Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jun 14, 2019 5:07:52 GMT 12
Northland Age 13/6/19
THE INJUSTICE SYSTEM
Justice Minister Andrew Little displays gross illogicality in his latest press release.
If, as he claims, there are mass failures in the country’s legal system, it is a clear indictment of not only law enforcement agencies and the judiciary but mostly of the government and politicians for permitting these injustices to continue. He further states that Maori have “a justifiable level of anger” at 51 per cent of prison inmates coming from 15 per cent of the population.
Logic would suggest that the lawabiding population has a better right to be aggrieved for having to pay for the 51 per cent Maori internees.
Mr Little, innocent people do not get imprisoned. If they do it is high time you and your parliamentary mates did something about it, because the public can’t. What makes you think that turning the problems over to Maori agencies will be more successful than their failure to do so in the past?
The public should be deeply concerned about what New Zealand’s justice system and race relations can expect from such a tendentious minister.
BRYAN JOHNSON, Omokoroa
VOTE WISELY
Whinging, PC brigade are at it 24/7. Mental disease, child poverty, homelessness, family physical abuse, behavioural problems, failure to allow chastising kids all make the headlines.
On the mental disease front, people are rarely born with any problem but seemingly become infected by the environment they live in. Some obvious reasons for it are family upbringing, parental neglect, abuse, drugs, diet, and lack of medical treatment for diseases. Much of the blame also lies with violent videos, porn, gaming, drug addictions, lack of education and literacy, resulting in frustration and aggressiveness.
One can accept with modern-day pressures some people (non-violent) will inevitably suffer from anxiety and depression, and we can feel sympathy for these people and treat them for these mental illnesses.
The other so-called victims’ problems are often not genuine, mostly selfinflicted and categorised by violence, indiscriminate breeding and overcrowding, usually untreatable, as they refuse to be helped or play blame games. Particular sections of society are more prone than most Kiwis who don’t have the same propensities. Smart phones, social media, gaming and bullying all play their part.
Problems not really congenital at all, and nothing much showed up pre-1975.
No amount of money thrown at the maelstrom or at the ‘wailing wall’ will remedy the epidemics. Unreal senses of entitlement point to social problems, resulting in violent crime, car chases and the like. The whole country lacks a sense of responsibility for poor behaviour, and the no blame, no punitive action theory does not work.
A lack of penalties or pain for offending encouraged by namby-pamby wet bus tickets dished out are a joke, based on convenient excuses like feigned mental issues and blaming the victim.
Let our horde of creative writers come up with pie-in-the-sky excuses for this modern-day phenomenon, then let’s critique the fictions floated. Every day there is more nonsense added to the list of perceived ills, grievances, and even teachers with strikes, ideology attitudes and teachers’ code of ethics only add to the mess.
We don’t have the money to throw at this leftist/socialist, ideologistic garbage, and the long-suffering, much maligned irrelevant silent majority (80 per cent of Kiwis) don’t need to tolerate this. It is simply a case of not being apathetic, rising up and telling politicians they have had enough.
The first opportunity to do this will arise at the October 2019 local government elections, so pick candidates who will protect and nurture our communities, and then at the 2020 general election send a clear message to all politicians the game is over. If Kiwis don’t do so, New Zealand will end up a violent Third World country — the choice is with Kiwis who can identify those responsible for the problems supporting and fostering anti-social behaviour, so let’s make these sods fully accountable.
ROB PATERSON Mount Maunganui
Dominion Post 13/6/19
SKIN-SCRIBBLING MADNESS
Air New Zealand has joined the warm, fuzzy, inclusivity and diversity club by deciding to allow staff to expose "non-offensive tattoos" while at work (Airline allows `non-offensive' tattoos, June 11).
According to chief executive Christopher Luxon, this move will "reflect the makeup of New Zealand". They will even have a Tattoo Review Panel.
Good grief! What about passengers and their views? Do they not have a say? How about a Customer Satisfaction Panel?
I find all tattoos offensive, whatever the fashionable reason for their ubiquity or confected cultural significance. When travelling, can I refuse to be attended to by someone sporting subcutaneous ink patterns?
What is reflective of the makeup of New Zealand in this skin-scribbling craze?
