Freedom

"Have an aim in life, but don't forget to pull the trigger."   Unknown.

Those who promote liberty and freedom, actually mean endless privileges for themselves. They're the first in line for the handouts and to hell with everybody else. The mindless
rhetoric dished out by presidents and prime ministers impressed nobody but the Jackass
Mentality. The people of the world are going to get liberty and freedom at the point of a gun whether they like it or not. It doesn't matter how many are killed and maimed. Freedom is essential to maintain corporate profit. The liberty and freedom to create profit from human misery is called 'democracy.'

However, there is no such thing as democracy anywhere in the world. The politicians say we have the freedom to do anything we like, providing we refrain from criticising their edicts. If we refuse, we're subject to official harassment and endless penalties designed primarily to strengthen officialdom. So where are liberty and freedom?

For one, I'm getting tired of the New Zealand Government propagating unnecessary social legislation. For example, it's obvious to anyone with average mental ability that we're in more potential danger driving in rush hour traffic than we ever will be from inhaling cigarette smoke.

Might I suggest that the politician's IQ be tested to ensure they possess at least average
ability? Would it also be too much to ask for a little commonsense? Or is commonsense
regarded as politically incorrect? I'm afraid I've never seen so much stupidity from those
who suggest they are superior human beings. Sadly, it's obvious that their sole agenda is
attaining and maintaining political power and bollocks to the people.

I have watched NZ deteriorate from a world leader in social issues and living standards after World War 11, to a third world country where poverty is widespread and increasing. It's not befitting to see people who have defended our way of life thrown on the scrapheap of irrelevance. To enforce current political edicts, there has been a 23% increase in the number of civil servants hired at public expense to do the politicians bidding. They are not civil nor are they the servants of the public. They are simply hired to enforce mindless legislation that reduces our liberty and freedom to act and think for ourselves.

Recently a couple of petrol bombs were thrown at the politician's Wellington Beehive. The
Beehive is the building housing the drones that sting the public for endless sums of money to indulge their financial fantasies. Perhaps Guy Fawkes attempt to blow up the British
Parliament hundreds of years ago was the act of a hero and not those of a malcontent? We celebrate the occasion with fireworks and loud bangs on November 5th every year. Where will increasing public discontent lead? The modern version of Guy Fawkes? Ouch!

Political violence has already started with a few splutters. Will those regarded as extremists be content with a few minor acts of defiance? Or will they get so fed up with official idiocy and organise louder bangs in the night?   After all, New Zealand's so called democracy is maintained at the point of the political gun. What's to stop the extreme doing the same and pulling the trigger of opportunity? Hopefully peace will be maintained but I don't like the odds. As usual the losers will be the public the politicians pretend to defend from non existing aggressors. After all is said and done ...............

'Que Sera Sera.'

This reply came from Bob Kay, Lower Hutt. NZ.

So, what is Liberty and freedom?   Imagine a country in which a specific "ruling principle" is created to decide the proper conduct for every citizen.

That principle would be used to consider everything you eat, what you wear, the kind of home you live in, the method of transportation used to get to work, the way you dispose of waste, perhaps the number of children you have, even your education and employment decisions.

Since they are cowards, who fear your reaction to an outright banning of just about
everything, they have trick you into thinking it's your idea. So, they use scare tactics,
ostensibly devised to deal with such crises as "the obesity epidemic," "passive smoking," "global warming," "deforestation," "endangered species," "loss of biodiversity," etc.

Now, perhaps you'll understand where "Sustainable Development" is coming from, guidelines and regulations that impose controls:

a.. On our public education system - to prepare our children to live in a sustainable world
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b.. On our economy - to create partnerships between business and government, making sure business becomes a tool to help implement the policies.

c.. On the environment - leading to controls on private property and business.

d.. On health care - the new drive against obesity is leading directly toward controls on what we eat.

e.. On farming - Sustainable Development policies affect farmers' ability to produce more by regulating or banning the grazing of animals, chemicals, biotechnology, and genetic engineering - all in the name of environmental protection.

f.. On our social and cultural environment - where political correctness is controlling hiring
and firing practices, immigration policy, multiculturalism, marriage laws, etc.

g.. On our mobility - with emphasis on carpools and public transportation, and away from
the freedom of personal transportation.

h.. And on public safety - where the rule of law and the court system is being challenged by new regulations that affect the right to privacy and unreasonable search (e.g. smoking in bars) and seizures.

It's important to understand that these issues are not just random concerns that find their way into the forefront of political debate. They are all interconnected to the policies of Sustainable Development. It's a life plan. Planned by someone else. Not you.