Post by Kiwi Frontline on Feb 19, 2016 11:39:37 GMT 12
Weekend Sun / Sunlive 19/2/16
UNSUBSTANTIATED OPINIONS
Peter Dey – your command of language would do credit to a fourth form pupils I have taught. Your logic would not. You considered me simple-minded because I do not accept your facts. A fact, Mr Dey is an incontrovertible truth. Your writing is noted for unsubstantiated opinions expressed as facts.
Can you produce one fact confirming occasions where, how and when our governments, including Maori members, did not honour the Treaty and when and by whom the phrase ‘Principles of the Treaty' was first coined? There was certainly no mention of them in 19th Century. Please don't include the Land War's phantasies and land grabs but read the true Treaty and accurately documented history.
Mr Dey, wishful thinking, personal acrimony and meaningless generalisations are your forte. Truth, logic and history are not.
B J
Omokoroa.
ONLY ONE TREATY
Maori activists are running their grievance programme on a false basis. There is only one Treaty of Waitangi. That is the document signed by Governor Hobson on behalf of the Queen of England and about 550 Maori leaders on behalf of Maori throughout New Zealand. It was agreed that Maori would give their sovereignty to the Queen in return for British citizenship.
The only version of the Treaty was written in Maori. No mention of co governance racism/or differentiation on the basis of race, just one equal law for all citizens. It was drafted in English before being translated to Maori. The English draft is known as the Littlewood draft and it is accurate.
The Treaty was a very good deal for Maori. They were stone aged, waring, cannibals with a life expectancy of less than half of what it is today. The minutes of the conference of some 200 Maori leaders held at Kohimarama in 1870 shows what was done on their behalf was very much to their liking.
L C
Tauranga.
THE RACIAL DIVIDE EXISTS
Letter writer Peter Dey suggests that working Maori have not been more disadvantaged since the grievance industry was born in 1975. How does he explain the latest statistics that show Maori fill over 50 per cent of the available beds in our prisons while Maori are only 15 per cent of our population?
In spite of billions of dollars of taxpayers' money that has gone into corporate Maori over the last 40 years, it is Maori who fill the largest percentage of all negative statistics in the justice, education, health and welfare ministries.
The law changes and government acts created, from 1975 up to the present, favouring Maori have proven to be in my opinion, the downfall of the ordinary New Zealand citizen.
Some educated radical Maori, with the assistance of universities, culturally-biased education, politicians and the legal system have created a racial divide that is a blot on this fair land.
MJ A
Pyes Pa.
UNSUBSTANTIATED OPINIONS
Peter Dey – your command of language would do credit to a fourth form pupils I have taught. Your logic would not. You considered me simple-minded because I do not accept your facts. A fact, Mr Dey is an incontrovertible truth. Your writing is noted for unsubstantiated opinions expressed as facts.
Can you produce one fact confirming occasions where, how and when our governments, including Maori members, did not honour the Treaty and when and by whom the phrase ‘Principles of the Treaty' was first coined? There was certainly no mention of them in 19th Century. Please don't include the Land War's phantasies and land grabs but read the true Treaty and accurately documented history.
Mr Dey, wishful thinking, personal acrimony and meaningless generalisations are your forte. Truth, logic and history are not.
B J
Omokoroa.
ONLY ONE TREATY
Maori activists are running their grievance programme on a false basis. There is only one Treaty of Waitangi. That is the document signed by Governor Hobson on behalf of the Queen of England and about 550 Maori leaders on behalf of Maori throughout New Zealand. It was agreed that Maori would give their sovereignty to the Queen in return for British citizenship.
The only version of the Treaty was written in Maori. No mention of co governance racism/or differentiation on the basis of race, just one equal law for all citizens. It was drafted in English before being translated to Maori. The English draft is known as the Littlewood draft and it is accurate.
The Treaty was a very good deal for Maori. They were stone aged, waring, cannibals with a life expectancy of less than half of what it is today. The minutes of the conference of some 200 Maori leaders held at Kohimarama in 1870 shows what was done on their behalf was very much to their liking.
L C
Tauranga.
THE RACIAL DIVIDE EXISTS
Letter writer Peter Dey suggests that working Maori have not been more disadvantaged since the grievance industry was born in 1975. How does he explain the latest statistics that show Maori fill over 50 per cent of the available beds in our prisons while Maori are only 15 per cent of our population?
In spite of billions of dollars of taxpayers' money that has gone into corporate Maori over the last 40 years, it is Maori who fill the largest percentage of all negative statistics in the justice, education, health and welfare ministries.
The law changes and government acts created, from 1975 up to the present, favouring Maori have proven to be in my opinion, the downfall of the ordinary New Zealand citizen.
Some educated radical Maori, with the assistance of universities, culturally-biased education, politicians and the legal system have created a racial divide that is a blot on this fair land.
MJ A
Pyes Pa.