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Jul. 4th, 2005 11:26 pmJust watched the DNZ episode on the Rainbow Warrior, twenty years on. I find it interesting that it screened about the time that National is saying that they would be prepared to discuss our nuclear-free stance in a referendum, when none of the other parties are, in order to further dialogue and relationship with the USA. Didn't learn much new from it, save for some stuff about the yacht that transported the explosives into the country. Learned more from David McTaggert's autobiography, which I have a copy of if anyone wants to borrow it. I have a mild interest in conservation, by which I mean specific birds and places in NZ and the occasional forray into Greenpeace.
The news began with that crazy Maori lady in Gisborne, who has proclaimed herself prime minister and has set Maori police - excuse me, Maori Security Forces, or something like that, to collect rent owing from the beginning of June 2005 from local moteliers. She attempted to sound very gracious about not collecting back rent from earlier.
Understandably, the local iwi are distancing themselves from her (they haven't been introduced to the truth or the true cause) and the Mayor (he's just a Chinaman) disagrees with her position. I don't like seeing racism. And I was disgusted and upset enough after listening to her for a couple of minutes to switch off the TV and leave the room. She sounded worse than Winston Peters (less practiced, perhaps), only anti-everyone but Maori, and even anti some of them.
Such a contrast to a song played at church on Sunday - Dave Dobbyn's Welcome Home. The music video was played as well, and dammit, that's the image of New Zealand I want to have and keep and work towards, one where we are glad we're a multicultural society, we're a place that welcomes people from around the world and makes them our own, people to be proud of! Not some bitch from the East coast seeking media attention in the most disgusting destructive manner possible!
I can't believe someone would come out and do that, act like that, now, after everything that's been done!
The news began with that crazy Maori lady in Gisborne, who has proclaimed herself prime minister and has set Maori police - excuse me, Maori Security Forces, or something like that, to collect rent owing from the beginning of June 2005 from local moteliers. She attempted to sound very gracious about not collecting back rent from earlier.
Understandably, the local iwi are distancing themselves from her (they haven't been introduced to the truth or the true cause) and the Mayor (he's just a Chinaman) disagrees with her position. I don't like seeing racism. And I was disgusted and upset enough after listening to her for a couple of minutes to switch off the TV and leave the room. She sounded worse than Winston Peters (less practiced, perhaps), only anti-everyone but Maori, and even anti some of them.
Such a contrast to a song played at church on Sunday - Dave Dobbyn's Welcome Home. The music video was played as well, and dammit, that's the image of New Zealand I want to have and keep and work towards, one where we are glad we're a multicultural society, we're a place that welcomes people from around the world and makes them our own, people to be proud of! Not some bitch from the East coast seeking media attention in the most disgusting destructive manner possible!
I can't believe someone would come out and do that, act like that, now, after everything that's been done!
