Joe,
Ages ago I had a similar debate with Y about the state insisting he wear a helmet whilst riding his bike on a public road. He seems to think that if one did not vote for the government, one should not have to obey their laws.

It went on and on, which is why I seldom respond to Y's posts. I smile and read the next post.

Dear Banjo,

First, I don't have a bike.

I was about to purchase a bike in 1990, but then the law was introduced so I never proceeded with that purchase. I wanted to ride a bike because I was conscious of the environment and I also wanted to become fitter, but alas that didn't work out.

Now the reason an Australian-born need not obey the laws has nothing to do with whom they voted for (if even they voted at all), but with the fact that nobody has a right to impose their laws on you without your consent in the first place.

Personally I am in a different situation: on becoming an Australian citizen I accepted to follow the local laws. Nevertheless, I am under no obligation to like them, to agree with them, to consider them legitimate, or not to use my democratic rights for struggling to abolish them - as well as this whole stupid idea as if one person has a right to order another around.

Mention the word RAPE and everybody seems to jump up.
The use of the word RAPE is the same in the media as using the other four letter word.
The media would love to say F... but it is outlawed.
When German girls were raped it became the number one story world wide.
German Police tried to play down the fact that these were young male refugees who were raping.
The Police Chief even lost his job for being to politically correct by not stating which minority the rapists were from.
In Australia today we have a crime wave that is not mentioned in the media.
We have Muslims and African refugees making bombs or raping girls and even when the bomb squad is sent out to defuse the bomb.No mention is made in the media.
We are living in an age where the Police media units are controlling
what is reported.
Police are raiding homes of extremists or drug dealers and the media are not told because they are either Muslims or African refugees or both.
If they were Australian whites or Indigenous.The report would be circulated to the press