Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jun 2, 2021 10:03:30 GMT 12
Bruce Moon: DAME ANNE SALMOND GETS IT ALL WRONG
So Distinguished Professor Dame Anne Salmond, recent recipient of New Zealand’s highest award, has come up with a few more bright ideas about the Treaty of Waitangi which, one might have thought, had been done to death already, several times over.
Thus, she persists in her profound delusion – shared by many others one might add – that when the chiefs signed the Treaty “this did not amount to a cession of sovereignty” although “the rangatira gave absolutely (tuku rawa atu) all the Kāwanatanga of their lands (te Kāwanatanga katoa o ou rātou whenua) to the Queen.” Well, what doublespeak that is! Why? Because while it is glaringly obvious that the derivation of “kawanatanga” is from “governor” plus “-tanga”, its translation is “sovereignty”. As we have shown by many examples, time and again,[ii] translation is not the same as derivation – too hard for her to grasp perhaps?
Lest there be any doubt whatever, the recorded words of the chiefs at Waitangi[iii] make it crystal clear that they understood that by signing they would become subordinate to the Queen. Lest there be any doubt about that, at Kohimarama in 1860 at the greatest meeting of chiefs ever assembled, more than a hundred passed the unanimous motion “That this Conference takes cognizance of the fact that the several Chiefs, members thereof, are pledged to each other to do nothing inconsistent with their declared recognition of the Queen’s sovereignty, and of the union of the two races ... .”[iv] Now that looks pretty plain and definite doesn’t it? Yet Dame Anne dismissed this in an email to me[v] because it had all happened twenty years previously.
So why were all those chiefs wrong a mere twenty years later, yet after 180 years Dame Anne and swarms of others, including the Waitangi Tribunal, may claim quite the opposite?.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2021/06/bruce-moon-dame-anne-gets-it-all-wrong.html
So Distinguished Professor Dame Anne Salmond, recent recipient of New Zealand’s highest award, has come up with a few more bright ideas about the Treaty of Waitangi which, one might have thought, had been done to death already, several times over.
Thus, she persists in her profound delusion – shared by many others one might add – that when the chiefs signed the Treaty “this did not amount to a cession of sovereignty” although “the rangatira gave absolutely (tuku rawa atu) all the Kāwanatanga of their lands (te Kāwanatanga katoa o ou rātou whenua) to the Queen.” Well, what doublespeak that is! Why? Because while it is glaringly obvious that the derivation of “kawanatanga” is from “governor” plus “-tanga”, its translation is “sovereignty”. As we have shown by many examples, time and again,[ii] translation is not the same as derivation – too hard for her to grasp perhaps?
Lest there be any doubt whatever, the recorded words of the chiefs at Waitangi[iii] make it crystal clear that they understood that by signing they would become subordinate to the Queen. Lest there be any doubt about that, at Kohimarama in 1860 at the greatest meeting of chiefs ever assembled, more than a hundred passed the unanimous motion “That this Conference takes cognizance of the fact that the several Chiefs, members thereof, are pledged to each other to do nothing inconsistent with their declared recognition of the Queen’s sovereignty, and of the union of the two races ... .”[iv] Now that looks pretty plain and definite doesn’t it? Yet Dame Anne dismissed this in an email to me[v] because it had all happened twenty years previously.
So why were all those chiefs wrong a mere twenty years later, yet after 180 years Dame Anne and swarms of others, including the Waitangi Tribunal, may claim quite the opposite?.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2021/06/bruce-moon-dame-anne-gets-it-all-wrong.html