Post by Kiwi Frontline on Sept 2, 2023 10:23:25 GMT 12
Bruce Moon: PREPARE FOR A DIRTY WAR
The observation by French philosopher Jacques Ellul which we quote above could hardly be more accurate than as a description of the relentless fabrication about the Treaty of Waitangi and New Zealand’s history by many a part-Maori commentator so freely featuring in the news media today. Such a one is “treaty educator” Te Huia Bill Hamilton with a long article in E-Tangata for 27 August 2023. In it he starts by claiming that “Opposition to co-governance is fuelled by racism, ignorance and fear. And it continues the colonising which asserts European superiority over Indigenous peoples.”
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Since he mentions me by name a little later, along with that true scholar, John Robinson, perhaps it is in order for me to respond, given that Hamilton claims that books I have written about the Treaty are ‘full of racist rhetoric” ... “discredited by historians in the education system.” Well, all alert New Zealanders who care about our children’s future should become aware at once, if they have not already done so, of the perversions and straight lies about our country’s history which infest the recent syllabus these people have concocted to be compulsory learning in our schools. If they need to find out more, which perhaps they should do urgently, they may refer to “New Zealand’s History Curriculum Education or Indoctrination?”, a recent book by Roger Childs, a veteran of forty years’ standing in the field.[1]
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We may start by saying that the “co-governance” which Hamilton and his fellow-travellers, the “National Iwi Chairs Forum”, so loudly espouse is the antithesis of democracy and it holds in contempt the Treaty of Waitangi by which “All the rights will be given to ... all the Maoris of New Zealand ... the same as [the Queen’s] doings to the people of England.”[2]
The treaty, let it be said loud and clear, was a remarkable{3] act of enlightened generosity for its day. New Zealanders at large may indeed be proud that they have in their time responded to the letter and the spirit of the Treaty and been on occasions at the forefront of the development of democracy with equality for all.[4].....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/09/bruce-moon-prepare-for-dirty-war.html
The observation by French philosopher Jacques Ellul which we quote above could hardly be more accurate than as a description of the relentless fabrication about the Treaty of Waitangi and New Zealand’s history by many a part-Maori commentator so freely featuring in the news media today. Such a one is “treaty educator” Te Huia Bill Hamilton with a long article in E-Tangata for 27 August 2023. In it he starts by claiming that “Opposition to co-governance is fuelled by racism, ignorance and fear. And it continues the colonising which asserts European superiority over Indigenous peoples.”
* * * * *
Since he mentions me by name a little later, along with that true scholar, John Robinson, perhaps it is in order for me to respond, given that Hamilton claims that books I have written about the Treaty are ‘full of racist rhetoric” ... “discredited by historians in the education system.” Well, all alert New Zealanders who care about our children’s future should become aware at once, if they have not already done so, of the perversions and straight lies about our country’s history which infest the recent syllabus these people have concocted to be compulsory learning in our schools. If they need to find out more, which perhaps they should do urgently, they may refer to “New Zealand’s History Curriculum Education or Indoctrination?”, a recent book by Roger Childs, a veteran of forty years’ standing in the field.[1]
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We may start by saying that the “co-governance” which Hamilton and his fellow-travellers, the “National Iwi Chairs Forum”, so loudly espouse is the antithesis of democracy and it holds in contempt the Treaty of Waitangi by which “All the rights will be given to ... all the Maoris of New Zealand ... the same as [the Queen’s] doings to the people of England.”[2]
The treaty, let it be said loud and clear, was a remarkable{3] act of enlightened generosity for its day. New Zealanders at large may indeed be proud that they have in their time responded to the letter and the spirit of the Treaty and been on occasions at the forefront of the development of democracy with equality for all.[4].....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/09/bruce-moon-prepare-for-dirty-war.html