Sir Apirana Ngata
Sir Apirana Ngata wrote his explanation of the Maori version of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1922, when he was an MP. That was in the days before activists started re-inventing the treaty. The booklet was published and distributed to all Maori families. You can read it below.
Business and property owners have no rights. Their female patrons have no rights. Girls as young as 13, who are now forced to be nude in front of grown men, have no rights. Only they/them have rights.
After 67 years of totalitarian tyranny, the island nation approaches liberation day.
We think there are literally malignant ghosts in the machines.
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