You want another example?
who on this board hasnt or knows someone who hasnt been pulled up by the side of the road by Highway Patrol and booked for "speeding"?
on the whole, 20 years ago they'd pull you up see you were on the whole not a bad fella, give you a warning, then off ya go-dealt with nice and quick-there and then-
how is it now?
Your automatically dobbed into the higher state powers so that every one gets there pound of flesh along the way-just like in this stuoid Timana Boohoo saga...
Good point. Before the age of political correctness, dobbers and sooks were ostracized in this country. Society had it's own way of sorting problems out.
Cops in the 1980's had the power of discretion and were promoted based on their ability and pure hard work. Along came the Wood Royal Commission and instilled a culture of dobbing your work mate in and going off sick if people around you behaved in a manner you didn't like. It was then deemed to be corrupt to let a driver off with a caution and virtually made it amndatory to issue a ticket to John Citizen for doing 5 kph over the speed limit.
The do gooders constantly cry out for equality between the races , but it is a one way street.
I grew up in the 70's and 80's when the poor old Greek and Italians copped a pizzling with name calling in our community. Guess what? Water off a ducks back. They worked hard, played soccer, had strong family values and completely assimilated into the society. Part of the reason the southern europeans has assimilated so well is they have the ability to laugh at themselves eg. 'Mediterranean Descendants out of Work' and other successful comedy productions. They maintain a sense of humour at all times.
Most of my koori mates share and laugh about aspects of their culture and heritage and use terms like 'playing the black card' with a smile on their faces. There is a minority group out there that still have 'chips on their shoulders' and they are sucking in all the do-gooders in to their wicked web of negativity.
Political correctness is BS. People shound be treated equally down a 2 way street. I didn't see any aboriginal community leaders coming out of the woodwork and getting stuck into Brad Tighe and Maurice Blair after they called a female bar staff member a 'white c..t' in a Penrith hotel a couple of months ago. I couldn't give a tinkers cuss about the incident and would happily sit down with both Tighe and Blair and have a beer with them as long as they get their shout when it was their turn.
