Liberty is indivisible; it is not possible to have freedom for some

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I discovered that true freedom does not come about because of what governments do but what they are prevented from doing. Picture: iStock
I discovered that true freedom does not come about because of what governments do but what they are prevented from doing. Picture: iStock

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We are at a crucial stage in the history of our country. Twenty seven years after the adoption of a liberal-democratic Constitution we have come to a point where it is clear to all of us that the freedom we fought for is being destroyed by people who place their personal interests above those of the nation.

We are now being told that the safeguards built into the Constitution to protect the people from the tyranny of government were a strategy to gain power; and that they can now be abandoned.

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