INCLUDING GST

Press, 21 February 1987, Page 20

INCLUDING GST

By

WHIM WHAM

Electronic surveillance of gangs, more police, and an increase in the maximum penalty for rape are key features in National’s law and order policy ... if parents did not take proper responsibility for their children “then they run the risk of losing their benefits” ... etc. etc. — News Do I long for a Jess disorderly And less violent Society, Famous for its law-abiding Habits, Its Piety and Sobriety? Where Criminologists have only each Other To talk to about Crime, And the Policeman’s worst Worry is What To do with his Spare Time? There are Parts of London (I hear) Where even the Police Hardly dare go, it’s impossible to keep What remains of the Peace — Down at the Bottom of the Heap something Like Anarchy prevails, At the Top your House has an Alarm System As good as a Gaol’s Do I long for a less disorderly - Marketplace, too, Where Nobody’s redundant and Everyone Has a Job to do? More of Us working, Fewer of Us Thieving — or mugging? Must I be joking? or dreaming? I can see You shrugging! There’s a Price for this free Market — Including GST — Up goes the Cost of Law and Order . And the User pays, you see, '; He pays for Whatever he gets, Sir, A Society designed Most ; For private Gain, whatever the Pain, ■ C. Or Whoever’s the Hindmost’ ; ’