Winston Peters, the Guillotine, and 250 Years of Democracy
“The outrage over the Migrant Workers Association’s mock guillotine misunderstands one of the oldest traditions in Western democracy: symbolic public political theatre.” “It has no place in a democracy.” That was the unmistakable message behind much of the reaction to the Migrant Workers Association of Aotearoa’s symbolic guillotining of Winston Peters. Peters reportedly suggested those […]