Post by Kiwi Frontline on May 14, 2020 11:38:20 GMT 12
Northland Age 14/5/20
ALL ABOUT BUSINESS
Hone Heke’s rebellion against Crown governance had nothing to do with “breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi,” as the article ‘1845 Battle of Kororareka Remembered’ (Northern Advocate, March 12) states.
Heke’s ‘concerns’ were that the Governor relocated New Zealand’s capital from Kororareka to Auckland, and most of the ships that had formerly made landfall at the Bay of Islands now tied up at Auckland.
Heke was angered by the loss of most of his formerly lucrative customs and berthage revenues, and also the loss of money from supplying ship girls to sex-starved sailors.
Even more infuriating perhaps was the mana of hosting the Governor had now gone to Ngapuhi’s traditional enemies, Ngati Whatua.
Heke is noted as the first to sign the Treaty and the first in Maoridom to breach that which he had signed.
GEOFF PARKER, Kamo
OUT OF SIGHT
When was the last time you saw anything in ‘our' media concerning New Zealand history, Maori, education, abuse of the welfare system, or for that matter involving anything to do with socialist politics that have been pushed into our everyday lives for decades under so-called ‘mainstream' political parties?
Apart from Sean Plunket, Mike Hosking and Michael Laws, there are no media/journalists that I am aware of who will face and debate anything out of the mainstream media lockdown, as I call it.
Also consider the endless stream of lefty/woke people, not journalists, who foist their personal opinions on to an unsuspecting and often not too bright New Zealand public. Lizzie Marvelly is a great example, people who spew their racial or socialist garbage on to the rest of us with no right of reply, no debate, nothing to stop their rhetoric in the future. Or watch The Project, another mainstream TV series with low IQ comedians and a separatist presenter who works the show regularly for her own racial agenda.
It has come to the point in NZ media that to think or act outside the socialist box is not an option. Media and journalists are supposed to be unbiased, supposed to be trying to find the facts and truth about what is actually happening in New Zealand, not spreading propaganda for government, Waitangi claims or the treatyists.
We are continually going down a socialist path that will keep wanting to domineer everything we do, nanny state. This pandemic is just another chance to tighten the noose around your neck.
Another fact is there is no difference between National or Labour, and anyone who thinks there is is a fool. These two parties have fooled many people for too long. Once in power National is the same socialist machine Labour is. Control is where it is for both these parties, and both will continue down the separatist track as they have for decades. This Labour government has stumbled along with Winston at the wheel, but National is cunning, and far more dangerous than Labour.
Another term under Labour or National will take us down the track of socialist/ racial separation that there will be no turning back from, and that is a fact. Make your vote count, and make your friends actually vote. Apathy is not an option.
REX ANDERSON, Lower Hutt
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ALL ABOUT BUSINESS
Hone Heke’s rebellion against Crown governance had nothing to do with “breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi,” as the article ‘1845 Battle of Kororareka Remembered’ (Northern Advocate, March 12) states.
Heke’s ‘concerns’ were that the Governor relocated New Zealand’s capital from Kororareka to Auckland, and most of the ships that had formerly made landfall at the Bay of Islands now tied up at Auckland.
Heke was angered by the loss of most of his formerly lucrative customs and berthage revenues, and also the loss of money from supplying ship girls to sex-starved sailors.
Even more infuriating perhaps was the mana of hosting the Governor had now gone to Ngapuhi’s traditional enemies, Ngati Whatua.
Heke is noted as the first to sign the Treaty and the first in Maoridom to breach that which he had signed.
GEOFF PARKER, Kamo
OUT OF SIGHT
When was the last time you saw anything in ‘our' media concerning New Zealand history, Maori, education, abuse of the welfare system, or for that matter involving anything to do with socialist politics that have been pushed into our everyday lives for decades under so-called ‘mainstream' political parties?
Apart from Sean Plunket, Mike Hosking and Michael Laws, there are no media/journalists that I am aware of who will face and debate anything out of the mainstream media lockdown, as I call it.
Also consider the endless stream of lefty/woke people, not journalists, who foist their personal opinions on to an unsuspecting and often not too bright New Zealand public. Lizzie Marvelly is a great example, people who spew their racial or socialist garbage on to the rest of us with no right of reply, no debate, nothing to stop their rhetoric in the future. Or watch The Project, another mainstream TV series with low IQ comedians and a separatist presenter who works the show regularly for her own racial agenda.
It has come to the point in NZ media that to think or act outside the socialist box is not an option. Media and journalists are supposed to be unbiased, supposed to be trying to find the facts and truth about what is actually happening in New Zealand, not spreading propaganda for government, Waitangi claims or the treatyists.
We are continually going down a socialist path that will keep wanting to domineer everything we do, nanny state. This pandemic is just another chance to tighten the noose around your neck.
Another fact is there is no difference between National or Labour, and anyone who thinks there is is a fool. These two parties have fooled many people for too long. Once in power National is the same socialist machine Labour is. Control is where it is for both these parties, and both will continue down the separatist track as they have for decades. This Labour government has stumbled along with Winston at the wheel, but National is cunning, and far more dangerous than Labour.
Another term under Labour or National will take us down the track of socialist/ racial separation that there will be no turning back from, and that is a fact. Make your vote count, and make your friends actually vote. Apathy is not an option.
REX ANDERSON, Lower Hutt
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers