Re: New caliber restrictions in Australia
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: eleaf</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: queequeg</div><div class="ubbcode-body">perhaps it is nearly as good a fit for the Australian people as it is for those in our nation . . .</div></div>
That's quite the presumption isn't it?
I find the Tea Party to be a bunch of asshats, not suitable for much of anything other than further dividing our nation as part of a political extreme hell bent on doing nothing blaming the other political extremes. </div></div>
Pretty broad brush condemnation from someone so worldly and cosmopolitan as yourself. Perhaps your own venality so impresses you that the very extremism you profess to abhor is manifested in the many generalizations you so frequently post, along with your regular demands for the legaization of narcotics.
Maybe your world view would come a little more in focus with a little less munchies consumption.
There is nothing new in saying that all politicians are assholes or claiming that one doesn't like extremes. It is laziness, nothing more. Unlike your slovenly, scornful description of Tea Party participants, a more accurate appraisal would be remarking at the incidence of millions of thoughtful, productive and frustrated people who have resolved to combat the current trend toward mob rule that is underway here, as well as some who's views and opinions seem poorly framed and articulated.
Sorry they don't share your dream of a dope smoking society of wasted moderates, intoxicated, watching subsidized pay-per-view porno, and awaiting their next debit of inflated (and increasingly worthless) scrip from Big Brother.
The point of the movement is to return personal responsibility and accountability to the individual once again: The fundamental point of the American experiment. It worked for a disparate population of immigrants here and does so whenever applied.
The point at hand here; the myth of legislated security is what has caused the suffocating gun legislation in Australia, Canada, here, and elsewhere. A movement based on wrenching back the freedoms sliced away and slowly eroding into the memories of otherwise thoughtful people may seem jarring and offensive to those wanting a glide path to easy street.
It's an illusion and fortunately some people are willing to risk their livlihoods to demand a return to the principles of individual liberty.
Of course if your main objective is reefer legalization, your bar may be set a little lower...
How do you like those dual flavored Doritos?