5/5/2004: Maori warrior protests

Undertoad · 05-05-2004, 12:54 PM

The guy's name is Tama Iti, and he's challenging officials yesterday at Parliament grounds in New Zealand, along with 10,000 or so other protestors. About 50 of them were dressed like him, in flax skirts and carrying spears.

Their beef: they're Maori warriors. They stake claim to some of the shoreline that the government is proposing should simply be public coast.

wolf · 05-05-2004, 12:56 PM

Are they trying to build a casino or something?

lumberjim · 05-05-2004, 01:04 PM

i think i could take him.

MachineyBear · 05-05-2004, 02:00 PM

The people around him sure don't seem to be scared of a modern-day warrior.

jdbutler · 05-05-2004, 02:08 PM

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Originally posted by MachineyBear
The people around him sure don't seem to be scared of a modern-day warrior.

That's because he brought a spear to a probable gun-fight.

jaguar · 05-05-2004, 02:14 PM

This is New-Zealand. They disbanded their army, probably due to boredom.

glatt · 05-05-2004, 02:15 PM

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Originally posted by jdbutler

That's because he brought a spear to a probable gun-fight.

"Secret Service" type guy on the right is most certainly ready to react with an appropriate level of force if need be.

I wonder where this coastland is exactly. So much of New Zealand is undeveloped coastline. It's everywhere.

lumberjim · 05-05-2004, 02:28 PM

history lesson about the maori

chrisinhouston · 05-05-2004, 03:32 PM

At the website Lumberjim posted the link to:

"For clothing, they harvested a fairly broad-leaved ground plant called flax, thinned the leaves and made fabrics and ropes from the fibres. They augmented their clothing with the skins of dogs, and hundreds, sometimes thousands, of birds feathers,"

"Men needed to be dressed in a short beard at the chin, hair done in a topknot, and a string from waist to penis. "

String? OUCH!

"There was no shortage of food - birds, insects, grubs, bats, rats, dogs, eels, fish, mussels, berries, pollen, cabbage tree roots, nikau shoots, watercress, fungi and even earthworms."

Oh, an early version of Atkins!

"Including, at one time, the now vanished Moa, a large flightless bird"

I think this is a picture of it!

Leah · 05-05-2004, 04:59 PM

Gosh, what a stunner he is. I know a few people just like him in real life, scary.

05-05-2004, 05:09 PM

And the world just yawns...

Skunks · 05-05-2004, 06:21 PM

What's the story on the hand gestures most of the guys behind him are doing?

lumberjim · 05-05-2004, 06:24 PM

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Originally posted by Skunks
What's the story on the hand gestures most of the guys behind him are doing?

the hand signals are a very old and secret signal.....it means, " i'm leaning on my cane"

Skunks · 05-05-2004, 06:53 PM

Fair enough. But why are they all doing it the same way?

lumberjim · 05-05-2004, 07:01 PM

they're not. two of them are left hand on top, one is right hand on top. this is how you stand when you have a cane, and you're watching a maori try to look like mike singletary.

05-05-2004, 12:54 PM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	5/5/2004: Maori warrior protests The guy's name is Tama Iti, and he's challenging officials yesterday at Parliament grounds in New Zealand, along with 10,000 or so other protestors. About 50 of them were dressed like him, in flax skirts and carrying spears. Their beef: they're Maori warriors. They stake claim to some of the shoreline that the government is proposing should simply be public coast.

05-05-2004, 12:56 PM	#2
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Are they trying to build a casino or something? __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

05-05-2004, 01:04 PM	#3
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	i think i could take him. __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

05-05-2004, 02:14 PM	#6
jaguar whig Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 5,075	This is New-Zealand. They disbanded their army, probably due to boredom. __________________ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Twain

05-05-2004, 02:28 PM	#8
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	history lesson about the maori __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

05-05-2004, 02:00 PM	#4
MachineyBear Romantic Necromancer Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 29	The people around him sure don't seem to be scared of a modern-day warrior.

05-05-2004, 03:32 PM	#9
chrisinhouston Professor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Houston TX Posts: 1,857	At the website Lumberjim posted the link to: "For clothing, they harvested a fairly broad-leaved ground plant called flax, thinned the leaves and made fabrics and ropes from the fibres. They augmented their clothing with the skins of dogs, and hundreds, sometimes thousands, of birds feathers," "Men needed to be dressed in a short beard at the chin, hair done in a topknot, and a string from waist to penis. " String? OUCH! "There was no shortage of food - birds, insects, grubs, bats, rats, dogs, eels, fish, mussels, berries, pollen, cabbage tree roots, nikau shoots, watercress, fungi and even earthworms." Oh, an early version of Atkins! "Including, at one time, the now vanished Moa, a large flightless bird" I think this is a picture of it! Attached Images

05-05-2004, 04:59 PM	#10
Leah Love my Heffalumps Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Sydney, Australia (best place in the world) Posts: 346	Gosh, what a stunner he is. I know a few people just like him in real life, scary.

05-05-2004, 05:09 PM	#11
davepen Guest Posts: n/a	And the world just yawns...

05-05-2004, 06:21 PM	#12
Skunks I thought I changed this. Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: western nowhere, ny Posts: 412	What's the story on the hand gestures most of the guys behind him are doing?

05-05-2004, 06:53 PM	#14
Skunks I thought I changed this. Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: western nowhere, ny Posts: 412	Fair enough. But why are they all doing it the same way?

05-05-2004, 07:01 PM	#15
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	they're not. two of them are left hand on top, one is right hand on top. this is how you stand when you have a cane, and you're watching a maori try to look like mike singletary. __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

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