Letters to the editor: "Allegiance to NZ, not the Queen"

Submitted by LJ Holden on 12 January, 2013 - 09:38

Another one missed from Monday:-

As soon as I read Verity Johnson's Opinion article about the monarchy, I knew she would receive sever criticism for her views. And she certainly got some.
As a 75-year-old New Zealand-born citizen, I offer my support to her and to all those other young New Zealanders who can see no good reason we should be compelled to offer allegiance to a foreign person and system.

Now that we receive many immigrants from many countries with no British background, requiring them to swear allegiance to the British Crown seems ridiculous.

Some years ago, I was nominated to become a justice of the peace. I acquire the necessary six testimonials but on learning that to become a JP I would be required to swear an oath of allegiance to the Queen and to all her successors, I let the matter drop.

I have tolked to the Queen on a couple of occaisions but, while I found her a charming person, the thought of offering my everlasting loyalty and allegiance to her and her successors is objectionable and unnecessary.

I am a New Zealand and am willing to swear an oath only to the people and to the New Zealand state.

John Course, Waikaretu.

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Submitted by Anonymous on 12 January, 2013 - 20:12.
NZ outranks the U.S.A in human freedom, so much for your republican dream.
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Submitted by Anonymous on 13 January, 2013 - 07:37.
How refreshing to find someone with sufficient confidence to post under their proper name. If nothing else it tends to give more credence to the contributor's claims. Now should this message make it past the spam (read censorship)process - with which it was afflicted recently - congratulations John Course, I couldn't agree more with what you say. Unfortunately, by any measure the majority of Kiwis don't. The rush back to some of our old colonial traditions continues unabated. Not however on account of any instinctive reflex to tug the forelock, but rather to our gnawing feeling of insecurity - we suffer from a full-blown dose of "post-colonial blues". I fear that at the present rate it will take at least another couple of generations for this to run its course, and even then it'll take Australia to lead us. I'm well aware that this view may be panned as heresy and accordingly it may sink without trace but what the hell, this is what robust debate is all about. So let's see what happens. Here goes - Best regards, Ed Dwyer
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Submitted by LJ Holden on 13 January, 2013 - 08:26.
Not sure how that particular index disproves anything we've said on this website. Once again a survey shows New Zealand is a free country - where's the evidence to show this has anything to do with the monarchy?
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