I READ with great interest the Argus letters on organ donation, the police commissioner, benefits, Islam and freedom of speech. It seems strange to me that we should be surprised by the current behaviours of government, authority and big business, for they are the consequential of each other.

Someone recently joked that Margaret Thatcher might well have stood for Labour in its current attitudes. The reasons why I am so against things such as courts punishing internet rants as criminal is that we do not want a police state that dictates our opinions and desires. It can only end in disaster. If our government has started to act like they are the ones granting us our rights under the illusions of protection, then they clearly cannot be trusted. Cigarettes, alcohol, food, fuel, motoring, recycling, TV licence and taxes to name a few of the ways in which we are continually disregarded as citizens. Remember that they are our servants and not the other way around. Quote: “It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” – Henry Ford.

P C Neilson, Dorset Crescent, Newport