Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jun 7, 2016 9:47:09 GMT 12
Northland Age 7/6/16
NICE AT ALL COSTS
Re-writing history and propaganda are tools used by power-hungry people, so their self-proclaimed superior status can never be questioned.
It's fascinating to read how groupthink and blind public obedience has evolved in authoritarian states like Russia, China and North Korea.
It is rather more frightening to watch it happening here in New Zealand.
The techniques have worked well, making many think that democracy is now wrong, and that the handing over of government power to private interest Maori groups is the right thing to do. Question this and you are labelled racist.
While none of us are being sent to a gulag or re-education camp yet we may be shunned — and we do find it virtually impossible to get a job in the public sector.
Here are the steps being used to enact the Maorification of New Zealand:
1) Get academics to re-write our history as a fantasy novel, in which all Maori are goodies and all Pakeha baddies. And that anyone with a drop of Maori blood is kinder to children, old people, ancestors (only Maori ones count) and nature.
2) Get schools and universities to brainwash the young with this fake history.
3) Get the media to peddle the fake history, to stoke Maori grievance and Pakeha guilt.
4) Brand as racist anyone who questions the fake history or special Maori entitlement.
5) Entrench processes whereby private Maori groups are entitled to take control of government and resources, and taxpayers to pay for it —thus ensuring permanent Maori power and wealth.
6) Threaten countrywide violence if New Zealanders object. (John Key's"hikois from hell".)
7) Pretend at all times that Maori are a separate, superior race, and ignore the fact that they are all part- Pakeha.
This process has been endorsed by a succession of governments, eager to surrender their country's sovereignty from a position of strength.
New Zealanders prefer to be nice at all costs, and the cost has been to surrender more and more of our democratic rights to unelected members of Maori tribes.
Unless the tribal political alliance strikes some pushback, New Zealand will be the first nation to voluntarily submit to brown minority rule.
GEOFFREY T PARKER
Kamo
MIXED BAG
A very mixed hag in your mailbox today (May31). Thus we have I.F. Burke's silly attempt to patronise me as he takes his "mongreloid" self (his word, not mine) to the international airport, for whose existence I do not think his Maori bloodlines can take any credit. It will be news to him that real history is an account of what actually happened, and to find that out it is better to refer to the written accounts of eye witnesses and recorded words of those who spoke than rambling tales by word of mouth for many generations, or stories made up to suit a purpose.
An example of that would be the foul lie that women and children were burnt to death in a church at Rangiaowhia, told by rebels furious at being outwitted by a merciful British general. (I am sure that statement will make a few feathers fly, but its true). It does not worry me that he will not read any more of my "trash". I am happy to let him wallow in his ignorance. For those of your readers who would like to be better informed, I recommend 'One Treaty, One Nation,' purchased, I understand, by the Far North Library, but in any case available on interloan.
Yes, we do have a right to our identity, and I know the origins of my name, for which his wild guesses are nonsense, but Haami Piripi? Here we have a man posing as a Ngapuhi spokesman and telling culpable lies that Ngapuhi did not cede sovereignty. Surely it is fair to question his good faith or lack of it?
As for Angela Herbert-Graves (.again), Brian Page (ibid) is right about her "endless lecture" leading her runanga "further into Never-Never Land". This time it is about 'mana'. As John Laurie pointed out in the Joumal of the Polynesian Society,' Volume 111, 2002, and easily googled, the Williams did not use it in translating the Treaty because it was too vague and "could be used to describe any of complex bundle of powers and rights... (and much else as well)". She tells us that mana was"the Maori concept of power," and that "each polity exercised its own mana ... secure in ... its political independence." By contrast, we have Paul Moon (not a relation) saying there was "a pervasive sense that communities faced destruction at the hands of their foes with 'almost unbearable anxiety experienced by all Maori communities as a reaction to the periods of terror they sometimes experienced". Read Moon's This Horrid Practice,' and make your own judgement.
It is refreshing to read the letter from Sam McHarg, many of whose ancestors were much Iike my own. Swap a couple of rocky islands in the English Channel for a coral one and the correspondence is almost exact. My Cornish great-grandfather, son of a tin miner, was drowned at sea. My Irsh forebears survived the Great Hunger, and I know their story but do not assert a grievance. The Scots came to New Zealand when two of their successive harvests in Australia were wiped out by insects. One of my wife's great-grandmothers journeyed on a brideship from Portsmouth, England, to Victoria, Vancouver Island, via Cape Horn, surviving shipboard fire and mutiny on the way. There she married her sea-going husband from Nova Scotia, with whom she duly crossed the broad Pacific to settle finally in Melbourne.
I suggest that we New Zealanders are very much more like each other than some of us are willing to admit. It is high time to put our differences aside and honour Hobson's great vision: "He iwi tahi tatou".
