This week has been a nightmare. It started with some truly horrible allegations against the police force, coupled with the release of David Bain from prison due to a horrendous miscarriage of justice by our own Court of Appeal. And then on Wednesday, a whole sorry bunch of sanctimonious politicians voted away parental authority, with sickening front page pictures of celebrations and happiness, getting that debate out of the way for a budget with more taxes (petrol tax for Wellington and Auckland) and a pathetic attempt at trying to enforce savings for retirement.
The only thing that has kept me sane is limiting my exposure to the radio and barely looking at my daily newspaper that arrives this morning. And going to Mass every morning. All of the priests in my area have gone on a retreat, so New Zealand's only Cardinal said Mass up in Waikanae every day this week. It was wonderful. I'd love to be able to listen to his sermons all of the time.
I think the time has past where we look to politicians to solve what is going on in NZ with this out of control government and the one in waiting that looks to do more of the same. Change has to come within each person. Not many people have really had a reason to critically look at this country and what's happening until recently when the long arm of the law could potentially reach into our homes and take our children. That more than anything has been the turning point. From this point on, I don't think how the people will react in future will be at all predictable.
As an aside, it's very interesting that there has been not a peep from the NZ MSM on the massive pro-family rally in Rome earlier this week. Something between 200,000 and 1.7 million people turned up to support the family and therefore not give their sanction to treating defactos and gay couples like married couples. Only 1000 counter protesters showed up.
The only thing that has kept me sane is limiting my exposure to the radio and barely looking at my daily newspaper that arrives this morning. And going to Mass every morning. All of the priests in my area have gone on a retreat, so New Zealand's only Cardinal said Mass up in Waikanae every day this week. It was wonderful. I'd love to be able to listen to his sermons all of the time.
I think the time has past where we look to politicians to solve what is going on in NZ with this out of control government and the one in waiting that looks to do more of the same. Change has to come within each person. Not many people have really had a reason to critically look at this country and what's happening until recently when the long arm of the law could potentially reach into our homes and take our children. That more than anything has been the turning point. From this point on, I don't think how the people will react in future will be at all predictable.
As an aside, it's very interesting that there has been not a peep from the NZ MSM on the massive pro-family rally in Rome earlier this week. Something between 200,000 and 1.7 million people turned up to support the family and therefore not give their sanction to treating defactos and gay couples like married couples. Only 1000 counter protesters showed up.