The racial problems that we are having today began when the labour Government under Geoffrey Palmer and David Lange enacted laws that gave Maori advantages over non-Maori.
They made our treaty into a partnership between Maori and the crown completely writing all non-Maori out of the treaty by putting in place a rejected English draft of the treaty and dreamt up five principles that the crown would use to interpret the treaty. When the true final English draft was found, instead Geoffrey Palmer and David Lange correcting their mistake they both quit politics and left our country with apartheid laws. Which are still in place today.
John Key will keep these laws in place as he needs the Maori votes to stay in power. What we need at the next Election is for the non-Maori voters not to vote for National as they don't want your vote, it's the Maori vote that they want to keep in good with them.
Ian Brougham, Wanganui.
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Apartheid
Posted on 21-09-2012 16:22 | By TERMITE
I believe you are right, many previous writers on Sun Live have noted the same problem, that the real treaty (English translation) is not real and has been seriously discredited to date, only the Maori language version as contained in the Whitangi Treaty Act is correct. They did indeed know it at the time to but failed to avoid teh error, all else trails onward to now as a consequence. Teh end result is two classes of NZ citizen and that was not at all what the original treaty signatories agreed to and signed up for.
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