’s important that people stand up for what’s right well before violence is involved.
FIONA MACKENZIE, Whangapararaoa
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Otago Daily Times 20/1/18)
I am well aware that I am dependent on your goodwill for any letter of mine to appear in the ODT. I am aware too that, primarily for reasons of space, abridgement is sometimes necessary. However, that does no entitle you – or anybody – to censor my words for the sake of political correctness or any other insubstantial reason.
My letter of 16th January at 91 words was surely brief enough. I made an important statement of fact in my third sentence, with a reference to confirm it and you chose to delete it. That is censorship, not abridgement, inappropriate in a country where freedom of speech is counted important, even fundamental.
Again, I am fully entitled to make a straightforward claim so that “believe I can” is an intrusion. Did Captain Cook say in May 1840 “I believe I can claim sovereignty etc.?” If others have, or believe they have, a stronger claim let them state it.
FYI, my reference to Harper is: “Pioneer Work in the Alps of New Zealand”. extensively quoted in “One Treaty, One Nation”, 2015, ISBN 1872970443, pp. 235-6.
BRUCE MOON, Nelson
Dear Editor, (Sent to the NZ Herald 16/1/18)
If all New Zealand children are to learn a second language - Maori or any other - what is to be left out to make room for it? Kapa Haka maybe?
BRUCE MOON, Nelson
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers/unpublished-letters