Which country is preventing me from committing high-treason and attempted regicide?

[Avimimus]

Originally Posted by BadAim

LOL! Public apathy is easy when the police aren't kicking down your door for thought crimes (probably only a short time away in both of our countries)

Yes, were all nuts.

Why the laws of Political correctness of course, which have no relation to any known natural law, nor indeed to common sense, or any other kind of reality. But let those laws be broken and the PC police finds out about it; you'll be looking down the business end of a hissy fit brother!

Come to think of it - we're nuts too, in our own way (of course).

P.S. In Canada the door might not be locked (depends what part of the country)...

Btw. I never did notice any known relation between natural law, common sense or any kind of reality...

Originally Posted by WTE_Galway

The roots of the republican debate in Australia go back to a time when the country was divided on class/religion lines. The self proclaimed "better" classes were protestant (Church of England) of English decent and committed Monarchists. The working/poorer people tended to be Catholic and of either Irish or Italian descent and wanted a republic.

The protestant/catholic divide has faded in recent years and the monarchist debate confused with all sorts of modern political hype. But at essence its still the same divide.

Okay, that explains a lot. We had similar divisions with Fenians, and Quebeckers of course (mind you New France still had a king when it became part of Canada - so Republicanism is less natural in Quebec than it is in France).

You guys also have those nifty posh accents in addition to your other nifty accents. Btw. Congrats on getting the secret ballot so much earlier than the rest of us. I clearly need to do some more reading on Australian history.