and all of us helped kill them. All of us, by our spineless acquiescence to the demands of slimy apparatchiks who are happy to make a living doing the unquestioned bidding of their political masters.
Once upon a time, not so long ago it was possible to fly between NZ and Australia without a passport and all that was required was to fill out a simple boarding pass in flight. These were collected by the cabin staff and that was about it. Then a quick check by customs at either end of the journey.
Now, there are endless forms to be filled out, the indignity of personal searches and passengers are herded like cattle into various lanes and hectored, threatened and lectured at every opportunity. And people meekly submit to it all.
Simple transactions such as buying a car for cash and buying a pre-paid cellphone and wireless internet now require three ‘approved’ forms of identification–the concept of a transaction being a simple arrangement between a seller and willing buyer is dead, infested with the tentacles of intrusive government and parasitical bureaucrats who not only make a very comfortable living out of interfering in your life and mine, but also they accumulate enormous power over us all in the process. Even the highways are now lined with nannying, hectoring ‘safety’ messages, as though drivers are by default delinquent children who can’t be trusted with adult appliances.
This has nothing to do with safety and security. Nothing. What it does have to do with, is reducing people to compliant sheep who will follow any directions from those in authority without question or protest. Terrorism has been an enormous gift to the totalitarians and it’s demonstrated perfectly that the same spineless impulse which turned some concentration camp inmates into Kapos resides within the vast majority of us.
Screw the ballot box–bring on bloody insurrection. And if that destroys what we regard as ‘Western civization’ then so be it–because Western civilization died twenty years ago and all that’s left is the shell, the vague memory of what was once liberty.