We all know the Pauline Hanson related comment.....but I am becoming really ticked off, with the increasing levels of security guards, pretty much swamping our nation and telling people what to do, very much due to overseas terrorist attacks.

Recently I was on a tram, with my wheeled shopping trolley, and a security guard asked and was pushing me to move down into another spot on the tram.

These guards have only been recently introduced onto the tram network and I am concerned more "full on" security officers, will be dictating lives and telling people what to do in Australia.

I really wanted to kick this guy up the buttocks. I mean are more parts of Australia, going to become controlled higher than this?

Hi NathanJ

If you follow the link below it will bring up the Safe Cities webpage.
On the bottom right hand corner is a link to 'Book of Abstracts'.
This pdf and website might give you a better idea of future plans.

http://safecities.net.au/

Give a nobody a uniform now in a number of instances you have a bully, a tyrant or someone of that nature.

Australia is to me by far ahead in the implementing of a Nanny state, the Governments Federal, state and local want to control everything.

There will be such a large bureaucracy we will not be able to afford it generally speaking public servants do not make money they just cost us money.

Up go the taxes again.

Politicians measure their contribution and their entitlement for large remuneration packages by the number of laws they pass.

The sheeple don't seem to realise that the more laws that are passed the more independence they themselves stand to lose.

However, where 90% (it must be above that by now) of Australians are urban and rely more and more on the State for simply everything, can there be any surprise that politicians believe that they are the masters and not the public they serve?

You get the same syndrome where residential housing tenants are concerned. Government regulations make the landlord responsible for everything, even damage. For instance, a licensed tradesman is required to change a lightbulb, or to check the smoke alarm ($95 to press a button with a stick). -BUT then tenants complain with surprise that rentals have inconveniently increased, "Hey, that is a 'slab' or a litre of Bundy less a month for me".

The answer, NathanJ, is that it is independence and self-reliance that assures and delivers choice. Less 'Gubbermint OUGHT to do this and that!' and more, 'Why should government be involving itself in private lives?'.

I can't see any evidence of a reduction in the demand for government to deliver less services. It is quite the reverse in fact and regarding public transport there are some who would have inspectors checking how far your knees are spread. That is, if the complainants would ever share a seat with you. Men should stand for women, apparently.

Maybe move to the country, but the whingers are there as well.

My, "I can't see any evidence of a reduction in the demand for government to deliver less services" should be, "I can't see any evidence of a reduction in the demand for government services".

yep the regressives failed Islamic immigration experiment has cost billions in added security. Added to this the violence often seen by the socialist left ensure the police force remains large.