Comments on: Meet the Candidates, Tukituki http://blog.greens.org.nz/2008/10/10/meet-the-candidates-tukituki/ hopping along the corridors of power Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:55:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: jh http://blog.greens.org.nz/2008/10/10/meet-the-candidates-tukituki/#comment-60130 jh Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:25:27 +0000 http://frog.greens.org.nz/2008/10/10/meet-the-candidates-tukituki/#comment-60130 She wrote : "When Captain Cook left England to <b>conquer</b> new land in the name of the King, he did so with explicit instruction to negotiate with people found in distant lands for the acquisition of land. Captain Cook directly disobeyed this order in Australia, defying the highest human authority of his people, and to this day has not been brought to account. Cook completely disregarded the spiritual laws that had been governing this continent for millennia and set about beginning one of the worst free-for-all land grabs in the history of colonisation." http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0603/S00119.htm As she was one of Nandors advisers this could help explain the radical stance on Treaty issues. She wrote :

“When Captain Cook left England to conquer new land in the name of the King, he did so with explicit instruction to negotiate with people found in distant lands for the acquisition of land. Captain Cook directly disobeyed this order in Australia, defying the highest human authority of his people, and to this day has not been brought to account. Cook completely disregarded the spiritual laws that had been governing this continent for millennia and set about beginning one of the worst free-for-all land grabs in the history of colonisation.”
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0603/S00119.htm

As she was one of Nandors advisers this could help explain the radical stance on Treaty issues.

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