http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34077174
What is the world coming to?
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What is the world coming to?
If you don't live in the United States and never will, then why would you care about their domestic laws?
*sigh*...why do I bother...
How MANY times must I say this???
The US does NOT constrain its lunacy within its own borders!! It exports them. It disperses its idiocy around the globe in a diverse range of forms.
Despite it being the national equivalent, both intellectually and superficially, of Hulk Hogan, it heavily influences young minds the world over. Illicit guns in other western countries are more likely to made in the USA.
Furthermore, you're talking about a country that has invaded other countries simply because they operate under a different political system. Its a country that assassinates people in other, sovereign, nations.
And it believes its RIGHT!!!
The rest of the world has a right to say "No!!! You're fucking it up for all of us."
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How MANY times must I say this???
The US does NOT constrain its lunacy within its own borders!! It exports them. It disperses its idiocy around the globe in a diverse range of forms.
Despite it being the national equivalent, both intellectually and superficially, of Hulk Hogan, it heavily influences young minds the world over. Illicit guns in other western countries are more likely to made in the USA.
Furthermore, you're talking about a country that has invaded other countries simply because they operate under a different political system. Its a country that assassinates people in other, sovereign, nations.
And it believes its RIGHT!!!
The rest of the world has a right to say "No!!! You're fucking it up for all of us."
So, the country makes guns like many other countries do? Oh and you don't like it's shows? Don't buy, don't watch and most importantly don't go. Most shows these days world wide are crap. I find other things to occupy my entertainment time. You should too if it bothers you.
Unlike you, I do not address problems in the world by turning my back on them, obviously.
I take it you don't have children, or grandchildren?
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I take it you don't have children, or grandchildren?
I have a grown son my friend.
I do not turn my back on big problems, but the domestic crime problems of the Unites States do not affect me or you at all. I have no dog in that fight. I have worked in the same industry since I was 18. I have worked in every part of the world. If I made it my mission to be so upset over each one's internal problems I would never be able to get a moment's peace. Most of the problems I have seen made internal American problems look like a weekend game of golf.
My point is that America's "problems" are NOT internal.
And if you are not concerned about other so called internal problems such as ISIS, the war in Syria, the collapse of government in Libya, the seize of the Crimea and NK shelling SK, you should be.
Each and every one of those has the potential to impact your life, even in the safe haven of Canada.
We've got our own problems in this country, Spectre.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/australian-border-force-to-patrol-melbourne-cbd-as-part-of-antisocial-behaviour-operation-20150828-gj9qtd.html
Papers please?
https://youtu.be/u4Ku17CqdZg
https://youtu.be/BB_l6sLxNj4
God bless those noble Australians and Americans who are standing up to the Stasi police in each country with orders from their fascist overlords. Obviously, it's from both ends of the candle but Australians shouldn't fault Americans for vehemently insisting that their ability to physically revolt remains sacred according to its fundamental laws based on timeless historical facts of humanity and nor should Americans be scornful of we noble Aussies who've never said no to our government bar that one small massacre at Eureka where we threw our rudimentary weapons down like little schoolgirl bitches and which gave birth to our socialistic world stage strut. We strike! We surround a train station building without swiping our public transit RFID passes with ID intel behind them at the turnstile.
Of course, the Americans are a ridiculous lot. They simply do not know how to bang pots and pans like we do. They haven't the foggiest on how to prelube their assholes while bending and spreading like we do.
We take our slavery out onto the sporting field with every Footy, Rugby, or Football match and we revel in the victories but mostly the losses then we hunker down and dream of the next season or competition.
Australia needed stooge control long before gun control ever might have become an issue.
(And it looks like America has a greater need for stooge control these days as well. :laugh: )
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And if you are not concerned about other so called internal problems such as ISIS, the war in Syria, the collapse of government in Libya, the seize of the Crimea and NK shelling SK, you should be.
Each and every one of those has the potential to impact your life, even in the safe haven of Canada.
Yes, those hot spots around the world are potential flash points. Now what? And besides, what do those places have to do with America's internal politics?
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http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/australian-border-force-to-patrol-melbourne-cbd-as-part-of-antisocial-behaviour-operation-20150828-gj9qtd.html
Papers please?
Actually, you need to be more precise.
That is a VICTORIAN operation. I'm not aware of any reason Victorians should feel more inclined to check the bona fides of people merely going about their business, but they also voted in Kennett, so they appear capable of any act of social stupidity.
As to your cynicism, please be aware that I've never held Australia up as a model to follow. Nor would I, as long as we labour under a similar defunct, corrupt and outdated mode of governing as the US and elsewhere.
