Post by Kiwi Frontline on Mar 4, 2018 5:26:46 GMT 12
Dear Editor (Sent to the NZ Herald 25/2/18)
RACIAL BIAS OR MOONSHINE
Editorial "Case of Race" in Herald on Sunday is pretty well on the mark.The recent Racial Bias ( looking in the right place ? ) decision by the Court of Appeal effectively overturning the DistrictCourt Judge's conviction that an accused had 1.5g of cocaine is possibly Alice In Wonderland stuff. Readers need to peruse the case summary, look at the police team involved check out the composition of the Court of Appeal and then judge for themselves whether this decision could ever withstand scutiny or whether the law is again being made to look like an ass (lex asinus).Speak up sheeple.
ROB PATERSON, Mt Maunganui
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Dominion Post 18/2/18)
Dr Keri Mills article 16th February :Who owns the Water”. I suggest Dr Keri Mills look into our history and will find Chief Justice Sir James Prendergast ruled the Treaty, a simple nullity” in 1877. and his ruling has never been over-ruled.
The so called “English version Mills quotes is a fake concocted by Hobson”s secretary Freeman to send overseas. Mills is Dishonestly quoting selectively from the real treaty in Maori by omitting the key phrase applying it to “taonga katoa o Nu Tireni”, that is “all the people of New Zealand”. “Taonga katoa” meant ordinary property such as iron cooking pots and blankets in 1840 and it is nothing by but pretence to claim or imply that it includes fresh water.
If Dr Keri is a New Zealand historian based at The Policy Observatory, AUT. What else does Keri get wrong.
IAN BROUGHAM, Wanganui
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Dominion Post 11/2/18)
Article 3 of the Treaty states “Maoris to be given the same rights as the English”, now they want all New Zealanders to be taught the new language Te Reo, Maori academics changed the noble language from “Maori” to “Te Reo”, changed the meaning of many words, invented as many more words, changed the meaning of some of those new words and to complicate matters changed its staccato rhythm to and English pattern, totally unrecognisable to the original. Then Hon Pita Sharples stated on 1 News, “If its our language we can make it mean anything we want to”! Can’t he see this means that Te Reo cannot be translated! To crown it all it’s Maori who are blamed for the language dropping off, academics who made all the changes.
Don’t blame Maoris, blame Governments and academics. Only Governments can make or change laws.
IAN BROUGHAM, Wanganui
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers/unpublished-letters
RACIAL BIAS OR MOONSHINE
Editorial "Case of Race" in Herald on Sunday is pretty well on the mark.The recent Racial Bias ( looking in the right place ? ) decision by the Court of Appeal effectively overturning the DistrictCourt Judge's conviction that an accused had 1.5g of cocaine is possibly Alice In Wonderland stuff. Readers need to peruse the case summary, look at the police team involved check out the composition of the Court of Appeal and then judge for themselves whether this decision could ever withstand scutiny or whether the law is again being made to look like an ass (lex asinus).Speak up sheeple.
ROB PATERSON, Mt Maunganui
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Dominion Post 18/2/18)
Dr Keri Mills article 16th February :Who owns the Water”. I suggest Dr Keri Mills look into our history and will find Chief Justice Sir James Prendergast ruled the Treaty, a simple nullity” in 1877. and his ruling has never been over-ruled.
The so called “English version Mills quotes is a fake concocted by Hobson”s secretary Freeman to send overseas. Mills is Dishonestly quoting selectively from the real treaty in Maori by omitting the key phrase applying it to “taonga katoa o Nu Tireni”, that is “all the people of New Zealand”. “Taonga katoa” meant ordinary property such as iron cooking pots and blankets in 1840 and it is nothing by but pretence to claim or imply that it includes fresh water.
If Dr Keri is a New Zealand historian based at The Policy Observatory, AUT. What else does Keri get wrong.
IAN BROUGHAM, Wanganui
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Dominion Post 11/2/18)
Article 3 of the Treaty states “Maoris to be given the same rights as the English”, now they want all New Zealanders to be taught the new language Te Reo, Maori academics changed the noble language from “Maori” to “Te Reo”, changed the meaning of many words, invented as many more words, changed the meaning of some of those new words and to complicate matters changed its staccato rhythm to and English pattern, totally unrecognisable to the original. Then Hon Pita Sharples stated on 1 News, “If its our language we can make it mean anything we want to”! Can’t he see this means that Te Reo cannot be translated! To crown it all it’s Maori who are blamed for the language dropping off, academics who made all the changes.
Don’t blame Maoris, blame Governments and academics. Only Governments can make or change laws.
IAN BROUGHAM, Wanganui
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers/unpublished-letters