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To: miraje who wrote (185801)	11/9/2006 2:56:49 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 793801

James, you are tempting me to go off the rant scale: <heard on your local news an outrageous example of nanny state run amok. Seems that some school children were having the "unhealthy" portions of the lunch that their mothers had prepared for them confiscated by school authorities. Such egregious examples of "child abuse" included chips and cookies. It's a sad state of affairs that you Kiwis are willing to put up with that kind of crap > I shall refrain. That's just one example of the growing kleptocratic suffocatocracy run by Helengrad. What's odd is that people are voting every election for more and more of the same. Fireworks are to be banned now. Not even sparklers shall be allowed. I helped our 1 year old grandson hold a sparkler a week ago, which he enjoyed. He can regale his grandchildren with stories about how he had the lethal pleasure of wielding an incendiary device - without a permit. It's an interesting, if horrendous, sociological phenomenon going on in NZ. The worst of it is the torture, horrors and deaths of infants and children, but there is a lot more besides. I mean actual, literal, torture, horrors and deaths of infants and children, not "child abuse" in the sense of confiscating cookies, which I have some sympathy with. If I was running a school for young children, I'd ban harmful substances pretending to be food. Chewing gum would be allowed. [Maybe I wouldn't, but I'd be tempted]. But neither would I say that my school should be compulsory for state serfs to attend. I'd compete with other schools for custom. It used to annoy me that schools for our children would have "cooking classes" in which they would be shown that "cooking" involved things like cakes, sweets, pizzas. Okay, I got a bit tempted. /rant off... Mqurice PS: I think the political divide is becoming X and Y chromosomes. It used to be land and landless. Rich and poor. State ownership and control vs capitalism. Freedom vs compliance. Left vs right. The divide gradually morphs, un-noticed. As women take over, the shift will continue.