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Of MCO, mice and men

Te whetu Orongo

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. — Ernest Hemingway, American journalist and novelist The movement control order (MCO) triggered and necessitated by the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases (Measures Within Infected Local Areas) Regulations 2020 [P.U. (A) 87/2020] seems to be effective thus far especially when it […]

Constitutional amnesia

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses […]