Not one people

At last the motto of Hobson’s Pledge, the maxim for which Don Brash has been constantly vilified and satirised in the media, has been accepted by the Prime Minister in her comfortingly inclusive phrase to Muslim immigrants; “We are one people.”

No, Ms. Ardern, we will not be one people’ until you and your government return to all New Zealanders the same exclusive privileges you have bestowed on the 15 per cent part-Maori in the community and correct the national injustices resulting from the political and judicial revisions of the 70s, until the ethnically exclusive institution, the Waitangi Tribunal, is removed, until you make us truly one people, New Zealanders, and not accept groups claiming ethnic privilege.

Yes, Prime Minister, as you have publicly stated recently, New Zealand is a racist nation. The racism is the government’s exclusively favoured treatment of Maori. BRYAN JOHNSON

Omokoroa New Zealand is a racist nation. The racism is the government’s exclusively favoured treatment of Maori, writes Bryan Johnson.

‘Racist underbelly seethes just beneath the surface.’

She writes of the “doctrine of white superiority” as if every New Zealander without a trace of Maori ancestry believed it. She continues with many distorted opinions on New Zealand history, referring to Maori as “indigenous,” which is an abuse of words. Her hypocrisy is sickening.

Then we have Dr Liz Gordon, in her Daily Blog for March 18, writing similarly under her headline of ‘The racist right in Aotearoa.’ This is the same Liz Gordon who, as an undergraduate, was so intolerant that she walked out of a lecture by David Round, very well-informed in Treaty of Waitangi issues, who had pointed out the many falsehoods in the official version. with its promulgation of Freeman’s fake “Treaty in English”. Her hypocrisy is sickening. Again, in the Rotorua Daily Post Tama Iti alleges the existence of an “ingrained redneck culture in . . . Christchurch . . . and he had for years warned of their dangerous attitude.” By such means he accuses the people of Christchurch of guilt by association with the ghastly event which occurred in their midst.

This is the same Tama Iti who avoided a terrorism charge by a flaw in the legislation and was imprisoned on firearms charges, with some evidence that members of his tribe were preparing to use them against innocent white fellow citizens.

His hypocrisy is sickening.

In ‘Waatea News’ for March 19, Manuka Henare writes under the headline ‘Maori battle against fascism continues.’ Indeed? It is people of partMaori descent such as he who continue to argue for special rights and privileges and superior rights of representation of their kind on official bodies. That is the essence of fascism. They are the fascists in our midst.

His hypocrisy is sickening.

And when the Christchurch mosque reopened, some members of Ngai Tahu, a tribe of rampant fraudsters, usurped the position of the grieving congregation by proceeding to it ahead of them. Their hypocrisy is sickening.

And Phil Goff chimes in by claiming that this single atrocity by an outsider

justifies his denial of free speech to other visitors whose political opinions appeared to differ from his own. If there is any significant Islamaphobia in New Zealand, can he not see that it is far better that it be identified and talked about openly? Our right to free speech is too precious for him to deny it.

His hypocrisy is sickening.

It was a relief indeed to read in the Gisborne Herald for March 16, the words of Matthew Tukaki, director of the New Zealand Maori Council, who addressed us all with, “I can tell all New Zealanders, all Maori, that as we stand together we must never be divided”. That should be the keystone of all policy on our country. Sadly, we are sinking into a mire where it is forgotten.

But alas! Perhaps the most callous and despicable attempt to profit from this tragedy is that of part-Maori Che Wilson of Ngati Rangi on Radio NZ at 7:34am on March 21. He speaks of the government occupation of Parihaka as an invasion which “decimated the village [where] they were promoting peace”.

The truth is that Parihaka was the centre of a rather nasty cult, squatting on Crown land, with its leader Te W’iti practising ‘maketu,’ or the ‘evil eye’ on his enemies, as contemporary press accounts report. To ensure no loss of life in the occupation of the village, government leader, Bryce, took the humane action of assembling sufficient force to make it obvious that resistance was useless. He succeeded.

Apart from an accidental injury to one boy’s foot, the casualty list was zero. Decimation, Mr Wilson? I don’t think so.

Then Associate Professor Tom Roa chimes in about Rangiaowhia, where he claims that in 1864, “Crown troops set fire to a whare karakia”. I don’t think so, Professor. It was a gunpit full of armed rebels, one of whom shot dead the sergeant who invited them to surrender, and this initiated the sharp encounter in which it was burnt.

His claim that an eight-year-old boy ran out and was shot dead is another base lie. One boy, Potatau, did leave the whare unharmed with his parents before the shooting began, and later gave a full account of events.

Had it not been for this incident,

General Cameron’s humane attempt to take the village by surprise with minimal loss of life would have been almost entirely successful. It led to the rapid surrender of the rebels at their fort of Paterangi by depriving them of their food supplies, thereby avoiding more heavy loss of life on both sides in an attempt to capture it.

“Acts of terrorism in Aotearoa in the past,” Professor? I don’t think so. If you do want an example, recall the night descent by Te Kooti’s rebels on Matawhero and the innocent slaughter of 70 sleeping victims, half of them Maori.

And, Mr Rino Tregerthen, MP, if racism is “alive and kicking” observe that people like Ngai Tahu, from whom you trace a minor part of your descent and who perpetrated a colossal fraud on us, abetted by the Waitangi Tribunal, are the people largely responsible for it.

When the whole of our nation should be united in grieving for the innocent dead, these people display the morals of the gutter. BRUCE MOON

Nelson