[plug] [OT] Free speach in Oz [was Goodbye, Columbia]

[Bret Busby]

On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Adrian Blockley wrote:

> Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 22:50:49 +0800
> From: Adrian Blockley <a.blockley at poboxes.com>
> Reply-To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] [OT] Free speach in Oz [was Goodbye, Columbia]
> Resent-Date: Sun,  2 Feb 2003 22:55:19 +0800 (WST)
> Resent-From: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> 
> 
> On 2003.02.02 18:25 Alex Polglaze wrote:
> [snip lots of interesting points but few that I would agree with]
> > Personally, I can put up with some haze in winter when the wind isn't 
> > quite right, but we haven't had a disastrous bush fire like 
> > Dwellingup for over 40 years, so obviously we are on the right track 
> > in WA.
> 
> It aint ever that simple. Haze is not just a visual amenity problem but 
> a major health problem for many people with respiratory illness. Having 
> said that CALM have a very tough job and work very hard to minimise 
> haze events due to fuel reduction burns
> 
> > 
> > Free software an free speech, I guess they go together.
> > 
> 
> Aparently not. Free speech isn't quite as free as we would like in 
> Australia. I have some friends who have been protesting along the 
> Causway against the potential war with Iraq. A kind gentleman from Main 
> Roads turned up and began photographing them and told them they could 
> no longer protest there without paying large sums of money for the 
> right to advertise. We only have free speech for those who can afford 
> it...
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Adrian
> 

It would be good, if free speech was introduced into Australia.

I remember a man imprisoned for the duration of a feral election, for 
trying to tell the voting public that they could actually vote 
democratically at elections in this country. The feral government 
decided that the people had no right to vote democratically, to know 
that they could vote democartically, or, to tell people that they could 
vote democratically.

(And, to prevent democracy, the feral government later prevented the 
people from voting on whether to become a republic; the question was 
deliberately prevented from being put)

Then, the feral government implemented the Internet Oppression Bill, to 
censor communications on the Internet, to further restrict 
communications in this country. (Previously discussed, with that 
name. It will be in the list archive.)

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
  Chapter 28 of 
  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
  A Trilogy In Four Parts",
  written by Douglas Adams, 
  published by Pan Books, 1992 
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