Dear Editor:
TAPED CONVERSATION
Just an observation on the hypocrisy and base level irony that some of our politicians and want-to-be politicians collude in.
Listening to the radio on Saturday 24th January, to the AUM public meeting, one of the speakers played a recording of a phone conversation between the Chief Minister and the Leader of the Opposition. This was taped without the knowledge or consent of the Leader of the Opposition (which is extremely immoral, and is it legal to do this? The secret police in the former Eastern European Communist states used to do this kind of thing).
Directly after this, the speaker then started talking about freedom of speech and how, under the present administration, people are more free to talk about what they wish than under the previous administration. This is dubious as I felt I was free to say anything I liked under the last administration as well.
The irony is that he’d just played a recording that he or his minions had carried out unbeknown to one of the phone conversationalists. Is the message is that “you are free to say what you like, as long as we in the AUM can tape it and play it back at a public meeting?” This is irony on a base level, and it would be funny if it wasn’t so glaringly idiotic.
Name withheld at writer’s request
