Post by Kiwi Frontline on Apr 21, 2019 5:27:35 GMT 12
Dear Sir, (Sent to the Northland Age, 14/4/19)
Yes Ivan Grbich (Will No One Listen, Letters, NA, April 11), I am listening. You ask what is required regarding to qualifications and recommendations before any person from overseas can be accepted as a citizen of this country! It seems that if you took to one of your two wives with a hammer, it might be a good start. Belief in the principles and partnership of the Treaty of Waitangi which came into effect about 1970 (whatever they are), are another. The Prime Minister knows what they are, but she does not know what the three original articles of 1840 are!
Why the lady about whom you write has not been given citizenship is beyond me. She has given sterling service to the Northland hospice where she works for over 12 years, and has earned her right to stay in this country, along with her husband. If they are forced to go by the authorities, then an injustice will have been committed.
I join with you in saying let them stay. Her employer, as well as the Editor of the Northland Age, have requested that they be allowed to remain. They have earned it. What heinous crime have they committed to demand their deportation?
In relation to migrants wanting to come here to live, I would ask them four questions: 1) Do you believe in freedom of religion? 2) Do believe in freedom from religion? 3) Do you believe in the freedom of the individual, and 4) Do you believe in equal rights for women? Failure on any one of these four questions would bar entry!
KEVAN G. MARKS, Kaipara.
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Northland Age 21/3/19)
Re article in NZ Herald Jan 22 Andrew Little led a delegation to the United Nations. He said the Treaty had been breached leaving maori strangers in their own land the impacts of colonisation continue to be felt today through entrenched structural racism poorer outcome for maori. What a load of rubbish, Andrew Little is a guy who failed as a leader of a party, also was unable to win a seat to get into Parliament so he came through the back door. He just doesn’t know anything about our true history of our country.
The people called maori never owned the land they took it off the peaceful tribes who were here before them like the kapupungapunga, Patupaiarere, Ngati Hotu/Celts, Waitaha, turehu and Moriori. etc. which makes maori not in indigenous to New Zealand. It is the descendants of some of these people who are the strangers in this land, not maori.
IAN BROUGHAM, Wanganui
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers/unpublished-letters
Yes Ivan Grbich (Will No One Listen, Letters, NA, April 11), I am listening. You ask what is required regarding to qualifications and recommendations before any person from overseas can be accepted as a citizen of this country! It seems that if you took to one of your two wives with a hammer, it might be a good start. Belief in the principles and partnership of the Treaty of Waitangi which came into effect about 1970 (whatever they are), are another. The Prime Minister knows what they are, but she does not know what the three original articles of 1840 are!
Why the lady about whom you write has not been given citizenship is beyond me. She has given sterling service to the Northland hospice where she works for over 12 years, and has earned her right to stay in this country, along with her husband. If they are forced to go by the authorities, then an injustice will have been committed.
I join with you in saying let them stay. Her employer, as well as the Editor of the Northland Age, have requested that they be allowed to remain. They have earned it. What heinous crime have they committed to demand their deportation?
In relation to migrants wanting to come here to live, I would ask them four questions: 1) Do you believe in freedom of religion? 2) Do believe in freedom from religion? 3) Do you believe in the freedom of the individual, and 4) Do you believe in equal rights for women? Failure on any one of these four questions would bar entry!
KEVAN G. MARKS, Kaipara.
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Northland Age 21/3/19)
Re article in NZ Herald Jan 22 Andrew Little led a delegation to the United Nations. He said the Treaty had been breached leaving maori strangers in their own land the impacts of colonisation continue to be felt today through entrenched structural racism poorer outcome for maori. What a load of rubbish, Andrew Little is a guy who failed as a leader of a party, also was unable to win a seat to get into Parliament so he came through the back door. He just doesn’t know anything about our true history of our country.
The people called maori never owned the land they took it off the peaceful tribes who were here before them like the kapupungapunga, Patupaiarere, Ngati Hotu/Celts, Waitaha, turehu and Moriori. etc. which makes maori not in indigenous to New Zealand. It is the descendants of some of these people who are the strangers in this land, not maori.
IAN BROUGHAM, Wanganui
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers/unpublished-letters