PARIHAKA – THE FACTS For a minority to swindle a majority to the extent that the Treatyists have cheated the rest of us a huge dose of lies, misinformation and indoctrination is necessary to achieve such a fantastic outcome. And, as Hitler and Goebbels so amply proved in the 1930s, the greater the lie, the more likely it is to be believed. Probably the biggest whopper that the Treatyists have used to justify their false position is the Waitangi Tribunal’s 1996 interim Taranaki report, which stated, “The invasion and sacking of Parihaka must rank with the most heinous actions of any government in the last century” (the 1800s) [including Tsarist Russia’s pogroms and Prussia’s brutal and unprovoked wars against Denmark, Austria and France, not forgetting the slavery that lasted for so long in the United States and Brazil]. The Tribunal called it “the holocaust of Taranaki history.” This ignorant and gross distortion of the truth has been repeated by several Treatyists, including Tariana Turia M.P., and a language teacher in New Plymouth, who was described as a “Maori academic” (as they all are), Keri Opai, who backed his ridiculous claim of “holocaust” by citing “the pillaging of Parihaka”. The name of this place is starting to enter the lexicon of the grievance industry in a big way with the Human Rights Commission making the silly statement, “The events that took place in and around Parihaka…..have affected the political, cultural and spiritual dynamics of the entire country.” There have even been calls to have a special national day celebrated as “Parihaka Day” as well as a recent propaganda film called “Tatarakihi”. So, it is time to look at the facts. Fact No. 1 By the time of the Treaty of Waitangi there were only about a hundred and fifty Maoris left in the whole of the Taranaki. Roughly a third of the population had been massacred by invading tribes from the Waikato, around another third had been taken back to the Waikato as slaves, while the remaining third had fled to the Wellington area. Nine hundred members of this last third then invaded the Chatham Islands in 1835 where they killed, ate and all but exterminated the peaceful Moriori who lived there. A hundred or more Moriori women were laid out on the beach and stakes were driven through their bodies, the men being treated similarly. They were then eaten by Taranaki
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