Please allow me to add one more comment to this great cartoon - to try to further illumine the truly tragic fact that Polynesian Maori, the most intellectually advanced, bravest, most adventurous and clever stone-age race in the world, are now labelled the population group most likely to commit crimes in New Zealand. But why?? Professor Elizabeth Rata wrote very recently, "Tribalism and democracy are incompatible. We can't have both. If we wish to keep New Zealand as a liberal democratic nation then, as we derive our citizen rights from the nation-state, so we have a duty to ensure that the nation-state which awards those rights, remains democratic and able to do so".
As my maori mate has said, maori are been dragged back to the maera one way or the other by the blood sucking vampires that have re emerged from the past, even his children have been sucked into this old come new belief, as he said at least they understand that it is all about power for a small number of these blood suckers, unfortunately the majority do not understand that, they think they are saving their culture and rediscovering their lost past, like drug addicts really hard to rehabilitate when emerged with other addicts, expectations are high and getting higher, that is one of the reasons why Luxon is afraid to come out and stamp his belief, he is…
Lovely how one cartoon from a great cartoonist can so easily convey the absurdity of a quite complex concept : Of course a crime committed today can in no circumstances be "caused" by events happening 200 years ago. But why, then, have we such preponderance of Maori criminals today?
But this only began to be the case in the mid-20th century. In the preceding 100 years since colonisation Maori committed no more crimes than any other group of citizens - if anything, they were underrepresented in our prisons.
Historian Michael King emphasises that not until after the war did Maori move into our cities in any great numbers. Until then they participated in our economy from their fir…
Colonisation gave maori something that millions of people around the world crave for every day, FREEDOM and CHOICE, sadly the shit heads including the white ones are using those too magnificent words and ideals to destroy the very belief system that gives them their rights.
A very true cartoon depicting how a few radical PART maori act in their perceived 160 yr old greviences and the chips (logs) they will forever carry on their shoulders.
The fact is that if it wasn't for "colonization" they would still be hoofimg it in their bare feet or in their war canoes and waring with other tribes and butchering each other.
Fortunately most maori are decent law abiding people and embrace equal rights and democracy !!
## However, the present government is hell bent on introducing apartheid and privileging a band of racist and self appointed PART maori radicals to virtually take over New Zealand.
We have to resist and stand up to this nonsense and restore Democracy.
Brilliant Garrick. I laughed, for sure. Particularly the guy in the red T shirt.
You depict 'Maori' with frightening accuracy.
However, the really infuriating thing about your cartoon is the serious side of it.
Many Maori believe it now, and many Europeans too.
They have succumbed to the intense propaganda campaign peddled by activists to win Maori over to the idea of co-governance. i.e. "The poor situation Maori find themselves in is due to colonialism. Co-governance will fix the problem because it will reverse the influence that Europeans have over us."
No one has ever defined what 'reverse the influence of Europeans' means.
The truth of the matter? Activists don't even know what it means. In others words, it's jus…
Well said. There is that small element of radical (usually unemployed) "nohoper's" who will always defy the law and blame everything and anyone except themselves. B.
Andy Espersen :
Please allow me to add one more comment to this great cartoon - to try to further illumine the truly tragic fact that Polynesian Maori, the most intellectually advanced, bravest, most adventurous and clever stone-age race in the world, are now labelled the population group most likely to commit crimes in New Zealand. But why?? Professor Elizabeth Rata wrote very recently, "Tribalism and democracy are incompatible. We can't have both. If we wish to keep New Zealand as a liberal democratic nation then, as we derive our citizen rights from the nation-state, so we have a duty to ensure that the nation-state which awards those rights, remains democratic and able to do so".
But only since the…
Andy Espersen,
Lovely how one cartoon from a great cartoonist can so easily convey the absurdity of a quite complex concept : Of course a crime committed today can in no circumstances be "caused" by events happening 200 years ago. But why, then, have we such preponderance of Maori criminals today?
But this only began to be the case in the mid-20th century. In the preceding 100 years since colonisation Maori committed no more crimes than any other group of citizens - if anything, they were underrepresented in our prisons.
Historian Michael King emphasises that not until after the war did Maori move into our cities in any great numbers. Until then they participated in our economy from their fir…
Colonisation gave maori something that millions of people around the world crave for every day, FREEDOM and CHOICE, sadly the shit heads including the white ones are using those too magnificent words and ideals to destroy the very belief system that gives them their rights.
A very true cartoon depicting how a few radical PART maori act in their perceived 160 yr old greviences and the chips (logs) they will forever carry on their shoulders.
The fact is that if it wasn't for "colonization" they would still be hoofimg it in their bare feet or in their war canoes and waring with other tribes and butchering each other.
Fortunately most maori are decent law abiding people and embrace equal rights and democracy !!
## However, the present government is hell bent on introducing apartheid and privileging a band of racist and self appointed PART maori radicals to virtually take over New Zealand.
We have to resist and stand up to this nonsense and restore Democracy.
Brilliant Garrick. I laughed, for sure. Particularly the guy in the red T shirt.
You depict 'Maori' with frightening accuracy.
However, the really infuriating thing about your cartoon is the serious side of it.
Many Maori believe it now, and many Europeans too.
They have succumbed to the intense propaganda campaign peddled by activists to win Maori over to the idea of co-governance. i.e. "The poor situation Maori find themselves in is due to colonialism. Co-governance will fix the problem because it will reverse the influence that Europeans have over us."
No one has ever defined what 'reverse the influence of Europeans' means.
The truth of the matter? Activists don't even know what it means. In others words, it's jus…