"Jeßus" > wrote in message
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> On Wed, 11 Jun 2014 12:51:03 +0100, "Ophelia"
> > wrote:
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>>"Jeßus" > wrote in message
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>>> On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 16:05:28 -1000, dsi1
>>> > wrote:
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>>>>On 6/10/2014 12:24 PM, Jeßus wrote:
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>>>>> Anything that makes you independent in any way of
>>>>> government/corporations is frowned upon. That is also true in
>>>>> Australia, but to a much lesser degree. Anything and everything such
>>>>> as living off the grid, making your own power, growing your own food,
>>>>> collecting your own water or constructing your own homes attracts laws
>>>>> to make it less attractive, if not impossible from a legal standpoint.
>>>>> Our community here is one big legal violation, LOL.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Us Americans like to think of Australia as a place where you can do your
>>>>thing unimpeded by the government - sorta like Montana only bigger. I
>>>>guess we got thrown off by "Crocodile Dundee."
>>>
>>> Well... it's still like that in certain places in Aus, and usually any
>>> impractical laws are ignored - and that includes the police.
>>> Our local cop looks the other way all of the time with things like
>>> driving without a licence, or even driving over the blood alcohol
>>> limit. Or go out shooting in an unregistered vehicle. Or growing pot.
>>> He hates it when there is a cannabis drought, because violent crime
>>> immediately rises. His words.
>>>
>>> A few years before I moved here, the (then new) local cop was rule
>>> crazy and didn't understand how things worked. The police station and
>>> the house attached to it was burned down. Message sent. He didn't last
>>> long here and was replaced with a much more appropriate person.
>>
>>wow that was some message send out there!!!
>
> You could say that. I've heard some pretty wild stories around here
> from the not-too-distant past.

You could share. I just like the way the people keep the excesses of law
under control)

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