Not even close
Assertions (ipse dixit) by treatyists, apologists and partMa¯ ori activists as is the norm, are usually based on creative fabricated myth-history, rarely coming anywhere near the truth or facts and exaggerated beyond recognition. February 6 sees these mistruths trotted out ad
nauseum. What’s more, the ‘chosen few’ are no more indigenous than all Kiwis born in this country, and these souls are not and were never conservationists or environmentalists per se. Quite the reverse if history and past behaviour/ practices, like the destruction of moa and South Island forests, are anything to go by.
Claiming special race-based privileges aimed to score more of the valuable resources is a travesty. Entitlements claimed are usually to the detriment and cost of all other Kiwis. Non-productive, non-contributory parasites would be a good description for this bunch, who rabbit on like cracked one-tracked records with their invalid PC claptrap.
There is no place for race-based activists promoting neo-racism nor their fawning today sycophants, aka Awol Brain brigade.
The proposition that somehow New Zealand pre-1840 was a utopian Garden of Eden, and has since become Hades, is unmitigated, arrant nonsense. We have moved on over 200 years from Stone Age New Zealand, and even if there was any shred of truth in what is regularly promulgated, just get over the fictional Treaty principles and partnership nonsense, get on with life, stop navelgazing and seeking free lunches.
Remember there is nothing that succeeds like failure. “One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their dubious presence. No society has ever thrived because it had a large growing class of parasites living off those who produce.” (Thomas Sowell).
ROB PATERSON
Matapihi
"Surely anthropogenic global warming is now well beyond the test of reasonable doubt. I was teaching the basic climate science to senior high school environmental studies classes over 30 years ago." Ross Forbes, Kerikeri