grodscorp@grods.comReligious freakism continues
 | Posted by Bridgit Gread on Tuesday 1 July 2008, 1:38 am Categories: Politics, Religion, Society, Things that shit me Tags: Catholicism, fascism, laws, WorldYouthDay |
On the weekend we brought you the story of Piers Frassati, the globe-trotting Shroud-Model of Turin who is paying a visit here for World Youth Day. Only trouble is that he’s not paying for it, according to Mikey in comments … the NSW and Commonwealth governments are senselessly shelling out millions for this cultist cornucopia of Catholic crap. And then there’s this:
Extraordinary new powers will allow police to arrest and fine people for “causing annoyance” to World Youth Day participants and permit partial strip searches at hundreds of Sydney sites, beginning today.
The laws, which operate until the end of July, have the potential to make a crime of wearing a T-shirt with a message on it, undertaking a Chaser-style stunt, handing out condoms at protests, riding a skateboard or even playing music, critics say.
People who fail to comply will be subject to a $5500 fine.
Our recent history has been full of affronts to democracy and blatant attacks on freedom of speech, e.g. Bob Brown being ejected from his own parliament because he dared ask the US president a question, and the ludicrous restrictions foisted on Sydneysiders during APEC. But this nonsense, if as reported here, goes even further still, to the point of cultist neo-fascism. It’s not enough that we are paying for corpse-worshipping religious lunatics to gather, chant and dance around their shaman … we’ll also be heavily fined if we ‘offend’ or ‘annoy’ them.
A shame this palaver isn’t taking place in Melbourne because I’d be there in a heartbeat - wearing an ‘I HATE JESUS’ t-shirt and condoms on my fingers, carrying a decapitated statuette of the Virgin Mary and a Benedict XVI Fleshlight. And would they fine me $5500? Just let them fucking try it.
GrodsThink Ep.31 (16/9/08)
Tuesday 1 July 2008, 5:42 am #EC
Arrrgghhhh! Outrageous!
Doesn’t it give you the shits the way they keep referring to it as the “world’s largest youth event”?
It’s a religious event, not a yoof event for fracks sake.
Tuesday 1 July 2008, 8:52 am #Ross Sharp
I’m so glad I moved 3 years ago. This stuff is just beyond the bounds of satire. Cheesus Crust on toast.
Tuesday 1 July 2008, 9:01 am #Ross Sharp
Check out these T-shirt designs - http://blog.goatboy.com.au/?p=129
Tuesday 1 July 2008, 9:10 am #skeptic
You just wanted to use the word palaver …
Tuesday 1 July 2008, 9:53 am #Bron
Maintain the rage, Bridgit. I, being a Sydneysider, am ALREADY inconvenienced with fucking transport issues — and they haven’t arrived yet (the Pope and his acolytes). Why, just this morning I started daydreaming about moving to, ohhh, I don’t know, say Tahiti.
I also just wish they put “Catholic” before World Youth Day, because it’s not a World Youth Day, it’s a fucking CATHOLIC World Youth Day, fer feck’s sake.
Tuesday 1 July 2008, 10:09 am #Bridgit Gread
Yes, ‘World Youth Day’ my arse; it’s a love-in for the gullible and the loopy. And a good venue for another pro-choice demo, methinks.
Tuesday 1 July 2008, 10:29 am #Ray Dixon
You’d deserve the fine for just carrying the Fleshlight in public.
Tuesday 1 July 2008, 12:04 pm #John Surname
Skateboards offend the Catholic Church now? What if you’re skateboarding to show your love of Jesus?
Tuesday 1 July 2008, 12:21 pm #Bridgit Gread
“He’s not the Messiah, he’s a rad sk8er boi”
Tuesday 1 July 2008, 12:21 pm #Bridgit Gread
(That was a Monty Python reference there, for all you cultural ignoramuses…)
Tuesday 1 July 2008, 12:24 pm #Bron
I got it, Bridgit. I am a member of The Knights Who Say Nee.
