Maxwele incident - an assault on our liberty

Today, Frans Cronje's article at Moneyweb highlights the liberty that all of us South Africans have lost through the Maxwele-zapping-the-President incident.

If more incidents like this one are allowed to take place South African citizens will increasingly fear the approach of the blue-light convoys of black BMWs that ferry political leaders around South Africa. Many already fear these convoys, which have been known to open fire on innocent civilians who get in their way. What does it say to the ANC that many South Africans now live in physical fear of running into the country's political leaders? It is a phenomenon far removed from the confident embrace that greeted so many of these same leaders on their return from exile or release from prison during the early 1990s.

Do we all now have to live in fear of blue-light convoys, in the same way we live in fear of cash-in-transit vans?

Thomas Jefferson on Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

Thomas Jefferson in The United States Declaration of Independence, 1776:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.