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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.

Re: An overheated pot . . . June 6 letter.

Very good Norman. This is of course your opinion, and you are entitled to it. And I commend you on your reporting accuracy, though you have cheekily taken some comments out of context.

That Aimee is on your side, though, gives me comfort I will be found on the right side of history.

So, to answer some of your queries . . .

1. At the following link (again – you could have read this the first time) is an insightful piece from a long-standing and distinguished Professor in one of our universities. It highlights the collapse of our society as a free and open one.

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https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/04/grant-schofield-falling-out-of-love.html

2.The NZ history fabrication, the passing of Mātauranga Māori as science, filling children with climate speculation fear.

https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/don-brash-the-new-history-curriculum-it-s-crap

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3. Albert Park, 26 Mar 2023.

4. Dame Jacinda, 4 Sep 2020.

5. The social contract was broken by locking down healthy people, locking kids out of school, mandating people from their jobs; you clearly forget the bungling over PPE, vaccines, MIQ, ICU etc, and I recall the rest of the world being bemused at our hermit kingdom while they were getting on with life.

As I had stated, the indoctrination at our universities has been ongoing for a couple of decades, so is not directly attributable to this Govt. However, the societal thought-control and resultant breakdown and division of society over the past three years is all theirs.

Hope that satisfies you Norman, though I suspect it won’t.

Btw, would you care to comment on Michael Wood’s latest deceit? Just the last in a very long line of poor behaviour by Labour Govt ministers.

Iain Boyle

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