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The Freedom of information bill for dummies . . .

Local is / is not lekker

So you know North Korea right? Venezuela yes? Zim huh?

Well now that I’ve hopefully scared you somewhat let’s get going – oh wait one more, Nazi Germany!

Everyone with me?

So in short the new info bill says the following . . . the government in order to protect, national security (what f*#king national security??) can render any document, publication or any kind of media classified, because lets be fair Wikileaks biggest goldmine of data that the world wants to get its hand on is South African secrets (that was sarcasm if you are a sociopath and didn’t get it!)

What does this mean exactly? It means that anything anyone writes can without any reason or any particular decision except for that decided by the fat guys who chill in parliament doing f*#k all but ban Marijuana and Alcohol advertising (that was shameless marketing for two other posts yes!)

On a more serious note take me as a blogger for example. I like to, well, air the most idiotic parts of our ruling party occasionally (only when they deserve it of course). This would more than likely be made confidential because it’s construed as negative and if I were to publish it I’d end up in Gitmo faster than you could tweet about it . . .

So you are all pretty smart I’m guessing (you read STM so you must be at least 10 IQ points higher than the average government official) so what does this bill essentially destroy?

Yes its called FREEDOM OF SPEECH!

This bill quite simply states any expression in any media that is for whatever reason deemed wrong, by someone which will more than likely be JUJU MALEMA in future, you will be put in jail. Now do me a favour and go read the first line of this post again – sound familiar?

But don’t worry, we are not quite there just yet. The bill has been taken away for some ‘tinkering’ (code for what can we change so the public forget we are trying to push through communist crap?)  But don’t lose faith, when this bill resurfaces and DOES GET PASSED by parliament there is STILL another barrier we can all rely on . . . THE SUPREME COURT, the heart of honesty, integrity and justice . . . oh wait!

5 Comments

5 Responses

  1. Jen  •  September 22, 2011 @3:39 pm
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    Generally I try to be as eloquent as possible when expressing my opinion in any kind of public forum but after reading this post, I’m pretty much punctuating my sentences with profanities and intend on doing so for the remainder of the day! I’m thinking that it may just be the right time to start F*#king some Sh*t up because we dont know how much longer it will be permitted!!! Otherwise – Nos vemos en Cuba!

    Peace!

  2. Mike  •  September 22, 2011 @7:52 pm
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    I feel a little like a rebel leader stirring up some emotion to go and take on the man. Alternatively ive misread your tone and just been told off for swearing – either way i like the reaction!

  3. Jen  •  September 23, 2011 @10:12 am
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    No telling off!lol…Tone was interpreted perfectly.For every movement of communist oppression there will be a rebel revolution – happy for you to lead the way. :)

    “Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.” – Henry David Thoreau

    Loving your work!
    J

  4. Mike  •  September 23, 2011 @10:38 am
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    Superb – love the quote its so perfectly apt!

    “Every generation needs a new revolution.”

    Thomas Jeffersom

    What he forgot to mention is it also needs some hooligans to start it but im pretty sure once we take over we can change it!

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    [...] two months ago I wrote an article about this bill and the danger it poses, needless to say as a rather unknown blogger I didn’t have much impact on parliament. Despite my [...]

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