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The Northern Advocate 8/7/16
REAL WORLD
It would be nice to live in Juliet Golightly’s world wherein conspiracies do not exist, but unfortunately we live in a real world in which those with ignoble ambitions often distort the truth to achieve their own ends. There are three words designed to squash intelligent discussion; the first two being “conspiracy theorist” (insinuating that all who endeavour to expose a conspiracy are nutters, so don’t look there), and the third is the word “racist”.
Apparently people have great difficulty in understanding racism, with many confusing it with religious bias. Even our race relations officer accuses those criticising Muslim adherents as being racist when it is obvious that Muslims come in a variety of different nationalities and races.
To accuse someone of being racist when they espouse equal rights for all citizens is simply ignorance on the part of the accuser. Racist is a word that is used as an insult in an attempt to shut down any rational discussion of matters involving different races, whereas equal rights ensure equitable treatment for all. Those who favour privileges on the basis of ethnicity are the real racists.
Since the demise of the true Maori race, NZ is no longer a bicultural society as promoted by those who wish to live in the past. We have become a multi-cultural society, so the many diverse cultural practices and religions should be subjects for home education — not included in the curriculum of schools or other educational facilities.
Conspiracy theorists? Who are they? Mostly we are people who do not blindly accept what the mass media rams down our throats, people who have an innate resistance to being victims of social engineering. We are people who dare to question things that don't seem quite right and then have the courage to speak out.
However, if Ms Golightly is right, then the Gunpowder Plot never happened. Sorry kids, Guy Fawke's Day has been cancelled.
MITCH MORGAN
Kaipara
Bay of Plenty Times 8/7/16
WAR OF WORDS . . .
Peter Dey (Letters, July 7) has, in my view, simply failed to address the points I made in my letter (July 6).
The points I made were simple. No land had been confiscated prior to the Battles of Gate Pa and Te Ranga, so it cannot be claimed as Peter Dey did (Letters June 29) that Maori were protecting their lands.
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The Bay of Plenty was at peace and prosperous. During the 1840s and 1850s Ngai Te Rangi took advantage of new trade and agricultural opportunities. By the late 1850s, they owned numerous coastal vessels and supplied Auckland with wheat, potatoes, corn and onions among other produce. The Battles of Gate Pa and Te Ranga were instigated by chief Rawiri Puhirake demanding the British come and fight him. Land confiscations were a result of Puhirake’s final loss at Te Rangi.
Nowhere in my letter did I raise the question as to whether or not land confiscations were reasonable.
R P
Welcome Bay
Wanganui Chronicle 8/7/16
NO 'H' IN ELECTION
I note that it is council election time and also Maori Language Week. I suggest we do not vote for anyone who wanted an "h" put in Wanganui. Why? Because they, along with the young Ngapuhi in the 1960s, have destroyed the phonetic spelling of the Maori Language. "Wh" was like our what, when, where and why and pronounced "hw". But young Ngapuhi made it an "f". Adding a silent "h" to Wanganui is a further despoliation of the language, "whouling up the the rheo" so to speak, in my view.
T P
Wanganui
Gisborne Herald 7/7/16
STAND BY OBJECTION — SORRY IF IT WAS UPSETTING
Re: Tairawhiti Museum display of painting of four flags.
The country went to a referendum to get the views of the nation on our flag. The New Zealand flag depicted in the painting in question was defaced by putting it upside down. It was also below the two Maori flags. This is our nation’s flag, voted for by all races living in this nation.
This display, funded by Creative New Zealand and the Waitangi Day commemoration fund, has already caused controversy elsewhere in the country and this has been covered on national television. I did not know this before our visit to the museum.
I object to being labelled racist because I objected to the exhibition. I stand by my opinion. I am sorry if I upset the staff member by my attitude but I did not show any aggression against her. I only wished to say how wrong it is to deface our flag, everybody’s flag — like it or not. If you think this makes me racist then the whole nation has a problem.
