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“Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem.”
-Ronald Reagan, Fortieth President of the United States

Everyone should be angry.  Every single one of you.  Sometimes I wonder why I’m the only one that can see what he’s really doing.  Sometimes I consider that I might just be paranoid, but then I realise that it’s much more likely that you’re all just ignorant.What am I talking about?  Kevin Rudd is trying to kill us, but nobody notices.  Not because he’s hiding it, quite the opposite.  Be boasts about it from his podium and everyone applaud him.  Everyone thinks he’s going to help us live.  I’m the only person who realises he’s trying to kill us.Not in the traditional way, mind you.  In fact, his policies are designed to keep us breathing for much longer, which is precisely why everyone supports him.  Free healthcare?  Fight binge-drinking?  Sounds good to them.  Surely stopping uni students from drinking until everything goes black is a good thing, right?  Wrong.  Being alive is more than a heartbeat, it is being a human.  A man is the sum of his decisions.  Once Kevin Rudd and his nanny-state government have stripped us of those, we are not living beings, but robots.

One of the ideas from the ridiculous 2020 Summit was a bill of rights.  Any bill of rights should preserve an individual’s right to make decisions on how much alcohol they want to drink.  They alone make the decision and they alone will bear the consequences.  This means no government healthcare, but I’ll discuss that in depth later.

“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety”.
- Benjamin Franklin

Of course this doesn’t stop at binge drinking.  There are so many other laws that the government uses to shield us from the terrifying prospect of personal responsibility.  Seatbelt laws for adult need to go, for a start.  Why does the government ban me from making a decision which puts nobody but me at risk?  How many police man-hours are wasted on preventing us from exercising our free will instead of pursuing actual criminals?

“That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinion of others, to do so would be wise, or even right… The only part of the conduct of anyone, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.”
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

What about smoking laws?  In Victoria it’s a crime to smoke in any indoors public space, including bars and restaurants.  I know that most of you are thinking that this is justified, seeing as secondhand smoke can be just as dangerous to others nearby, but I have a crazy idea:  If you don’t want secondhand smoke, leave.  There will be more than enough smoke free bars for people just like you.I’m getting a bit off-topic here, so I’ll get back to Rudd.  Rest assured though, civil liberties will make a frequent appearance here in the Captain’s Log.Next up is Kevin Rudd’s focus-group approach to democracy.  He wants to get support from people.  Rather than actually doing something which would be good for all of us, for example he could fuck off and let me run my own life, he chooses to buy the votes of specific groups of people.  His newest target is parents.  How is he going to do this?  He’s going to build free daycare for everyone.

“The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away.”
- John S. Coleman

Of course, this won’t be cheap, so how is he going to pay for it?  Simple, he’s going to extort money from every citizen and lock up those who don’t pay (of course, he calls it tax).  A brilliant idea, the mothers and fathers of toddlers all over the country will vote for him and everyone else won’t give it a second thought and go along with their lives.  Everyone but me.

Same goes for his free laptops idea.  When the next election rolls around, today’s high school students will think about whether the Rudd government has changed their lives for better or for worse.  Of course it’s been worse, as I’ve outlined above, but all they’ll think about is their free laptop.  Another vote for Rudd.  Another theft from the rest of us.

I’ll leave it here for now, but there are more rants to come.  I’ll conclude with an idea for the government, which trumps the hundreds of ideas from Kevin Rudd and the government, as well as the 2020 summit, which seemed to be little more than a gathering of people who can’t live their lives without support and direction from the government:

Leave us alone.  We can manage ourselves.

“A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labour and bread it has earned – this is the sum of good government.”
- Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States