Stop the abuse of power by the NSW Government, the NSW Police Force, and the Catholic Church

[lokicarbis]

Much of the following is copied from a post on crazyjane13's journal, but is deserving of wider circulation. (The copied bits are in blue.)

Get Your New and Easily Abused Police Powers Here:

World Youth Day, a gathering of Catholic youth for celebrations, workshops and religious observances, is to be held in Sydney later this year. The WYD website

Comments

[aphephobia]

Thanks for posting this, and for offering the suggestions for "what to do." They're all good ideas, and much better than the "wear offensive T-shirts and hand out condoms regardless" one I had. :)

[kineticfactory]

There's the famous Australian tradition of civil liberties again. Australia, it seems, still hasn't shaken off the culture of arbitrary authority from its days as a set of penal colonies; the veneer of rule of law and civilised liberalism over it is all too thin.

[crazyjane13]

I don't mind, but credit for the OP would be nice ...

:-)

[lokicarbis]

The only reason I didn't credit you was that I assumed you locked the post because you desired a degree of privacy. Happy, as always, to give credit where credit is due :)

[lokicarbis]

Can you tell I'm happy?

I'm betting the move north isn't looking like such a great idea to you right now, yeah...

[aphephobia]

They did when the Olympics were on, and I think when the APEC summit happened. Not sure about what happens in Vic, though. NSW seems to have a name for dodgy police powers.

[lokicarbis]

It's becoming depressingly common, starting with the ludicrous over-reaction to 9-11 and Bali...

I just want someone to show me where in Australian law we (or at least, that group of 'we' who are Catholic) are guaranteed a right to freedom from being offended.