12/03/2008: "Part Two -Notes From Down Under"

New Zealand is nuke free. They told our Navy to go home. Now they are almost virtually defenseless. They have almost zero military spending. They passed this “no nuke’ policy in 1989. For the record, San Juan County did it first. I’m not saying that the Kiwis did it because we did, but they might have. I think a small well-armed group of militants could take over this country and sail it to the Philippines or Indonesia.

We visited the small village of Te Puke. We saw signs like, “Loose weight at Te Puke gym”. I know you can get sick from working out and throwing up is one way to loose weight. Or how about “Te Puke Fish and Chips, Takeaways!” Not the best advertising. It is actually pronounced “Tee Pookie”. It just looks wrong when it’s written.

We had an intense day of immersion in the Maori culture. This came as a surprise to us because it was not really mentioned in the tour package. But these people have a history of cannibalism. And their culture is viewed in a most sacred way by the New Zealanders.

The Maori hunted the large Moa bird to extinction. If original peoples do something like this, it is described as a natural act and a result of their inevitable quest for survival. If the white man does it there is no end to the lectures about environmental destruction and disrespect for mother earth.

The tour guides always speak about the natives with a hushed reverence. They used to eat human flesh for crying out loud! And in the tourist show the heavily tattooed Cheiftan really joked about eating us. The women danced around and shouted angrily in our faces until their eyes actually bugged out like Marty Feldman in the Mel Brooks movies. The men poked at us with spears in a most unfriendly and intimidating manner. They stick their tongues out as a way to say “We will eat you now!”

The NZ government is actually paying reparations to the Maori. I wonder if the politicians are afraid of being barbequed? I think it is time to say a few words about multiculturalism. In NZ this phenomenon has overtaken everybody with its insidious political correctness.

If you think rationally, it is obvious that Western Civilization has brought some great advantages to the modern world. The native peoples have admitted this to me today. They want to live in two worlds, to have their cake and eat it to. The Maori Chieftain said, “We must know where we came from to know where we are going”. What does that mean? A little John Lennon is handy here. “Imagine all the people living for today. Hey hey.” Most people living today had absolutely nothing to do with events that happened before they were born. That’s true only if you think rationally.

One interesting thing about this last U.S. election is that, in America, we will no longer have to consider reparations to blacks. As long as history has been recorded in the U.S. blacks have protested and defied the authority of their white European oppressors. They have refused to conform to the white mans society and they have dubbed him “The Man”. Hey, who da man now?