Posts by kmont
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I found the story of Rua Kenana gripping on so many different levels when I was reading it last night. At 12:30.
A bit nuts really to be trying to take that on board at that time of night. Interesting that White Fungus published that before all this happened. I had it sitting around ready to read and bamm, it becomes topical.
According to what I read (and it is not in front of me, and no I will not google it ; ) he was being arrested for selling booze. At the time pakaha could. Maori couldn't. In spite of this and many other things it looks like he was trying to work with the system having been convinced by the rhetoric of "one law for all", he even had a flag up with words to that effect. -
That was just mean Russell. I actually followed that link and then had to have someone else close it for me.
Unfortunately today I really do have nothing better to do. Thank god there is a 40 page print out around here somewhere.....DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINK ABOVE!
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wish Scoop would desist from using this sort of language. This is a serious issue yet it reads like text from a school magazine produced by year-13 students.
Yep, tend to agree with you there. I don't think the "wacky organic farmers" concerned will be giggling and making carrot jokes. I think that even hippies (or business people depending on your angle) get pissed off when separated from their cellphones.
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Well you qualified it by adding "radical" which made more sense.
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I'm sure much of their Maori-bashing is like my Kiwi-bashing, ie they still feel a great deal of connection to the wider pool of Maori. But they're not gonna buy it wholesale, or give away rights to criticize what they don't like.
Which is a lot like bitching about your own family, I can do it but no one else had better try ; )
But don't get in a Treaty discussion with me. It would be long and boring.
I suspect it would be a long and boring discussion as I have the goddamn thing pinned to my bedroom wall.
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Instead of embracing people who sought to live in comfort and success in an increasingly Pakeha world, it spurns them as race traitors.
You are quite full of bold back and white statements. You must have a broad life experience. (I am not trying to start a flame war here just trying to shine a mirror back at you as to how you come across)
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Well, I don't think I will be getting into a Treaty discussion with you. It looks to me like you have made up your mind. I am glad that you were overstating your position because otherwise it would have struck me as willful ignorance. Sound harsh? My point is you don't know what people actually think unless you ask them. Some peoples opinions/feelings are complicated and nuanced, they may not even tell you if you ask (not that I am suggesting that your friends fall into that category).
I am glad that you at least qualified that statement. -
Yeah and I know that nobody died.
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It understandable that locals would think the police checkpoint being set up on the "confiscation line" was deliberately provocative. Given the above, it seems more likely to have been simple ignorance.
There doesn't seem to be any excuse for this. If it is ignorance, it's well, ignorant. If it was deliberately provocative that is really appalling. Possibly the comparison to Parihaka was stretching it but to Rua Kenana maybe not so much.
Clearly, Must. Wait. Until. More. Information. Becomes. Available.
But still the confiscation line FFS, without local maori policemen. What were they thinking? -
I know, I know. I am up to page 10 and printing in stealthy chunks.
"Stealthy Chuncks" could be the name of a band...