TN - Intersting take on my country and it’s people (I’ve been UK based for 11 years now but was back in late 2009 to see family). The real turning point in my mind was the arrival of the Lange Govt in 1984 with his cadre of hard core Vietnam War protesting, Green Peace loving hippies of which Helen Clark was a leading memeber. Labour made no secret that they would refuse to accept USN ship visits and they lied to Schultz and Reagan about what they were going to do. I joined the NZ MoD in 1986 and spent the next 13 years observing first hand the shocking damage Lange and co’s handiwork did to our defence force and relationships with our ANZUS partners. Militarily we have never recovered and never will.
Add to that the even more crazy decision to place a legal interpretation and status on the Treaty of Waitangi and volia you have a recipe for racial division and acrimony which now boils just below the surface. New Zealand is appallingly PC and as I was leaving the MoD in 1999 we were being forced and threatened to take cultural awareness courses. That was a final straw. I don’t disagree with your observations about Liberal tendencies and bias fed by junk news & entertainment sources. Indoctrination is nearly complete care of the education system with kids including my nieces and nephews happliy and ignorantly spouting PC/Liberal crap. It isn’t the country I grew up in and frankly it is lost for good.
I still enjoy holidaying there though :-).
It isn’t the country I grew up in and frankly it is lost for good.
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Nor the one I grew up in during 1950-60s
you mentioned the anti-Vietnam crowd..
In 1968 or there abouts some protesters pushed some coffins for miles down a NZ highway..(I think it was in Canterbury..
there were 28 coffins, one for each NZer who had died in Vietnam at that time...
The families of the dead soldiers didnt ask them to, they just did it...
At the time i was appalled...
I had 4 cousins in Vietnam and my brother was in the NZ Navy patroling the China Sea..and I had girl cousins in the NZ Air Force based in NZ...
I keep calling Helen “Potter” but her name was Clark wasnt it ???
When I saw her in Lyttleton I felt she was a weak leader, a puppet..She read of a greeting in Maori to us and every time she said a word that I had never heard before, a word that sounded like a certain 4 letter curse word, the Maoris standing near us would giggle amd laugh hysterically...She repeeated it several times and she had to have heard their response...I was embarrassed for her...she was obviously set up...the PC idiot...
The Maori I learnt in school was not the Maori she was speaking...
HORRIFICALLY DREADFUL. HOWEVER . . .
HOPE IN GOD.
HE HAS A THOROUGH HOUSE CLEANING RIGHT ON THE NEAR HORIZON.
The final sweep will be the literal Armageddon.