Recently I began writing to our politicians and newspapers with the same message….

Are we a nation of Sheepeople or are we a nation of thinking People?
The wisdom of Benjamin Franklin in his 1722 essay was “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” may be said to mean that if we sacrifice liberty for security, we risk losing both.

To my knowledge no government anywhere has had the fortitude to ask its citizens their permission to be a subject of the emerging invasive security controls of electronic fingerprinting, scanning of the retina of the eye, and the naked body scanning of the masses – every man, woman, and child identified and numbered.

You may disagree with these treatments, however if you wish to engage in certain ‘FREEDOMS’ such as ‘travel’  than you may be granted the ‘PRIVILEGE’ provided you give up your ‘RIGHT’ to your  ‘privacy and dignity’.

Our nation began with people being transported as if all were criminals deserving of the treatments of those times, and today can be liken to the past because as free citizens our permission is not being sought for the treatments reserved for each of us.

If there is one country in the world where its citizens will demand a referendum than perhaps that country is Australia.
At the very least, we will show the world that Australians do not so easily succumb to a siege mentality without publicly debating their options.

Kind regards from Australia
Lawrence Lyons
Public Agent
http://www.thejoke.com.au