Peter Dey attacks me in your columns claiming that I ‘seem to be an amateur historian'. Well, yes, I am an unpaid volunteer historian doing my best to get the true story of Waitangi out to New Zealanders instead of the highly falsified official accounts.
If Dey and others read what I write in the new book 'Twisting the Treaty” instead of making personal attacks, they will be much better informed. Let everybody understand that the so-called 'official Treaty in English” is a bogus document concocted after the event by Hobson's foolish secretary, Freeman. As Hobson himself said ‘The treaty, ... signed at Waitangi ... I consider to be de facto the treaty'.
There is nothing about an English version. Moreover, the real treaty gives no privileges to Maoris which are not shared by all the people of New Zealand. And, oh, yes! I do have a scientific training - better for finding the facts than that of a professional historian working to an agenda as most do.

Bruce Moon,VRD, MSc(Hons)(NZ), MSc(Distinction(London), FInstP(UK),HFIITPHonFDSA.