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Be Careful when you drive A_U_P

Cleopatra

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Billboard ban: No Moore exposure
By staff writers
March 4, 2004

A RAUNCHY billboard promoting the launch of Australia's first porn-friendly political party has been pulled down because authorities fear it is so steamy it could cause a car crash.

The billboard for the Porn Star Party - featuring leader and Queensland adult movie starlet Jodie Moore in a provocative nude pose - outraged locals when it first appeared by the Gold Coast Highway earlier this week.

Queensland's Tourism Minister Margaret Keech said the advertisement posed a traffic hazard, and that mothers from the local town of Beenleigh had complained about their children being exposed to it when driving by in the car.

"Beenleigh is a family area and it's not the sort of thing you want to see when you're driving down the motorway," Ms Keech said.

Beenleigh mother-of-three Linda Mina, who is standing against Cr Hackwood in next month's local government elections, said the town already suffered an image problem "and we don't need this sort of thing".

Porn Star Party spokesman Dean Weiley said the billboard would come down at dawn today for "adjustments".

As well as supporting availability of adult material in general retail stores, Ms Moore's policies include outlawing smoking for under-18s, mandatory military service for unemployed school-leavers, a Brisbane "mega-sign" similar to Hollywood's, and giving the RSPCA the power to arrest people who are cruel to animals.

The party also argues that all prisoners should learn a trade. "No more sitting on their ass (sic) playing cards, wasting time watching TV and videos," party literature says.

The billboard is part of a $26,000 campaign to raise awareness of the party.

Mr Weiley said the party already had more than 700 members and Ms Moore planned to seek a Senate seat in this year's federal election.
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Warning ! Nudity on the photo of the article!
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,8864518%5E421,00.html

What sort of party is that?
 
That's not bad. Not much worse than you'd see on the cover of Maxim or whatever.

But my favorite quote:
"Beenleigh is a family area..."
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As opposed to...?
 
I found it funny but if you think about it such things ridicule the political systems and then the eternal question pops-up. Must people have the freedom to be jerks?
 
In Greece we have elections on Sunday and from the dirt that we had seen during the pre-electoral period many people would prefer that we had some posters like that one instead.
 
Cleopatra said:

What sort of party is that?
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Sounds like my kind of party...except for the outlawing smoking and the manditory military service.

But I'd love to get in her "cabinet" any day.

Must people have the freedom to be jerks?
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Absolutly you sonofabitch. ;) :)
 
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Tony said:
Sounds like my kind of party...except for the outlawing smoking and the manditory military service.
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What? Is this what they say?? Outlaw smoking ?? LOL

Absolutly you sonofabitch. ;) :)
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:p If I ever become a PM I will introduce the jerk rule as a Law!
 
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Cleopatra said:


What? Is this what they say?? Outlaw smoking ?? LOL
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According to the article...

Ms Moore's policies include outlawing smoking for under-18s, mandatory military service for unemployed school-leavers...
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I guess "school-leaver" is a sugar-coated term for "drop-out". Stupid.


:p If I ever become a PM I will introduce the jerk rule as a Law!
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Who will you get to do the jerking? ;) Are you planning on running on the Porn Star Party ticket?
 
Ummm arent billboards SUPPOSED to be distracting. Thats the point!! What a bogus excuse for taking the sign down.

This polictical party is being censored!!! What happend to free speech!
 
Tmy said:
This polictical party is being censored!!! What happend to free speech!
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They need some hot lesbians on that billboard.
 
Cleopatra said:
I found it funny but if you think about it such things ridicule the political systems and then the eternal question pops-up. Must people have the freedom to be jerks?
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The answer to that as long as they are causing no harm to others then yes, people should always have the freedom to be jerks.

Ridiculing the political system is essential - it is a form of protestation, and if we take away the right to protest or ridicule then we loose control (minute though it may be) over our government, and ultimately (although most governments and politicians forget this point) the government is there to serve us, the people of that country.
 
Alas, the source of the story is the Brisbane Courier Mail, one of the News Group of newspapers in Australia, which in turn is owned by Rupert Murdoch (or nearest living relative he owns). And their quality of news reporting leaves much to be desired...like the truth, for a start.

Also, the south-east corner of Queensland is very similar to Miami. They like to promote themselves as "family oriented", but in fact it is Australia's sex, sin and sun centre, and therefore the home of most of our mafiosi. A previous local parliamentarian was the Minister for sports, gambling and racing, and consequently went to gaol on corruption charges. Many of the newer inhabitants are generally considered by the rest of Australia as nouveau-riche (sp?), upwardly-mobile self-centred hicks. The older residents who don't own Bentleys and BMWs are appalled at what has happened to their sleepy little beachside towns.

Hence the billboard and it's ruckus. Don't let anyone tell you Australia is a boring place!
 
Cleopatra said:



As well as supporting availability of adult material in general retail stores, Ms Moore's policies include/ snip / giving the RSPCA the power to arrest people who are cruel to animals.



What sort of party is that?
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The sort of party that thinks people who are cruel to animals should be punished - presumably by being pussy whipped with a cat-o-nine tails; administered by a lady wearing thigh high boots and not much else I suppose:D
 
Forget the pollies, you should see what they can do with an ad for shoes. This one was at the top of my street.
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Cleopatra said:
Must people have the freedom to be jerks?
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Hi Cleopatra.

It is because of this freedom that we have the rule of law.

From one of the Strauss chapters again from Postmodern Platos one finds that philosophy not only cannot, but will not rule. Quoting the Eleatic Stranger:

Rule of law is inferior to the rule of living intelligence because laws, owing to their generality, cannot determine wisely what is right and proper in all circumstances...only the wise man on the spot could correctly decide...Nevertheless laws are necessary. The few wise men cannot sit beside each of the many unwise men and tell him exactly what it is becoming for him to do...The wise man is subjected to the laws, whose justice and wisdom is inferior to his, because the unwise men cannot help distrusting the wise man, and this distrust is not entirely indefensible given the fact that they cannot understand him. They cannot believe that a wise man who would deserve to rule as a true king without laws would be willing and able to rule over them...The unwise men cannot help making themselves the judges of the wise man. No wonder then that the wise men are unwilling to rule over them.


Tony said:
They need some hot lesbians on that billboard.
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Don't...uh, I mean, do what you will, Tony.
 
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