Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jun 1, 2024 15:33:46 GMT 12
Bruce Moon: TWISTING THE TREATY HAS NEVER STOPPED.
And so, Mister Gurunathan, I’ve read a lot of treaty-twisting in my time but you really take some beating! And, sadly but no doubt surely, we shall hear a lot more similar garbage from the “thousands” (your word) gathered by their pseudo-king to promulgate such propaganda.
ROLL IN THE WAITANGI TRIBUNAL!!! TA-RA-RA-RA!
The Tribunal is, says Gurunathan “the apex of a truth and reconciliation process evolved to heal the deep wounds inflicted on the psyche of Aotearoa New Zealand’s sense of nationhood”. Wow! Is that a flight of fancy to beat them all?
I don’t know exactly the deep wounds inflicted on the psyche of anybody by the wholesale slaughter and cannibalism of the decades before 1840 with no sense of any “nationhood” but I can refer readers – and Mr Gurunathan if he chooses -- to the book by Paul Moon (not a relation) entitled “This Horrid Practice” (cannibalism, that is) in which he says inter alia“Allowing ... cannibalism was part of the primitive mode of defence against the ‘almost unbearable anxiety’ experienced by all Maori communities” and more in the same vein.[4] Would Mr Gurunathan care to encourage today’s part-Maoris to aspire to return to that sort of Golden Age??
As for the Tribunal itself – not everybody quite agrees with Mr Gurunathan to whom it is “an apex of the truth”. In the words of veteran newspaperman Brian Priestley who attended its hearings of the Ngai Tahu case for three months “It would be hard to imagine any public body less well organised to get at the truth.”[5] Jean Jackson, a senior member of Ngai Tahu herself, who wished to counter some unfounded claims on that tribe’s behalf, was denied a hearing. An exhaustive examination of the Ngai Tahu case by Alan Everton[6] concludes “any settlement of Ngai Tahu’s claims based on its report will be nothing short of a fraud.” So that is what our much-heralded Tribunal does. And Ngai Tahu continues to benefit from a charitable, i.e. taxfree status and considerable perennial “top-ups”, so-called “relativity payments”. And it is not the only tribe in that extremely privileged position.
So there, my friends, are just a few tales to alert you to the massive swindles you are enduring as taxpayers in many and varied a form. Mr Gurunathan to note!....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/05/bruce-moon-twisting-treaty-has-never.html
And so, Mister Gurunathan, I’ve read a lot of treaty-twisting in my time but you really take some beating! And, sadly but no doubt surely, we shall hear a lot more similar garbage from the “thousands” (your word) gathered by their pseudo-king to promulgate such propaganda.
ROLL IN THE WAITANGI TRIBUNAL!!! TA-RA-RA-RA!
The Tribunal is, says Gurunathan “the apex of a truth and reconciliation process evolved to heal the deep wounds inflicted on the psyche of Aotearoa New Zealand’s sense of nationhood”. Wow! Is that a flight of fancy to beat them all?
I don’t know exactly the deep wounds inflicted on the psyche of anybody by the wholesale slaughter and cannibalism of the decades before 1840 with no sense of any “nationhood” but I can refer readers – and Mr Gurunathan if he chooses -- to the book by Paul Moon (not a relation) entitled “This Horrid Practice” (cannibalism, that is) in which he says inter alia“Allowing ... cannibalism was part of the primitive mode of defence against the ‘almost unbearable anxiety’ experienced by all Maori communities” and more in the same vein.[4] Would Mr Gurunathan care to encourage today’s part-Maoris to aspire to return to that sort of Golden Age??
As for the Tribunal itself – not everybody quite agrees with Mr Gurunathan to whom it is “an apex of the truth”. In the words of veteran newspaperman Brian Priestley who attended its hearings of the Ngai Tahu case for three months “It would be hard to imagine any public body less well organised to get at the truth.”[5] Jean Jackson, a senior member of Ngai Tahu herself, who wished to counter some unfounded claims on that tribe’s behalf, was denied a hearing. An exhaustive examination of the Ngai Tahu case by Alan Everton[6] concludes “any settlement of Ngai Tahu’s claims based on its report will be nothing short of a fraud.” So that is what our much-heralded Tribunal does. And Ngai Tahu continues to benefit from a charitable, i.e. taxfree status and considerable perennial “top-ups”, so-called “relativity payments”. And it is not the only tribe in that extremely privileged position.
So there, my friends, are just a few tales to alert you to the massive swindles you are enduring as taxpayers in many and varied a form. Mr Gurunathan to note!....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/05/bruce-moon-twisting-treaty-has-never.html