Re Rogers Rabbits (The Weekend Sun, August 10). What took you? I could've told you that about NZ's systematic bullying and censorship ages ago.

After arriving in Tauranga following the Christchurch earthquakes and discovering people still believed there had been Europeans in New Zealand before the Maori turned up, and setting the record straight on that, I got a letter from something like Hobson's Pledge, and the sender had handwritten a note informing me that the gravy train was over.

I was gobsmacked. All I'd done is point out little things, such as species such as the moa can't go extinct twice, etc. 1 + 1 = 2 and I'm therefore on the gravy train?

In 1988 I wrote letters to the editor re Treaty claims being openly settled. Some primitives who couldn't tell the difference between an institution and an individual rang up the Wesley Methodist Centre and abused them.

And that's not to mention the habit of NZ employers in the 90s to demand ‘the right attitude' from potential employees, without bothering to define what they meant. Graduates headed off overseas because they couldn't be bothered with NZ employers' systematic censorship.

You're just a trifle late seeing the bullying and censorship.

W Parish, Bellevue (Abridged).