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Lying about citizenship: Australian politicians before the high court : Comments
By Binoy Kampmark, published 28/8/2017To read the section any other way, would result in a 'ridiculous' interpretation, one that would also disqualify up to half the population from sitting in Parliament.
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Take this into account:
20 or more years ago, in my early 20's I once chose not to vote because I thought all politicians we're liars, dishonest and didn''t keep election promises (liar shouldn't have told me the Gateway Bridge would be free after a few years) and I was fined $120 for not voting, and I refused to pay that fine out of principle and instead served 3 or 4 days in the police watchouse (at $30 a day)
I decidided that wasn't going to pay it and that taxpayers themselves should cover the cost of my stay and provide for me since they supported creating a stupid law that forced me to vote for these lying politicians.
It's funny I actually almost forgot all about it, seems so long ago.
But the bottom line is this: I've already served time locked up for several days in the 90's for choosing not to vote for lying scumbags.
So what happens when I'm proven right?
And that politicians are liars and dishonest and do not even have the right to be politicians?
What happens now?
Do I get my 3 or 4 days back?
Or will any of these people serve a single day locked up for what they did, surely worse than I did not voting, (I'm now justified in my failure to vote by their failure to be eligible to sit in parliament)
And so, we go back to the status qao where I'm forced to vote for lying scumbags.
But the law has changed now, they won't issue warrants for unpaid fines for failing to vote, they will take my drivers license instead.
Screw this country, and the liars that run it.
If these people don't serve time in jail like I did for not voting, then there's no real justice in this country.
I told you all long ago, build a prison for the politicians who wrong us, until then the country's a bloody joke.