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If ever you want to know what my problem is, read on:-

The fine and demerit system has been updated yet again. And from a government (and its almost military-like RTA 'wing') completely bereft of any ideas on how to slow drivers down outside school zones where 40kph speed limits apply during school times, come these almost draconian in their viciousness, increases.

For breaking the painfully slow it has to be said 40 kilometres per hour, one receives 4 points and a fine of 308 dollars (up from 1 and 77 respectively). The rest of the traffic offences such as stopping at bus stops or schools have risen with equal sadistic viciousness.

(It should be noted that a licence only has 12 points. And the near 300 percent increase in the fine is almost half of the average 'battler's' weekly income. I'll repeat what I've asserted before - I don't drive on the footpath, keep your bloody offspring under control and stop them running out onto the road. Maybe make them wait for their parents within the school grounds - in rank and file - and quiet would be nice! Pesky kids.)

And so a lot people are going to lose their licences (not a difficult thing to do in this age of tyranny). What then? What when we reach a zenith and we have so many suspended drivers, they begin to ignore the punishment and drive regardless? This is demonstrated with alarming regularity even now; often rewarded with a last resort short of corporal punishment incarceration.

So we continue to lock them up? Be prepared then, for a lot of full jails, very soon.

This is tyrannical behaviour, no question, from the unanswerable RTA. An obedient Schutzstaffel enthuiastically following its masters orders without question and with a keeness that's disturbing.
All with the total concurrence and outrageous greed of the incumbent goverment, for it's they who receive the veritable bounty.


Add to this disproportionate and excessive response, the APEC palava where the powerful enforce their arbitration with an almost military fervour in shutting down lines of communication and conducting body searches like the Brownshirts of old, and you have a society that's beginning to replace freedom with suppression.

THIS... violation... is my problem and with the audacity of authority evolving exponentially, I wonder where it will end.

And actually - it's not just my problem. It's everybody's problem - or should be!

Freedoms are at stake here.