Mr Luxon should ensure the company keeps flying customers safely from place to place, employs the best aircraft engineers and leaves the social engineering to those who know even less about it. [abridged]
ALLEN HEATH, Woburn
Waikato Times 13/6/19
DON'T MEAN TO POLARISE BUT . . .
Polarising rhetoric risks drowning out the overwhelmingly positive aspects of the history of Maori and Pakeha co-existence. Thus I support teaching NZ history in our schools provided that is revealed in the context of the world as it was, and is balanced and honest.
The first Europeans to visit NZ include Abel Tasman (1642), James Cook (1769). They were followed by a succession of French explorers, but what were they all really looking for looking for in the South Pacific and what did they encounter?
Both Tasman and Cook were greeted in their first encounter in NZ by violent Stone Age natives who had no written language and only primitive tools and weapons with which to defend themselves.
So what did the British have to offer Maori? A giant leap from the Stone Age into an Iron Age and with it, the opportunity to create a Maori written language, warm blankets, weatherproof clothing and shelter. In addition metal gardening tools, hammers and nails, axes and saws, and the skill to utilise them.
Then there was the dreaded fire-stick (musket, shot and gun powder) from which they had no defence, but once in their possession gave them great power over their traditional tribal enemies. For example, when Ngapuhi, armed with muskets, became a super power, invaded their traditional tribal enemy in Taranaki who were armed only with traditional close-contact weapons, and slaughtered them.
However, the most important gift that the British had to offer was exposure to a system of Judo/Christian values which had developed over 1800 years.
What did the Maori have to trade in return? Fresh water, food, including an abundance and variety of fish, birds, and wild pig, rich volcanic soil in which to grow, potato, taro, kumara, melons and corn. Highly sort-after precious hard-stone material like green gemstone and the trinkets and weapons fashioned from it, massive trees from which ships, housing and fortification could be built, and flax from which baskets and rope could be fabricated.
Plus, in the distant a future in which vast uninhabited areas of land and forest created the potential for NZ to become the food bowl of Mother England. It was in this context that the history of New Zealand began.
BRIAN MAIN, Hamilton
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers
THE INJUSTICE SYSTEM
Justice Minister Andrew Little displays gross illogicality in his latest press release.
If, as he claims, there are mass failures in the country’s legal system, it is a clear indictment of not only law enforcement agencies and the judiciary but mostly of the government and politicians for permitting these injustices to continue. He further states that Maori have “a justifiable level of anger” at 51 per cent of prison inmates coming from 15 per cent of the population.
Logic would suggest that the lawabiding population has a better right to be aggrieved for having to pay for the 51 per cent Maori internees.
Mr Little, innocent people do not get imprisoned. If they do it is high time you and your parliamentary mates did something about it, because the public can’t. What makes you think that turning the problems over to Maori agencies will be more successful than their failure to do so in the past?
The public should be deeply concerned about what New Zealand’s justice system and race relations can expect from such a tendentious minister.
BRYAN JOHNSON, Omokoroa
VOTE WISELY
Whinging, PC brigade are at it 24/7. Mental disease, child poverty, homelessness, family physical abuse, behavioural problems, failure to allow chastising kids all make the headlines.
On the mental disease front, people are rarely born with any problem but seemingly become infected by the environment they live in. Some obvious reasons for it are family upbringing, parental neglect, abuse, drugs, diet, and lack of medical treatment for diseases. Much of the blame also lies with violent videos, porn, gaming, drug addictions, lack of education and literacy, resulting in frustration and aggressiveness.
One can accept with modern-day pressures some people (non-violent) will inevitably suffer from anxiety and depression, and we can feel sympathy for these people and treat them for these mental illnesses.
The other so-called victims’ problems are often not genuine, mostly selfinflicted and categorised by violence, indiscriminate breeding and overcrowding, usually untreatable, as they refuse to be helped or play blame games. Particular sections of society are more prone than most Kiwis who don’t have the same propensities. Smart phones, social media, gaming and bullying all play their part.
Problems not really congenital at all, and nothing much showed up pre-1975.
