A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.
A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.
Opinion
It seems that this page is used as a vehicle for the nurturing of personal agendas.
If the contributors attempt to convert the majority of the residents in our communities to the ideals of the minorities, isn’t it only natural that there will be resentment and reaction? Generally, a veryunpalatable reaction.
Although our national culture encourages primitive confrontation and intimidation, would it not be better to encourage these minority groups to practise a bit of modesty — instead of shoving their differences into the faces of the majority?
This majority I am talking about are the people who collect the rubbish, keep the water running into our homes, the sewage flowing out, grow our food, fix our roads, tend us when we are ill, fill the supermarket shelves with food etc, etc. The people who pay the taxes that support so many of the extremists and radicals that want our society run their way.
Imagine the horror if someone was to organise a khaki parade that only catered for these worker ants?
A parade that insisted on a certain standard of dress. A strict code of behaviour. I suppose it would be so boring no one would go, unless it involved free KFC.
If we need examples of people who deserve admiration and help, shouldn’t we direct our efforts towards the blind folk, the amputees, people who have real disabilities, people who would have every excuse to complain about their situation yet just get on with their lives and make the most of what they have.
