What's your definition of sanity?

I do not agree that every government will lock you away for challenging it. I feel rather safe in the fact that my country would not do this. Are you sure about this? Let me give you a very simple example... You are a very good driver... you are sober and fully awake. You are driving on a deserted Highway in the Northern Territory... very safely... and a speed camera catch you doing 120km/h. You refuse to pay the fine... and you go to court. You argue that you were driving very safely and you have been driving a 120km/h all your life. Just because the law reduced the speed limit to 100km/h 12 months ago... has not changed your ability to drive at 120km/h. The magistrate tells you that the law is the law. If you don't pay... you will lose your licence until you do pay. Furthermore... you won't be able to renew your car registration... as the RTA won't do any dealing with you until you pay. You stick to your principles... don't pay... and start driving without a licence. You get caught driving without a licence... and you are back in court. Now they are taking your licence away... even if you pay the previous fine. You get caught a second time driving without a licence... and the magistrate sentence you to three months jail. You tell the magistrate "You're a pr..k and I don't accept your law"... then you kick the arresting officer in the balls. You are now taken for a psychiatric assessment. It only requires the signature of two doctors to declare you insane. The doctor gives you a choice... "Sit on your principles and accept that you are wrong... or be declared insane." Either way... you are now going to be lock up. Either in a jail or a mental institution. Because the government has to enforce its laws by any means to maintain some form of order... otherwise you have anarchy. But at the end of the day... the law is design to drive you insane if you refuse to obey it... in more ways than one.

hmmmmm, you make some very good points in your case, I am short on time at the minute but I will be back with more later! You have certainly given me some food for thought!

You make a good point here, Aussie. It's almost like they have something set up which defies common sense, and then they just keep pressing onward with more consequences or punishments in order to 'make an example' so other people will just lie down to slaughter. A less serious example - how to get suspended for 5 days simply for being late. If you're tardy to class more than 3 times, you get after school detention. If you miss the detention, you get Saturday school. If you skip that, you get suspended. In essence, the school is telling you that if you're late, you get suspended. To me this makes the problem worse. Of course they don't want students being late, but you know what, I'd rather that a student is late rather than punished severely and then caused to MISS SCHOOL in the end. Seems like the education system trying so hard to prevent lateness is instead causing missed days of school. I agree with you too about the 120km or whatever. Just because something is reduced does not mean that you suddenly become unsafe to drive at that speed. Just because somebody else is an idiot and becomes a stain on the highway doesn't mean I should have to conform to all the rules that crop up because mr x was stupid. LOL! I have a very hard time with one size fits all, because if you have to use the lowest common denominator as a rule, things are way too dumbed down for the rest of us.