RODNEY HIDE interviews PROF PAUL MOON
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- Feb 16, 2024
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PROF PAUL MOON: Historian and Author: On His Review of The Human Rights Commission's ‘Maranga Mai' Report on ‘The Doctrine of Discovery'
Paul Moon joins Rodney to discuss his review of the Human Rights Commission’s ‘Maranga Mai’ report on ‘The Doctrine of Discovery’.
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You can read Paul's review on ‘The Doctrine of Discovery' here:
Why hasn't Hunt resigned yet?
National - pull finger and force him out.
How have we come to this,what has happened to us when we resort to semantics and he said she said shit written on a peice of paper overrides the nation as the one all be all document we must all abide by??? No.
It's wrong. It's twisted. It's debilitating. It's not fair and not needed. This country is one. Always will be and always shall be, and if anyone tries messing with that medicine of truth then woe betide you. There is no room for apartheid in new Zealand, full fucking stop. Simple as.
Aaron
I see one of the promulgators of "The Doctrine of Discovery" in NZ has just been appointed Vice-Chancellor of The University of Otago.
https://ourarchive.otago.ac.nz/handle/10523/8689
It is well worth reading Prof. Moon's paper in full. It is a devastating critique of the way in which the Human Rights Commission uses an ideological position to advance its agenda. This agenda seems to be fully in line with the position of so called 'critical race theory' with its binary theme of victim and oppressor.
Prof. Moon says (page 12) that the Crown promised Māori ‘the full and undisturbed possession of their Lands and Estates Forests and Fisheries and other properties….’ He extracts this from the English version of the treaty. But the rangatira of 1840 signed the Māori version and today’s revisionists insist that the Māori version is the only legitimate version. That makes no reference at all to Forests and FIsheries. And the Littlewood copy of the English version from which the Māori version was translated omits them too.
Today, promises relating to those two assets have mutated into promises to protect exclusive Māori possession of Everything.
Handily, the new Waitangi Tribunal was instructed by the government of time to take the English…