The Politically Incorrect Show - 10/07/2000

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Good afternoon, KAYA ORAAAA & welcome to the Politically Incorrect Show on the free speech network, Radio Pacific, for Monday July 10, proudly sponsored by Neanderton Nicotine Ltd, the show that says bugger the politicians & bureaucrats & all the other bossyboot busybodies who try to run our lives with our money; that stands tall for free enterprise, achievement, profit & excellence against the state-worshippers in our midst; that stands above all for the most sacred thing in the universe, the liberty of the human individual.

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Ladies & gentlemen, I've changed my mind.

In the five weeks I've been away I reconverted to socialism. I resolved to return & become a dutiful citizen of the Democratic People's Republic of Aotearoa. Never again shall I hold aloft the banner of individual liberty - liberty, I have concluded, is a selfish luxury that society can ill afford. I hereby place my life at society's disposal. Society in its collective wisdom has elected a government that requires more of its citizens' money, that desires more control over its citizens' activities, that wants us to demonstrate our spiritual credentials by undressing & brandishing spears - who am I, a mere lone individual, to question any of this? Henceforth I swear unswerving obeisance to society & the Great Leaders it has chosen to
rule over us.

Like hell!

Actually, I have returned more convinced than ever that freedom's greatest modern-day enemy is democracy, the dreadful despotism of unbridled majority rule. In his new movie, The Patriot, Mel Gibson - playing a widowed South Carolina landowner, Benjamin Martin - explains his reluctance to take up arms against the British by asking, "What is the difference between one tyrant 3000 miles away & 3000 tyrants one mile away?" As it happens, a new tyranny of numbers was never what the Founding Fathers intended, & Gibson does eventually join the War of Independence, but his question resonates today because a mobocracy is what America has become. What was it supposed to be? A country based on inalienable individual rights, governed, in the words of Thomas Jefferson's first inaugural address, by "a wise & frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry & improvement, & shall not take from the mouth of labour the bread it has earned." With what horror would Jefferson view the elected regime of William Jefferson Clinton!

And that of Helen Clark & James Anderton. One of the first things to catch my eye on my return was a report that Neanderton's new Ministry for Economic Development has, in its first four months, taken from the mouth of labour some two million dollars with which to pay consultants. This included ninety thousand dollars for work on the Ministry's new logo. Outrageous, you say? Not at all - this is what a majority voted for, & that, according to the mentality of mobocracy, makes it right.

On Jefferson's memorial are quoted his words, "I have pledged eternal hostility to every form of tyranny over the minds of men." I echo that pledge today - and direct it especially against that most insidious form of tyranny, mob rule.

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