Soviet regime
Sir,—lt is encouraging to realise that Susan Taylor
(October 7) is not blind to Russia's faults. The American dilemma is that the importance of individual freedom and the fear of becoming a police state results in known criminals getting away with murder. Their “rules of evidence” are aimed at protecting an innocent person from wrongful conviction at the expense of criminals getting off. They would be convicted in other countries, including New Zealand. The economic system of capitalism is not the only system which allows some to profit from the efforts of others. Totalitarian states (a political system) allow those in power to do the same. They need a police state, and hence loss of freedom even if innocent of any real crime, for those in power to remain so. If communism could exist without totalitarianism and be truly egalitarian I might also believe in the ideal of turning the other check. — Yours, etc., D. G. SANDERS, Sen. October 8, 1982.
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