The Limits to Civil Liberties

The Limits to Civil Liberties

We like to think that we are free to do what we like … but we know that that just isn’t so. There has to be limits on what we can do so that we’re not all the time in petty battles with each other. For example, the roads would be much more dangerous without rules and restrictions.

But, having agreed with that, don’t we find that law-enforcement is sometimes just too heavy-handed? For example, why should Muslim women have to surrender their veils? Why is the Maori imprisonment rate six times the general rate? Did the Police make a mistake about the Uruwera Four?

To address these, and other, matters the guest In Conversation with Noel Cheer on Triangle Television this week is Barry Wilson, President of the Auckland Council for Civil Liberties.

Triangle Television, Wednesday April 11th at 7:00pm and repeated Thursday April 13th at 12:30pm.

Triangle Television can be received in metropolitan Auckland on UHF Channels 41, 42 and 52.

Triangle Television is also transmitted live on streaming TV – a newly emerging technology – which can be received on broadband-connected computers throughout New Zealand and on Internet-connected television sets. Go to www.ecasttv.co.nz

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