"I will name only one principle, the opposite of the idea which is so prevalent today and which is responsible for the spread of evil in the world. The principle is: One must never fail to pronounce moral judgement."Ayn Rand

We were all shocked and horrified at the level of abuse meted out on Nia Glassie. That anybody, let alone a three year old child should have to suffer such torture in a so-called civilized society, is absolutely disgraceful.

However, is New Zealand a civilized society? There is a pervasive, insidious cancer spreading through this country, silently and quietly destroying the individual's capacity to take responsibility, removing the very last vestige of ownership over our lives and our property.

The instigators – this Government and such organizations as the United Nations – have been quietly working away on this agenda for decades. Another little girl's violent death, just another consequence.

For there to be a dramatic improvement in the level of child abuse in this country, there needs to be a dramatic change in people's thinking. And of course, that will not happen overnight. However, the answer to most problems is quite simple and child abuse is no different. A problem occurs more often than not from a lack of something. In the case of child abuse, there is usually a lack of any real purpose and understanding of true values in the life of the perpetrator. In order to make himself or herself feel better, they have to make someone else feel small, usually by exerting power over them.

However, it is one thing for the individual to refuse to act in a responsible matter. It is another thing entirely when the Government and its state agencies validate that abdication. Fifty years ago for example, it was considered reprehensible if someone abdicated their responsibility towards himself or their family. In our famously modern and liberal society, we now encourage it. Not overtly, you understand, but quite covertly.

For instance, the Government doesn't tell you outright that they intend taking over your role of parent, they simply initiate a new piece of legislation in the interests of 'preserving family values'. Despite almost a total majority of people objecting to this because they don't buy this logic for a minute, the State rushes it through anyway, presumably because that's how important it is to their long term agenda of people control.

Another simple answer as to why we have such a high rate of repeat offending in New Zealand, is that we are shamefully soft on criminals. Blame the tool of political correctness for this outcome.We reward thugs and drug addicts with a weekly income, provide them with all the time on their hands to nurture bad habits, and when they are caught, we have a sympathetic, liberal judiciary which lets them out.

Murderers and rapists enjoy a better quality of life than their victims. Remember the criminal who broke his leg while attempting to escape but successfully sued for compensation? Welcome to New Zealand, a place where criminals and bureaucracy thrive and entrepreneurs and business owners are queueing up to leave.

Nia Glassie's untimely death is an indirect consequence of this Government's deliberate engineering to remove individualism and individual responsibility and replace it with their ideology of State-is-all.

So what should we do? What must we do?

What we are seeing increasingly with cases of child abuse, stolen vehicles, burglaries, rapes and murders is this; the consequences of getting caught are insufficient to deter wrong actions. And that must change. It is time to treat violent criminals, not as sad, misunderstood victims of their upbringings, but as the thugs they are.

Anyone who violates anothers' life or property, has lost his or her claim to be part of this society. They must be punished – and not sitting in a clean cell with three square meals a day and Sky TV.

Government policy has increased the number of criminals on our streets while leaving innocent, responsible individuals to fend for themselves. Instead of being a country that attracts private business, private money and new ideas, New Zealand has become a world leader in bureaucracy, environmentalism, political correctness and social engineering.

As a good friend of mine reminded me the other day, one thing which all individuals must get their heads around is that bureaucrats and entrepreneurs are at totally opposite ends of the spectrum. The Entrepreneur creates ideas, jobs and wealth, the Bureaucrat stops progress and kills creativity.

Do not make the mistake that New Zealand is a civilized society. Good people have allowed themselves to be brainwashed because they are too lazy to think for themselves. Exactly where the Government wants us.

However, while there are a lot less of them, there are some very good people amongst us, who have the courage, the intelligence and the conviction to make a stand when it counts. We must support them until we are strong enough to make our own stand. But stand we must. Be counted we must. Or we must be prepared to stand and pay the consequences.

What happened to little Nia Glassie was shameful. But we can change where this country is heading, we can turn it around.

Remember that without our support, the Government and their bureaucrats are nothing. They have no power.

It is time for us to take it back.