Something Wicked This Way Comes…

This just makes my blood boil. Bradbury was right. The circus is coming.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/06/30/1214677946009.html

Our enlightened country is surely and slowly moving into the Dark Ages, which is a bit of a novelty, since it’s the 21st century.

Our slide backwards started with the Olympic Games of 2000, when The System [cue dramatic music here] gained powers over when and where you could pass wind. Then, with the circus that was APEC last year, our civil liberties really went out the window (and hats of to the Chaser guys who showed up these pompous suits for what they really were). Unfortunately, this has now set what seems to be an acceptable precedent.

So now, when the Poop comes to town, all the machinery and “justification” is in place to make sure that we are totally inconvenienced to the MAX.

You know what? I’m tired of this crap. I’m tired of not being able to go from one side of the street to the other without fear of being body-searched because my shirt might be the wrong colour. APEC was bad enough, but “World Youth Day” (what a load of shit - since when is the Catholic Church the whole world, except in their eyes?) promises to be the ultimate lunacy. How is what we’re turning into any different from living in the Eastern Bloc in the fifties? Seriously - no tin foil hats, just an honest question.

The politicians here that are responsible for this stupidity are, by and large, Old Boys from Catholic schools. Small wonder all of them are in arse-kissing mode. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I read that most of inner Sydney is going to be under virtual lockdown because they want to stage their Stations Of The Cross pantomime. I have a friend who was raised a staunch Catholic, but when she grew up she got a brain and dumped it post haste. She told me the Stations Of The Cross parade is the most mind-numbingly boring thing she’d ever had to endure. So now, we will ALL have to endure it, because the circus has well and truly come to town.

You know, I wonder if there would be this much bending over if the Muslims had asked for the same deal and wanted to stage Mohammed playing water polo or something?

You bet your arse there wouldn’t be.

The article quotes:

But the State Government said “World Youth Day is a happy and positive celebration of youth” and “no additional or ‘APEC-like’ police powers have been granted under the World Youth Day regulations”.
The Catholic Church denied it had called for such powers.

Bollocks they didn’t.

Last year, when there was a NSW parliamentary bill to overturn a ban on stem cell research, George Pell (our local leading Catholic Arse Kisser In Waiting) actually THREATENED Catholic members of parliament with excommunication if they didn’t vote *his* way. So now, you expect us to believe that the church didn’t at least drop a little whisper into the government’s ear about the Ratzinger Revue flying into town?

This is extraordinary: more than 40 city locations, including museums, galleries and cinemas, as well as Darling Harbour, the Opera House, the Harbour Bridge, Randwick Racecourse and parklands,.. More than 500 schools across Sydney and 35 train and bus stations have also been listed as “declared areas”. People entering them will be subject to vehicle and baggage searches that require them to remove jackets, gloves, shoes and headwear if requested. “Reasonable force may be used to effect the person’s exclusion” if they do not permit the search, the regulations stipulate.”

What have we become? This is INSANE.

Our tax dollars are being spent to benefit one of the most morally corrupt and obscenely wealthy organisations on the planet. We can’t move about in our own city without being subjected to what is, in all practical terms, martial law. The city is being shut down, people are being encouraged to take a week of their holidays so they don’t have to come in to work and dare inconvenience the Moronic Masses (never mind if they actually had anything important to save their holidays for, like spend them with family during regular school holidays or anything - hell, wiping Ratzinger’s arse is FAR more important), traffic jams of nightmarish proportions are going to have to be endured so that the Religiously Retarded can have their pantomime, and to top it all off, we can be arrested if, somehow, we “offend” or “annoy” one of these Pious Pricks, even if they don’t like what we’re wearing for whatever reason. So much for civil liberties. Welcome to the religious police state of NSW.

There’s no way of being polite about this: the Catholic church, its Dinosaur, and all of their deluded followers can go and get right royally FUCKED.

Oh and by the way, lest anyone have the slightest doubt as to just how upside-down they’re going to turn Sydney, have a look at this government web site:
http://www.wydca.nsw.gov.au

I especially love the section titled How do I get to hospitals during World Youth Day?

If you’re a Religious Retard, no worries. Nothing can happen to you: even if you get hit by a bus, I’m sure all you’ll need is to pray to a couple of saints and you’ll be cured/healed/resurrected/restored/other (cross out whichever is inapplicable) in no time flat. On the other hand, if you’re not a Catholic, you’re fucked.

Hold the phone… I have an idea!

We all know that you have show bags at things like the Easter Show, right? Well, how about we have… a Papal Show Bag? We can stand along the routes that the Fundagelically-Frenzied® are going to travel, and hand out show bags, which would have all sorts of goodies inside. They wouldn’t be free, of course - hell if the church can make a profit from the gullible, why shouldn’t we?

(Hey is it any coincidence that “Papal” and “PayPal” sound similar? Hmmm…)

I know what I’d nominate for inclusion, and there’s nothing more appropriate I can think of than these:
http://www.divine-interventions.com/

After all, the Catholic Church has fucked people over for centuries.

Now, if the Catholics want to get together and practice zombie-worship, that’s fine. After all, there’s no law against being stupid. But I need to make one thing perfectly clear: I’m not advocating hatred and violence against someone simply because they’re Catholic. Hell, some of my best friends are Catholics. I just don’t let them know about this site, that’s all. What I am upset about is that this gathering of idiocy is turning my city totally upside down, it’s costing us our civil liberties, it’s costing us our freedom of speech under threat of arrest if we simply ANNOY them in whatever way, it’s costing the taxpayers (when you include all the extras, including security for the Evil Dinosaur) approximately… wait for it…. TWO HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS (yes, you read that right), NOT the ninety-six million that’s often been touted (as if that’s not an obscene figure in the first place anyway), and so in effect, we’re having religion forcibly shoved down our throats, and paying for the privilege. With all of the things we need to do in NSW regarding hospitals, roads, and schools, just for starters, I can think of far more important ways of spending $200M other than on silly  superstitious rituals centred around an evil old clown leading an obscenely wealthy and corrupt organisation that protects child molesters and promotes the death of millions of people in places like Africa.

Am I pissed off? Damned right I am.

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