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: 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)
