Your opinions, please...?

Question

"Pornography and alcohol will be banned for Aborigines in Australia's Northern Territory," the country's prime minister, John Howard, announced today.

Let me get this right:
1. You enter a new continent and colonize it, murdering thousands with superior firepower;
2. You steal the indigenous people's land, dispossessing them forever.
3. You rape their women, kidnap their children and put them in "homes" to rape them, too.
4.You bring the booze in, of course.
6. You exclude "the blacks" in every aspect of your new government.
Three centuries later, what do you do for a encore? Apparently, you announce that you're shocked by the rampant violence, despair, and alcoholism, in the original people's culture.
It's got to be stopped! It's time to ban pornography! You've finally gotten to the root of the thing!
Police are hired to flush out and imprison those found guilty of "possession." By the time you round up all the offending parents, you can send a new generation into government prisons

and foster homes— what a nostalgia trip! You wiped out 80% of their population in the old days, but clearly there's more work to be done.
And demon rum... gosh, it sure can go bad in the wrong people's hands, eh? As one Aborigine critic put it, "If they're going to do that, they're going to have to do that with every single person in Australia, not just black people."
I'd like to see the Prime Minister ban drinking in his neighborhood for six f@cking minutes.

Have at it, people. Parts of this sound a lot like the good old USA, but no matter. Your opinions...

Bunz...I thought you were better than that. Oh, well, we're all entitled to our own opinion, I guess.

Answer 1

Does anyone in Oz have the stones to see such legislation brought to a referendum instead of a decree?
They took your guns and now they want your porn and booze. What next, are they going to outlaw quaint Aussie expressions???

Answer 2

Why after how many years in office and a stagnant campaign does the PM do this now?

Why stop the "welfare programs" in the southern part of the country?

Typical Liberal tying to do too little too late? Typical Conservative trying to get them on their own 2 feet?

Answer 3

Its a way to blame "aborigines " ( btw dont use this word, it means "without origin" the word itself shows who wrote History) for the problems Capitalism itself creates.

Answer 4

If this doesn't stink of "APARTHEID" I don't know what apartheid is!
How does a bartender know if a person is Aborigine, mixed race, pacific islander, Indian from India, or Nelson Mendella?

There's plenty of people from other races that make fools of themselves, or break laws while intoxicated.
I thought the U.S. learned it's lesson on booze when prohibition was repealed.

Here's a toast to the Queen....hic........hic.....burp.
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Answer 5

My guess is that you're a liberal! You can't hold what happened in a different era and generation against the Australian people of today! That's just stupid! Would you rather they leave the violence alone and let them kill each other off entirely? t least they are trying to find a solution to the violence, instead of standing by idly!

Answer 6

i guess you didn;t read the whole thing!! I couldn't believe the Australian gov't would do that , but the Aborigines get drunk and allegedly abuse young children. Enough said!

Answer 7

well they couldn't include them in the anti-terror campaign, so they had to find some way to lock em away.

Answer 8

that ain't right mate