The "Hoi Polloi" - That Was Us ..

A good friend of 73 years duration from UK just died. - Michael & I started infant school together on the same day back in 1949 and remained mates until last Saturday.

We smoked our first cigarettes together - were 'altar-boys' at Quex Road Sacred Heart Church together, dated our first girls together, - and even both ended-up buying houses in High Wycombe in the late 60s just around the corner from each other - after we married our pick of the London girls.

Unlike me .. he actually believed all the old guff taught by the priests and nuns to keep themselves in comfortable luxury .. I only joined the altar boys to go to their Christmas party.

He passed his daughter a message for me in New Zealand from his Stoke Mandeville Hospital bed - "See you on the other side." - Yeah, see ya Mick.

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60 Million of us die every year in this world, this is an ordinary event .. We come & we go.

Here's interesting - I just heard somebody use that phrase "hoi polloi" - so I looked it up. - According to Wikipedia  Hoi Polloi is ancient Greek for the many .. whereas hoi oligoi  refers to 'the few' - who, when ruling over us we call an oligarchy.

So thinking about all this crap - it occurs to me that we Brits, and Kiwis living as subjects of a monarchy - are also ruled by a oligarchy - it's not just 'The Russians' .. how else could you describe the 766 privileged nobs making law in England's House Of Lords? 

- They get paid around NZ$700 a day for just signing in to eat their subsidized lunches while guarded by armed police .. That lot certainly think of we ordinary working folk as being the "Hoi Polloi" or "Plebs."

Our often armed NZ Police reckon that the number of LEGAL guns here is going down following them spending more than $100 MILLION of our money on confiscations under their "BUY BACK" scheme.

- Of Course the number of illegal guns held as weapons remains an "unknown" despite the INCREASING number of criminal shootings.  Doubtless there may be a degree of 'Natural Selection' resulting from the criminal violent use of offensive weapons by readily identifiable drug dealers and gang members - together with the increasing use of deadly force by our law enforcement employees.

The latest FIFTY PAGES OF EXTRA REGULATIONS police management propose to apply to registered gun club ranges that are used for firearms safety training are - without a shadow of doubt - intended to shut-down sport shooting in New Zealand .. and must urgently be COMPLETELY REJECTED by all Shooters Organizations.

TALK TO YOUR COMMITTEE MEMBERS NOW.

Marty K.