Two Thousand and Seven, Anno Domini

Another year has nearly ended and such alot has gone on, some good and some absolutely unreal! Take for instance our government stopping me as parent from smacking my child! Incredible that they got away with it, we really have gotten to be a wishy-washy meek and weak people while some in parliament, not even elected-by-the-people, have walked all over us and introduced stuff that we would never ever vote them in on!
How did it happen? They did it by continuous bombardment of one stupendous 'act- of- an- ass- of- an- idea' after another.. and while we were spinning and trying to get our naive heads around their constant barrage of new 'Private Member Bills' and the like, hey presto 'it' had passed late into the night and we awoke to some new anti- family law enacted while we were busy sleeping off a hard days work to put food on the family table! We never had a vote on any of it!
Where have the days gone when Political Parties gave us their 'Party Manifesto' to peruse at our leisure? So we knew what their plans were, their agenda...Those days have gone and we're left with a scary agenda so cunningly concealed and planned, it is the agenda to change not only the way we think but what we can 'say,' with our right to freely-speak curtailed from midnight tonight.
2007 is the year that many of us ordinary people in New Zealand got abused and called names like 'biggot'; 'homophobic'; 'exclusive'; 'intolerant'; 'insane'; 'narrow- minded'; 'fundamentalist'; 'God botherer'; 'culturally insensitive'...I have never before been subject to such abusive bullying from people who 'pride' themselves on being so TOLERANT! I had heard of that type of abuse/bullying in places like the USA in years past.
But I have never changed, I have not always been a Christian but I still knew what is good and what is bad for our society. In 2008 AD, I will be thinking and saying what I did Today, and Yesterday and no political party or Act of Parliament will change that fact.