Post by Kiwi Frontline on May 6, 2018 7:37:17 GMT 12
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Daily Post Rotorua 27/4/18)
All legislation may have the possibility of discriminating against or marginalising someone, however the statutes promulgated by past Govts, relating to Maori were always done in the best interests and for the benefit of Maori, usually on the initiative of maori leaders.
However latter day twisters like Wairangi Jones (Daily Post 25 April ) make sure any such legislation is categorised as damned if you do and damned if you don't.
Race-based legislation pandering to an unjustified sense of entitlement by maori interests is to the detriment of every other Kiwi.
One wonders why the 'shocking' negative `Maori' statistics are skyrocketing when Mr Jones claims, NZ society is slowly embracing the panacea of the Maori world view — could that perhaps be the problem in itself?
Strange how modem day part-maori allege they still feel the pain of colonisation (the current whipping. boy for all ills) which in reality brought so many undeniable benefits while inter-tribal warring killed off at least 10 times more fellow maori creating more hardship and displacements than colonisation ever did. Benefiting only the tribal strong there was of course never any Maori nation, simply a disparate group of warring tribes.
It is encouraging MrJones utilises his/our library (perhaps he means local or city libraries) as they are usually an excellent resource for those in need of facts and the truth, - may he find these soon, provided he doesn't suffer from tunnel vision.
GEOFF PARKER, Whangarei
Dear Sir, (Sent to the Northland Age, Northern Advocate (20/4/18) & Mangawai Focus 23/4/18)
There is much talk about calling our country Aotearoa New Zealand, and I wonder just when the name of New Zealand will slip off the end and disappear. I get the impression that certain TV newsreaders think that it is already a done deal.
It has been said that Aotearoa means “Land of the Long White Cloud,” and that was named by some pakeha, but I disagree. I think that it is a most appropriate name for our country at present because it should mean “Up in the Clouds” for two reasons: (1) That we dig into the past to show that there were people living here before Maori. I can understand the chagrin of the Maori elite, but facts are facts, and must be faced, and (2) when are we going to learn to live as one people? Up in the Clouds is where the country is at present.
Our country is being torn apart at the seams and our major political parties, Labour, National, and the Greens, must each take responsibility. All three are now past their use by date!
The Maori seats in Parliament, Maori Party, the Waitangi Tribunal and the one-eyed Race Relations Commission should be abolished! They are an anathema to a peaceful, prosperous, progressive nation.
My challenge to our political representatives, learned colleages of the judiciary, educationists, archaeologists and historians still stands: Sort out our true history, because this country is going nowhere until we do so! Let the truth be told.
KEVAN G. MARKS, Kaipara.
Dear Sir, (Sent to the Northland Age, date unknown)
Peter Jackson’s editorial (Christians are Fare Game, Northland Age, April 24) is very much to the point.
Professional rugby player, Israel Folau, and his wife, Silver Fern player, Maria (nee Tutaia) were both vilified for saying that homosexuals will not get to Heaven. The media ghouls ran with the story like hyenas into carrion to such an extent that Israel has offered to resign from his rugby career.
Why should he? Brian Tamaki, of the Destiny Church, was castigated for saying much the same thing.
What a performance! Shakespeare would have had a field day, “Much Ado About Nothing”.
It was not that long ago that Prime Minister Rob Muldoon sallied into a homosexual MP to such an extent that he retired from Parliament.
Israel has made a statement that, no doubt, many Christian people will agree with. So What?
With homosexuality now legalised, perhaps the media ghouls, educationists, “learned colleagues” of the legal profession, and politicians who voted to legalise it, should band together to write it out of the Bible, so that there is no confusion. While you are at it, bring the whole book up to date so that we can go down the same road as ancient Rome!
What the media ghouls should be doing is to get their collective teeth into New Zealand’s pre-maori history.
There are some 90 odd books about our history, which have been taken from bookshelves pertaining to our early history because the maori elite want it that way.
Why? It has been worth some 2 billion dollars to them so far and will be worth much more because they have yet to reach the end of their claims and will receive “top ups” for ever after, unless we, the tax-paying public, stop it, and soon.
There are some 4000 sites which could give enlightenment into the pre-maori past in this country. Some say that there is no evidence whatsoever of pre-maori residents here, but what about the Jesus watch, the ancient writings on rocks at Raglan, the stone buildings and walls in the north?
Then there is the dozen or so ancient oak trees which were cut down by the Department of Conservation because “they were not part of our history”. But that is exactly what they were! Each one was some six feet thick, meaning they were planted many hundreds of years ago. By whom? You can bet that it was not maori! A count of their annular rings would have yielded valuable information.
