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Otago Daily Times 15/6/16
MINISTER EXPLAINS REASONS FOR MORIORI COMPENSATION
I UNDERSTAND we are settling a Waitangi claim for the Moriori from the Chatham Islands. This is just a joke. We didn't fight the Moriori. Surely the Taranaki tribe that invaded the Chathams, killed or enslaved the people should be paying restitution. Maori as a whole have demanded these settlements for what their people suffered, so the Moriori are entitled to compensation for what they suffered from Maori.
I heard a commentator on TV say the only reason the Crown should pay is because they have deeper pockets. So, why shouldn't Maori pay for what they did? Or are there different rules when it comes to Maori paying?
K. J. O'H
St Clair
[Abridged.Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations Christopher Finlayson replies:
"The Crown is currently negotiating a Treaty settlement with Moriori on the Chatham Islands. This settlement will not provide redress or compensation for actions committed against Moriori by other iwi. It will, however, provide redress for the actions or omissions by the Crown which were in breach of the Treaty of Waitangi.
The Waitangi Tribunal has found that the Crown committed a number of breaches of the Treaty in relation to Moriori after it became sovereign in 1840, such as failing to intervene to end the enslavement of its citizens on the Chatham Islands. The Crown's breaches of the Treaty are discussed in more detail in the Waitangi Tribunal's 2001 report on the Chatham Islands."]
MAORI PRIVILEGE
FINAL proof that Maori are a uniquely privileged race is provided when we begin to see articles denying it. Such opinions, invariably from self-appointed part-Maori spokespeople and their wringing wet, pseudo-liberal white patrons, are simply a denial of demonstrable facts. However, in the world of politically correct, moral relativism, denial of facts has long since become a definite strategy.
Particularly galling is the self-serving tactic of many modern Maori to disavow the manifold influences their non-Maori ancestry certainly has upon them. I find it impossible to believe it's just pure coincidence this misled and malcontent element of Maoridom unwaveringly believe anything that is to their advantage — and nothing that isn't. Fair-minded objectivity? —what's that? It would come as no surprise to many New Zealanders if it turned out Maori were not only the most privileged race in New Zealand but in the world.
If a disproportionate number of Maori really are "failing", then the reasons must be sought not in any imagined racism but in forbidden areas which are ruled "out-of-bounds" by the anti-Western, left-wing, PC tyranny; namely, in all those circumstances arising out of the fact that at the time of colonisation/ civilisation of New Zealand, Maori consciousness and therefore culture was thousands of years behind that of Western civilisation.
And let's be very clear, whatever the reason was for the backwardness of Maori society at that time, it had nothing to do with anyone but themselves. The "wicked white man" could only help them to bridge this vast gap, and much has been achieved. Ultimately however, this task is one that Maori must shoulder themselves. [Abridged]
C R
Northeast Valley
MINISTER EXPLAINS REASONS FOR MORIORI COMPENSATION
I UNDERSTAND we are settling a Waitangi claim for the Moriori from the Chatham Islands. This is just a joke. We didn't fight the Moriori. Surely the Taranaki tribe that invaded the Chathams, killed or enslaved the people should be paying restitution. Maori as a whole have demanded these settlements for what their people suffered, so the Moriori are entitled to compensation for what they suffered from Maori.
I heard a commentator on TV say the only reason the Crown should pay is because they have deeper pockets. So, why shouldn't Maori pay for what they did? Or are there different rules when it comes to Maori paying?
K. J. O'H
St Clair
[Abridged.Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations Christopher Finlayson replies:
"The Crown is currently negotiating a Treaty settlement with Moriori on the Chatham Islands. This settlement will not provide redress or compensation for actions committed against Moriori by other iwi. It will, however, provide redress for the actions or omissions by the Crown which were in breach of the Treaty of Waitangi.
The Waitangi Tribunal has found that the Crown committed a number of breaches of the Treaty in relation to Moriori after it became sovereign in 1840, such as failing to intervene to end the enslavement of its citizens on the Chatham Islands. The Crown's breaches of the Treaty are discussed in more detail in the Waitangi Tribunal's 2001 report on the Chatham Islands."]
MAORI PRIVILEGE
FINAL proof that Maori are a uniquely privileged race is provided when we begin to see articles denying it. Such opinions, invariably from self-appointed part-Maori spokespeople and their wringing wet, pseudo-liberal white patrons, are simply a denial of demonstrable facts. However, in the world of politically correct, moral relativism, denial of facts has long since become a definite strategy.
Particularly galling is the self-serving tactic of many modern Maori to disavow the manifold influences their non-Maori ancestry certainly has upon them. I find it impossible to believe it's just pure coincidence this misled and malcontent element of Maoridom unwaveringly believe anything that is to their advantage — and nothing that isn't. Fair-minded objectivity? —what's that? It would come as no surprise to many New Zealanders if it turned out Maori were not only the most privileged race in New Zealand but in the world.
If a disproportionate number of Maori really are "failing", then the reasons must be sought not in any imagined racism but in forbidden areas which are ruled "out-of-bounds" by the anti-Western, left-wing, PC tyranny; namely, in all those circumstances arising out of the fact that at the time of colonisation/ civilisation of New Zealand, Maori consciousness and therefore culture was thousands of years behind that of Western civilisation.
And let's be very clear, whatever the reason was for the backwardness of Maori society at that time, it had nothing to do with anyone but themselves. The "wicked white man" could only help them to bridge this vast gap, and much has been achieved. Ultimately however, this task is one that Maori must shoulder themselves. [Abridged]
C R
Northeast Valley