A nutty editorial in the Christchurch press from a Canterbury University historian.
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Well the statues of the people who have fallen are reminders of the men without whom there would be no city of Christchurch - they were men of vision with the energy to create a city where no city stood before, a city where generations of people have made their homes and earned their livelihoods.
It's nice to know that in the city these men built and which now has suffered a serious setback that there is room for silly women living on comfortable salaries paid by the Government to write tosh filled with meaningless leftoid slogans like this
A natural break from our colonial past
On February 22, the city's founding father, John Robert Godley, director of the Canterbury Association, was shaken off his pedestal after 143 years standing in Cathedral Square. A statue of early provincial superintendent William Rolleston fell backwards off its plinth to lie beheaded by the forces of nature. British imperial adventurer Captain Robert Falcon Scott's likeness was also knocked over and is in need of repair.
These damaged statues are symbolic of the end of a colonial era in Christchurch. In getting back up, regrouping and rebuilding after the earthquakes, it is important to recognise that the city has literally broken free from the past once and for all. February 22 is our postcolonial moment.
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The felled Christchurch works of art evoke images of statues of former leaders such as Saddam Hussein and Josef Stalin being eagerly and emotionally pulled down by societies erasing the old and advancing the new. Some former colonies of the British Empire have removed statues that evoke colonisation. In India, Queen Victoria statues are in storage, while in 1963 Quebec's Front de Liberation du Quebec blew the head off a Queen Victoria statue, making clear its desire to break from the past. The statue, head still detached, is now displayed in a museum.
Well the statues of the people who have fallen are reminders of the men without whom there would be no city of Christchurch - they were men of vision with the energy to create a city where no city stood before, a city where generations of people have made their homes and earned their livelihoods.
It's nice to know that in the city these men built and which now has suffered a serious setback that there is room for silly women living on comfortable salaries paid by the Government to write tosh filled with meaningless leftoid slogans like this
The February 22 earthquake is Christchurch's postcolonial moment. It's time to break freeBreak free from what may I ask?