R J
REAL WORLD
It would be nice to live in Juliet Golightly’s world wherein conspiracies do not exist, but unfortunately we live in a real world in which those with ignoble ambitions often distort the truth to achieve their own ends. There are three words designed to squash intelligent discussion; the first two being “conspiracy theorist” (insinuating that all who endeavour to expose a conspiracy are nutters, so don’t look there), and the third is the word “racist”.
Apparently people have great difficulty in understanding racism, with many confusing it with religious bias. Even our race relations officer accuses those criticising Muslim adherents as being racist when it is obvious that Muslims come in a variety of different nationalities and races.
To accuse someone of being racist when they espouse equal rights for all citizens is simply ignorance on the part of the accuser. Racist is a word that is used as an insult in an attempt to shut down any rational discussion of matters involving different races, whereas equal rights ensure equitable treatment for all. Those who favour privileges on the basis of ethnicity are the real racists.
Since the demise of the true Maori race, NZ is no longer a bicultural society as promoted by those who wish to live in the past. We have become a multi-cultural society, so the many diverse cultural practices and religions should be subjects for home education — not included in the curriculum of schools or other educational facilities.
Conspiracy theorists? Who are they? Mostly we are people who do not blindly accept what the mass media rams down our throats, people who have an innate resistance to being victims of social engineering. We are people who dare to question things that don't seem quite right and then have the courage to speak out.
However, if Ms Golightly is right, then the Gunpowder Plot never happened. Sorry kids, Guy Fawke's Day has been cancelled.
MITCH MORGAN
Kaipara
Bay of Plenty Times 8/7/16
WAR OF WORDS . . .
Peter Dey (Letters, July 7) has, in my view, simply failed to address the points I made in my letter (July 6).
The points I made were simple. No land had been confiscated prior to the Battles of Gate Pa and Te Ranga, so it cannot be claimed as Peter Dey did (Letters June 29) that Maori were protecting their lands.
.
The Bay of Plenty was at peace and prosperous. During the 1840s and 1850s Ngai Te Rangi took advantage of new trade and agricultural opportunities. By the late 1850s, they owned numerous coastal vessels and supplied Auckland with wheat, potatoes, corn and onions among other produce. The Battles of Gate Pa and Te Ranga were instigated by chief Rawiri Puhirake demanding the British come and fight him. Land confiscations were a result of Puhirake’s final loss at Te Rangi.
Nowhere in my letter did I raise the question as to whether or not land confiscations were reasonable.
R P
Welcome Bay
Wanganui Chronicle 8/7/16
NO 'H' IN ELECTION
I note that it is council election time and also Maori Language Week. I suggest we do not vote for anyone who wanted an "h" put in Wanganui. Why? Because they, along with the young Ngapuhi in the 1960s, have destroyed the phonetic spelling of the Maori Language. "Wh" was like our what, when, where and why and pronounced "hw". But young Ngapuhi made it an "f". Adding a silent "h" to Wanganui is a further despoliation of the language, "whouling up the the rheo" so to speak, in my view.
T P
Wanganui
Gisborne Herald 7/7/16
STAND BY OBJECTION — SORRY IF IT WAS UPSETTING
Re: Tairawhiti Museum display of painting of four flags.
The country went to a referendum to get the views of the nation on our flag. The New Zealand flag depicted in the painting in question was defaced by putting it upside down. It was also below the two Maori flags. This is our nation’s flag, voted for by all races living in this nation.
This display, funded by Creative New Zealand and the Waitangi Day commemoration fund, has already caused controversy elsewhere in the country and this has been covered on national television. I did not know this before our visit to the museum.
I object to being labelled racist because I objected to the exhibition. I stand by my opinion. I am sorry if I upset the staff member by my attitude but I did not show any aggression against her. I only wished to say how wrong it is to deface our flag, everybody’s flag — like it or not. If you think this makes me racist then the whole nation has a problem.
R J