What, like the French meddling in the affairs of the Kanak people? Or blowing up Polynesian atolls? Or killing thousands of Algerians?

Have a nice day.

Err, unless you have proof New Zealand did anything. Seriously, I can’t find anything that says New Zealand was involved in any international reports or newspapers. Not even a jot in Le Monde Diplomatique. How strange.

Don’t give me this “the truth is out there” line. The truth is New Zealand had virtually no involvement in New Caledonia’s independence movement.

I’m sorry if my post shocked you but I guess it’s also because I was too elusive. It’s true I said that if you “rooted around” you might find out what I was talking about but after trying to do so myself on the Internet I came to the conclusion that it’s just “not there”.

The “it” refers to NZ’s implication in inciting the Kanak people from New Caledonia to rebel against French authority. If you don’t remember it there were very troubled times there in the 80s.

I’m not going to argue about whether the Kanak people were justified in rebelling or not, that’s not my point.
My point remains that a state shouldn’t meddle in another state’s business. They all do of course but if you think the Rainbow Warrior business was wrong (and it absolutely, totally WAS, and the agents should certainly have been punished more harshly, though not as harshly as their superiors and particularly the politicians in charge at the time) well then you will agree that NZ shouldn’t have incited people to “take up arms” in the 80s.

Still doesn’t compare ? well if you do need dead people for something to be important, you will find ample information about that on the web : people got killed by the French police and by independence fighters.

Final point : how do I know ? I know because my dad was a local reporter there at the time and he nearly got killed… I guess that’s also why I’m a bit emotional about it. You don’t have to believe me but I believe him.

I’ll understand that my answer lacks actual evidence but as I have none to offer but my word if you don’t believe me please don’t answer this post. Unless you have proof NZ never did anything wrong…

We live in a world that’s both beautiful and messy. Let’s try and make it better. Let’s talk and not fight.

Have a nice day !

The French did do us a great service with the Rainbow Warrior affair though. They proved we’ve got nothing to worry about when it comes to the DGSE – your agents are so incompetent they were caught by forestry workers in Northland. They thought they could trick the car rental people by saying they we’re Swiss… sadly the counter girl had lived in Switzerland and knew their French wasn’t with a Swiss accent. DGSE = amateurs.