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Sunday Star Times
November 30, 2003
Democracy worries
Letter to
the Editor
Ian McKissack, Raglan
Two issues highlighted recently in the Sunday
Star-Times make me wonder about the health of democracy.
They are the high level of reasonable doubt about Peter Ellis's conviction
and the callous and inept treatment of Ahmed Zaoui.
In addition there was the lifting of the moratorium on GE trials against an
even higher level of public disquiet.
There seems to be a developing culture of authoritarian intransigence in our
elected representatives.
In a wider context, the invasion of Iraq under the Bush/Blair command
had a similar dubious relationship to the wishes of their electorates.
The heart of the matter is whether the democratic process is designed to
produce a government that rules over us, or a collection of representatives
who carry out the will of the people.
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