The news has been chocker lately with talk about the “Price of Democracy” especially in relation to the by-election in Te Tai Tokerau. To me this nothing but a sideshow to the real the price and it has nothing to do with dollars and cents.
The price of democracy is that we have rights! We have protection of the law!
Now to some people, I’m talking to you Sensible Sentencing, want to override these rights and the rule of law for their red meat, car crushing, lock them up and throw away the key ideas about law.
The price of democracy is that someone who rapes, murders, steals, defrauds, or commits any crime as the right to a fair trail, has the right not to be tortured, has the right to legal consul, has the right to appeal if they are convicted and the many other rights that they have in a free and open democracy.
The price of democracy is basically that you can’t do what you want! But also the price of democracy is that people like the Sensible Sentencing Trust can exist and can stand on the mountain top and shout their nonsense!
You can’t take looters out the back and shot them in the head, you can’t convict people who are innocent (tho scarily that does happen and far too often), and you can’t abuse/torture people in prison and the list goes on and on.
To people like the Sensible Sentencing trust these rights are standing in the way of there so called justice but to me they are standing in the way of us getting fucked over by the state.
If these are things that people what then they can more to Syria where people are shot for protesting, to China where you can’t go worship at your church or any other country where human rights are trampled on and where the rule of law goes to the highest bidder.
The price of democracy is not dollars and cents.
Have a great day!
Crumble the Elder
P.S I hope this generates some good comments
