More fundamentally, it would uphold the values of reason, individualism and freedom in all their manifestations. These thoughts were typed. Too radical or not, the project was dusted down and activated during my self-imposed exile to Wanganui from the comfort zone of mainstream broadcasting. Taxation is theft. The welfare state is economic cannibalism.
Democracy is institutionalised gangsterism.
Perigo is patient as well as intellectually passionate. He will keep talking till the walls come tumbling down. Just occasionally the flames erupt. If the hoofbeats of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse galloping towards the climax of our century couldn't be heard over the traffic noise in Bowen Street, the world-weary crowd of about 60 seemed ready for something fresh and uplifting to believe in. And it is even less so when we consider it costs eight dollars, or roughly three times as much as New Idea.