🚀 go-pugleaf

David Addinall wrote:
> 
> "Jim (from Oz)" wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 29 May 1999 16:48:48 +0800, David Addinall
> > <addinall@southwest.com.au> wrote:
> > snip
> >
> > >Pleasure, but could I just remind you all that 10s of 1000s of Shooters had a
> > >similar
> > >rally in Brisbane a couple of years ago and the response from the guvmint was
> > >"get fucked, you have no rights" and a willingness to spend half a billion
> > >dollars 'banning' something to 'protect the kiddies'.  Starting to sound
> > >familiar yet?  A few of us in here predicted the net would come
> > >under attack next and many were labelled 'conspiracy nuts'.  Well, the
> > >day has arrived - here we go for another round of chucking money at
> > >smokescreens and ignoring the real problems.
> > snip
> >
> > Not to mention the 100,000+ of us who marched on the streets of
> > Melbourne at that time too Mark. Like you, I also said the net will be
> > next and I _am_ going to say I told you so! Trouble is most of the
> > people on these sorts of NGs are a bit PC and to most PCers
> > Guns = Bad. You didn't support us, and now you are starting to
> > pay the price.
> >
> > What will be banned next, I wonder? Will anyone care? Part of the
> > reason I move to Oz (from the UK) was because of the government
> > secrecy and control there - is it time to move on again?
> 
> Me too.  I left pommieland to escape a nanny state built to
> control  66 million dumb downed people running out of
> resources.  Now with Australia being run by the bunch of
> dishonest fucks that inhabit canberra it may be time for another
> shift.

You couldn't just, instead of gleefully seeing this as revenge for our
lack of familiarity with guns and our horror at some prick shooting over
twenty people including children in Tassie, turn around and help us
fight this injustice, instead of just running away again?