Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jan 29, 2019 3:19:06 GMT 12
Northland Age 29/1/19
A HATCHET JOB
As a nation, we really are in trouble with the Minister of Treaty Negotiations Minister, Andrew Little, singing the ‘Colonial Oppression’ song to a United Nations controlled by a majority of post-colonial nations out to avenge perceived past colonial injustices.
Music to the ears of the Marxist Left and further denigration of Western democracies. His biased, historically warped, cringing apologia demeans our nation and the grand achievements of our forebears.
The ‘entrenched racism’ he mentions is obvious to all, with successive governments favouring Maori exclusively with special privileges granted to none of the other 230 ethnicities. Who else has a Waitangi Tribunal or a political party, 21 radio and two television stations supplied by the taxpayer, special quotas for entrance into educational and academic facilities, millions spent promoting te reo?
Mr Little, Maori ceased to exist as a separate race through breeding with the immigrants. Most of their 15 per cent of our population have more migrant than Maori blood in their veins. We are now all New Zealanders, equal subjects under the Treaty.
The failure in solving Maoris’ many problems is because of patronising governments requiring no responsibility or accountability, and the reluctance of iwi hierarchy to address the problems or commit any of their $50 billion Treaty settlements capital to doing so.
Apparently the high prison population is not because of the criminals’ activities, but because of the failure of the state and citizens to prevent them.
All in all, Mr Little has done a pretty good hatchet job on our international reputation.
BRYAN JOHNSON, Omokoroa
STATE RELIGION
Your edition of January 15 reports that a government minister and NZTA representatives attended the blessing of a recently constructed road roundabout at Waipapa. Although not specifically ruled out, I harbour substantial doubt that the blessing was performed by the local Catholic priest. Would it be reasonable for me to assume that, in our enlightened times, Maori animism has been accorded the status of being our state religion?
LEO LEITCH, Benneydale
KILLING INNOCENTS
Bruce Moon’s expose (Justice denied, letters, Northland Age, January 10) is a very good account on the absurdity that surrounds the current Chatham islands proposals.
To recap, in 1835 Taranaki Maori tribes took the trader Rodney and sailed to the Chathams, some 700km away, seemingly for no good reason other than they thought the grass was greener there and it would be easy pickings. The peaceful, non-violent Moriori who occupied Chatham and Pitt islands lived by a code of non-violence, no warfare, no cannibalism, known as the law of nunuku.
The Maori butchers, intent on extermination, slaughtered them, even women and children, in their hundreds, then enslaved and subjugated the rest.
Today the term to describe this outrage is genocide perpetrated against defenceless people, and by 1863 only about 100 of an estimated original 2000 full-blooded Moriori survived.
Maori have admitted this atrocity, and justified it solely on the basis of custom and conquest, so the facts are well-settled, and what happened is not in dispute at all.
As Mr Moon indicates, we should not be confirming any possession of the Chatham Islands to Maori interests, nor compensating or apologising to anyone or anything for what happened there.
In 1835 the British did not have sovereignty, nor legal control, over what occurred in New Zealand, and that is the short and sweet of it all.
It is inconceivable that we as Kiwis would even contemplate rewarding the descendants of murderers and villains.
ROB PATERSON Mt Maunganui
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A HATCHET JOB
As a nation, we really are in trouble with the Minister of Treaty Negotiations Minister, Andrew Little, singing the ‘Colonial Oppression’ song to a United Nations controlled by a majority of post-colonial nations out to avenge perceived past colonial injustices.
Music to the ears of the Marxist Left and further denigration of Western democracies. His biased, historically warped, cringing apologia demeans our nation and the grand achievements of our forebears.
The ‘entrenched racism’ he mentions is obvious to all, with successive governments favouring Maori exclusively with special privileges granted to none of the other 230 ethnicities. Who else has a Waitangi Tribunal or a political party, 21 radio and two television stations supplied by the taxpayer, special quotas for entrance into educational and academic facilities, millions spent promoting te reo?
Mr Little, Maori ceased to exist as a separate race through breeding with the immigrants. Most of their 15 per cent of our population have more migrant than Maori blood in their veins. We are now all New Zealanders, equal subjects under the Treaty.
The failure in solving Maoris’ many problems is because of patronising governments requiring no responsibility or accountability, and the reluctance of iwi hierarchy to address the problems or commit any of their $50 billion Treaty settlements capital to doing so.
Apparently the high prison population is not because of the criminals’ activities, but because of the failure of the state and citizens to prevent them.
All in all, Mr Little has done a pretty good hatchet job on our international reputation.
BRYAN JOHNSON, Omokoroa
STATE RELIGION
Your edition of January 15 reports that a government minister and NZTA representatives attended the blessing of a recently constructed road roundabout at Waipapa. Although not specifically ruled out, I harbour substantial doubt that the blessing was performed by the local Catholic priest. Would it be reasonable for me to assume that, in our enlightened times, Maori animism has been accorded the status of being our state religion?
LEO LEITCH, Benneydale
KILLING INNOCENTS
Bruce Moon’s expose (Justice denied, letters, Northland Age, January 10) is a very good account on the absurdity that surrounds the current Chatham islands proposals.
To recap, in 1835 Taranaki Maori tribes took the trader Rodney and sailed to the Chathams, some 700km away, seemingly for no good reason other than they thought the grass was greener there and it would be easy pickings. The peaceful, non-violent Moriori who occupied Chatham and Pitt islands lived by a code of non-violence, no warfare, no cannibalism, known as the law of nunuku.
The Maori butchers, intent on extermination, slaughtered them, even women and children, in their hundreds, then enslaved and subjugated the rest.
Today the term to describe this outrage is genocide perpetrated against defenceless people, and by 1863 only about 100 of an estimated original 2000 full-blooded Moriori survived.
Maori have admitted this atrocity, and justified it solely on the basis of custom and conquest, so the facts are well-settled, and what happened is not in dispute at all.
As Mr Moon indicates, we should not be confirming any possession of the Chatham Islands to Maori interests, nor compensating or apologising to anyone or anything for what happened there.
In 1835 the British did not have sovereignty, nor legal control, over what occurred in New Zealand, and that is the short and sweet of it all.
It is inconceivable that we as Kiwis would even contemplate rewarding the descendants of murderers and villains.
ROB PATERSON Mt Maunganui
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers