Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jun 29, 2021 3:39:04 GMT 12
Don Brash: THE FUTURE OF NEW ZEALAND IS AT STAKE
In January 2004, I addressed the Orewa Rotary Club by asking:
What sort of nation do we want to build?
Is it to be a modern democratic society, embodying the essential notion of one rule for all in a single nation state?
Or is it the racially divided nation, with two sets of laws, and two standards of citizenship, that the present Labour Government is moving us steadily towards?
But the spirit of the Treaty of Waitangi was expressed simply by then Lt-Gov. Hobson in February 1840. In his halting Maori, he said to each chief as he signed: He iwi tahi tatou. We are one people.
Over the last 20 years, the Treaty has been wrenched out of its 1840s context and become the plaything of those who would divide New Zealanders from one another, not unite us......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2021/06/don-brash-future-of-new-zealand-is-at.html#more
In January 2004, I addressed the Orewa Rotary Club by asking:
What sort of nation do we want to build?
Is it to be a modern democratic society, embodying the essential notion of one rule for all in a single nation state?
Or is it the racially divided nation, with two sets of laws, and two standards of citizenship, that the present Labour Government is moving us steadily towards?
But the spirit of the Treaty of Waitangi was expressed simply by then Lt-Gov. Hobson in February 1840. In his halting Maori, he said to each chief as he signed: He iwi tahi tatou. We are one people.
Over the last 20 years, the Treaty has been wrenched out of its 1840s context and become the plaything of those who would divide New Zealanders from one another, not unite us......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2021/06/don-brash-future-of-new-zealand-is-at.html#more