The problems in Yemen today – called ‘genocide’ and ‘humanitarian crisis’ by the same handwringers – is the direct result of not finishing the job circa 1963. By preventing Stirling and his team of mercenaries from deciding a ‘winner’ 60 years ago, there is a far greater problem in 2024.
Closer to home: in the mid-1970s at a couple of National Party conferences (back when they were fun), there was an amusing remit that said words to the effect of, ‘Māori should be prevented from living in cities’. I haven’t been able to ascertain whether those submitting this remit were serious or playing a wee joke and whether it was simply done to antagonise the left wingers into a frenzy of outrage. Certainly Muldoon never let an opportunity to annoy left wingers go by.
Fast forward to today and these two matters were what popped into my head when I was watching Speaker Gerry Brownlee unsure of what to do when parliament descended into chaos last Thursday.
But what it demonstrates is that if you fail to take action early – and for no other reason than it upsets the sensibilities – you are asking for big trouble down the track. Imagine a New Zealand where Māori were not in cities during the last 50 years. No pleasant suburbs destroyed by gang pads, fewer murders, rapes, armed robberies, ram raids, etc. Or, at least, not taking place where most people actually live. We also would have far fewer people pretending to be Māori or speaking fake, made-up, gibberish.
You need to weigh up the effect on New Zealand’s reputation – a five-minute wonder, just as the 1976 Olympic boycott was a five-minute wonder – with the long-term benefits.
How many people reading this have been angered in recent days at the traffic chaos in Auckland and the chaos in parliament and are wondering if the barbarians have moved from the gate to the inside and will soon be coming for them? How many of those same people would have been handwringers going along with the smarty-pants crowd had Muldoon taken the remit at the National Party conference seriously and implemented it?
You can’t have it both ways. The only reason Māori people feel they can behave as they have in recent days is because Keith Holyoake’s policy of simply ignoring everything Māori was abandoned. And now Gerry Brownlee and others are wondering: ‘How is this possible? How is this happening?’
Capitalist is a simple country boy from the deep south who seeks nothing less than the destruction of socialism and collectivism in New Zealand. This article was first published HERE
Closer to home: in the mid-1970s at a couple of National Party conferences (back when they were fun), there was an amusing remit that said words to the effect of, ‘Māori should be prevented from living in cities’. I haven’t been able to ascertain whether those submitting this remit were serious or playing a wee joke and whether it was simply done to antagonise the left wingers into a frenzy of outrage. Certainly Muldoon never let an opportunity to annoy left wingers go by.
Fast forward to today and these two matters were what popped into my head when I was watching Speaker Gerry Brownlee unsure of what to do when parliament descended into chaos last Thursday.
But what it demonstrates is that if you fail to take action early – and for no other reason than it upsets the sensibilities – you are asking for big trouble down the track. Imagine a New Zealand where Māori were not in cities during the last 50 years. No pleasant suburbs destroyed by gang pads, fewer murders, rapes, armed robberies, ram raids, etc. Or, at least, not taking place where most people actually live. We also would have far fewer people pretending to be Māori or speaking fake, made-up, gibberish.
You need to weigh up the effect on New Zealand’s reputation – a five-minute wonder, just as the 1976 Olympic boycott was a five-minute wonder – with the long-term benefits.
How many people reading this have been angered in recent days at the traffic chaos in Auckland and the chaos in parliament and are wondering if the barbarians have moved from the gate to the inside and will soon be coming for them? How many of those same people would have been handwringers going along with the smarty-pants crowd had Muldoon taken the remit at the National Party conference seriously and implemented it?
You can’t have it both ways. The only reason Māori people feel they can behave as they have in recent days is because Keith Holyoake’s policy of simply ignoring everything Māori was abandoned. And now Gerry Brownlee and others are wondering: ‘How is this possible? How is this happening?’
Capitalist is a simple country boy from the deep south who seeks nothing less than the destruction of socialism and collectivism in New Zealand. This article was first published HERE
3 comments:
It is interesting since Te Pati Maori and Maoridom in General, collided and/or colluded in the concept of a Hikoi to disempower our Government, because one part of the Govt. had proposed an Act of Parliament to define "who is the Govt.".
It is interesting that they, Maoridom and their "hidden supporters" had not listened to what was being said, nor read what was intended to be presented.
To me "the trigger" ( I now conclude it was pre-planned) was a 22 year old female, who presented a dramatic demonstration of "stupidity" aided and abetted by her Peers, both Te Pati Maori & Labour that intensified the stupidity that followed. To (sadly) think that Maoridom invested votes in a person who has - obviously - no mental acuity that enhances her thinking and actions other than being "directed'- by those Peers sitting around her in Parliament, in her office within Parliament and also extended family outside.
It was this one action, caught on camera, subsequently shown around the world that brought derision upon this Country.
It is also interesting, I present his on the basis of the article by Ross Murant (titled History can be a bitch..) posted on this website - that obviously Maoridom has been under the spot light by the New Zealand Police, for sometime and that certain people, who have defined Socialist agendas) from that time, appeared to speak at the Hikoi - again speaking on the where you go, how and what yo do when you get there, basically "We want our Land Back - Pakeha leave". Sounds like a chant from South Africa pf years gone by.
Oh and to the Author, you missed Jim Bolger and the "Wine Box" incident that had him and his MPS have a "fall out with Winston Peters"- another National Party circus at the time.
She's not stupid. Where else can she gegt qaj ob earning almost
She's not stupid! Where else can she get a job worth almost $250.000 a year for doing nothing (well, almost nothing)?
Kevan
Earlier this year I saw a school motto which said something like Discipline yourself, so others don’t have to. I suggest that our Parliament needs something similar which is spelt out to every MP. Those who fail to understand that basic requirement can then be told to read the rule again. Failure to comply should lead to a stand down of that person (elected or otherwise). They return only if they convince the Speaker that they ‘get it’ and will behave from there on.
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