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Originally Posted by DJR-351
Love my country.....but i certainly dont shove it down other peoples throats...
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Me too.
Although...
I love having a bill of rights.
A legal system “Speed cameras” that find you guilty before being proven innocent.
Where paedophiles can be given suspended sentences.
Where big business dictates to government how they want the system run.
Where someone who rapes and murders a woman gets less jail time than someone who rips off the tax office.
Where a state government can virtually steal your land of you by rezoning it and imposing a $90,000 a hectare levy on the sale forcing you to sell it to a greedy developer for less that what your tax bill would be.
Where exotic cars that are safe enough for German Autobahns are not considered safe to use here under Australian design rules.
Where someone who abuses an animal can be given a jail sentence but someone who abuses a child is given counselling.
Where a federal government imposes an Alcopops tax that makes a legal drink more expensive than illegal drugs.
Where building workers lose the right to silence when they appear before the ABCC.
Where truck drivers by law must surrender documents to authorities that may incriminate themselves, yet no other citizens are required to do this.
Where civil liberties are being eroded with “anti gang laws” that are supposed to be for bike gangs but will eventually be used on any group the government doesn’t like.
Where a citizen can get five years in prison for refusing to cooperate with ASIO on a questioning warrant, even if not suspected of an offence.
Where the federal government wants to censor the internet so citizens can’t dig up sensitive information about them, sorry, so our kids are protected from the dangers of pornography.
Where asylums seekers are given detention and are treated better than some of our returned serviceman.
I could go on but it doesn’t matter.
I love Australia and I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else, however, it isn’t perfect here.