Bear in mind, as you indulge in your silly cynicism, that our governments, as dysfunctional as they are, are far more sensitive to the clamour and cacophony of banging kitchenware than most others. As evidenced by the fact that operation "Papers, Please" was abandoned after the noise of impacting metalware drowned out the feeble excuses your premier proffered.
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http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/australian-border-force-to-patrol-melbourne-cbd-as-part-of-antisocial-behaviour-operation-20150828-gj9qtd.html
Papers please?
Actually, you need to be more precise.
That is a VICTORIAN operation. I'm not aware of any reason Victorians should feel more inclined to check the bona fides of people merely going about their business, but they also voted in Kennett, so they appear capable of any act of social stupidity.
As to your cynicism, please be aware that I've never held Australia up as a model to follow. Nor would I, as long as we labour under a similar defunct, corrupt and outdated mode of governing as the US and elsewhere.
Bear in mind, as you indulge in your silly cynicism, that our governments, as dysfunctional as they are, are far more sensitive to the clamour and cacophony of banging kitchenware than most others. As evidenced by the fact that operation "Papers, Please" was abandoned after the noise of impacting metalware drowned out the feeble excuses your premier proffered.
The ABF or Australian Border Force ( ac_toofunny ) since only July of this year is a Federal Agency formerly between two agencies (ACBPS and the DIBP). It's not just the Victorian premier, it's our beloved PM taking flak for it. Their first major faux Department of Homeland Security (Aussie Thong and Singlet Wearing Gangnam Style) operation fell the fuck apart. That it happened to occur in Melbourne is incidental and relative to the greater populations within the more Eastern states such as Victoria and NSW. They never would have trialed it in the only Australian graveyard with streetlights for obvious reasons. Sorry, mate. You're proof Tasmanians can swim, after all.
Is that precise enough for you and do you hope to lose the TBC punters in your silly little State differentiation attempts ac_biggrin ?
The US lost its shit and started breaking its own rules with the creation of the DHS after 2001. Australia has been enviously waiting for its time to do the same since. They've brought in transit police a few years ago (TPS, for the North Americans) in order to harangue public transit users and the police forces are insisting on drone funding for "search and rescue", bushfire prevention, and other humanitarian falsehoods they really don't give a full shit about. The uniforms and sidearms are even increasingly becoming police state. The one thing which hasn't changed in decades is the propensity of Australian domestic security forces to fatally shoot a despondent teenager with a knife or hammer and encircled at 5-10 meters away (because talking down someone is weakness).
Let's dispense with the facade and call it all for what it is. Australian authorities yearn for the same tyrannical power which the US has so effortlessly exploited for its own gain after 9/11.
That turnstile protests shut them down now is no major feat, nor is the fact that Australia is not a Republic, like the US, but is run by the Westminster system rather than the Presidential system, and no guarantees of civil liberty will ever exist because quasi elected officials in a mandatory voting system are under no obligation to consider their minority constituents or revisit the Magna Carta.
Plenty of opportunity for grandstanding though, like Andrew Wilkie MP.
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Notice he didn't mention his FVEY knowledge or affiliations (Five Eyes). He also didn't mention the rest of the Western world behaving just like Stalin and just like the US's darling boy, Pinochet (until they abandoned him like Saddam, Qaddafi, and the rest). But you continue to toy with the North Americans on this topic. It must be empowering to you to talk so much shit and get so little back in knowledgeable substance (kind of like shooting a teenager with a poorly brandished pocket knife, eh?) ac_toofunny
Your Australian government does respond to populace outrage far better than most.
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How do they buy their surrender? :laugh3:
:pop:
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I'm sorry.
Did I speak too much English for you.
That operation was targeted in VICTORIA, and sanctioned BY the Victorian government.
It was not an AUSTRALIAN operation, or it would have been undertaken in AUSTRALIA, which includes all the States that Victoria isn't.
The agency involved is Federal...because its BORDER protection. Thanks for the tip, Captain Obvious.
If Tasmanians are the shit people make them out to be, doesn't that make Victoria the arsehole of Australia?
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lol, Aussie on Aussie
Here's a refill for you and one for me :pop: :pop:
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lol, Aussie on Aussie
Here's a refill for you and one for me :pop: :pop:
He's not a proper Aussie and he hasn't the foggiest clue about the ABF or their Federal duties carried out, and in this case trialed, in a State.
There's a reason why virtually no intelligent soul ever willingly migrates to South Australia or Tasmania, and Spectre is proof why. ac_biggrin
Now, why do you suggest I am not a proper Aussie?
You said as much in our group Skype chat. Memory a bit sketchy these days?
Odd.
I don't recall saying that.
I said I was born elsewhere, and have dual citizenship. I remind you, I am here by CHOICE, and I've been here longer than you.
