You may be surprised by the level of hostility directed at you for your shark cull policy. It is not just the Greenies wanting to save everything from the evil humans that has caused this uproar. It is because the general public expect our leaders to make rational decisions and not react with a knee jerk to hysteria generated by the media. If death or injury from sharks was frequent occurance we might have more sympathy. If your policy had scientific proof that it would save lives we might have more sympathy. In both cases, however, the facts are against you. This policy will not help tourism. It will hinder it with all the bad publicity. It will not make our beaches safer. All it has done is exacerbate irrational fears and needlessly destroy marine life at the tax payers expensive. It is the shear stupidity of this policy that is causing you so much hostility. I and many others who would not normally support the radical left are outraged at your shear incompitance on this issue.

You may think that backing down now will hurt you politically. Let me assure you the consequences of not backing down are much worse. You are committing political