Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jun 17, 2020 13:00:15 GMT 12
Northland Age 16/6/20
STATUE BASHING
Well done and good on Winston Peters for speaking out about the statues issue and his assessment of the situation is both accurate and reasoned .
Take heart in my view 90 % of kiwis will fully endorse what he says and many are surprised and concerned that other politicians are not speaking out about the ratbags violent behavior that verges on and has all the hallmarks anarchy. If the rabble’s actions transcend peaceful protest and violate Kiwis or others normal code of conduct it is fair to call that anarchy by the mobs.
While I am ambivalent and find it hard to get emotional about public statues of the various personages around NZ I have no problem with the construction thereof as long as I and other taxpayers and ratepayers don’t have to fund them. On the other hand I do have a real problem with the village idiot woke tossers who seek to graffiti, destroy, deface, and topple the statues willy nilly or anything else that takes their fancy to fuel their hate fueled idiocy against anything normal. Where do these buffoons get the time/money to engage in this anti -social nonsense God only knows but we can all guess.
The statues solution is that if after full public consultation locals decide they do not want the statues then by all means remove them and store away or give them to someone who may be happy to display them on their property or in the front garden. The full cost of consultation , removal and storage must be met upfront by the ratbag malcontents not taxpayers nor ratepayers.
Once this PC issue is resolved it is night follows day stuff that this bunch of misfits will move on to slag something else.
Incidentally the question is do the Police condone public disorder, intimidation ,threats of and actual law breaking/ violence and the destruction of public property these days? It is looking that way.
ROB PATERSON, Mount Maunganui
TWO TRUTHS
Maori Party co-leader Debbie Ngarua-Packer, along with Tainui kaurnatua Taitimu Maipi is agitating for European monuments to be taken down and destroyed. I note that more and more Maori cultural carvings are appearing throughout New Zealand, and that most people do not find that offensive.
There are two sides to the historical coin, one that has written history and monuments, the other that has verbal history and cultural carvings, each depicting the “truth" as they believe it. Neither version of New Zealand history should be attempting to create supremacy or cultural power over the other.
Those who attempt to create racial division can only draw New Zealand as a nation closer to anarchy.
MAUREEN J ANDERSON, Pyes Pa
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers
STATUE BASHING
Well done and good on Winston Peters for speaking out about the statues issue and his assessment of the situation is both accurate and reasoned .
Take heart in my view 90 % of kiwis will fully endorse what he says and many are surprised and concerned that other politicians are not speaking out about the ratbags violent behavior that verges on and has all the hallmarks anarchy. If the rabble’s actions transcend peaceful protest and violate Kiwis or others normal code of conduct it is fair to call that anarchy by the mobs.
While I am ambivalent and find it hard to get emotional about public statues of the various personages around NZ I have no problem with the construction thereof as long as I and other taxpayers and ratepayers don’t have to fund them. On the other hand I do have a real problem with the village idiot woke tossers who seek to graffiti, destroy, deface, and topple the statues willy nilly or anything else that takes their fancy to fuel their hate fueled idiocy against anything normal. Where do these buffoons get the time/money to engage in this anti -social nonsense God only knows but we can all guess.
The statues solution is that if after full public consultation locals decide they do not want the statues then by all means remove them and store away or give them to someone who may be happy to display them on their property or in the front garden. The full cost of consultation , removal and storage must be met upfront by the ratbag malcontents not taxpayers nor ratepayers.
Once this PC issue is resolved it is night follows day stuff that this bunch of misfits will move on to slag something else.
Incidentally the question is do the Police condone public disorder, intimidation ,threats of and actual law breaking/ violence and the destruction of public property these days? It is looking that way.
ROB PATERSON, Mount Maunganui
TWO TRUTHS
Maori Party co-leader Debbie Ngarua-Packer, along with Tainui kaurnatua Taitimu Maipi is agitating for European monuments to be taken down and destroyed. I note that more and more Maori cultural carvings are appearing throughout New Zealand, and that most people do not find that offensive.
There are two sides to the historical coin, one that has written history and monuments, the other that has verbal history and cultural carvings, each depicting the “truth" as they believe it. Neither version of New Zealand history should be attempting to create supremacy or cultural power over the other.
Those who attempt to create racial division can only draw New Zealand as a nation closer to anarchy.
MAUREEN J ANDERSON, Pyes Pa
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers