Post by Kiwi Frontline on May 23, 2020 16:48:04 GMT 12
NEW ZEALAND LAND WARS HOLIDAY
B M writes > It's all bread and circuses which make a Roman holiday - while the empire decays and that is exactly what, on our small scale, is happening in NZ today.
It Rome it was more and more false gods. Here it is false stories about our history.
Foon is a disgrace to his office - as were most of his predecessors.
There were no so-called "land wars", only tribal rebellions and they were seldom about land.
Heke's rebellion in the north was because trade followed the capital away from the Bay of Islands.
Te Kooti's war was one of revenge; Waikato's about tribesmen itching for a fight and trying out their muscle on authority. etc.
And remember that the number of rebel lives lost (and don't forget the loyal Maoris who died) was piddling compared with the number they killed themselves a few decades earlier in the Musket Wars.
The whole thing is just colossal hypocrisy based on false history, ignorance, and racist prejudice.
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2005/S00305/call-for-public-holiday-to-mark-the-new-zealand-land-wars.htm
B M writes > It's all bread and circuses which make a Roman holiday - while the empire decays and that is exactly what, on our small scale, is happening in NZ today.
It Rome it was more and more false gods. Here it is false stories about our history.
Foon is a disgrace to his office - as were most of his predecessors.
There were no so-called "land wars", only tribal rebellions and they were seldom about land.
Heke's rebellion in the north was because trade followed the capital away from the Bay of Islands.
Te Kooti's war was one of revenge; Waikato's about tribesmen itching for a fight and trying out their muscle on authority. etc.
And remember that the number of rebel lives lost (and don't forget the loyal Maoris who died) was piddling compared with the number they killed themselves a few decades earlier in the Musket Wars.
The whole thing is just colossal hypocrisy based on false history, ignorance, and racist prejudice.
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2005/S00305/call-for-public-holiday-to-mark-the-new-zealand-land-wars.htm