Post by Kiwi Frontline on Feb 20, 2021 10:35:22 GMT 12
Bruce Moon: AN OPEN LETTER TO PROFESSOR PAUL MOON
An Open Letter to Professor Paul Moon
Dear Namesake-but-not-a-relation Paul Moon,
I have read with some amazement and incredulity your comments in “Stuff” about the Treaty of Waitangi, undated but apparently about 8th February. How different it is from the model of rigorous investigation and plain speaking in your 2008 book, “This Horrid Practice” about Maori cannibalism, its colossal scale and its enduring physical and psychological effects upon them!
Most flagrant in what you write is the claim that what “was explicit in the Colonial Office’s policy for the Treaty, was that the chiefs were only being asked to surrender their sovereign powers over settlers living in New Zealand. Māori sovereignty was to remain intact. Britain had no intention to seize Māori sovereignty.” This is just nonsense!
Now what is true is that Maori chiefs had made appeals for British protection, principally from the French and from themselves, that to King William in 1831 by thirteen Ngapuhi chiefs being an example. The British had been reluctant to act beyond the nominal appointment of Busby as British Resident in 1833. “England has colonies enough” said Secretary for the Colonies, Lord Glenelg, in 1837 but by 1839 it was apparent that action could no longer be deferred.......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2021/02/bruce-moon-open-letter-to-professor.html
An Open Letter to Professor Paul Moon
Dear Namesake-but-not-a-relation Paul Moon,
I have read with some amazement and incredulity your comments in “Stuff” about the Treaty of Waitangi, undated but apparently about 8th February. How different it is from the model of rigorous investigation and plain speaking in your 2008 book, “This Horrid Practice” about Maori cannibalism, its colossal scale and its enduring physical and psychological effects upon them!
Most flagrant in what you write is the claim that what “was explicit in the Colonial Office’s policy for the Treaty, was that the chiefs were only being asked to surrender their sovereign powers over settlers living in New Zealand. Māori sovereignty was to remain intact. Britain had no intention to seize Māori sovereignty.” This is just nonsense!
Now what is true is that Maori chiefs had made appeals for British protection, principally from the French and from themselves, that to King William in 1831 by thirteen Ngapuhi chiefs being an example. The British had been reluctant to act beyond the nominal appointment of Busby as British Resident in 1833. “England has colonies enough” said Secretary for the Colonies, Lord Glenelg, in 1837 but by 1839 it was apparent that action could no longer be deferred.......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2021/02/bruce-moon-open-letter-to-professor.html