Hmmm.... Well this IS interesting.
Where exactly do they drag up these mentalcases posing for leaders from?
So she's a member of the Greens who supports Safe Schools Coalition, and she's about what her grandaughter might read on a van.
Never mind she supports legislation that her Grade 4 daughter will come home talking about anal and oral like an expert....

http://www.actgreens.org.au/caroline-lecouteur-for-murrumbidgee
http://greens.org.au/tags/safe-schools-program

http://www.news.com.au/travel/australian-holidays/queensland/queensland-to-ban-sexist-slogans-on-campervans/news-story/b9aaaa769556023fde2d1bf6c3b2e1fb

Not sure 'Anything's a Dildo... If You're Brave Enough" is exactly appropriate for road vehicles.

What constitutes acceptable behaviour is completely subjective and prone to change. That does not mean that standards do not exist, or that any behaviour is acceptable. People do push the boundaries of acceptable taste, and sometimes they get pushed right back again by an outraged public. Wicked Campers is one such example. To the best of my knowledge, "Wicked campers" with their highly offensive (to most people) messages are thankfully already banned in NSW. I still remember my own shock at seeing the offensive message on a van in front of me, and I remember the outcry in the local media about this particular company. I am surprised that they are still operating in Queensland.

Don Aitken seems to think it is wrong to censor Wicked Campers, and he is trying unsuccessfully to liken it to a free speech issue. The freedom to comment upon any social or scientific topic is the foundation stone of a free society. Butt that does not mean that companies selling products can greatly overstep the bounds of acceptable behaviour by deliberately offending almost the entire Australian public in order to gain publicity and improve their bottom line. If we believed that, we would allow tobacco and alcohol companies to insert advertisements in children's magazines.

The family is the primary socialising unit of every advanced society and authorities do have a duty of care towards parents in their difficult task of imparting pro social values to their children. Any person who's IQ is above that of Don Aitken can understand that the message on the Wicked Campers" vans is calculated to offend and embarrass every parent or guardian driving a car full of little girls. it is because we can empathise with parents and child care givers that we agree with the Queensland Government's decision to ban the messages of "Wicked Campers.

glad that they are banned and we don't have to put up with the filfth in public. Still as Armchair points out I would much the sick perverted deceitful Greens back 'safe' schools dealt with in similar fashion.

Hell LEGO, for a change I can't disagree with any of your post.

I know if in my father's day he saw something like the crap they put on these vans then he would have the driver out by the scruff of the neck and letting him know if he saw it again there would be hell to pay.

I kind of agree we have a nanny state operating, one where it is a lot more problematic to go head to head with someone over something designed to be deliberately offensive.

I have driven past someone with a whole bunch of text, some of it quite abusive, painted on the side of their van. Usually an individual with a grievance against a particular institution, often the court system, but I would be loathed to deprive him of the right to express his opinion.

However this is a company setting out to be deliberately offensive in order to make more money. Doesn't cut it I'm afraid. They are not only using and abusing our freedom of speech but taking advantage of laws discouraging direct action being taken against them by offended citizens.

Not that I am advocating anyone breaking the law but a can of black spray paint goes a long way.

In the end it is elitists like Shadow Minister who defend this crap, mainly because they want to be seen as ideologically pure. Well stuff em, I wouldn't want this in front of my kids and if some right wing, so called, libertarian wants to label me as anti-freedom of speech then so be it.

The 'problem' is that the vans poke fun at political correctness.

If it was anti establishment or better still, anti-men, or anti-WHITE, it would be quite ok, no problem at all, for the easily offended, virtue-signallers.

Simply amazing ho some would support and even applaud graffiti that disfigures private and public buildings and they call it art, but because Wicked invokes mild satire of their own frumpish, censorious political correctness, they completely off the rails and demand censorship, BANS.

As a matter of fact the vans are social comment and art.

“Those who are most sensitive about "politically incorrect" terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to any "oppressed" group but come from privileged strata of society.”
Theodore J. Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future

This IS the age of censorship.

>I think people yearn for laws against everything because they don't have the moral fibre to deal with the nasties themselves. They have become too reliant on Big Brother to do everything for them.

This, they're basically just cowards who want to outsource their bullying to people with guns who can enforce their will.