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To: pheilman_ who wrote (4608)	5/5/2002 9:27:30 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 12231

Actually Paul, it wasn't good [in the Maori instance anyway] that Maoris got sick and died from European diseases and conflict using British muskets against their enemy Maoris. The British didn't take NZ over by conquest. It was by buying land, trading, hiring Maoris to supply things and work, intermarriage and laying bait. It would have been much better for British immigrants for Maoris to not have suffered the losses. There was no shortage of the need for people to work in the rapidly developing cities and farms of New Zealand. Some tribes who didn't sign the treaty were taken over anyway [which was a rough and ready democratic process really because most Maori chiefs agreed that they become British subjects]. Now, Maoris get special access to CDMA spectrum, which seems unreasonable to me, but that's what's been agreed. They get special this, that and the other too. I don't like being a second class citizen. I hope they don't make us sit at the back of buses and work on their farms for only food and a bunk. Mqurice

To: pheilman_ who wrote (4608)	5/6/2002 2:27:07 PM
From: Neeka	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12231

Dear pheilman, Here is a critique of a great book. Although dissimilar in that it is chemical and nuclear pollution that undermines civilization, it non the less illustrates what our future as a species could become in a most depressing synopsis. IMO it is science fiction at it's finest, and is considered just that by this reader. Elsewhere reviewer Ruth Cosstick wrote: This is an important book containing direct warning against the misuse of the environmental and human resources at the disposal of today's culture. I think that she would say the same about CDNA/CDMA chips under our skull, with cochlear implants and retina scans with electronic brain stimulation. M endeavor.med.nyu.edu