No amount of money thrown at the maelstrom or at the ‘wailing wall’ will remedy the epidemics. Unreal senses of entitlement point to social problems, resulting in violent crime, car chases and the like. The whole country lacks a sense of responsibility for poor behaviour, and the no blame, no punitive action theory does not work.
A lack of penalties or pain for offending encouraged by namby-pamby wet bus tickets dished out are a joke, based on convenient excuses like feigned mental issues and blaming the victim.
Let our horde of creative writers come up with pie-in-the-sky excuses for this modern-day phenomenon, then let’s critique the fictions floated. Every day there is more nonsense added to the list of perceived ills, grievances, and even teachers with strikes, ideology attitudes and teachers’ code of ethics only add to the mess.
We don’t have the money to throw at this leftist/socialist, ideologistic garbage, and the long-suffering, much maligned irrelevant silent majority (80 per cent of Kiwis) don’t need to tolerate this. It is simply a case of not being apathetic, rising up and telling politicians they have had enough.
The first opportunity to do this will arise at the October 2019 local government elections, so pick candidates who will protect and nurture our communities, and then at the 2020 general election send a clear message to all politicians the game is over. If Kiwis don’t do so, New Zealand will end up a violent Third World country — the choice is with Kiwis who can identify those responsible for the problems supporting and fostering anti-social behaviour, so let’s make these sods fully accountable.
ROB PATERSON Mount Maunganui
Dominion Post 13/6/19
SKIN-SCRIBBLING MADNESS
Air New Zealand has joined the warm, fuzzy, inclusivity and diversity club by deciding to allow staff to expose "non-offensive tattoos" while at work (Airline allows `non-offensive' tattoos, June 11).
According to chief executive Christopher Luxon, this move will "reflect the makeup of New Zealand". They will even have a Tattoo Review Panel.
Good grief! What about passengers and their views? Do they not have a say? How about a Customer Satisfaction Panel?
I find all tattoos offensive, whatever the fashionable reason for their ubiquity or confected cultural significance. When travelling, can I refuse to be attended to by someone sporting subcutaneous ink patterns?
What is reflective of the makeup of New Zealand in this skin-scribbling craze?
Mr Luxon should ensure the company keeps flying customers safely from place to place, employs the best aircraft engineers and leaves the social engineering to those who know even less about it. [abridged]
ALLEN HEATH, Woburn
Waikato Times 13/6/19
DON'T MEAN TO POLARISE BUT . . .
Polarising rhetoric risks drowning out the overwhelmingly positive aspects of the history of Maori and Pakeha co-existence. Thus I support teaching NZ history in our schools provided that is revealed in the context of the world as it was, and is balanced and honest.
The first Europeans to visit NZ include Abel Tasman (1642), James Cook (1769). They were followed by a succession of French explorers, but what were they all really looking for looking for in the South Pacific and what did they encounter?
Both Tasman and Cook were greeted in their first encounter in NZ by violent Stone Age natives who had no written language and only primitive tools and weapons with which to defend themselves.
So what did the British have to offer Maori? A giant leap from the Stone Age into an Iron Age and with it, the opportunity to create a Maori written language, warm blankets, weatherproof clothing and shelter. In addition metal gardening tools, hammers and nails, axes and saws, and the skill to utilise them.
Then there was the dreaded fire-stick (musket, shot and gun powder) from which they had no defence, but once in their possession gave them great power over their traditional tribal enemies. For example, when Ngapuhi, armed with muskets, became a super power, invaded their traditional tribal enemy in Taranaki who were armed only with traditional close-contact weapons, and slaughtered them.
However, the most important gift that the British had to offer was exposure to a system of Judo/Christian values which had developed over 1800 years.
What did the Maori have to trade in return? Fresh water, food, including an abundance and variety of fish, birds, and wild pig, rich volcanic soil in which to grow, potato, taro, kumara, melons and corn. Highly sort-after precious hard-stone material like green gemstone and the trinkets and weapons fashioned from it, massive trees from which ships, housing and fortification could be built, and flax from which baskets and rope could be fabricated.
Plus, in the distant a future in which vast uninhabited areas of land and forest created the potential for NZ to become the food bowl of Mother England. It was in this context that the history of New Zealand began.
BRIAN MAIN, Hamilton
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers