Post by Kiwi Frontline on May 10, 2019 7:15:33 GMT 12
Bruce Moon: AN OPEN LETTER TO ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MARIA BARGH
27th April 2019
Dear Associate Professor Bargh,
You are reported by Bob Edlin in “Breaking Views” on 19th April[1] as having written recently,
“Te Tiriti o Waitangi reaffirmed Māori tino rangatiratanga and allowed for Crown kawanatanga. This partnership approach has been noted as one of the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi by the Crown, the courts and the Waitangi Tribunal.
Te Tiriti o Waitangi creates obligations, including for the Crown to actively protect Māori rights and interests and to uphold the Treaty partnership. Ensuring that Māori are a key part of decision-making in local government is one of the ways that the Crown can uphold their obligations.”
Well now ... “allowed for Crown kawanatanga”. Well, yes, “kawanatanga” was indeed the missionary-coined word for “sovereignty” used in default of any classic Maori word for the concept. There can be no doubt that that was how it was understood at Waitangi on those fateful days in February 1840. You are surely aware of the recorded words of the chiefs who initially opposed signing that to do so would rank them below the Governor and hence, a fortiori, beneath the Queen. They would cede sovereignty, as they did, and as Sir Apirana Ngata explained very clearly in his 1922 book of which again you are surely aware.....
Continue reading Bruce’s ‘Open Letter’ here > breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2019/05/bruce-moon-open-letter-to-associate.html
27th April 2019
Dear Associate Professor Bargh,
You are reported by Bob Edlin in “Breaking Views” on 19th April[1] as having written recently,
“Te Tiriti o Waitangi reaffirmed Māori tino rangatiratanga and allowed for Crown kawanatanga. This partnership approach has been noted as one of the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi by the Crown, the courts and the Waitangi Tribunal.
Te Tiriti o Waitangi creates obligations, including for the Crown to actively protect Māori rights and interests and to uphold the Treaty partnership. Ensuring that Māori are a key part of decision-making in local government is one of the ways that the Crown can uphold their obligations.”
Well now ... “allowed for Crown kawanatanga”. Well, yes, “kawanatanga” was indeed the missionary-coined word for “sovereignty” used in default of any classic Maori word for the concept. There can be no doubt that that was how it was understood at Waitangi on those fateful days in February 1840. You are surely aware of the recorded words of the chiefs who initially opposed signing that to do so would rank them below the Governor and hence, a fortiori, beneath the Queen. They would cede sovereignty, as they did, and as Sir Apirana Ngata explained very clearly in his 1922 book of which again you are surely aware.....
Continue reading Bruce’s ‘Open Letter’ here > breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2019/05/bruce-moon-open-letter-to-associate.html
