NAPNT - Gary’s Drug War Rantz: The NT Election

NAPNT - Gary’s Drug War Rantz

Welcome to Gary Meyerhoff's Drug War Rantz. I am one of the founding members of the Darwin-based drug law reform and human rights group the Network Against Prohibition (NAP). I'll be using this blog to post my opinions on the myriad of issues that surround the war on drugs from the perspective of someone who is heavily involved in the Australian and the global drug user movements as well as keeping you up to date with some of the horrendous 'war on drugs' news and more...

Sunday, June 12, 2005

The NT Election

Dear sir

For me the saddest thing about elections is that they remind me that the vast majority of Australians still believe that their vote counts.

It really doesn't matter who is elected on June 18, the same Corporations will still be running the Territory, and the world for that matter.

But how have our 'leaders' managed to fool the masses for so long?

Mussolini told The London Sunday Express in 1935: "The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of the nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad."

"The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell a big one."

Yours truly

Gary Meyerhoff
Rapid Creek

Note: I emailed this letter to the editor of the Australian and the NT News on June 12, 2005.