Post by Kiwi Frontline on May 25, 2020 12:48:23 GMT 12
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Northland Age & Northern Advocate 21/5/20)
Headlines sourced from the media and compiled on the ‘Breaking Views’ site 11 May 2020 were disturbing reading.
The first headline read “Māori and Pacific patients could be prioritised for elective surgery by greater Auckland and Northland DHBs “, in other words these people may get elective surgery before other New Zealanders based on nothing more than their racial make up – Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon should be all over this nonsense being a perfect example of race based preferences.
The next headline read “Far North Māori who set up road checkpoints to stop Covid-19 spread now carrying out patrols with police”. This is totally illegal under Summary Offences Act and the Lockdown Rules. Are our police officers so inept that they cannot enforce the law and need untrained opportunist maori interests patrolling with them? I venture it won’t be long before our duly authorised law enforcement will be redundant and Maori/tribal lore will prevail.
Another headline read “Should Tai Tokerau face any threat to it’s safety and wellbeing in the future, we can look on these times as a guide to action”. And there we have it, a precedent has been set during the ‘pandemic’ with unauthorised activists setting up illegal tribal roadblocks on our public highways, and in future for any nebulous excuse, things are now in place for more of this illegal tribalist disruptive intimidating action.
All Kiwis should be sitting bolt upright when reading those headlines, they reek of the path that South Africa travelled down that has ended in a trainwreck economy and human misery.
GEOFF PARKER, Whangarei
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Bay of Plenty Times 17/5/20)
Martin Luther King said I have a dream my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their Character. I have a dream today.
In New Zealand today the colour of the Maori skin, ( or some hypothetical maoriness) is becoming the colour of privilege. Special schools, Maori nests, scholarships, loans and donations from the Maori Affairs dept. are some of the things available to Maori today.
Be the colour of the skin be ever so pale, they claim their rights because some distant relative was Maori their iwi or hapu. It is strange to watch former tribal enemies join together to wring extra privileges from weak Pakeha Governments. Do not forget it is Pakeha money from taxes, which is poured out by the millions to Maori – it doesn’t come from ‘cargo cult’ or a gold mine.
I claim that our families have made as much a contribution to the life of New Zealand in six generations as any Maori family.
IAN BROUGHAM, Wanganui
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers/unpublished-letters
Headlines sourced from the media and compiled on the ‘Breaking Views’ site 11 May 2020 were disturbing reading.
The first headline read “Māori and Pacific patients could be prioritised for elective surgery by greater Auckland and Northland DHBs “, in other words these people may get elective surgery before other New Zealanders based on nothing more than their racial make up – Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon should be all over this nonsense being a perfect example of race based preferences.
The next headline read “Far North Māori who set up road checkpoints to stop Covid-19 spread now carrying out patrols with police”. This is totally illegal under Summary Offences Act and the Lockdown Rules. Are our police officers so inept that they cannot enforce the law and need untrained opportunist maori interests patrolling with them? I venture it won’t be long before our duly authorised law enforcement will be redundant and Maori/tribal lore will prevail.
Another headline read “Should Tai Tokerau face any threat to it’s safety and wellbeing in the future, we can look on these times as a guide to action”. And there we have it, a precedent has been set during the ‘pandemic’ with unauthorised activists setting up illegal tribal roadblocks on our public highways, and in future for any nebulous excuse, things are now in place for more of this illegal tribalist disruptive intimidating action.
All Kiwis should be sitting bolt upright when reading those headlines, they reek of the path that South Africa travelled down that has ended in a trainwreck economy and human misery.
GEOFF PARKER, Whangarei
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Bay of Plenty Times 17/5/20)
Martin Luther King said I have a dream my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their Character. I have a dream today.
In New Zealand today the colour of the Maori skin, ( or some hypothetical maoriness) is becoming the colour of privilege. Special schools, Maori nests, scholarships, loans and donations from the Maori Affairs dept. are some of the things available to Maori today.
Be the colour of the skin be ever so pale, they claim their rights because some distant relative was Maori their iwi or hapu. It is strange to watch former tribal enemies join together to wring extra privileges from weak Pakeha Governments. Do not forget it is Pakeha money from taxes, which is poured out by the millions to Maori – it doesn’t come from ‘cargo cult’ or a gold mine.
I claim that our families have made as much a contribution to the life of New Zealand in six generations as any Maori family.
IAN BROUGHAM, Wanganui
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers/unpublished-letters