The freedom of my youth no longer exists today. Unfortunately the young with no experience of actual freedom are the last to know.

With nanny state/media control, the destruction of social and economic freedom encroaches with each passing minute.

Over the break we were barraged with advertising from the police assuring us "that they will get us" with their random blitz invasions upon our privacy. They spoiled the whole christmas break for mine and had nil effect upon road toll outcomes anyway.

In my day police were required to target criminal behavior and law breaking. They had no such right to invade the privacy of citizens going about their daily business. Refusing such a random invasion to your privacy is now against the law based upon the false principal of the greater good. Of course giving authority excessive power has a similar effect upon society to giving criminals open slather. Both effect freedom negatively.

Freedom is non existent in the workplace, as expecting a pay rise to make up for the rising cost of living is now regarded anti-social. Forming a collective to protect the living standards of the working population(e.g. union), is thought militant.

When your privatized essential service provider whacks your electricity bill by 20% over the new year , not one person purportedly representing your interests in Govt will do anything to prevent or question such willful greed or unnecessary profit. At the same time your Govt reps will expect the taxpayer to make up the shortfall in infrastructure maintenance, not spent by the same greedy profiteers.Or alternatively, expect you to accept that your electricity be switched off during a heat wave as fire prevention.

Should you seek to mass and demonstrate such we have seen recently with the occupy protests, then you can expect to be dragged away by the throat by the very same police paid to protect your right to free speech.Should go to an outdoor concert you can expect to be sniffed by a dog with an 80% fail rate and still get stripped search should deny allegations made by a dog.

con't

At the bottom of page 1 is Cont'd but where is it cont'd ?

a good start...but the clever[est]..guys
running the globe got it all sown-up....

the most horrible dictraiters have lowerd the standard..[govt is for proffit now..not just proffiteering and serving exploiters]

its not personal..
just keep the working slobs working
for one dollar less than they can survive on...but..[never let them actually 'live' the dreams sold them..in the media]

protesting dont work..
you might get a busload at most we will dare resist
[and any bigger your a threat;read terrorist..or anarchist.]

the minute one lone voice becomes two
the other echo..is a govt stooge there to make sure
nuthin changes...who can we trust to be a number too

thats why i blog as a loner
10 years of activism..didnt change nuthin
heck most were just setups to allow the appearance of balance

freedom is a concept..slaves cant concieve
nanny knows best how to lull the child back to sleep

anyhow i decided to give it one more year...[blogging ..not pro-testing]..

i tested...and there is no alter-native
so im pretty much over it..[all of it]

if words cant fix it
nuthin will

T2,

Considering that the Labor you love is the architect of the nanny state, all I can say is that now maybe you can see a fraction of what is wrong with Labor's social engineering.

You Got it right. How many people know about the changes to the PPRA act in Qld. passed without so much as a 'by your leave' the police now have the power to detain you, search you, enter your home, search for anything they suspect is illegal, all without warrent and with a statement of 'reasonable suspicion' which is so broad that mickey mouse can get away with it. As an example of this in road enforcement, just do a file search on 'kippa-ring cops.zip' on fileserve and download it [ free]. You'll get the 'picture'.

Sounds like an unjustified gripe to me. Road carnage costs big bucks, so when people get the idea you have to follow road rules, nothing will change. Serial offenders should be off the road immediately. They put the lives of non offenders at risk. Dogs don't tell lies, Shows the mentality of the sort of person that go to them places. People that draw attention to themselves are the greatest whingers. They know right from wrong, but if you don't break the law it aint fun.