I'm too drunk tio care.

Boobies

/too drunk also

didnt au rate higher than the usa in the recent press freedom article?

farkin asutisralians, like afRter hiTlar they need any more facist governments,

It's Australia. There is no right to free speech in Australia.

The great thing about Fark is, you know somebody's going to come up with the craziest damn rationalization of this and just get roasted.

YixilTesiphon: The great thing about Fark is, you know somebody's going to come up with the craziest damn rationalization of this and just get roasted.

the anticipation has me all tingly

Freedom of speech? Good call, submoran; try freedom of the press. It was listed separately in the Constitution to make it absolutely clear that this kind of crap shouldn't be done.

...then again, since this is Australia, the US Constitution doesn't apply.

i knew from the headline it wasnt in the US. had it been, the media blitz would be legendary. and part of me thinks it will happen, and the resulting media blitz still wouldnt incite enough rage from the public to rebel--i think it would create the hugest precedent for information control this country has ever seen and i think our culture is pacified enough to begrudgingly allow it.

/really hope i'm wrong

The Flexecutioner: i knew from the headline it wasnt in the US. had it been, the media blitz would be legendary. and part of me thinks it will happen, and the resulting media blitz still wouldnt incite enough rage from the public to rebel--i think it would create the hugest precedent for information control this country has ever seen and i think our culture is pacified enough to begrudgingly allow it.

/really hope i'm wrong

You may not be wrong, but you're overreacting a little bit.

The correct answer to a civil rights violation isn't open rebellion, it's a lawsuit against the entity or entities who trampled your civil rights. In this case, probably not the police because they had a warrant. But you could likely go after whomever authorized the warrant, if you could establish that it was improperly issued.

If we keep pointing to barely visible rich people and jackbooted thugs and saying "that's the government", it will be.

Good thing that can't happen here.

/you hope
//at least I do

Dumbass stories from over here trifecta in play

bunner: If we keep pointing to barely visible rich people and jackbooted thugs and saying "that's the government", it will be.

Good thing that can't happen here.

/you hope
//at least I do



You rang?

Isn't a lack of a free press one of the key items in declaring someplace a terrorist state?

/Invasion of Australia
//Most convivial invasion ever
///Never invade a place where beer is illegal

But it's Australia; that's like Olive Oil complaining about being fired when she was pregnant with Sweet Pea, it just doesn't matter.

subjected to bag searches

keep my mom out of this.

Wow, wrong freedom violated, and both are inapplicable anyway because its Australia. It's a double dose of fail for submitter!

Wait a minute, you're telling me the press corps in Australia consists of more than a few koalas and a 'roo? Color me shocked.

Just because the government doesn't respect your rights doesn't mean they aren't yours.

wildcardjack: Isn't a lack of a free press one of the key items in declaring someplace a terrorist state?

/Invasion of Australia
//Most convivial invasion ever
///Never invade a place where beer is illegal

australia has most of the world's natural URANIUM DEPOSITS

the entire continent is a WMD.

Maybe the government just wants to know the source so it can see if he knows about more government waste.

// I'm at least trying here

I thought the first thing they did when elected to high office in Australia was to fit prison bars on the office windows. Saves time.

That's is farked up.

All us westerners need to start sharpening our pitchforks.

Are Aussies even guaranteed freedom of the press as a right? I really don't know. But if so, then subby didn't fail the headline.

"We deny the allegations and we are attempting to identify the alligators".

Shocked and appalled.

I'd hesitate to call the Sunday Times a newspaper. Paper? Yes. News? Not so much... tabloidbullshiathyperbolechequebookdrivenwasteofagoodtreepaper is closer to it.

Remove all Republicans: Maybe the government just wants to know the source so it can see if he knows about more government waste.

Maybe it wants to know the source so it can put him at the top of the list of "insurgents" to be executed when the New World Order comes out of the closet.


/Adjusts tinfoil
//N.W.O. by Ministry was good
///Good 'n Angry

The Grinch: Freedom of speech? Good call, submoran; try freedom of the press. It was listed separately in the Constitution to make it absolutely clear that this kind of crap shouldn't be done.

...then again, since this is Australia, the US Constitution doesn't apply.


But English common law does, and freedom of the press has been in there since before the US constitution was enacted (it's why there were newspapers/prints in England attacking the government for the revolutionary war)

Australians can read?

Approve.

... And not a single police officer stood up and refused to carry out the order on the basis that it was wrong.

Sad.

Be careful America! We need to protect ALL of our rights - even the ones that are unpopular. Otherwise we'll end up like this.

GuidoDelConfuso: It's Australia. There is no right to free speech in Australia.

First they banned the guns. You know the rest.

Both the editor of the newspaper and the journalists' union, the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance, have condemned the raid as an attack on free speech.

The newspaper in question says this is a violation of free speech.

What else would you expect in the birthplace of Hitler?

lenfromak: This, my foreign farkers, is why we Americans have firearms: to keep our government in its place.

That is all.

Because that's worked so well for the past 200 years. NOT

lenfromak: This, my foreign farkers, is why we Americans have firearms: to keep our government in its place.

That is all.

But we seem to just keep shooting each OTHER.

Entered expecting some farkers to not rtfa and declare they cannot stand to live in the US having such an intrusive govt so they are moving to australia. Sadly disapointed.

Subby's only mistake is "freedom of speech" v "freedom of the press".

The US Constitution applies to Australians just as much as it applies to Americans. So it's OK for Americans to be outraged over this. Australians, who don't recognize the US Constitution as one of their governing devices, not so much.

Prior restraint is a biatch. Glad I live in the U.S. where newspapers don't bother to cover issues of importance and instead concentrate their efforts on the "lifestyle" section.

I came here for a pic of Meg Griffin or Adam West, and I was disappointed.

Giblet: Subby's only mistake is "freedom of speech" v "freedom of the press".

The US Constitution applies to Australians just as much as it applies to Americans. So it's OK for Americans to be outraged over this. Australians, who don't recognize the US Constitution as one of their governing devices, not so much.

It's also worth mentioning that Australia does not actually have a set-in-stone guarantee to free speech (a la the First Amendment or the UK's Charter of Rights and Freedoms). Most of their speech rights come from a single court decision.

After reading the headline, then the article, I'm relieved this wasn't more of Joe Arpaio's shenanigans.

Yeh, its pretty disgusting over here when it comes to the relationship between government and people.

I hope they really get roasted over this. Im not big on the idea of people "leaking" info for their own good, but for what reason would this need to be surpressed? Its not a matter of security at all. Shouldn't even need a leak, should be more visibility in the first place.