05-12-2022, 01:35 PM
(05-06-2022, 12:52 PM)Thryleon link Wrote:Not sure if you've noticed but we don't have the freedoms we used to already.
Freedoms we used to have!
Let's see, back in 1972 I could:
> not buy an alcoholic drink after 10pm,
> not buy an alcoholic drink on Sunday, unless I was a bona fide traveller,
> not use a firearm on a Sunday,
> not buy a high-powered firearm without a special licence,
> be called up for two years military service,
> be sent to fight in a foreign war,
> not vote in State or Federal elections,
> be arrested for consorting,
> be imprisoned if was openly homosexual, and
> if I lived in Queensland, not take part in a demonstration.
If I happened to be a woman, I could:
> not get the contraceptive pill unless I was married,
> not legally have an abortion,
> not have the same superannuation as male colleagues,
> not work in public service roles that were limited to men,
> not leave the country without my husband's permission, and
> not keep my job if I became pregnant.
If I happened to be Indigenous, I could:
> serve my country but not receive any ex-service benefits,
> have my children taken away at the whim of the police and welfare officers, and
> be subject to the directions of the Aborigines Welfare Board.
Yes, we've certainly lost a lot of freedoms over the last 50 years :
“Why don’t you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don’t you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don’t you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?” Oddball