So, here in Australia we're ruled by the iron fist of the Liberal Party. Laugh all you like, they're right wing bastards who're very much in the neo-conservative vein of things.

They're making "inciting violence against the community" and "supporting terrorism" a crime. WHAT IS THAT?! I mean how the hell can you draw a line there? If I publish an opinion article saying that the only way to fulfil certain political aims is armed resistance, is this now a crime? It will now be a crime to sympathise with terrorists and freedom fighters (by their old name that no-one uses anymore) I take it. In which case we have little choice but to agree with the hegemony if they declare some things "terrorism".

This is bullshit. They've been taking our rights away slowly and surely for years, eating away at the powers of the opposition and the public. And no-one bloody well cares.

The first and scarier article which mentions making "advocating or supporting terrorism" a crime of incitement. [theage.com.au]

It's been watered down but it's still damn scary. [theage.com.au]

In Response to snipergirl (#29516):

Don't you understand? The only way the government can protect our rights and freedoms is to take them away.

That's one f'd up prison colony you have there. This is what happens when you try to be free but you didn't invent it like my country did.

In Response to deerboy (#29530):

USA! USA!

Yeah, federal parliamentary democracy blows. This is what happens when you go around letting the British royal family be your symbolic head of state.

At least in the US our political pendulum might eventually swing another way... it's more of a plumb bob, I guess.

In Response to banzai (#29541):

You really think that, don't you?

In Response to deerboy (#29545):

He just doesn't realize that our political pendulum comes with a pit.

The title of this thread is now so much more appropriate [reuters.com]

In Response to zamphir (#29548):

That $3000 grant to the parents of every baby born must've paid off.

In Response to unFalln (#29550):

That $3000 grant to the parents of every baby born must've paid off.

Well, you're here, right?

In Response to zamphir (#29551):

I can't imagine $3000 having been paid to my parents when I was born. Heck, that would've bought a car!

In Response to unFalln (#29553):

I can't imagine $3000 having been paid to my parents when I was born.

Neither can I.

....

You're just walking into them, aincha?

In Response to snipergirl (#29516):

Isn't it fun since the bloody liberals got the majority in the senate? We're being dragged back to the fifties.

Conservatives wouldn't even change their underwear if they didn't have to.

In Response to zamphir (#29554):

You're just walking into them, aincha?

That's okay. Whatever I'm walking into, it seems pretty soft.

In Response to unFalln (#29556):

Soft as a fox!

Or maybe fox poo.