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Salient. Official Newspaper of Victoria University of Wellington Students Association. Vol 40 No. 26. October 3 1977

Right country, Wrong Government

Right country, Wrong Government

Dear Editor,

If the Government is unable to realize the hitherto unrealized fact that the abortion law(s) and recent SIS Amendment Bill are not just—implies that the Government is unable to realize. Implies, the Government is unable to realize an injustice. Implies, the Government is not just. Implies, the Government is injust.

But, democracy requires that there be justice, which implies, that the government is not only injust but undemocratic as well. But the government says it is just and democratic and the NZ people say they are not just and democratic The implication here is very serious; one is lying. The crunch question is, who is lying, the government the NZ people, the NZ people and the government, niether or both. Or who is telling the truth, if anybody actually is.

The NZ people hired the government, to carry out democracy, which implies that they also employed them to carry out justice. But the government, obviously is not doing this, because it believes the abortion and SIS laws to be just. Hence, who do we believe, the government or the NZ people?

We believe the NZ people to be democratic and just; but the government believes itself, to be equally democratic and just. Implication; that the government does not believe that we believe in ourselves, because it believes itself to be democratic and just.

This implies, that the government believes we are not democratic and just, because it is. Thus, the government believes us to be unjust and undemocratic.

Implication: The NZ people are the liars, because they are niether just nor democratic. Conclusion: The government is governing the wrong country.

—Steve Gregoriadis.