Land of the Free
June 20th 2009 03:22
Of course we are free, just like many others countries, we are free to do as we wish, with the proviso that we do not break the law, of the land. Now there's thing, what is the 'Law of the Land'? How would I know, I only live here, and I find it very confusing.
Our Nation started as a place where England could send its unwanted sons and daughters to empty the jails in the mother country and thus avoid the cost of feeding or burying its criminals.
Mind you many of those transported had stolen half a loaf of bread to stay alive. However the powers that ran the motherland at that time considered them the most heinous of criminals.
So we have as the nucleus of our great nation , convicted criminals and those who were sent to guard them. Had to have someone or those criminals would have had the run of our country from day one. History tells us that the guards were no better than the convicts and made use of their powers for their own personal advantage and pleasure, often very sadistic pleasures at that.
Time and tide changed and soon Australia was a burgeoning agricultural place where wealth could be gained easily from gold fields and farming practices. Now we entered another phase in the development of our free nation. The second sons of the British aristocracy were sent out here to grab some land and become wealthy pastoralists. Whoa there, what happened to the first sons? Well, it seems the first sons were educated to inherit the Aristocracy from dear old dad when he kicked the bucket and could not be permitted to lower the family by becoming one of those '' Colonials".
Now where are we? Ah - Yeah. Now we are back to square one. The aristocracy with the money and the land and the convicts. Many served their time and stayed here. They were free here. Anyway, they had no money to pay their fare back to merry Endland, so they stayed. How nice for them. They could be servants, tradesmen, or "Selectors". Servants were as free as their masters allowed them to be, which wasn't free at all, tradesmen were free as long as they did what their employers told them to do, and "selectors" were free to starve to death if their farms didn't feed them. Selectors were those unfortunate souls who believed the blurb put out by the Govt of the day that 160 acres of land was sufficient to make a good living possible. The fact of the matter is that in a drought ravaged country such as this the poor 'selector had two chances of being a success: Buckley's and none.
But I digress once more, our great nation does have a free society. We are permitted to think freely, speak freely and act freely as long as we do not break, bend, twist , tweek or otherwise abuse the laws of our land about which we know very little. We are free. [ I think what that really means is we are NOT locked in a cell] We can access every law ever passed in this country through the Govt Gazette for our own edification and learning. For instance: If your horse is a bit stroppy when you go to town you can ask a policeman to hold him while you go shopping at the general store. Said policeman must comply with your request. This is 2009, who has a bloody horse these days? Anyway I would not ask one of our trigger happy cops to mind my nag, he'd probably shoot it and charge me for 'affray' or something.
Damn, I am up to the present day already and we are about as free as a man on death row in California. I must have missed something back there.
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