Okay, I am an Australian, and I have been seeing a lot of things lately that I don't like, I have to get one or two things off my chest, so just bear with me for a second.
Okay, first up: The ban on the Chasers.
The Chasers are a group of Australians that have their own show, the Chasers War on Everything. Basically, they satire everything they can, and pull practical jokes on famous people. (to non-Australians, they are the guys who went to the APEC summit dressed as Osama Bi-Ladin. Remember that?) anyway, their latest stunt involved bagging out the Make-a-wish Foundation, Asking temimaly sick children to wish for eaiser wishes, such as "lead pencil" so now they are being censored by the aussie government. Is that fair? I mean, ive seen far worse things around. But these guy catch a lot of shit all the time. Personally, I don't like them terribly, but I just think that this is a violation of freedom of speech.
Next up, I was reading my local paper yesterday and I found this article with an accompanying picture of seven or eight dead foxes hanging from a barbed wire fence. I thought, "oh, damn... what the hell happened?" so I start to read it, and, in a public newspaper, ENCORAGES people to go out and shoot foxes, then hand in the carcasses for to "go in the draw to win a Toyota!" Now that's disgusting and barbaric in my opinion. Sure, most people consider foxes to be a pest in Australia, but I don't. I think, well, we introduced them, sure, they kill chickens and stuff, but they are just living. Its not like they are being evil or anything. How can you kill something for just doing what it needs to survive? Furthermore, how can anyone offer a prize for killing the poor things?
Besides, its not like it will even accomplish anything. Sure, they might manage to murder, say, two thousand foxes, maybe even up to five thousand, but that's nothing to the fox population. They will just keep reproducing. Its not solving a problem. Its just an excuse for some Farmboys to go out and shoot living things for fun and maybe win something for it! It's barbaric!
Well, thanks for your time, guys... I really plan to do something about this fox thing, and if you are in Australia and also think that the Chasers ban is unjust, could you drop me line or something? I wouldn't mind a whole online petition thing going on. Thanks guys again.