Post by Kiwi Frontline on May 1, 2024 16:58:02 GMT 12
Bruce Moon: THE TREATY DEBATE - AGAIN.
With some recent correspondents raising again an article in the Guardian by Morgan Godfery, dated 23rd April 2022, it becomes necessary to look once again at that article and identify again the manner in which it is so blatantly wrong.
There Godfery claims that “the Māori language version reaffirming Māori sovereignty” which is profoundly the most utter nonsense. The entire point of the activities of early February 1840 was to ascertain whether the assembled Maori chiefs assented to the transfer of such sovereignty as each possessed to the Queen in return for the undoubted benefits to the Maori people of becoming British subjects.
That the chiefs understood this and that they would become subordinate to the Governor and hence in turn to his superior, the Queen, is abundantly clear from their words, minuted with care by Colenso and checked by Busby at the time, though not published until 1890.[1] Anybody who is not thoroughly conversant with Colenso’s record simply cannot be said to be conversant with the substance and intent of the Treaty of Waitangi and the chiefs understanding and, with very few exceptions, their acceptance of it.
The concept of co-governance is a recent absurdity which should be laughed out of court by every sensible and realistic New Zealander, whatever his or her lines of descent.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/05/bruce-moon-treaty-debate-again.html
With some recent correspondents raising again an article in the Guardian by Morgan Godfery, dated 23rd April 2022, it becomes necessary to look once again at that article and identify again the manner in which it is so blatantly wrong.
There Godfery claims that “the Māori language version reaffirming Māori sovereignty” which is profoundly the most utter nonsense. The entire point of the activities of early February 1840 was to ascertain whether the assembled Maori chiefs assented to the transfer of such sovereignty as each possessed to the Queen in return for the undoubted benefits to the Maori people of becoming British subjects.
That the chiefs understood this and that they would become subordinate to the Governor and hence in turn to his superior, the Queen, is abundantly clear from their words, minuted with care by Colenso and checked by Busby at the time, though not published until 1890.[1] Anybody who is not thoroughly conversant with Colenso’s record simply cannot be said to be conversant with the substance and intent of the Treaty of Waitangi and the chiefs understanding and, with very few exceptions, their acceptance of it.
The concept of co-governance is a recent absurdity which should be laughed out of court by every sensible and realistic New Zealander, whatever his or her lines of descent.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/05/bruce-moon-treaty-debate-again.html