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Letter to the Editor - Thursday August 29, 2013

Northland Age
28 Aug, 2013 09:08 PM2 mins to read

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Peter Jackson, editor, The Northland Age

Peter Jackson, editor, The Northland Age

Second class

Even though it seems we are being constantly dumbed down by a mixture of financial stress, infomercials and bland journalism on much of mainstream media (not the Northland Age, I might add) some of us retain our ability to critically analyse what our rulers or governments are up to and why they would pass the legislation they do.

Why are our politicians passing legislation that leaves their own citizens vulnerable to joblessness, poverty, homelessness, abuse of privacy and possibly political freedom to dissent, then think it is alright for us to be eating inferior-quality, processed, disease-inducing food products imported from foreign powers and wearing cheap, synthetic, imported clothing while giving them preferential access to our healthy and plentiful natural food supply, like fish etc, and other basic resources like wool for good-quality carpets and durable warm woollen clothing, timber for building and repairing houses, and even land?

I and many others are of the opinion that our biggest security risk is food security, home security and job and income security. The biggest security risk for us, the people, seems to be our government's desire to suck up to the biggest kids on the block, i.e. America, China etc, and pass laws to suit foreign powers rather than consider the well-being of its own citizens, who voted them into office in the first place.

Am I a security risk for publicly expressing doubt and insecurity about our rulers and politicians? Will I be spied upon?

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JACQUELINE PAYNE

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