Hope for US break

Our US sourced media bombards us with warnings of their current ‘‘ Evil Axis’’ country, North Korea. In fact, since the end of civil war that followed the compulsorily partitioning of Korea, this country has attacked no other country.

Unlike the much beloved USA, who have indiscriminately slaughtered millions in Korea, Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere generally to keep oil wealth flowing home. Where does NZ fit into this? Successive lap dog National governments have hastened to do their bidding sending our ‘‘Defence forces’’ to help in the slaughter with the hope of a few crumbs at the US trade table. Only Helen Clark would not be cajoled into supporting their fictitious ‘‘Weapons of mass destruction’’ war which laid waste Iraq and created the current world terrorist crisis. Can one hope that our current leader will guide this country away from US domination and, who knows, become the Switzerland of the South Pacific? eminent curmudgeon I thank Jim Cable for rising to my bait but call him to attack my facts not my person.

As usual, his letter had not one iota of fact. A pity, because we share many viewpoints – on Israel, for one.

Scott’s Travesty of the Treaty is itself full of factual travesties and sheer misinformation designed to demean the justifiable case for Crown restitution of long-standing iwi grievances. It’s more an attack on an ‘‘iwi elite’s’’ alleged ‘‘gravy train’’ than a critique of the Treaty.

I prefer Dr Claudia Orange’s treaty scholarship to Scott’s hatchet job.

She concludes that Governor Hobson’s Treaty articulated the very enduring iwi-Crown partnership, which Felton Mathew and Justice Martin early recognised, which was akin to the protectorate Wesleyan missionaries later established in Tonga but were duped from establishing in New Zealand.

If he can’t attack my facts Cable should stick to his knitting – attacking ‘‘P.C. liberal’’ Labour supporters – and learn te reo to bring in his emerging ‘‘one nation’’.