Michael Laws accused of bullying children

[Skyryder]

Have you ever listened to Willie Jackson & his idiot brown mate on the other talk back show? sounds familiar.
Also, why is Whakatane pronounced Fucker Tarny? Yet a Whaka isint pronounced Fucker?

Good point and oddly enough I tend to agree with Laws on the H thing. I once made the mistake of useing the correct pronounciation for lake Wakatipu as a teen ager with two Maoris I use to work with. Cunts laughed at me so now I do not even try. It's 'wakatane' as far as I'm concerned. How little things make a big impression.

As for Jackson and his mate..................only on the odd occasion. Those two simply just take the piss out of each other and those that call in take these two way too seriously. On their own they can make the odd valid point but as a team they 'deliberatly' act like buffoons to enterain a like mind.

Skyryder

[Skyryder]

During or after he ran rings around him? Laws was discussing concepts Sainsbury was even aware of and every time Sainsbury tried to paint him into a corner Laws quite rightly brought it back on topic.

Yes he did and that is what makes Laws such an arshole. There is no need for him to be so rude but he is so much in love with with his own intellect he can not help himself.

Skyryder

[Skyryder]

I mean, its our duty to teach Maori how to spell their own language seeing as they didnt seem to have a written language until european arrived.

Yes and I'm still waiting for an official thank you from Maori for my culture giving them one.


Skyryder

[MSTRS:Me]

Not going to get one.
Anyway, who gives a ... how Maori words are spelt. It's how they are pronounced that matters. And different areas say them differently. Just like regional dialects/accents all over the world. Funny, that.

[ManDownUnder]

So let me get this right...

Yes he did

Point 1... you agree with me

...that is what makes Laws such an arshole.

Point 2 - You call him an arsehole, in his absence I note - not giving him any right of reply...

There is no need for him to be so rude

... then you tell him not to be rude

[ManDownUnder]

Not going to get one.
Anyway, who gives a ... how Maori words are spelt. It's how they are pronounced that matters. And different areas say them differently. Just like regional dialects/accents all over the world. Funny, that.

BINGO!!!!!!!!!

LOL they're spelled the traditional Maori way!. Y'know... as the ancients did.

[MSTRS:Me]

BINGO!!!!!!!!!

LOL they're spelled the traditional Maori way!. Y'know... as the ancients did.

And written down using the traditional stylus. You know, the Bic that used to belong to someone else....

[Indiana_Jones]

Seems to me that getting kids "involved" in democratic society at an early age can only be positive.

True.

But they also have to learn that most people will not agree with them and tell them to get fucked lol.

Met a few people who have only just learnt this in life and has made them rather bitter.

-Indy

[Robert Taylor]

I'd accuse Michael Laws of being an intelligent man that speaks his mind.

Love him or loathe him - you have to respect someone willing to stand up for he thinks. The fact he's not exactly PC helps too!

Exactly, Ive always thought he is a weazel. But Youve got to admire his guts even though his application goes for the jugular. That school principal was manipulating those kids and he has got ''lefty'' written all over him. Loathsome character.
I have to say I agree with Michael Laws and I hope other district councils take the lead of making it hard for gangs and their filthy activities.

[SS90]

Exactly, Ive always thought he is a weazel. But Youve got to admire his guts even though his application goes for the jugular. That school principal was manipulating those kids and he has got ''lefty'' written all over him. Loathsome character.
I have to say I agree with Michael Laws and I hope other district councils take the lead of making it hard for gangs and their filthy activities.

I don't think I would go as far as to label him a "weasel", but that is a matter of opinion really.

I too admire his guts both on this standpoint, as well as the gangpatch situation.

Just think about how difficult it will be for Michael Laws to live it that town now, in a world where it is CRITICAL to CONFORM (particularly in politics, and especially a situation where you are standing up to the dangerous black hole that is RACIAL HARMONY in NZ) Michael Laws is daring to stand his ground, and represent the RATE PAYERS OF THE TOWN FOR WHICH HE HAS BEEN ELECTED (TWICE).

Isn't that what he is paid to do?

Also, he is also standing his ground on the spelling thing, because it will cost the ratepayers MILLIONS to change the spelling of the town (just think about it)

Do I think Maoridom like Michael Laws in the slightest, no, but if you think about it, he is acting for the benefit of the ratepayers who elected him.

He is actually doing his job.

W.W.P.H.D.?
(What would Paul Holmes do?)

[JimO]

He coulda make you all real happy and just given them a right old smacking

if they were maori kids their parents will probably beat them to death anyway

[merv]

Anyway, the Teaty had us agree to having a bi-cultural society. That being the case, isn't there a case then for bi-lingual signage.

If the white people call the place Wanganui and the brown people call it Fonganui (Whanganui) then why not write the two names on signs. How dare the brown fellahs have our version taken from us!

[SS90]

I think the best point is simply to state the facts (as others have)

Maori did not have a written language (or guns, or Harley's, or Tabacco, or playstation,or Toyota skylines,or "P",or Beer) before us "honkys" cursed them with it.

How did the Maori's SAY (not spell) "the town who's name we shall not spell" 200 years ago?

Fuck knows.

Can't we all just get along without the need for pity (expensive) arguments?

Those kids that wrote the letter (because OF COURSE it was was THEIR idea)...NOT their headmasters aye!

I am all for Maoridom keeping their culture, just as New Zealand European keep theirs.

Both can exsist in harmony, the only reason this made the news was because it stirs up debate.

The bloody kids can't even drive for 5 more years, or vote for 9, so I say FUCK em........ they are only going to be on the dole anyway if they study nothing but Teo Reo Maori (maybe they can be Mai time presenters,or teach the language to the next generation), which is cool, but how does making a living off the taxpayer contribute to the good of a nation as a whole?

From what I see, this School they go to is teaching these kids to be complaining elitest misinformed "radicals"

Don't think that was in "the treaty"

What about addressing the REAL needs of Maoridom (poverty,lack of education drug addiction etc)

Not writing ill informed letters to a mayor of a town they don't live in. In a language he doesn't understand.

It is about as rellevent as a letter from an 80 year old Vietnamese prostitute.

Kids.....write a letter to the "Headhunters" and ask them to stop giving honest Maoris a bad name. That would be worth the effort in my book.

[Trouser]

After seeing the contents of the letter from 'the kids' I think Mr Laws was quite reserved in his reply. Good on him.

[scrivy]

My Surname is always pronounced wrong. Scrivener - Schrivener, Screwvinor, Scribenor, etc. etc....
I'm off to write an ill informed letter to the perpertrators of such a deed!!
Fuckers!!
Oh, and I'll use the race card too.

Might even try and get people educated into the correct way to say it......