Wowsers are stealing your freedom

I wrote this a few years back for the old JeS but it still rings true.

This is a call to the people of Australia, and the world, stand up for our personal liberties against the rampaging wowsers on their crusade against anything fun. The right regal wowser reverand Rudd (Kevin Rudd) and his band of marionette politicians who dance to the tune of the Anti-smoking, Anti-drinking, Anti-gambling, Anti-freedom of choice lobby groups, must be called to represent all the people in this country.

Most of all they must let us choose for ourselves what we do with our bodies, our time and our space. It started with no smoking at work, then extended to shopping malls. This I could tolerate. Just. But now it has extended to pubs, for christ sake pubs are there as places of drinking and smoking, and a we bit of arguing and debauchery. I think the wowsers would like them all converted into churches – actually there’s probably more smoke in the average church with all that burning of candles and incense than in the average pub before smoking was banned. Now they want to ban smoking outside pubs, and on balcony’s and beaches. Already you can’t take your dog on the beach or drink at the beach. Actually they have banned alcohol at most functions that were once celebrations of careless, hedonistic fun. The St Kilda Festival, New Years Eve celebrations, the footy (low strength only) now theres another story. You can’t drink full strength beer, smoke, swear, do the Mexican wave. These temperance movement wowsers have taken over our whole society.

They are like a cancerous growth on the freedom that Australians have always loved about this place, and we have let them knaw away at our freedoms for too long. It stops now, demand that you have the right to do with your body what you want. Demand places to congregate and enjoy drinking, smoking, swearing, gambling and open conversation with those who also enjoy a good time. And if those wowsers don’t want to join us we won’t make them, we give them the freedom to congregate in there own purified, sterile, vain environments. Think of the public bar in Richmond which looks more like a modern art installation than a public bar, and has the flowing conversation of the Darling after 40 years of drought.

Write to your sitting member, write to your newspapers, call talk back, and if that doesn’t work openly flaut these ridiculous demeaning laws enforced upon you by the products of the long life is a good life generation.

There are some great quotes from the past on this subject. In Black Hawk down an American pilot is captured and his captor offers him a cigarette, the American refuses and his captor responds, “Í forgot. You Americans now live long… boring lives”.

David J Campbell