BRUCE MOON
Nelson
NICE AT ALL COSTS
Re-writing history and propaganda are tools used by power-hungry people, so their self-proclaimed superior status can never be questioned.
It's fascinating to read how groupthink and blind public obedience has evolved in authoritarian states like Russia, China and North Korea.
It is rather more frightening to watch it happening here in New Zealand.
The techniques have worked well, making many think that democracy is now wrong, and that the handing over of government power to private interest Maori groups is the right thing to do. Question this and you are labelled racist.
While none of us are being sent to a gulag or re-education camp yet we may be shunned — and we do find it virtually impossible to get a job in the public sector.
Here are the steps being used to enact the Maorification of New Zealand:
1) Get academics to re-write our history as a fantasy novel, in which all Maori are goodies and all Pakeha baddies. And that anyone with a drop of Maori blood is kinder to children, old people, ancestors (only Maori ones count) and nature.
2) Get schools and universities to brainwash the young with this fake history.
3) Get the media to peddle the fake history, to stoke Maori grievance and Pakeha guilt.
4) Brand as racist anyone who questions the fake history or special Maori entitlement.
5) Entrench processes whereby private Maori groups are entitled to take control of government and resources, and taxpayers to pay for it —thus ensuring permanent Maori power and wealth.
6) Threaten countrywide violence if New Zealanders object. (John Key's"hikois from hell".)
7) Pretend at all times that Maori are a separate, superior race, and ignore the fact that they are all part- Pakeha.
This process has been endorsed by a succession of governments, eager to surrender their country's sovereignty from a position of strength.
New Zealanders prefer to be nice at all costs, and the cost has been to surrender more and more of our democratic rights to unelected members of Maori tribes.
Unless the tribal political alliance strikes some pushback, New Zealand will be the first nation to voluntarily submit to brown minority rule.
GEOFFREY T PARKER
Kamo
MIXED BAG
A very mixed hag in your mailbox today (May31). Thus we have I.F. Burke's silly attempt to patronise me as he takes his "mongreloid" self (his word, not mine) to the international airport, for whose existence I do not think his Maori bloodlines can take any credit. It will be news to him that real history is an account of what actually happened, and to find that out it is better to refer to the written accounts of eye witnesses and recorded words of those who spoke than rambling tales by word of mouth for many generations, or stories made up to suit a purpose.
An example of that would be the foul lie that women and children were burnt to death in a church at Rangiaowhia, told by rebels furious at being outwitted by a merciful British general. (I am sure that statement will make a few feathers fly, but its true). It does not worry me that he will not read any more of my "trash". I am happy to let him wallow in his ignorance. For those of your readers who would like to be better informed, I recommend 'One Treaty, One Nation,' purchased, I understand, by the Far North Library, but in any case available on interloan.
Yes, we do have a right to our identity, and I know the origins of my name, for which his wild guesses are nonsense, but Haami Piripi? Here we have a man posing as a Ngapuhi spokesman and telling culpable lies that Ngapuhi did not cede sovereignty. Surely it is fair to question his good faith or lack of it?
As for Angela Herbert-Graves (.again), Brian Page (ibid) is right about her "endless lecture" leading her runanga "further into Never-Never Land". This time it is about 'mana'. As John Laurie pointed out in the Joumal of the Polynesian Society,' Volume 111, 2002, and easily googled, the Williams did not use it in translating the Treaty because it was too vague and "could be used to describe any of complex bundle of powers and rights... (and much else as well)". She tells us that mana was"the Maori concept of power," and that "each polity exercised its own mana ... secure in ... its political independence." By contrast, we have Paul Moon (not a relation) saying there was "a pervasive sense that communities faced destruction at the hands of their foes with 'almost unbearable anxiety experienced by all Maori communities as a reaction to the periods of terror they sometimes experienced". Read Moon's This Horrid Practice,' and make your own judgement.
It is refreshing to read the letter from Sam McHarg, many of whose ancestors were much Iike my own. Swap a couple of rocky islands in the English Channel for a coral one and the correspondence is almost exact. My Cornish great-grandfather, son of a tin miner, was drowned at sea. My Irsh forebears survived the Great Hunger, and I know their story but do not assert a grievance. The Scots came to New Zealand when two of their successive harvests in Australia were wiped out by insects. One of my wife's great-grandmothers journeyed on a brideship from Portsmouth, England, to Victoria, Vancouver Island, via Cape Horn, surviving shipboard fire and mutiny on the way. There she married her sea-going husband from Nova Scotia, with whom she duly crossed the broad Pacific to settle finally in Melbourne.
I suggest that we New Zealanders are very much more like each other than some of us are willing to admit. It is high time to put our differences aside and honour Hobson's great vision: "He iwi tahi tatou".
BRUCE MOON
Nelson
