Michael Laws Reacts to Church Leaders’ Open Letter about the Treaty Principles Bill on The Platform.
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Writer and former broadcaster Michael Laws, who served as an MP and Mayor, is now a councillor on the Otago Regional Council, and talkback host on The Platform.
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Michael is absolutely spot on in his assessment! These so called church leaders have collectively lied and broken a key component of the 10 Commandments. The arrogance of these people to think that they can tell us what we are to believe. They clearly have not gone to treaty.nz and to compound that they clearly have no comprehension as to what or why David Seymour is seeking to have the Principles defined. Far from cause division, he is the ONLY one of the three coalition party leaders who is trying to resolve the issue of division that the previous governments (plural) have brought about in New Zealand. Latterly, as heard today on the disgustingly joyful msm, Cabinet appear to have prevailed on David to water down his second principle such that it will apply ONLY to iwi and hapu. If allowed to stand, this would make the vast majority of us second class citizens who will not have the right of chieftain-ship over our own property. On what Planet, let alone in which Country does this sound like equality? If that second principle does not apply to us ALL, then who hell does have the right of control over our property - let me guess. Give us strength and if not then the right to mutiny!
Yet another cracker from Laws. If he could get on to TVNZ there would be a resurgence of watchers and interest as in the days of Brian Edwards. The problem today is that, unlike the distant past, many/most of the clergy are now persons of very modest intellect. On RNZ 7.33 am today the Dean of Taranaki cathedral endeavoured to frighten off more ordinary balanced congregation than even Bishop Vercoe achieved.
Laws speaks with a now old fashioned directness. This is not suited for the devious misrepresentations of today's duplicit politic agitators. Compare with RNZ Julian Wilcox's Mapua. The ultra glib Rebecca Ruakawa Tait rabitted on about leadership for the whole programme, without any specifics. After decades of non critical totally receptive maori audiences listening in maori time, the art of saying nothing concrete but very persuasively has been highly developed.
Follow the money.
Are these the same religions that told Maori their beliefs in their gods were wrong. That their traditions were all wrong.
The same religions that persuaded Maori to donate lots of their land to them. Perhaps it is time for these same religions to apologize and ask them to leave the christian church and return to their old ways. And return the land at the same time.
Michael is absolutely correct. I used to attend the Anglican church. but after they started going on about co-governance (as they did when Jenny Shipley was PM) I've never been back.
It's not just churches. I was about to attend the AGM of my tramping club last week, but then I get a publication from them about the government's so called "War against the environment". I didn't turn up and I'm not planning to go to any more club events.
My " opening salvo is" - this is one news story that has placed Scot Robinson on the back page. I have made this comment, under the same headlines, posted here, that we have The Religious Organization's (one needs to research the "Letter" [which strangely is in both English & Te Reo] on line and see who has 'signed' and what Religious denominations they represent) - who have -"crossed a thresh-hold, that being - Politics are not incorporated within Religious dogma", and such should not be espoused - through the medium of news releases, spoken from the Pulpit, nor promoted through the medium of public protest.
It would be interesting to see, who was behind this action, how they 'targeted their prey' - coercion would be a criminal action, and that [as already mentioned] - the Document is in two languages - that means it was pre prepared, and again by Who/whom.
Sadly those who have signed, have sinned, and I hope their respective Parishioner's chided them for their errant ways.
Not sure if I have read CXH correctly but any land given or sold at reasonable contemporary rates was a very good investment for maori.It was on those lands that the missionaries demonstrated farming methods. And the missionaries, totaly cut off from civiisation and their culture, had to have sufficent land to be self sufficent and to stay, thus facilitating maori to esacpre from the stone age. Todays unimagnative trite clerics are a very different breed from most of the very early missionaries.
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