Random stopping
Sir,—Equating random stopping (“The Press,” December 14) to ’‘the loss of a few moments” shows the kind of trite insincerity expected from propagandists of the world’s police States. Afrikaners can say it of the pass laws, all dictators can claim that their restrictions and routine road blocks involve only “the loss of a few moments.” What is really involved is the complete subjugation of the individual to the overpowering and arbitrary power of the State. Those "few moments” are forcibly demanded of all travellers, whether on a picnic or an extreme personal emergency. Random stopping road blocks are not only inefficient, they suspend “the rule of law” and subjugate all lawful citizens to unfettered State authority. In a free society such power is only utilised if prior justification can be claimed. No objective, however laudable, can justify the means. — Yours, etc., JOHN W. WOOD. Kirwee, December 15, 1985.
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Press, 18 December 1985, Page 20
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