Even in this day and age, you come across people in Aotearoa with zero understanding and respect for the role that the Maori have played in defending their country. Hell, you come across with people with no respect for Maori, period.
In recent years, many of these people have found themselves within the senior ranks of the National Front. One such person is their Hamilton representative, Troy Cullinane.
Again we have some uncomfortable questions for the National Front regarding their allegiance to Nazism. Kyle Chapman will probably say that Cullinane doesn’t really have anything to do with the NF, he’s just a hanger-on. Well, we all remember this photo:
That is Cullinane on the left holding the NF banner opposite his Fuhrer, Kyle Chapman. He must be a very important NF personage to have such a prominent spot in the photo shoot — and Kyle certainly can’t pretend Cullinane snuck in to the photo without his leader’s knowledge.
Cullinane is one of the top Maori bashers in the NF and by using that term I do not imply that he would ever stand a chance if he went toe-to-toe with Hemi or Rangi from Rotorua, but that he loves to “bash” Maori cultural symbols. After all, an inanimate sculpture isn’t going to hit you back.
Even so, in typical skinhead fashion, Troy and his mates still ganged up on it four to one:
Carving folly ends in jail
28.02.2004
A judge has described an attack on a Maori carving at the Waikato Institute of Technology campus in Hamilton last August as “disturbing in the extreme” as the carving was without question a Maori symbol with great significance.
Mark McRae, 23, Troy Cullinane, 18, Karl Emslie, 23, and Adrian Owens, 32, all of Hamilton, pleaded guilty in the Hamilton District Court to wilful damage and behaving in a disorderly manner likely to cause violence.
All four were ordered to pay $2500 in reparation towards the $10,000 to $15,000 repair costs.
Owens was sentenced to six months’ jail because of his age and previous convictions. McRae and Emslie got 250 hours of community work, and Cullinane 200 hours.
After pulling a stunt like this, it’s a wonder any of these boys are still walking upright.
Maori opposed Nazis as ANZACs
A tale from when New Zealanders fought the original Nazis:
With the night came confirmation that they were indeed surrounded by Rommel: “We were told the attack would come with dawn.”
The Maori Battalion got together. They decided to strike Rommel’s soldiers first. They got their weapons ready. Worked out their plan. Chino and his fellow soldiers stalked up to the German lines.
“We did the Maori Haka [a Maori war dance]. Ka mate! Ka Mate!” The Battalion all chanted in unison. The sound was electrifying, Chino said. It carried on the desert night air. Chino felt the pride of his homeland. The boy became brave.
“Ka Mate, Ka Mate!. We were all doing the war cry. It gave us courage and it scared the Germans. They didn’t like it. And we fought to survive.”
Chino and the Maori Battalion broke through he Panzer lines. They cut an opening for all the Battalion’s trucks and guns. They were surrounded no more.
Of course, the 28th Maori Battalion eventually wound up hounding Rommel out of Africa with some of the most spectacular feats of bravery and warfare cunning. Acts which have been (and will continue to be) mirrored in spirit by the anti-fascist heroes of the shaky isles in their current campaign against the Nazis of today.
It is also rather pertinent to note at this point that many Kiwi white supremacists seem to forget the fact that roughly a third of the people still “defending New Zealand” in the Armed Forces are Maori. This simple yet eloquent tribute from a New Zealand schoolboy best sums up the spirit of the Maori in times of conflict:
The Maori Battalion was held in high regard by both their fellow Allied soldiers and the enemy they faced. Their prowess was acknowledged by allies and enemies alike. A fellow NZ soldier was heard to say of them : “I’d rather fight the German’s any day than have to clash with the Maori.” The Maori often used very dangerous but very unexpected tactics and despite the fact that some people may have looked down on them for being a “lesser” race, it would have been hard to query their enthusiasm or bravery. The Maori Battalion had a horrendous number of casualties, yet this was not because they were bad fighters. They simply gave everything they had, and so they were admired and feared by most.
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