Tuesday 1 July 2008, 12:27 pm #Bridgit Gread
Then I shall bring you a… shrubbery.
Tuesday 1 July 2008, 12:41 pm #John Surname
Nerds.
Tuesday 1 July 2008, 1:01 pm #EC
Just got sent this protest news.
http://www.notopope.com/
The Raelians sound a bit potty. I’d never heard of them before, had to look them up.
Tuesday 1 July 2008, 1:40 pm #John Surname
They’re incredibly loony.
Tuesday 1 July 2008, 2:24 pm #Bron
The Raelians make the Scientologists look sane.
Tuesday 1 July 2008, 3:31 pm #Bridgit Gread
Andrew Denton should do a special, Enough Pope.
Tuesday 1 July 2008, 5:19 pm #Thalesian
It’s the Pope on ‘the Rope’…
Tuesday 1 July 2008, 5:20 pm #Thalesian
Good morning Vietnam reference… Kinda crossed with Bridget’s above…
It seemed funnier and more obvious when I typed it.
Tuesday 1 July 2008, 6:24 pm #Jack Dorf
Those Raelians
know how to party!
Tuesday 1 July 2008, 7:35 pm #Spock...
*rages*
*head blows off*
Tuesday 1 July 2008, 10:06 pm #John Surname
It’s the old saying, “give yourself enough pope…”
Tuesday 1 July 2008, 11:45 pm #Jeremy
Not all Sydney businesses are bothered, though.
Tuesday 1 July 2008, 11:55 pm #Mikey
So if evolutionists wanted to carry around a giant fucking dinosaur and declare a week long celebration of scientific theory would the govts kick in the dough?
It’s beyond outrageous. That dress wearing fucknuckle Pell needs his rosary’s twisted around something unpleasant.
Wednesday 2 July 2008, 3:19 am #Jeremy
I’m horrified by all the anti-Catholic oppression on this thread. Just because the Roman Catholics get hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars and ludicrously over the top anti-free speech rights, you take it out on them. It’s not their fault their special. Poor, poor, unbelievably over-favoured Roman Catholic Church.
Next you’ll be calling for their vast land-holdings in this country to be taxed like everyone else’s.
Wednesday 2 July 2008, 11:48 am #Bridgit Gread
Don’t be silly, Jeremy; we’re not going to go that far.
Wednesday 2 July 2008, 4:11 pm #skeptic
On the subject of the religion, this post at crooks and liars is just too funny:
Note to the religious right: auto-replace is not your friend
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/07/01/note-to-the-religious-right-auto-replace-is-not-your-friend/
Wednesday 2 July 2008, 5:32 pm #Bridgit Gread
LOL, that’s rather funny, skeptic.
Lucky the AFA doesn’t run reports on test cricket; the West Indies’ would be captained by someone called Chris Homosexualle.
Wednesday 2 July 2008, 9:26 pm #Krypto
“Andrew Denton should do a special, Enough Pope”
Indeed, or his new series “more than enough Pope”
Wednesday 2 July 2008, 11:31 pm #weez
Dude, I’d mop the Sydney Fish Market with my bare ass to pay your train fare to SYD to see this spectacle.
Need batteries for that fleshlight? :D
Thursday 3 July 2008, 9:18 pm #Angry Hetero
I want to know when we hire a lobbyist to campaign for World Fucking Great Dinosaur Day.
We can appoint Mikey Honorary Paleo-Pope. He can dress up in ludicrous ballgowns and ride around in a mini moke with a clear fibreglass bubble.
We of course would allow Catholics to protest against us. They could carry rosary beads and wear cassocks without fear of causing annoyance - but only if they agree to fund our party as generously as we have funded theirs.
Thursday 3 July 2008, 9:46 pm #Krypto
anyone here ever see that attrocious film “the doom generation” with Rose McGowan?
As I recall she gets “up close and personal” with a statue of the virgin Mary in a most unsavoury manner.