LETTER: What Freedom Day under lockdown?
The government should be taken to court for depriving the people of their constitutionally guaranteed liberties and their economic wellbeing
It is ironic that we celebrate Freedom Day under such repressive conditions. We have been deprived of our fundamental and constitutionally guaranteed freedoms by a government determined to justify its decision to march in lockstep with the developed countries, completely ignoring our developing country realities.
Freedom of speech and debate has gone by the wayside as the government employs media propaganda and apparently credible personalities to push its message. Virtually no contrary voice or opinion is heard, and pictures of looting and attacks on police and army members are used to justify the further oppression of opposition to the lockdown...
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