Sidestep - It's all subjective
I finally got around to listening to some debate about our earlier dig location that resulted from the RNZ article earlier in the year, by 'instant gratification girl' that occured after the 'leak' of the site she thought she had so cleverly stumbled upon.
I am not one who is much interested, as an individual, of what others opinions are; either for or against, because those opinions have no bearing or influence on what we do. The reason I comment now, is simply that it seemed timely to do so. What I mean by that, is that people being either for or against us does not change what we do, or how, or when we do it. Particularly when Dr Dentith (in that interview), words things in a way to suggest we belong to a white pre-inhabitant theory group, have an anti-maori stance, or that we believe there is a government cover-up. Those suggestions (by deliberate and careful assertion into the discussion) suggest that we believe those things. But Dr Denith (a leading scholar in conspiracy theory and working on secrecy; disinformation; & fake news), is as cunning as any deceitful journalist. He plants ideas in people's minds by adding untruths into truth and thereby suggests you believe it all as one. There were some in Germany that did that with great effect once. But that's ok, we regard him probably the same way he regards us... slightly odd and amateurish. He said he was disturbed by what we do. If we reference the word 'disturbed' then see his photo below. You can make your own mind up. But I am disturbed by his attempts to link us to extremism. Only a certain type of person can do so that so callously and deliberately.
What we search for are not white pre-inhabitants, but Melanesian or possibly from further north such as the Paiwan. All this is clearly set out in posts as far back as 4 years ago!
We are not anti-Maori. In fact, over 20% of our various helpers at various sites are Maori.
We are not suggesting a government cover-up either, because they do not know of what has been covered up, only those locally involved do. Brigid Gallagher nor the Iwi monitor never reported to the government of what they found in Tauranga... it was simply hidden away. Most officials know nothing of those bones and others found and covered up, such as the example above in Tauranga in 2008 and that one we openly mentioned in a previous article.
Therefore, Dr Dentiths argument, apart from being selfishly manipulative, is rather ignorant of many facts he could have learned had he bothered to actually read what he 'claims to have read' after following our blog for the last '18 months' - as he suggests he has. Dentith then, goes on to mention that there are two things... The first is that all of this may be just a funny little story (and then proceeds to link it to extremists by mentioning the mosque shootings. What a deceptive and vindictive little man he must be to try to do that!) Yet the second point is never mentioned because then and there he lost his train of thought - by the distraction of his left-wing views. That made it clear to many people about who he was and his type of thinking, just as it did to me when I finally had an opportunity to hear it. That said, we are all entitled to our opinion, and is he. He has a PhD in the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence. Below is his University staff profile picture.
Dr Dentith
Back on the side of normal, we have Jesse Mulligan from Radio NZ. He did not pigeonhole us, nor anyone else. He had a more open mind and demonstrated professionalism in his dealing with this story. He suggested we may simply be a group of interested amateurs. Jesse is a questioning man; something one would expected of a real journalist unlike a biased one; such as Susan Strongman aka 'instant gratification girl'. When confronted with the suggestion that the bone we said was human was actually a moa bone, Jesse commented that the 'expert' opponents of what we do would say it was a Moa bone; for all the obvious reasons. He will get a scoop in time.
Anyway, here is a thought. What if we are, in fact, just a group of men and women of different racial backgrounds and ages in tinfoil hats, digging holes in the hills? If we are wrong - we are wrong.
What if we were already right?
ps - Over the years we have had forwarded to us various articles, transcripts and notices direct from a number of Marae, all stating a pre-Maori race existed, and referring to bones and artifacts that were not recognised or even previously known to Maori. This is all from Maori themselves, and some of it fairly recently...
pps - eventually I will delete this photo above. When you see it in your post list it's just too creepy. Sorry, but it is.
