Post by Kiwi Frontline on Oct 25, 2019 7:08:38 GMT 12
Weekend Sun / Sunlive 25/10/19
GRATEFUL FOR A STRONG LEADER
I’m pleased to see our new mayor is not going to be swayed by racial hysteria with a knee jerk reaction and have Andrew Hollis stand down. These are the sort of people we need in Council: strong and not afraid to voice an opinion on things that concern our fair city. It would be unfair and unjust to have Mr Hollis removed from Council for a few remarks that do not attack any one person, but it seems to me he was criticising a system, rather than any one race. Let him stay and see how he performs, before condemning him.
It is time people got off the grass and looked forward to a non-racial future, something that can’t happen with the present mindset.
R SMITH, Tauranga.
DENIAL OF FREE SPEECH
In my opinion the bro-hou over comments made by an elected councillor are the result of the denial of 'free speech' that is the wet blanket now thrown over society by the Race Relations Commissioner.
It is not a crime for those who seriously research New Zealand history to hold differing views and to verbalize what they know. Mr Mikaere and other activists are constantly labelling any difference of historical opinion as 'racism'.
I do not believe the Mayor elect is correct when he claims local government has a 'legal duty to have a partnership with Iwi'.
LGA 14 (1) (d) Principles Relating to Local Authorities does not speak of 'partnership'.
M ANDERSON, Pyes Pa
WHO IS TO BLAME?
It is ridiculous to suggest that the activities of Maori gangs and the millions of dollars of drug money being secured by them is any more than the natural outcome of Captain Cook’s bloody rampaging around the Pacific and the subsequent dastardly oppression of colonisation.
B JOHNSON, Omokoroa.
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GRATEFUL FOR A STRONG LEADER
I’m pleased to see our new mayor is not going to be swayed by racial hysteria with a knee jerk reaction and have Andrew Hollis stand down. These are the sort of people we need in Council: strong and not afraid to voice an opinion on things that concern our fair city. It would be unfair and unjust to have Mr Hollis removed from Council for a few remarks that do not attack any one person, but it seems to me he was criticising a system, rather than any one race. Let him stay and see how he performs, before condemning him.
It is time people got off the grass and looked forward to a non-racial future, something that can’t happen with the present mindset.
R SMITH, Tauranga.
DENIAL OF FREE SPEECH
In my opinion the bro-hou over comments made by an elected councillor are the result of the denial of 'free speech' that is the wet blanket now thrown over society by the Race Relations Commissioner.
It is not a crime for those who seriously research New Zealand history to hold differing views and to verbalize what they know. Mr Mikaere and other activists are constantly labelling any difference of historical opinion as 'racism'.
I do not believe the Mayor elect is correct when he claims local government has a 'legal duty to have a partnership with Iwi'.
LGA 14 (1) (d) Principles Relating to Local Authorities does not speak of 'partnership'.
M ANDERSON, Pyes Pa
WHO IS TO BLAME?
It is ridiculous to suggest that the activities of Maori gangs and the millions of dollars of drug money being secured by them is any more than the natural outcome of Captain Cook’s bloody rampaging around the Pacific and the subsequent dastardly oppression of colonisation.
B JOHNSON, Omokoroa.
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