First up let me say I don't like John Howard (its a gun ban thing) BUT I can't believe you people who think this is a stunt. This bloke has my respect and admiration and you people who think someone trying to put a stop to the disgrace of child molesting is just buying votes have my utter contempt.
So yes go in there and ban grog/porn, its about bloody time. And don't give me the line about banning grog in white communities until you've seen the effect it has on the women and children in these aborigional communities.
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Well list me in the utter contempt bracket of the population Bakes. John Howard is a Lawyer. Lawyers are trained to manipulate people, conversations and arguments. John Howards record as a manipulator durung his 'reign' are legendary (some have already been mentioned in htis thread). John Howard is such a good manipulator, he makes people such as you (who doesnt like him) think he is doing a good and just thing with these new laws.
Lets look at what John is doing. He is taking away alcohol from alcoholics and porn from pedophiles.
If you take the alcohol from an alcoholic without his/her wishes they will find another source to get high. This has been proven time and again in studies. They will not clean up because they dont want to. Why would they give up a perfectly good drug that escapes them from facing reality, to face the reality of their worsening conditions of life? All sorts of issues they will have to deal with when sober/straight and its all to hard. Easier to drink.
Secondly pedophiles. Pedophiles can not be cured by banning porn. To think this is possible is as stupid as banning martial art magazines to curb community violence. Two years ago I was researching pedophiles and relevant therapies, I could find only one case which reported to claim they had 'so far' cured a pedophile. One. Dont you think banning porn if it worked would have been found a long time ago with all the research and psychologists looking into this?
No, John has not found the miracle cure. The only known cure for most pedophiles is castration. It takes away their urge to act indecently with children...but not always. Some pedophiles who know they can not change have actually had this operation done to them of their own free will so they can be cured.
So yes it is an important situation that needs adressing, however, banning alcohol and banning porn is not the miracle cure from your beloved saviour John.
It will not cure it. Thus, if Johns actions will not cure the problem of pedophilia, why else would he bring this up? Perhaps to gain the compasionate vote? The lets help the poor kiddies vote? He is a Lawyer after all............and do not forget his past actions..........
For Johns very first cabinet meeting in power John stripped $400 000 000 from Aboriginal Communities. Why would you do this if you wanted to fix a problem that needs money and Aboriginal support to fix? I would go so far to say that John has unknowingly actually supported this pedophilia in happening by stripping funding from the communities that need money and support to address these and other major problems.