Re: Stunned by verbal invective (The Weekend Sun, July 1).

Marama Fox should be grateful for the intrusion of colonists to New Zealand and the individual freedom granted her by the treaty, as a citizen of the Crown, to express herself as she did on TV3's programme as in pre-colonial times she would never have been able, as a woman, to speak let alone display such gross behaviour on any marae in the land.

B Johnson, Omokoroa.