Further Loss of Liberty in Australia

Vince

Just saw this on the Net...be very careful and tread lightly Gelan...something as simple as a sneeze in the wrong direction could prove to be rather troublesome mate.

Orwellian 'shadow government' and your liberty is at risk

Tremblay

They all want to be (dick)---(tators)

gelandangan

Somehow Aussie laws are getting more and more ridiculous.

PaulS

The weird thing is that government will continue to take control of your lives until they are confronted by a group of people who say - "NO, I will not comply". At that point governments will actually back up in a confused stupor trying to figure out what it was you just did.
Like the groups around Washington State when they tried to pass a law that said All gun transfers were illegal (a felony) unless they were handled through a licensed dealer. Licensed dealers are only compelled to do background checks for the sale of guns in their inventory. A "transfer" was changed in definition to mean the change of control over a gun from a change in ownership of a gun. So, to loan a gun to a friend or relative for a weekend hunting trip the new law requires the the person who is borrowing your gun has to go through a background check and to get your gun back you have to go through a background check.
People stood up (between 2 and 3 thousand) stood on the capital lawn with their loaded guns and exchanged and even bought and sold privately owned guns in front of the state police, county Sheriff and capital police without any action taken. The state police and county Sheriff said they were probably in the safest area of the whole state that morning. All those fully armed individuals and not a single confrontation, no businesses ransacked, no looting, and no arrests were made. This inspite of every one who participated, according to the new law, committed felonies in front of the police. The "law" is a farcical unjust act and has been negated in theory and practice. The law enforcers will not enforce the unjust and unconstitutional act that is called a law. It simply does not exist unless you wish to submit to it.

TRBLSHTR

That wanna be legal stuff happening in oz sounds like it's somewhere between the old soviet union-KGB tactics and mexicos crooked dealings with tourists,or it's own people! Confused

Vince

Paul, it's great that doing what they did worked for the people of Washington State. Unfortunately that would not work out here for a number of reasons mate.

Some of these laws are aimed directly at criminal gangs and outlaw (1%) bike gangs (Hells Angels, Bandidos, Rebels etc), however they deliberately keep the laws a little vague because that gives the Police a bit of leeway to "interpret" the law, and the ability to apply these laws to pretty much anybody, in order to take subsequent action of some sort.