Worzel's World: You can trust 'em

 

After a test and five bucks I was issued with a driver’s licence. ‘It will last for your lifetime’ they said. ‘We’re the government, you can trust us.’ They lied.

‘Here is your lifetime firearms licence’ they said. ‘We’re the government, you can trust us.’ They lied.

‘We are going to privatise some publicly owned assets’ they said. ‘This will bring greater efficiency, increase competition and facilitate prosperity for all. We are the government, you can trust us.’ Woops, they lied again.

‘We will redesign our public service and call it the public sector’ they said. ‘It will operate better. We will redesign local government with greater centralisation and restructure it upon corporate lines. There will be greater accountability. We will reform our education curriculum, the children will do better and be smarter.’ Lies, lies and more lies.

Our public sector is officious and oppressive. Our local council employs over 70 people, not one of which fills potholes or can engineer a bridge. Our children spend two more years at high school than most of their parents and grandparents but have slipped in international educational rankings. Many leave school unable to reliably perform basic mathematical calculations or correctly punctuate a sentence. Yes, they lied.

They can at least take credit for creating a whole new class of New Zealanders called ‘the working poor’. Austin Mitchell’s book The Half-Gallon Quarter-Acre Pavlova Paradise did not foresee Kiwis living in their cars and surviving on Salvation Army food parcels.

They said nothing though when they quietly repealed laws that protected or gave redress to the people. The treason laws being one notable example among many. These went largely unnoticed but hey, they’re the government and we can trust them. They passed reams of draconian legislation like the Anti-Money Laundering Act and the Search and Surveillance Act. They passed other laws that gave greater powers to councils, police, government agencies like Worksafe, Cyfs and the LTSA, but took power away from individual New Zealanders and undermined our basic civil liberties. They told us it was because the old laws were outdated. The public will be safer they said. We are the government, you can trust us.

Not happy with the draconian and the oppressive, they did not forgo the ridiculous. The absurdly titled Kaipara District Council (Validation of Rates and Other Matters) Bill made, by government decree, illegality legal, and fraud on a grand scale acceptable and impossible to redress. They told us ‘It will fix things’. Did they per-chance lie again? Bit of a habit really.

Now we have a new strain of flu going about. It has proved to be milder than both the Spanish flu of 1918 and the Hong Kong flu of 1969. It has been branded a ‘pandemic’. Government has spent many millions of our dollars with advertising agencies conducting a ‘public awareness campaign‘ designed by all appearances to instil fear of this unseen bogeyman. In spite of outstanding results in treatment with tried and tested cost-effective compounds hydroxy-chloraquine, Ivermectin, vitamin D and zinc, government has spent many more millions of our dollars with pharmaceutical and hi-tech companies to roll out what is being called a vaccine but which is, by definition and fact, an ‘experimental biological agent’. Incredibly after decades of research and uncountable billions of dollars, a cure for cancer, the second leading cause of death worldwide after coronary disease, remains as elusive as ever. Another Coronavirus, known as the common cold, has also beaten the best that medical research has had to offer for millennia. The government says we must all line up and take a brand-new drug one year in the making even though there is absolutely no evidence that it will be safe in the long term or whether it is even less harmful in the short term than the disease it is intended to protect us from. Government has pledged even more of our money to combat what they call ‘vaccine hesitancy’, but which I would call ‘justifiable prudence’. It may indeed prove to be that the cure is worse than the disease.

Doing my best to join the available dots it may be that rather than the medication being made for the disease, that the disease was made for the medication. The government tells us though that it will fix things. That when enough people have drunk the ‘Kool Aid’ we just might, may, perhaps, possibly return to normal. Whatever that is. Already ten European countries have suspended so called vaccine administration due to a propensity major ‘clusters’ of adverse reactions.

I, for one, will not be lining up but if you want to take the leap of faith into the unknown world of medical experiment, go for it. But please respect those of us who remain sceptical. After all they’re the government, and you can trust ‘em.

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