Post by Kiwi Frontline on Oct 25, 2019 4:33:10 GMT 12
DOUBLESPEAK IS ALL AROUND US.
With reference to the admittedly provocative but entirely legitimate comments of Andrew Hollis exercising his right of free speech, "Te Ao Maori" reports on 22/10/19 (1) that: 'Tenby Powell said he would not tolerate the “demonising” of certain sectors of society. "I can categorically tell you there will be no place for racism in our council chambers."'
Well, tell me, pray, just what are the strange mental processes of retired colonel Powell, if he thinks that "burning" an ancient document in any way remotely "demonises" any sector of society or in some tortuous and twisted way is racist? Of course others such as Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon (2) and Buddy Mikaere (3) jump on his bandwagon with similar and wildly inaccurate remarks bordering on the hysteria which increasingly surrounds it.
May I remind all and everyone that by this pseudo-treaty all that in effect was agreed was that the chiefs would cede such sovereignty as they possessed, all the maori (small 'm') people of New Zealand received the rights and privileges of British subjects and the property rights of all the people of New Zealand were assured. May I remind you too that it is successive governments who have flagrantly breached those agreements by having parliament after parliament pass act after act giving preferential treatment to part-Maoris and that there is increasing concern that private property rights are being breached by government kowtowing to aggressive tribal interests.
Thus, John Robinson (4) has identified no less than 98 items of legislation in the period 1974-2017 almost all of which confer special benefits upon various Maori interest groups. If this is not total contempt for Article third of the agreement known as the Treaty of Waitangi, then, pray, what is it?
On one hand we have a multitude of interested parties in government (5,6)and elsewhere twisting the plain words of a simple 179-year-old document utterly beyond its meaning and intent at the time it was executed and on the other, much the same people holding its plain provisions in contempt.
This my friends, is the situation into which democracy in New Zealand has degenerated today and there are clear signs that in educational institutions and elsewhere this perverted trend accelerates.
To quote Robinson again: ‘[This year, 2019] the Governor-General, Patsy Reddy, and the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, ... proclaimed that “we are one people”. They were lying.’ (7) The palpable evidence supports Robinson entirely. We ignore it at our peril.
BRUCE MOON, Nelson
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1 T. Powell, "Te Ao Maori", 22nd October 2011
2 M. Shand, "Stuff", 21 October 2019
3 B. Mikaere, with T.Powell, op.cit..
4 J. Robinson, "Dividing a Nation — the Return to Tikanga", Tross, 2019, ISBN 9781872970664,pp 182ff.
5 Cabinet Office Circular, CO(19)%, Te Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of Waitangi Guidance, 22 October 2019
6 Treaty of Waitangi Guidance for government policy makers, NZ Law Society 23rd October 2019,
7 Robinson, op. cit., p.5
With reference to the admittedly provocative but entirely legitimate comments of Andrew Hollis exercising his right of free speech, "Te Ao Maori" reports on 22/10/19 (1) that: 'Tenby Powell said he would not tolerate the “demonising” of certain sectors of society. "I can categorically tell you there will be no place for racism in our council chambers."'
Well, tell me, pray, just what are the strange mental processes of retired colonel Powell, if he thinks that "burning" an ancient document in any way remotely "demonises" any sector of society or in some tortuous and twisted way is racist? Of course others such as Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon (2) and Buddy Mikaere (3) jump on his bandwagon with similar and wildly inaccurate remarks bordering on the hysteria which increasingly surrounds it.
May I remind all and everyone that by this pseudo-treaty all that in effect was agreed was that the chiefs would cede such sovereignty as they possessed, all the maori (small 'm') people of New Zealand received the rights and privileges of British subjects and the property rights of all the people of New Zealand were assured. May I remind you too that it is successive governments who have flagrantly breached those agreements by having parliament after parliament pass act after act giving preferential treatment to part-Maoris and that there is increasing concern that private property rights are being breached by government kowtowing to aggressive tribal interests.
Thus, John Robinson (4) has identified no less than 98 items of legislation in the period 1974-2017 almost all of which confer special benefits upon various Maori interest groups. If this is not total contempt for Article third of the agreement known as the Treaty of Waitangi, then, pray, what is it?
On one hand we have a multitude of interested parties in government (5,6)and elsewhere twisting the plain words of a simple 179-year-old document utterly beyond its meaning and intent at the time it was executed and on the other, much the same people holding its plain provisions in contempt.
This my friends, is the situation into which democracy in New Zealand has degenerated today and there are clear signs that in educational institutions and elsewhere this perverted trend accelerates.
To quote Robinson again: ‘[This year, 2019] the Governor-General, Patsy Reddy, and the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, ... proclaimed that “we are one people”. They were lying.’ (7) The palpable evidence supports Robinson entirely. We ignore it at our peril.
BRUCE MOON, Nelson
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1 T. Powell, "Te Ao Maori", 22nd October 2011
2 M. Shand, "Stuff", 21 October 2019
3 B. Mikaere, with T.Powell, op.cit..
4 J. Robinson, "Dividing a Nation — the Return to Tikanga", Tross, 2019, ISBN 9781872970664,pp 182ff.
5 Cabinet Office Circular, CO(19)%, Te Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of Waitangi Guidance, 22 October 2019
6 Treaty of Waitangi Guidance for government policy makers, NZ Law Society 23rd October 2019,
7 Robinson, op. cit., p.5