NO MORE FANTASIES PLEASE - IT IS TIME TO TELL THE TRUTH. It is Article second of the Treaty which perhaps has been most twisted in recent times by racists and revisionists. Yet in essence this article is redundant since all it does is guarantee the right of citizens to own private property - land, dwellings and chattels - and British subjects have these rights anyway. Looking more closely at it, some things stand out. First, the guarantee is made to ALL the people of New Zealand - tangata katoa o Nu Tirani - in clear distinction to Article third which applied only to Maoris - and all means all. The vital point to note before we even look at the meanings of words such as rangatiratanga and taonga is that rights of ownership were guaranteed to all - equality of rights is a fundamental aspect of the Treaty in which we should all rejoice, not make spurious claims based on ancestry or sometimes a very small part of it. Since, in pre-Treaty days, Maori property was only what could be held by force of arms and then only by few people except chiefs, for Maori citizens to own property in their own right, with assurances of permanence and inheritance, was a considerable boon...... Continue reading Bruce Moons well researched blog here > https://sites.google/site/kiwifrontline/blogs/bruce-moon
Posted on: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 08:00:57 +0000
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