A sense of inflated entitlement?

The recent Maori Fisheries Trust advert in The New Zealand Herald this month titled ‘When is deal not a deal?' is full of arrant nonsense claims.

The Sealord 1992 deal skewed the terms of the Treaty of Waitangi - the legitimate Maori version - which doesn't mention fisheries anywhere simply guaranteeing the same rights to all New Zealand citizens. Neither does it appear in the widely accepted, authenticated final English Littlewood Draft currently housed in NZ Archives. Only vested interests or hidden agendas opposing the Littlewood Draft think otherwise.

Pre-European Maori with unstable canoes rarely fished out of sight of land - they had no need to - and probably never visited the Kermadecs about 1000km away or knew where they were. The only meaningful contribution Maori made to Kermandec conservation was they never visited it. Current claims that tribes are being punished are unmitigated rubbish.

Treaty settlements are often based on bogus claims, which are routinely accepted by the biased and dysfunctional Waitangi Tribunal with successive treacherous governments and politicians then handing over taxpayers' cash and assets willy nilly in the name of political correctness or political expediency. To most Kiwis there is no honour in that behaviour.

The Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary Bill already goes too far in offering part-Maori tribal interests any say in its management to which they are not entitled so if they know what is good for them, the malcontents should just put up with it and shut up.

It's said: 'People who take more than their fair share always feel an inflated sense of entitlement”. Ain't that the truth!

R Paterson, Matapihi.

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1 comment

I agree with R Paterson

Posted on 26-08-2016 12:57 | By Captain Sensible

Why would maori paddle for 5 days to the Kermadecs to bring back, what would be by the time they got back, rotting fish, when they could throw a hook into the nearest seawater and catch a fish there? It makes no sense. Politicians are too afraid to ask such questions.


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