| # | Name | Comments |
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| 251 | Rox | |
| 252 | Samantha Trenoweth | |
| 253 | Cole Paige | |
| 254 | Valerie Grogan | |
| 255 | Lobsang Jenpa | |
| 256 | christine beveridge | |
| 257 | Gianna Colombo | I strongly agree and share Tibetan people's feelings |
| 258 | Leona Kieran | |
| 259 | Roy Fraser | Please Helen. Remember your roots. There are more important things than money. I'm sure you can be skillfull and make the point without damaging the signing of the agreement. But not to mention it in the stongest possible terms would be criminal. And I mean that. It would be a crime against humanity. What is happening in Tibet is much worse than Zimbabia. Please help. |
| 260 | Sandra Dempster | |
| 261 | Anonymous | Dear Helen,
it is New Zealand's duty as a bastion of freedom and fairness in our world to stand firm on the issue of Tibet. A free trade agreement may be a stake but this should never over shadow the legacy of New Zealand's contribution to human rights. Your term as leader and New Zealand reputation is on the line - please make the right decision!
Thank you |
| 262 | tashi | |
| 263 | Linda Gillison | Tibet deserves respect and our support. Please do not contribute to the destruction of a culture and it's people. |
| 264 | Anonymous | |
| 265 | nancy humphrey | the genocide of the Tibetan Culture by the Chinese culture is deplorable, and only by your help to insure the recognition of the dignity and rights of the Tibetan people can this situation be changed.
Please help to change this situation now. |
| 266 | Rachel Humphrey | |
| 267 | jennifer glick | |
| 268 | scott walker | boycott the olympics |
| 269 | Anonymous | Dear Prime Minister
How would you like best to be remembered? As someone who stood up upheld Human Rights or as someone who felt it more important to balance the books, not their conscience? |
| 270 | karma walsh | Kindness before cruelty ,loyalty to humanbeings before marriage to the Chinese government.These beautiful people , the Tibetans deserve to be given help to restore their lives and their freedom. |
| 271 | Rachel Wease | Please make a stand for what is right, protect human's right around the worl. You have the power to make a change. That's why your prime minister. |
| 272 | Erin Polaczuk | Trade should never come before basic human rights. We cannot ignore China's treatment of its own people or those in a county it occupies, simply to improve our own economy. Please listen to the people of NZ. |
| 273 | Anonymous | NZ Economy should not be boosted at the cost of NZ conscience. |
| 274 | teariki piri | free tibet |
| 275 | Caylin Huttar | |
| 276 | Aaron Packard | We need your leadership on this! |
| 277 | Jane Fisher | |
| 278 | Sam Thompson | |
| 279 | Kellsie Hill | |
| 280 | Deb Anthony | |
| 281 | Deb Anthony | |
| 282 | Anne Manchester | |
| 283 | Anonymous | |
| 284 | Anonymous | Stand up for what is right and humanitarian, not what is economically politically advantageous. China is demonstrating the basest of human behaviour, it is up to the world to take the high moral gound. |
| 285 | Linda Stopforth | Having travelled in Tibet I have seen the conditions and fear Tibetans live in. All peoples have a right to be able to express themselves freely and worship freely.
Tibetan culture is being extinguished by the Chinese in the name of 'assimilation'. If anyone can understand the problems that causes it's New Zealand.
Countries like New Zealand need to stand up to the Chinese and register our disapproval and disgust with the way the Chinese government is acting towards other peoples.
We've protested on the world stage about nuclear weapons and apartheid. We can do the same again for the rights of the people of Tibet. |
| 286 | Anonymous | |
| 287 | Kenneth Russell | I support the letter to the Prime Minister sent this week by Rev Brian Turner, President of the Methodist Church of New Zealand, and expressing similar sentiments to those in the above petition. |
| 288 | Emily Webster | |
| 289 | Carolyn Enting | |
| 290 | Christine Todd | I support the right of all peoples to be self determining. Chinese persecution of the Tibetans is wrong. We can't credibly claim to honour biculturalism and human rights in New Zealand if we implicitly support this kind of behaviour overseas. We need to have more integrity and speak out! If the NZ Government is really interested in the wellbeing of New Zealanders then value and cultivate a national pride of social justice and world peace and not just economic prosperity. |
| 291 | Jane Young | New Zealand has a proud record of standing up to the big guys when it comes to ethical issues. Morality should come before trade. |
| 292 | Bruce Stuart-Menteath | An Olympics Games in China will be obscene and grossly immoral and should be boycotted. It has become just another commercial exploitation of humanity. |
| 293 | sonam tsering | |
| 294 | Bera MacClement | I am deeply ashamed of New Zealand for being the first country to sign a free trade agreement with China, while the human rights situation in that country is so appallingly bad. The steps suggested above would help to mitigate this disgrace. |
| 295 | Alistair McKee | Like West Papua, Tibet is exploited by metropolitan powers for natural resources, and is reportedly insulted further by ethnic chauvinism, cruel human rights abuses and political repression. New Zealand ought to stand up for basic human rights in all its foreign dealings, saying "That's what friends are for".
Kia Ora. |
| 296 | Jessie Litven | |
| 297 | Stephanie McKee | Human Rights for all! |
| 298 | Barry Clark | + it really does NZ no credit that at the time of China's most gruesome human rights violations in Tibet the Nnz Govt is the first country to sign this type of trade agreement with China. |
| 299 | bquittenbaum | I BELIEVE IN FREE TIBET |
| 300 | Anonymous | No FTA wit China, Free Tibet, and stop human rights abuses |