The following letter to the Gisborne Herald appears under the title above and the name of Eddie Tuhaka:
Rawiri Waititi’s divisive comments and behaviour against the present Government, calling them a white/Pākehā Government, is racist and unacceptable. He and the rest of them did not complain when they all got their pay increase from the white pay review board.
As a Māori, he/they do not speak for me and many others. In the future, when he retires from Parliament and gets a handsome superannuation payout for life from the white Government, he will have done absolutely nothing for Māori.
His tipuna, Hone Waititi, who was a teacher, educationalist and a great community leader, will not be happy with his behaviour. The great work done by Hone and other great leaders, such as Sir Apirana Ngata, will be undone by this man.
I did not know that there was a Māori Health Authority until the present Government said they were going to close it down. If I’m sick, I go to my GP; if I have an emergency at home, I call the ambulance; if I need medicine, I go to the chemist, etc. With these and many other health services available for us all, what does the Māori Health Authority do? With a shortage of medical staff across all departments, where are they going to get their staff, medical specialists and money from?
Having spent many years in the military, many of my fellow soldiers were Pākehā, but we did not look at each other as Māori or Pākehā, just fellow soldiers/mates. We served alongside and trained with military personnel from many other countries. Comments were made to us about how well we worked and trained closely together, and how our camaraderie was strong.
Make no mistake, the Māori/Pākehā working combination in the military is second to none, and I know this is the same in many other areas of our workforce/ community. There were also many Pacific Island mates who served, which made our camaraderie even stronger.
In the NZ Police, our instructors at Police College were Māori, Pākehā and Pasifika, and of course this is right across the police force itself.
Continued divisive rhetoric by this guy will slowly chip away at our communities. Meanwhile, he will still happily be picking up his increased pay cheque.
I did not know that there was a Māori Health Authority until the present Government said they were going to close it down. If I’m sick, I go to my GP; if I have an emergency at home, I call the ambulance; if I need medicine, I go to the chemist, etc. With these and many other health services available for us all, what does the Māori Health Authority do? With a shortage of medical staff across all departments, where are they going to get their staff, medical specialists and money from?
Having spent many years in the military, many of my fellow soldiers were Pākehā, but we did not look at each other as Māori or Pākehā, just fellow soldiers/mates. We served alongside and trained with military personnel from many other countries. Comments were made to us about how well we worked and trained closely together, and how our camaraderie was strong.
Make no mistake, the Māori/Pākehā working combination in the military is second to none, and I know this is the same in many other areas of our workforce/ community. There were also many Pacific Island mates who served, which made our camaraderie even stronger.
In the NZ Police, our instructors at Police College were Māori, Pākehā and Pasifika, and of course this is right across the police force itself.
Continued divisive rhetoric by this guy will slowly chip away at our communities. Meanwhile, he will still happily be picking up his increased pay cheque.
Lastly, the words from Sir Apirana Ngata, used at our last Anzac Day: “We are of one house. If our Pākehā brothers fall, we fall with them.” And I know from experience, that this will always go both ways.
Eddie Tuhaka
First published HERE
Eddie Tuhaka
First published HERE
11 comments:
A very good letter.
A mate from Uni joined the Army after completing a Philosophy Degree.
He was a Captain in the Artillery and bailed up several part-Māori enlisted men in the Army Gym who were sporting Tino Rangatiratanga T-shirts.
They were told: “Go back to barracks and take that filthy rag off your backs! You have eaten the Queen’s Salt, and what you are wearing is seditious!”
Their response was insolent and confrontational: “We’re off duty … Sir … and can wear what we like.
“Not on Waiouru Army Base you can’t,” they were told.
The enlisted men complained to the CO, who backed his Officer.
This incident occurred 25 years ago, and we can only wonder if it would go the same way today.
It begs the question: if Te Pati Mokomai started a civil war tomorrow, would part-Māori armed forces personnel be loyal to the King’s Salt or to their perceived ethnocentric identity?
Same deal with part-Māori in the NZ Police.
Government should:
(1) reinstate anti-Sedition laws so these Nimrods can be closed down quicksmart when they start mouthing off; and
(2) reinstate compulsory military training so the good guys have the skills to defend themselves if the paru huas start a civil war.
I am surprised Gisborne Herald would publish this.
That said full points to the writer for standing up as a New Zealander. And full points for acknowledging his Maori heritage which is part of his experience as an NZer but does not exclude or denigrate other NZers.
I would welcome the opportunity to shake your hand Eddie. Well said.
Real New Zealand stood up and wrote that letter. One people, one nation. Divided, we will fall.
Of course Eddie is right. But the problem is all the indoctrination in every govt department helping the activists completely. The white liberals teaching little kids that tbad people came and stole their land, universties who reject democracy and it goes on.
I salute you, Eddie.
It would be a nice letter for TV!, Stuff & all those other woke news channels to publish but not much chance of that? The best we can do is spread this letter as far and as wide as we all can.
Well spoken Eddie Tuhaka
People whose declared intent is to destroy our existing society and replace it with a model of their own choosing cannot be deterred.
They can only be taken out— preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary.
The most painless way to do this in accordance with due process in a free society is to reintroduce laws against sedition and properly enforce them
“ There are few talents more richly rewarded with both wealth and power, in countries around the world, than the ability to convince backward people that their problems are caused by other people who are more advanced”—Thomas Sowell
“ Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow”—Thomas Sowell again.
The letter by Eddie is apparently genuine. But I note that whenever the Herald condescends to publish any letter faintly critical of maori there is an immediate spate of standardised pro maori responses, invariably under European names. I often wonder who actually pens them.
Unfortunately as few sceptics of pro maori attitude have time on their hands, there seems to be no analogous army of fake maori submitting counter current pro maori attitude letters (or such do not pass the Editor, still conscious of PIJFunding.) I guess with all interconnected it is hard to hide a fake maori name.
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