An excellent letter from G. Allen last week telling us how it all really is with the Treaty of Waitangi.
The problem being that our leaders, both Maori and European, are either ignorant of the truth in history or choose not to accept it!
All went well with ‘we are all one people' until the late 1960's when the UN produced their protocol on ‘the Rights of Indigenous Peoples'. Then with the aid of foreign ‘agents provocateurs' several young Maori activists went, or were sent, to Czechoslovakia and other countries to learn about their rights, how they had been oppressed and dispossessed and how to cause general unrest and insurrection back in NZ.
Then came the Waitangi Tribunal Act of Parliament in 1975, leading to all sorts of unrest, claims and outrageous settlements.
The Maori can't be blamed for wanting ‘something for nothing' – they're no worse than the majority of the rest of us!
No! The blame lies with the UN for creating division in the beginning with their protocol, in spite of the UN being touted as ‘a forum for world peace.
And ‘The Crown' which profited immensely from the early sales of land they didn't own and later from the sale of confiscated land via the ‘Land Wars'; are the organisation that should be paying any verifiable compensation to the Maori – not the present day inhabitants/taxpayers of the land!
‘The Crown' is the international financial hub situated in the City of London – not the NZ or British governments or the Monarchy!
The powerful people who organised the UN and other un-elected world bodies are descendants of the same families who represented – and still represent – ‘The Crown.' The UN is the ‘toolbox' of the imminent One World Government and their Resolutions and Protocols ratified by national governments around the world, over-rule the laws and regulations of those nations. R. Jordan, Tauranga.