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» Anzac Day
2004-04-27 15:55
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Another Bloody Libertarian |
All this hoo ha about fighting for freedom - and well done by our armed services on that note - to which the social engineers and "moral majority" decide what freedoms we can have. Banning trading hours is inconvenient, inefficient and not welare maximising. Trading hours won't stop people going to marches. What it would do is allow people at or going to/from to conduct some valuable trade. The worst thing about this is the justification some give, that the ANZACs sacrificed, how dare someone greedily conduct trade at such a time...I thought it was ANZAC day, celebrating a day we fought for freedom, not the Red Square parade. On that note, I think a soldiers point of view is needed - did they join up (if they joined up) so people could be free or for a parade in their honour? Out of the guys I known who joined up, none of them would say the latter, all the former. Tex's comment about two up really pisses me off. The Government won't even allow me to do that among friends in my own home, but on ANZAC day, another cheap platitude to freedom is made by Parliament and we can have the freedoms they allow. The next day we are back to Government in my backyard.
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