Posted on 01/30/2023 12:32:42 PM PST by bassmaner
As we all know, Australia hasn't been a bastion of freedom of late. Gun confiscation, Covid lockdowns, and entrenched leftist politicians like Dan Andrews seem to be pushing the Land Down Under in the direction of the Soviet Union.
I've noticed lately on Sky News Australia the coverage of skyrocketing crime in the the city of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. It seems that there is a particular crime problem among the indigenous population, similar to the Native American population on reservations here in the US.
The news coverage of this issue, however, seems to be putting the blame for the crime spike on availability of alcohol. And the only apparent 'cure' for this is to impose a Prohibition!
bump for Aussie FReepers ...
However, knowing how much an Aussie bloke loves his tinnie of Foster's, I doubt that they'd ever pass a nationwide prohibition of alcohol. They might try to dry up some of the Aboriginal areas, though.
Australia also has a significant number of teetotaling faiths, like SDA’s or JW’s, who might vote for prohibition because it is aligned with their understanding of the Bible, so they have a strong political base to push this.
My Grandmother made her own wine during prohibition!
She taught me a lot of things but not wine making. Dang
Most Indian reservations are dry. Hasn’t solved their alcohol related crime problem.
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Same in Canada, I believe.
Australians generally don't drink Foster's lager, that's an American marketing invention. While it was first brewed in Australia it never became popular and sells very little there, most Australians will tell you they've never touched it.
That may be true today, but in 1980 I was stationed at Mtn. Home AFB, ID, working at the time on the F-111A. A squadron of Australian F-111Cs flew into Mtn. Home and stayed for a month while the Aussies participated in Red Flag. The Aussie maintenance guys hung out with us, borrowing our shop equipment to work on their aircraft.
And they brought cases and cases of Foster's in 750 ml "oil cans" and drank that stuff quite a lot.
More importantly, they shared...
It doesn't happen in places where that isn't a problem.
Nowadays, the Australian government and state and territory governments listens to the wishes of indigenous communities in making these decisions. It's about respecting their culture and their wishes within a wider Australian context.
Most indigenous people support most of this type of intervention. You do sometimes get a few leaders in the communities that think certain interventions have gone too far but that is a minority view.
There are situations where these rules are imposed in communities that are not entirely indigenous, or where indigenous people are only a significant minority. In those cases, the rules do apply to everybody.
It is true that the gun control laws introduced in 1996 enjoyed a high level of support from the Australian community - and still do - but we didn't actually vote for them.
They came about because of the Port Arthur Massacre which came six weeks after the general election of 1996. Until then, there was no intention of the government doing anything to change the laws, at least not in the short term.
They came about because of the Port Arthur Massacre which came six weeks after the general election of 1996. Until then, there was no intention of the government doing anything to change the laws, at least not in the short term.
As you may know, here in the USA Alinsky radicals have used every dirty trick in the book to get what they want. "Never let a good crisis go to waste."
And if there is no good crisis? They invent one. Like Trayvon, Ferguson, Covid, J6, etc. and etc.
Is it possible this Port Arthur Massacre was set into motion to take away your guns? This kinda stuff is de rigeur here in the US all the time.
From what I read the welfare cards they receive only allow 20 percent spent on alcohol. Just recently all hell broke lose because a crying Lib cancelled that restriction and the people of Alice Springs went crazy with their new found freedom. Children left alone, gangs drunk and roaming.
There are people who believe Port Arthur was a conspiracy.
I do not.
The killer in that case was a mentally subnormal idiot - he’s not the type who could have been involved in anything complex.
Pretty accurate - but just for the record, Lib means something different in Australia - the Liberal Party is our main conservative party.
The decision to get rid of the regulations on alcohol was made by the new(ish) Labor government that replaced the Liberals at our election in the middle of last year. They are now backtracking on that, but they were told it was likely to be a disaster.
Maybe it was worth trying - but they took way too long to realise it wasn't working out the way they'd hoped.
Organized crime flourished and set up empires that still have not been fully broken today.
Joe Kennedy made his millions "bootlegging" liquor, mostly from Canada. This allowed him to inflict his sons upon our political system.
“The killer in that case was a mentally subnormal idiot - he’s not the type who could have been involved in anything complex.”
I am not commenting about this specific case, but mentally subnormal idiots are the best candidates for Deep State programming, mind control and/or manipulation.
Bingo. Just what I was gonna say. Here in the US, we let loose these types of mental defects to do damage and cause harm. Whether it be Antifa goons, drag queens grooming children, millions of illegals, cops in Memphis named Davarius, perverts named Biden, or any other millions of degenarates who are known to the Alphabet Agencies.
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