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Salient. Victoria University of Wellington Students' Newspaper. Volume 31 Number 14. June 25, 1968

Unwilling

Unwilling

Our liberal has now become authoritarian. The main difficulty confronting these men is that it is often apparent they are completely unwilling to allow other people the freedoms which they so stridently demand.

If we encourage a Joan Baez to resist payment of that portion of her Federal income tax calculated to support the war effort in Vietnam, should we also support a New Zealand RSA member who refuses to pay that part of his tax which does not go towards our miniscule Defence Budget?

They will insist that a free press is a necessity in any country, under any circumstances —and then maintain a press group, opposing their views, should be broken up.

The "Springer Empire", a highly successful group of newspapers in West Germany. has been one of the main causes of discontent to the students of that country.

In pursuing this point, they have murdered a reporter and a photographer; all to suppress freedom of the press.

They will protest when a reporter from the British Communist journal The Daily Worker, who assisted North Koreans and Chinese in brain-washing and indoctrination on British troops during the Korean War, is refused a passport by the United Kingdom Government.

They evidently see no need to protest when a Rhodesian has his passport confiscated, then offered it back on condition that he publicly parrot the political views of Commonwealth Secretary, Mr Bottomley.

In this context of passport-snatching, (an operation which can also be legally applied in New Zealand) it is interesting to note that the United States Government does not have the same powers.