So...what makes you think I'm not a proper Australian?
All part of the Skype call, crusty.
Just like your "I can't disclose my voice because I'm famous"?
I wouldn't say famous although my voice is recognizable to a number of people, as I mentioned.
So is mine, fuckhead.
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:ohmy:
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OMG, it's Olivia Newton John! ac_wot
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OMG, it's Olivia Newton John! ac_wot
She's ridiculously famous and somewhat looked down upon. I'm not. :001_tongue:
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OMG, it's Olivia Newton John! ac_wot
She's ridiculously famous and somewhat looked down upon. I'm not. :001_tongue:
Okay, Dame Edna Everage then. :laugh3:
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OMG, it's Olivia Newton John! ac_wot
She's ridiculously famous and somewhat looked down upon. I'm not. :001_tongue:
Okay, Dame Edna Everage then. :laugh3:
Dame Edna is actually a fictitious comedy character of Barry Humphries. It stands to reason that I'm even less famous than that, although he's had a good wicket in the entertainment business (Something I could only aspire to and still come up short in my wildest dreams).
Dinky thinks he's Paul Hogan. Crocodile Dummee.
:001_rolleyes:
Many Americans call for gun control but they're out-voted by money from gun manufacturers and the NRA.
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Then there is that pesky constitution that gets in the way.
America is addicted to guns and violence.
It will never change until the bodies fill the streets and smoke blacks out their sky.
Don't try so hard, Spectre.
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It will never change until the bodies fill the streets and smoke blacks out their sky.
I remember hearing perhaps more than ten years ago that the rate of violent crime in the United States was going down..
Maybe it's increasing again.
It is long overdue for the American government to take away the guns. THere are far too many guns in the USA.
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The taking away by government doesn't stop with guns.
Why is that? America declares itself the "World's Greatest Democracy", even going to the extent of invading other countries to impose their form of government on them.
Now, what you're saying is you don't trust this "World's Greatest Government"?
Weird, eh?
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Now, what you're saying is you don't trust this "World's Greatest Government"?
Weird, eh?
Democratic or not, some people have little faith in self serving politicians..
It's not only limited to the United States either.
Virtually all politicians are self serving. The remainder are either dead or ignored by the media.
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Now, what you're saying is you don't trust this "World's Greatest Government"?
Weird, eh?
Democratic or not, some people have little faith in self serving politicians..
It's not only limited to the United States either.
Then why do Americans constantly laud their government?
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Now, what you're saying is you don't trust this "World's Greatest Government"?
Weird, eh?
Democratic or not, some people have little faith in self serving politicians..
It's not only limited to the United States either.
Then why do Americans constantly laud their government?
And Australia does not hold up their version of democracy as a model for the world?
No. It doesn't.
It just gets on with it.
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It just gets on with it.
They lecture just like the rest of them. Hey, how many refugees is Australia planning on? We know the number for Gulf oil and Far East countries.
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Now, what you're saying is you don't trust this "World's Greatest Government"?
Weird, eh?
Democratic or not, some people have little faith in self serving politicians..
It's not only limited to the United States either.
Then why do Americans constantly laud their government?
And Australia does not hold up their version of democracy as a model for the world?
Australia's model of democracy has three parts.
First, there is the Executive Branch. Our Prime Minister, no matter their political leaning, sucks off Executive leaders from more powerful nations. It's an Executive function so all is above board.
We also have a Legislative Branch. They all suck off the Prime Minister in standing and their pack of sycophant cocksuckers party for some sort of preferential treatment. Some are perpetual swallowers while others are militant spitters, yet they all still suck one in the same. Each new election, the swallowers and spitters bicker with the media and a doe eyed public about who spit and swallowed the most or the least. Since our Prime Ministers have seldom ever spit out a load from a foreign partner, the Legislative Branch of Australia by default has digested and recycled foreign ejaculatory fluids in their mouths in which to spit, swallow, or gurgle indefinitely until better cum comes up.
Lastly, there is our Judicial Branch. They can't be seen ever sucking off any parties despite the fact that they're appointed by a combination of swallowers and spitters at the suggestion of the swallowers in charge. The Judiciary feigns disgust at the concept of cocksucking while quaffing the seminal fluid undercurrents of not just national private bit fellated genital wine, but the worldly variants. No blow job is rendered legal unless localized swallowers, spitters, and garglers have cum together with the bigger world cocks at large (in the mouths, stomachs, and napkins of similar nations such as Canada, New Zealand, England, et cetera).
As you can see, Australia is a beacon for living free and independent (or the first to suckle a bigger bell end stuffed in its mouth against the peoples consent and knowledge).