We meekly allowed our masters to shaft us with the imposition of the ETS tax, imposed to grovel in submission to prospective foreign customers, whilst at the same time, making it a nice little earner to add to our near empty treasury coffers .
John and co; are now turning their grovelling to a racial minority in our own fair land in the murky waters of the Foreshore and Seabed fiasco,(aka 'The Thin End Of The Wedge”), no doubt in pursuance of their support in matters arising in parliament.
Leave things as they are. We are all New Zealanders, all equal under the law and should all have the right to access public land, including the beaches and their environs.
We should learn from the ETS swindle and the public apathy that allowed this to happen and if people feel strongly enough this time around, voice your disapproval by making a submission, as advertised in last week's Sun
Submissions close Friday, so there is still time.
Frank Smead, Mt.Maunganui.