Cotton Picking

"The most pathetic excuse in the world is: I'm only doing my job.  The next most pathetic excuse: my stupidity is legal."       Broughton In the land of cotton slaves suffered while the plantation owners propagated their financial interests.  The end result was civil war.  In New Zealand the writing is on the wall and the local version of cotton picking is no longer acceptable.  Last year about 600 people left every week to live in Australia and today the number has increased to more than a thousand.  Last one to leave turn out the lights? In NZ today, protests at government incompetence are becoming fashionable. The justice system is in crisis mode, repressive legislation designed to control human nature is causing elephantine objections and violent actions against authority figures are escalating.  Work it out for yourself.  Yet authorities suggest that they should be treated with the respect their self exalted position's demand.  Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the stupidest of all?  Yes Herr Authority, the cotton pickers do understand.  That's why the inevitable always happens.  When commonsense, honesty and decency are back-numbered...... disaster strikes.  Need I say more? The Family Court decides the future of separated or divorced fathers. Sometimes they are left to live in poverty while the tax man steals a large percentage of their income and pass some onto their estranged wives living in new sexual relationships.  Never mind that the legislation is weighed against the father, little children shall not suffer, seems to be the reasoning.  In the Auckland area, pickets outside the private homes of Family Court judges and court officials have been ongoing for several months.  Publicity is ensuring more solo dads are realising they are not alone.  Countrywide, embittered minds are seething. A judge appeared on TV demanding that the law be obeyed without question. He was arrogance personified and did nothing to calm the situation.  He was the classic example of the judicial lack of intellectual thought.  The law was the law and it was his job to administer the same without considering the downside of superciliousness.  The plantation owner's concept? In unrelated incidents, a bus driver was assaulted by a group of teenage girls, and another by a lady passenger.  It's hard to imagine that bus drivers are seen as authority figures but the rot always starts at the bottom and works its way up.  The ground swell concept? Banning smoking in bars and restaurants has devastated large sections of the hospitality industry.  In smaller towns, the local pub is the social centre and they're closing down in increasing numbers.  Smoking speakeasies are opening nationwide and one was recently featured on TV.  Even TV personalities are rubbishing the anti smoking laws.  Despite the ripoff taxes collected and the fact that most smokers live normal life spans, the "smoking kills" propaganda continues unabated.   Now there is to be medically graphic pictures on cigarette packets.  Considering there is no solid evidence that any lives have been saved by the ban and that  nonsmoker still die of lung cancer.... why bother with such impudence or is it the do-gooder's concept of self justification? Even dogs are suffering from officialdom promoting control of all aspect of NZ society.   According to the "experts," man's best friends will no longer attack little children or old ladies, with a microchip imbedded in their anti human aggressive shoulders.  Actually it's just another form of mind control and a fund-raising concept. These are but a few examples on how NZ society is being treated by those who must be obeyed or the sky will fall.  Through their own incompetence, NZ authorities from top to bottom are guilty of destroying a decent way of life.  I suggest they learn from history, invest in a brain and realise that the groundswell of public rebellion is growing and that the sky will inevitably fall on those who interfere with the Kiwi lifestyle.  Or is their incorruptibility an illegal concept? Perhaps they should take up planting rice in the sun? "If politicians  want to control the world, they should first learn to control themselves."        Broughton.