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To: elmatador who wrote (69178)	5/7/2008 6:06:30 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

NZ is well on the way to repression, but right now, it's highly Kleptocratic, bureaucratic and regulation riddled, but people are fairly free to be expressive, as long as they aren't this year, which is an election year. This year, "free speech" means speech which hasn't been paid for and doesn't exceed a particular value. I had never in my life heard of such a concept and the first person I saw suggest the idea was Peter Davis, who is the effeminate husband of the masculine Helen Clark, when he wrote a letter to the editor [of The New Zealand Herald]. It's an extraordinary idea and completely negates the normal concept of free speech, which is not speech which you haven't paid for, but speech which you feel like making. Of course New Zealand has never had free speech and my second cousin, who was a World War I hero [with a major military honour] was imprisoned in WWII for speaking against war in public. But apart from various restrictions, which are increasing with laws about "hate speech" and other ridiculous laws, apart from defamation, misleading authorities, perjury, and one thing and another, people can generally say and write a lot of things without being disappeared. It's amusing if not tragic that NZ soldiers were dying "to protect freedom" while people were imprisoned for trying to indulge the most basic of freedoms = expressing an opinion. Come to think of it, you have such a Stalinist approach yourself = calling names [like "buffoon"] then sending to Siberia. Mqurice