I don't know why the media is so biased. I've stopped reading their stuff because a lot of it reminds me of something out of a Dickens novel, pure "Pickwich Papers" stuff, but they take it so seriously.

We are fast losing control of our society. Our main enemy is not the government, or the media, it is public apathy. Typically people see something wrong, grumble about it for a while, then go back to watching their favourite soap opera. Are we really so dumbed down or "spaced out" on fluoride that we think nothing outside what is happening on "coronation street" is important?

We have definitely lost control of our government. Maybe it was always the way it was, but I'm sure it was never so blatant before. It is about time people got over their "vote them out" mentality or stopped chanting "you didn't vote, therefore you have no right to complain", and realised that the faces might change but the agenda never does. Members of parliament did a lot of complaining about Helen Clark's control-freak legislation, but I see nothing that she imposed on us has been overturned.

I think it started (in about the 1960s - but I can't be sure because I can find NOTHING at all on this subject, in books, newspaper articles or on the 'net) when someone decided that being an MP should be a full-time job. They used the excuse that "everybody no matter what their financial situation should be able to be an MP". Then someone else decided that we "needed" to greatly increase the number of MPs in the House, and all of a sudden we were over-run with parasites all feeding greedily out of the public trough. We also have to realise that the FIRST loyalty of an MP is not to his constituents but to parlaiment and his party. It is the same with the police, they have no obligation at all to protect the people of NZ, and owe their allegience entirely to government, and exist entirely to carry out government policies.

As for the anti-democracy, anti-people, agenda. I have seen it slowly creeping in in UK where peoples' rights have incrementally been taken away from them and they haven't objected - mainly because they have been convinced that it is "only them over there" who would be affected (i.e. the "yobs" and "shameless people"). Now for UK it is all too late to do anything about it. I see the leader of the Tory party - who most likely will get elected into government next year - has said that he will "get rid of the id card scheme/scam" and "dismantle the database state", but then he has also pledged to continue with biometric passports, backed by a central database of biometric data. Sound like "getting rid of any database states, to you? So anything is possible, including them outright lying and after the election merely saying "ha, ha, we tricked you". Isn't that what John Key has done with the referendum on MMP?

Unfortunately what ever happens in UK, happens here pretty soon after. I was listening to a talkback radio programme on the new "nark line" that the police have set up in Auckland (although I don't know why I bother with talkback any more, all the good hosts are gone to be replaced by the most obsequious government-propaganda-parroters you could get). Anyway, it seemed that this "nark line" (I can't remember what it was really called) was a copy of "one that had been so successful in UK" and was supervised by a visiting moron from UK.

America is another western country that we get a lot of our influences from. They have lost their human rights slowly over the past few years too. Some absolutely horrendous things happen in America, it is so bad that I have stopped reading their news sites - it is too depressing.

We all have to get off the couch, stop idolising the TV set, and grab our country back before it is too late.

We could start by trying to get our own MPs to vote against this idiotic ET scheme that they were debating not long ago. And get it through to John Key that he has not got the backing of the people, to ratify the Copenhagen treaty.