Rugby tour
Sir,—lf supporting an individual’s right to travel the world unhindered makes me a fascist, then I am a fascist. If supporting the right of freedom of association and the individual’s right to decide his or her own morality makes me a racist, then I am a racist. But no matter how justified Hart may feel, I wish its members would realise that you do not fight for the civil rights of one group by infringing on the civil rights of another group. Sportsmen and women are sick and tired of being used as pawns in a political game of chess, subject to the whims of a Government more concerned with vote catching than consistency. If the tour is stopped all it will show is that New Zealand is a collection of vociferous hypocrites indulging in selective morality on the worst possible scale who only fight apartheid when the word Springbok is mentioned. — Yours, etc., JOHN CHAMBERS. June 30, 1985.
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