I think they're going to have a hard time in the media no matter what they say. It's really very very similar to what Tuhoi are wanting to do in the Ureweras and they were horribly misunderstood as well.
Their intentions may have some merit in theory, but, as history has shown, in reality there are too many radical groups which align to this type of idea to ever make it anything other than a bad look.
They would have been better off sailing under the radar, like many other ethnically-based communes do. The way they're reported, they just come across as pseudo-Nazi white supremacists, which I'm sure they're most upset about.
Just like now anyone trying to create a commune based on traditional Maori values will be painted with the Urewera terrorist brush.
meh - again, I blame the journos.
And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.
- James Dickey, Cherrylog Road.
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