Now Its just getting stupid....
Road Warrior
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for legitimate motorcycle associations or clubs
Voluntary
do some research before jumping to conclusions. Clubs met with gov't rep to come up with this, they were not targeted.
Here in BC we have a few organized rides with 1,000's of bikes. The LEO was there leading the parade, at every major intersection blocking traffic and we were going through red lights and stop signs. each year the 1% do a toy run.
They do appear to be targeting 26 clubs of 1% in Aus, not permitting more than two congregating together, but that is not the current topic
Voluntary
do some research before jumping to conclusions. Clubs met with gov't rep to come up with this, they were not targeted.
Here in BC we have a few organized rides with 1,000's of bikes. The LEO was there leading the parade, at every major intersection blocking traffic and we were going through red lights and stop signs. each year the 1% do a toy run.
They do appear to be targeting 26 clubs of 1% in Aus, not permitting more than two congregating together, but that is not the current topic
Road Warrior
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From: Styxville
The other law they slipped in at the same time without any publicity was a change to the Queensland Police Powers Act which gives the cops the right to search anyone, anywhere, anytime for tattoos.
So they are making bikers take off their shirts on the roadside and photographing their tatts.
Reportedly the polis asked a young woman on a Jap sportbike to remove her jacket to see if she had outlaw club tatts.
More about it here
http://motorbikewriter.com/2013/11/1...kie-crackdown/
INcluding this:
Police replied that the register was voluntary and similar to the party register.
"However, Keith Carnell of the Easy Riders Motorcycle Club has been told by police that they can expect to be pulled over unless they advise the police first.
“But we told them before we attended the funeral of a member’s wife, yet they still turned up and took photos of us,” he says.
“I went over and spoke to the officer and he said they had to check that no one percenters (outlawed bikies) attended.”
It is a wonder their ride registration site has not been overwhelmed with bogus ride report -- just as poorly thought out as the rest of the legislation.
So they are making bikers take off their shirts on the roadside and photographing their tatts.
Reportedly the polis asked a young woman on a Jap sportbike to remove her jacket to see if she had outlaw club tatts.
More about it here
http://motorbikewriter.com/2013/11/1...kie-crackdown/
INcluding this:
Police replied that the register was voluntary and similar to the party register.
"However, Keith Carnell of the Easy Riders Motorcycle Club has been told by police that they can expect to be pulled over unless they advise the police first.
“But we told them before we attended the funeral of a member’s wife, yet they still turned up and took photos of us,” he says.
“I went over and spoke to the officer and he said they had to check that no one percenters (outlawed bikies) attended.”
It is a wonder their ride registration site has not been overwhelmed with bogus ride report -- just as poorly thought out as the rest of the legislation.
Last edited by Hopper; Nov 25, 2013 at 04:29 AM.
Road Warrior
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Next thing they will make us all wear a yellow star on the front of our shirts and those who don't already have identifiable tatts will have a number tattooed on their arm.
Last edited by Hopper; Nov 25, 2013 at 05:23 AM.
Road Warrior
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They already did. The California Street Terrorism Act inspired much of the new law here in Oz. But in California they did not single out motorcycle gangs because they are a minority of the many gangs there.
Of course the idiot new laws here just ignore the Middle Eastern gangs, African gangs, Asian gangs, Lebanese Gangs, Islander gangs, bogan whitetrash gangs etc -- well hell, that would be racism wouldn't it?
Of course the idiot new laws here just ignore the Middle Eastern gangs, African gangs, Asian gangs, Lebanese Gangs, Islander gangs, bogan whitetrash gangs etc -- well hell, that would be racism wouldn't it?
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I'm beginning to suspect that we're fundamentally insane as a species. Everything that was illegal or immoral yesterday is cool today, and everything that was cool yesterday is now illegal or considered immoral.
Tomorrow the rules will be randomized again because, apparently, the gods want to keep us on our toes. So don't be the one caught without a chair when the music stops.
Tomorrow the rules will be randomized again because, apparently, the gods want to keep us on our toes. So don't be the one caught without a chair when the music stops.
Road Warrior
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From: Styxville
As for free speech and assembly, it has never been a right in Australia, no Bill of Rights in our constitution. It relies on "common law" precedent, which is vague at best. Newspapers here have always been more limited in what they can say without defaming someone than in the US.
But even in the US we have seen the Occupy movement denied their right to assemble and how much freedom of speech there is when the NSA may well be listening is open to discussion too. Seems to be a worldwide trend of authoritarian elites taking over democracies.
In Australia, our days as a penal colony may be over but the place is still run like it is all wardens and convicts. The wardens make the rules, the convicts mutter under their breath about it and stick their fingers up behind the wardens' backs, but in the end do as they are told.
Except the bikers. There is already a fighting fund put together to challenge this stuff in the high courts.
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its getting even more stupid. Veterans Club was recently raided by 20 cops to ensure they werent serving alcohol to "OMCG" members and encouraging association ....
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-3...e-laws/5059250
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-3...e-laws/5059250
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Don't think that crap couldn't happen again. History has a nasty habit of repeating itself.