P R writes > I just received a copy of an email sent to our PM from the
ONE NEW ZEALAND FOUNDATION INC. Reading it I was disgusted that this is the selective history our government-funded education department are teaching our kids in schools - the email reads:
Dear Prime Minister.
Re: Disgusting Government Propaganda to Brainwash our Young School Children!
This comic book for schools funded by Government would be the most disgusting government propaganda the One New Zealand Foundation Inc. has ever seen by any government.
thespinoff.co.nz/atea/06-02-2020/te-tiriti-o-waitangi-the-comic-book-2/ While we have seen selective history published previously by governments, we have never seen such a deliberate attempt to brainwash our young school children of their true history.We ask for answers to the following questions.
1. Why is there no mention of the Tangata Whenua, the first inhabitants of New Zealand? The people who signed the Tiriti o Waitangi were Tangata Maori, not Tangata Whenua.
2. Why is there no mention of Hongi Hika and his followers travelling south were they cowardly massacred an estimated 30,000 unarmed men, women and children for the fun of it after he had returned from England in 1820 with over 500 muskets?
3. Why is there no mention that the Tangata Maori chiefs had sold over 2/3 New Zealand before the Tiriti o Waitangi was signed with many of the Deeds of Sale still held in the New South Wales Supreme Court?
4. Why is there no mention that the Declaration of Independence was a complete failure as the signatories were at war with each other before the ink had even dried and they never held one meeting to ratify the Declaration?
5. Why is there no mention that Britain gained sovereignty over New Zealand by the Law of Nations before the Tiriti o Waitangi was signed?
6. Why is there no mention of Tangata Maori becoming British subjects in the Tiriti o Waitangi with, “The same rights as the people of England”?
7. Why is there no mention that a British subject cannot be in Partnership with the Crown?
8. Why is there no mention that Tangata Maori gave up their kawanatanga/governments, not Kingitanga/sovereignty to the Queen in the Tiriti o Waitangi?
9. Why is there no mention of the horrific death toll of hundreds of innocent settlers and friendly Maori at the hands of the “rebel” tribes between 1847-1879?
10. Why is there no mention that New Zealand was under the dependency of New South Wales when the Tiriti o Waitangi was signed? Sir George Gipps was Governor of New Zealand with William Hobson his Lt. Governor of New Zealand.
11. Why is there no mention Lt. Governor Hobson only made and authorised one version of the Treaty of Waitangi – Te Tirit o Waitangi that was signed on the 6 February 1840.
12. Why is it stated there are only 3 Articles to the Tiriti o Waitangi when there are 5 parts? The preamble, while omitted, being the most important part as it explained the reason for the Tiriti o Waitangi.
13. Why is there no mention the chiefs at Waitangi could not wait until the 7 February to sign the Tiriti as arranged by Lt governor Hobson and signed it on the 6 February 1840 as they saw it was to their advantage if they were to survive?
14. Why is there no mention made that many of the claims by Maori were “full and finally” settled or “rejected” in 1930/40?
15. Why is there no mention of the Queen Victoria’s Royal Charter/Letters Patent dated the 16 November 1840, “Our true Founding Document and first Constitution”? The Royal Charter separated New Zealand from New South Wales and made New Zealand into a British colony with a Governor and Constitution that set up our political, legal and justice systems under one flag and one law, irrespective of race, colour or creed. The Royal Charter was issued by, “Victoria by the Grace of God” under, “The Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland”, the Tiriti o Waitangi was not!
16. Why is there no mention of Chief Justice, Sir James Prendergast’s ruling in 1877, "So far indeed as that instrument (The Treaty of Waitangi) purported to cede sovereignty, it must be regarded as a 'simple nullity'. No political body existed capable of making cession of sovereignty". This ruling has never been over-ruled. Britain gained sovereignty over New Zealand by the Law of Nations before the Tiriti o Waitangi was signed.
17. Why are these people, especially Dame Claudia Orange who should know better after misleading the people about the “Littlewood Treaty”, now misleading our young school children about the Treaty of Waitangi, encouraged/funded by the Ministry of Education?
Prime Minister, this is the most disgusting government-funded propaganda by any government. For a government to brainwash our young school children with this type of propaganda is a disgrace.
Yes, the British had to make some tough decisions between 1840 and 1875 to bring peace between the “rebel” tribes of New Zealand. Hongi Hika had slaughtered an estimated 30,000 defenceless men, women and children and the southern tribes were arming themselves for utu/revenge against Ngapuhi, the reason the 13 chiefs writing to the King in 1831 for protection. Te Rauparaha had virtually depopulated the South Island by 1840 with Waikato driving the Taranaki tribes south where they virtually annihilated the peace-loving Moriori.
Britain had to honour the commitment she had made in 1831 to protect the Tangata Maori and be their guardian and did this without question with very few lives lost compared with the loss of life before the Tiriti o Waitangi and most of the land sold by the chiefs before the Tiriti o Waitangi was signed, returned to Tangata Maori without compensation to the buyers.
There is no denying, Tangata Maori would have been long gone if it had not been for British intervention, but this comic shows how corrupt governments have become by publishing a children’s comic of this nature!
When will the government come to its senses and realise that the majority of Maori today descend from the people they are claiming against and not the Tangata Maori who signed the Tiriti o Waitangi in 1840? As a past Race Relations Conciliator, Mr John Clark stated in 1993, “Maori today are a people with Maori ancestry as one sees in legislation”.
This comic book must be removed from all schools and bookshops immediately, it is corrupt Prime Minister, it is a disgrace to our ancestors both Tangata Maori and Pakeha who fought to save a race of people determined to wipe themselves off the face of the earth when the truth is known.
The truth is filed in the New Zealand and Australian Archives and the British Parliamentary Papers if one bothers to look, something the authors of this comic failed to do!
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