KAWENA HORI MAAKA (Kevan George Marks), Kaipara
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers/unpublished-letters
All legislation may have the possibility of discriminating against or marginalising someone, however the statutes promulgated by past Govts, relating to Maori were always done in the best interests and for the benefit of Maori, usually on the initiative of maori leaders.
However latter day twisters like Wairangi Jones (Daily Post 25 April ) make sure any such legislation is categorised as damned if you do and damned if you don't.
Race-based legislation pandering to an unjustified sense of entitlement by maori interests is to the detriment of every other Kiwi.
One wonders why the 'shocking' negative `Maori' statistics are skyrocketing when Mr Jones claims, NZ society is slowly embracing the panacea of the Maori world view — could that perhaps be the problem in itself?
Strange how modem day part-maori allege they still feel the pain of colonisation (the current whipping. boy for all ills) which in reality brought so many undeniable benefits while inter-tribal warring killed off at least 10 times more fellow maori creating more hardship and displacements than colonisation ever did. Benefiting only the tribal strong there was of course never any Maori nation, simply a disparate group of warring tribes.
It is encouraging MrJones utilises his/our library (perhaps he means local or city libraries) as they are usually an excellent resource for those in need of facts and the truth, - may he find these soon, provided he doesn't suffer from tunnel vision.
GEOFF PARKER, Whangarei
Dear Sir, (Sent to the Northland Age, Northern Advocate (20/4/18) & Mangawai Focus 23/4/18)
There is much talk about calling our country Aotearoa New Zealand, and I wonder just when the name of New Zealand will slip off the end and disappear. I get the impression that certain TV newsreaders think that it is already a done deal.
It has been said that Aotearoa means “Land of the Long White Cloud,” and that was named by some pakeha, but I disagree. I think that it is a most appropriate name for our country at present because it should mean “Up in the Clouds” for two reasons: (1) That we dig into the past to show that there were people living here before Maori. I can understand the chagrin of the Maori elite, but facts are facts, and must be faced, and (2) when are we going to learn to live as one people? Up in the Clouds is where the country is at present.
Our country is being torn apart at the seams and our major political parties, Labour, National, and the Greens, must each take responsibility. All three are now past their use by date!
The Maori seats in Parliament, Maori Party, the Waitangi Tribunal and the one-eyed Race Relations Commission should be abolished! They are an anathema to a peaceful, prosperous, progressive nation.
My challenge to our political representatives, learned colleages of the judiciary, educationists, archaeologists and historians still stands: Sort out our true history, because this country is going nowhere until we do so! Let the truth be told.
KEVAN G. MARKS, Kaipara.
Dear Sir, (Sent to the Northland Age, date unknown)
Peter Jackson’s editorial (Christians are Fare Game, Northland Age, April 24) is very much to the point.
Professional rugby player, Israel Folau, and his wife, Silver Fern player, Maria (nee Tutaia) were both vilified for saying that homosexuals will not get to Heaven. The media ghouls ran with the story like hyenas into carrion to such an extent that Israel has offered to resign from his rugby career.
Why should he? Brian Tamaki, of the Destiny Church, was castigated for saying much the same thing.
What a performance! Shakespeare would have had a field day, “Much Ado About Nothing”.
It was not that long ago that Prime Minister Rob Muldoon sallied into a homosexual MP to such an extent that he retired from Parliament.
Israel has made a statement that, no doubt, many Christian people will agree with. So What?
With homosexuality now legalised, perhaps the media ghouls, educationists, “learned colleagues” of the legal profession, and politicians who voted to legalise it, should band together to write it out of the Bible, so that there is no confusion. While you are at it, bring the whole book up to date so that we can go down the same road as ancient Rome!
What the media ghouls should be doing is to get their collective teeth into New Zealand’s pre-maori history.
There are some 90 odd books about our history, which have been taken from bookshelves pertaining to our early history because the maori elite want it that way.
Why? It has been worth some 2 billion dollars to them so far and will be worth much more because they have yet to reach the end of their claims and will receive “top ups” for ever after, unless we, the tax-paying public, stop it, and soon.
There are some 4000 sites which could give enlightenment into the pre-maori past in this country. Some say that there is no evidence whatsoever of pre-maori residents here, but what about the Jesus watch, the ancient writings on rocks at Raglan, the stone buildings and walls in the north?
Then there is the dozen or so ancient oak trees which were cut down by the Department of Conservation because “they were not part of our history”. But that is exactly what they were! Each one was some six feet thick, meaning they were planted many hundreds of years ago. By whom? You can bet that it was not maori! A count of their annular rings would have yielded valuable information.
KAWENA HORI MAAKA (Kevan George Marks), Kaipara
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers/unpublished-letters