Importing injustices

Winston Peters is right, protesters trying to import overseas cases of injustice into New Zealand over something that happened centuries ago are not living in the real world.

There is not a people or race on Earth who at some time have not been conquered or ill-treated by another race.

There is not a damned thing we can do to alter what happened then nor make amends by making continual cash handouts to the supposed wronged.

Otherwise, where would it end?

Māori are no exception as it now seems likely they were not the first to inhabit this country and practiced genocide against the original people here. I found an article in a 1917 paper showing skeletons of a northern people who were wiped out by the Māori. As they were not their “people” they left the bodies to lie and rot where they were killed.

The Chatham Islanders are an example now hushed up and denied. Ten of Captain Cook’s crew were killed and eaten. But what is the point as no Māori alive today had anything to do with it so why put the guilt on them?

These present-day protesters are threatening to use terror tactics to erase our past. If the Government gives into mob rule, then democracy will be dead in this country.

A. J. MacKenzie, Rotorua,