No,
we live in a prison. Freedom is an anethema to what corporations and governments stands for. They demand and gain control over ever more aspects of our lives.
it wasn't always like this, 100 years ago people could do what ever the f*** they wanted as long as it didn't hurt others... if it did they killed you.
Now we employee people to curtail or God given rights... this comment goes to the Kronic thread too.
I'm starting to feel like a cog in a machine.
This is the first time I've been introduced to Mark Steyn. He's meant to be the hero of right wing commentary etc. ......... Well, that's a bit underwhelming.
Yeh, we fought wars and lost lives for freedom, now we stress about OH&S regulations about everything in our job, pay more and more for roads and tolls and if we do anything wrong by anyone we get sued.
Freedom?
If we speed on the road we get caught by a hidden camera.
The colour of this screen is not white (that'd be racially intolerant).
Don't dare smack your kid, that'd be wrong. I school teacher canes a kid, they go to jail.
I prefer an Australia that isn't politically correct like the one in the thread about the first travels to Gnaraloo and the Bluff. Where Australians arent fearful of everything, can camp anywhere, and don't give a f u k u shima about their wording to describe something.
Who screwed up our country? Is it the Government, the Unions? Corporations? Those stupid Current Affairs shows on at 6.30 or was is Kochie?
It will be a sad day when Australia turns in to a nanny state. For those who think it already is look at Europe and America to rethink your opinion.
As for kung foo fighting as with everything in life context is everything. The same act in different circumstances can have very different implications.
I would want to see the facts about how the song was used before deciding if it was racist or not.
