US EditionAnne Salmond: Freedom, for Whom?
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Anne Salmond: Freedom, for whom?
The debate over the Regulatory Standards Bill has been illuminating. New Zealanders have learned a great deal about how our society is being run at present, by whom and for whom. In this bill, a small libertarian minority is attempting to use the law of the land, past and present, to uphold the priority of private rights and property over all other values, including care for the environment, the just treatment of minority groups and the public …
Voting is an exercise of freedom. Telling the truth to the citizen is a responsibility of the candidate for the good exercise of it. The decision to make a clean campaign is, in itself, an expression of responsible freedom. In recent days we have seen the malicious use of interview cuts to ridicule Evelyn Matthei, seeking to install the idea that she is not in full power. Such practices not only impoverish the democratic debate, but represent a …
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