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Originally Posted by Confed999
My opinion, to put it as bluntly as is humanly possible: F**K the UN!
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While I still support the many humanitarian and peacekeeping operations the UN undertakes, they can be a bunch of dickheads at times. We recently had some indigenous affairs idiot here investigating recent legislation which guarantees public ownership of the foreshore and seabed. Some Maori organisations objected to this, claiming that as they were indigenous the foreshore and seabed belonged to them alone. This UN idiot came here, talked to the organisations involved and wrote a report about wholesale land grabs (or should that be seabed grabs) by the current government. His alternative was to place ownership exclusively with Maori in perpetuity, in other words ownership priviledge based on race in perpetuity, or as we call it in this part of the world, Apartheid.
After the report was issued he expressed shock and surprise when told that the vast majority of Maori live in the main cities, own cell phones and work for a living, rather than living off the land in the flax and timber huts in the bush that he imagined after a tour of a tourist centre, complete with Maori in grass skirts.
