NO right to Protest anymore ?

Seems we just keep on following America... bring the cops out in force against any and all protestors. Use force to stop people having the right to Protest and be Heard... Yep.. that's America in a nutshell. Except this is in Australia.

In Amerca you run the risk of being injured, killed or stuck in police holding cells until they see fit to deal with you. In Australia you run the risk of being injured, killed or stuck in police holding cells until they see fit to deal with you.

Yep, that's the same thing.

It's weird to think that Australia became a Nation BECAUSE of Protest.. the Shearers Strike and the stand taken at Eureka by Miners against the Crown.

But now anyone who protests is considered to be acting illegaly, and they get NO support from the average people ... just look at the Occupy Movement that was TRYING to make some positive change for all of You... but none of You supported it. You just watched them on youtube being trampled by horses, peppered sprayed by Militarised Police in Victoria and Sydney, being physically attacked in all the cities.. and you stood back doing NOTHING.

This tells me most Australians have turned into GUTLESS bastards.

I have never been more disappointed in the Australian Poeple as I have been in the past year. You get what You DESERVE. So please continue to stay in your FEAR, stay in your hope that it never happens to you... and await the day when you HAVE TO protest.. and then get trampled, peppered sprayed, shot at with little bean-bags and violently attacked by Your Public Servants.

Fined for not voting in Council Elections ?

For all my life the only people who voted in Council Elections were home owners who pay Rates. Makes sense right ?

So sometime in the last few years the Law must have been changed to make everyone vote for Councils. Since I don't watch TV News, or read newspapers, I was completely unaware that the Law had been changed.

Friday morning I check my mailbox to find a notice from the Electoral Office saying I had 2 weeks to pay a $100 fine for not voting in my local Council elections !!!

It went on to say that if I paid the fine immediately it would only cost me $50, but will be $100 BY the due date.... which just so happens to coincide with me having to pay Rego on my motorcycle. Being on a Pension means you get paid once every 2 weeks and can only just afford to pay phone/internet connection bills after everything else is paid for too.

So I have to wonder why the Electoral Office only gives us 2 weeks to pay a fine that is huge compared to my income level. If not paid on time it will incur late fees and charges that will see it rise above $150. And then I will have to go through the SPURS system to pay the fine off... which also incurs more fees to bring the fine into the region of being $200+.

Seems to me these BASTARDS just keep finding ways to suck money out of everyone, and especially those at the bottom of the income pile... like us Pensioners.

Plain Packaging for Smokes.. what a dumb idea

Seriously.

This is such a dumbarse idea, more stupid than anything else I can think of.

Instead of spending all those dollars forcing this stupid idea through into Law, why not use that power to force Cigarette Companies to STOP using toxins in the manufacturing processes ? Yep, they would have to rely on the good old fashioned drying in the sun or shed method.

The health benefits to the nation would be instantly noticable.

Then the government could also force them to STOP adding coloured and flavoured FRUIT PULP to the tobacco to make it go further and thus increase their PROFITS.

Seriously.

Has the world gone totally INSANE ?

What is wrong with all the Politicians today ?

Can no-one see any sense these days ?

If I was Prime Minister there would be many things I would change for the better... not just looking like I am doing something about the problems.. but actually doing something about the problems.

Grrr at the new Qld Health Minister...

Bloody hell man... answer your email inbox!!!!

Or better yet, employ some lackies who will do their job properly and insure you read important mail.

Mr Health Minister.... Lawrence Springborg.. seems either you don't read emails, or your lackies don't pass them onto you, or you don't give a shit and couldn't be bothered to read what you need to know.

So now I have to print out the letter and hand it to you directly when you appear in my town again.. maybe you might read it then. And maybe then you might realise how important it is for you to do some damn thing about the Flouride Issue facing we Queenslanders.

Maybe you will learn how it is killing people, and thus how you as Health Minister could save 40 or 50,000 lives each year... simply by turning off the Flouride.

Maybe you would learn about the very negative health effects being recorded world-wide in countries and towns where Flouride has been in the water supply for years ?

Maybe you would read important statements by Professionals, Scientists and Health Care Researchers who prove beyond all doubt how bad this Flouride in water really is for the people you represent ?

Now that would be doing your job properly wouldn't it ?