Kiwi atrocities brought to light.
If you were in the flight path of the government's chemical warfare - campaign against the painted apple moth, you may be bemused to see that stamps featuring the Mad Spray Girl are now in circulation.

30th June 2005

David Benson-Pope: "terrorist who puts children off attending school."

The Post Office of the Republic of Tarajara has issued a set of four full-colour stamps to call attention to atrocities committed by New Zealand over the years. The stamps are valued at 70 francs; 140 francs; 165 francs; and 270 francs. The 70 franc stamp shows David Benson-Pope, a notorious Kiwi bully. As a schoolmaster, he terrorised his students, and traumatised many, with some students terrified at the thought of having to attend school. One particularly bizarre case was where he wedged a tennis ball into a child's mouth, and then tied his hands down to a desk so he was unable to remove it. He is currently a member of the New Zealand parliament.

Helen Davis : "the mad sprayer of poison on kids."   The 140 franc stamp shows Helen Elizabeth Davies, more commonly known as Helen Clark, a New Zealand politician. The worst atrocity for which she was responsible was to drop poison spray over large areas of civilian residences in the cities of Hamilton and West Auckland. The spray was ostensibly done to kill a harmless moth, and despite scientific evidence that spraying from the air was ineffective and had a harmful effect on humans and animals in the spray zone, Clark continued her campaign over many months. Schools were frequently sprayed during lunch break, seriously harming children.

The 165 franc stamp shows the Samoan High Chief, Tupua Tamasese Lealofi III, leader of the Mau, a Samoan party seeking independence and freedom from the brutal Kiwi invaders, who had conquered Samoa from Germany in 1914. The Mau urged peaceful, non-violent resistance, similar to that urged by Gandhi and Te Whiti. He was shot in the back by a New Zealand policeman on "Black Saturday" (28th December 1929) while leading a peaceful protest march and calling to his followers "Filemu, Samoa! Peace, Samoa!" No kiwis were ever charged over the murder.

The 270 franc stamp shows the SS "Talune", the Kiwi ship that introduced Spanish influenza to Samoa in 1918. As a direct result of New Zealand incompetence, 22% of the Samoan population died in the epidemic, and most of those were buried in mass graves, causing severe offence to Samoan tradition. When the ship arrived at Apia from Europe, the port health officer wanted it to be quarantined, and for no-one to come ashore, but the ship's Kiwi officers concealed the illness aboard, and also concealed the fact that the ship had previously been quarantined in Fiji, so everyone was allowed ashore, introducing the virus to the defenceless population. The kiwis were very negligent after the epidemic took hold, and arrogantly declined an offer of medical aid from nearby American Samoa. In 1928, having learned nothing from the 1918 epidemic, the Kiwis again let a further epidemic break out, via the ship "Maui Pomare", which they did not bother to quarantine.