Mr Maddox was charged under the unamended 1972 laws for building a creek crossing on his property, which the prosecution claimed had disrupted Waugul — a rainbow serpent central to mythology for Noongar people — as he removed a large amount of silt from the creek, Sky News Australia reported.
Please tell me I'm reading this incorrectly. Please tell me the man isn't actually being prosecuted for mildly inconveniencing a non-existent, imaginary entity.
It's why I say things like "bring back blasphemy laws." Because getting rid of them in the first place was a ruse, and did nothing but ensure that we ended up living under someone else's blasphemy laws.
Back in the 90s, I was a software developer for a company that put together digital legal research systems, back when things were still on CD. We were approached by a representative of Ghana to digitize and build a system containing their limited caselaw. As we scanned and OCRed their books, and started putting the system together, I would read bits and pieces of cases. It was shocking to see cases that had to do with magic and curses being heard in the 1950s. And these weren't crazy people being prosecuted. The judges hearing these cases gave legal weight to claims of people putting curses on others.
Edit: I got to reminiscing about this period of my life and thought I'd add a bit more. As we were getting ready to finalize the system and press a whole lot of CDs, the plug got pulled on the whole thing. I had even gotten my yellow fever shots as prep for a trip there to demo the system. Then the 2000 election saw the Rawlings government ousted, and the new government started accusing the prior government of corruption. The guy who approached us to build system disappeared, hiding from the Ghanaian authorities. It's a shame, really. Consistent application of law is part of a stable society, and this would have been a big step forward in the accessibility of caselaw, for a country which had never had them available in a searchable archive before.
Just another reason why some people can't pull themselves up.
In Iceland, the claim of elves has an actual legal investigation system.
I laugh, but then I realized my hometown in Germany probably has ways to deal with various demons and monsters in a legal way. Also, evidence based systems came from witch trials in Spain. It spread throughout the countries. King James actually tried to explain it while King of Scotland.
Whether demons exist doesn't matter, it's a matter of dealing with the public and it's response to such an accusation. If you can prove it's not elves, then you can legally move forward with things and the people are satisfied.
“I don’t understand the heavy-handedness of the Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage. Why wouldn’t they instead just say, ‘You’ve broken our Act, we’re aware you didn’t know anything about it, let’s educate you and tell you about it.’ I’ve had more education from our local elders than I have from the department.”
Because they despise you and they get off on enacting "revenge" against white people. Wake the fuck up.
Please tell me I'm reading this incorrectly. Please tell me the man isn't actually being prosecuted for mildly inconveniencing a non-existent, imaginary entity.
Nope you read it right.
It's why I say things like "bring back blasphemy laws." Because getting rid of them in the first place was a ruse, and did nothing but ensure that we ended up living under someone else's blasphemy laws.
Back in the 90s, I was a software developer for a company that put together digital legal research systems, back when things were still on CD. We were approached by a representative of Ghana to digitize and build a system containing their limited caselaw. As we scanned and OCRed their books, and started putting the system together, I would read bits and pieces of cases. It was shocking to see cases that had to do with magic and curses being heard in the 1950s. And these weren't crazy people being prosecuted. The judges hearing these cases gave legal weight to claims of people putting curses on others.
Edit: I got to reminiscing about this period of my life and thought I'd add a bit more. As we were getting ready to finalize the system and press a whole lot of CDs, the plug got pulled on the whole thing. I had even gotten my yellow fever shots as prep for a trip there to demo the system. Then the 2000 election saw the Rawlings government ousted, and the new government started accusing the prior government of corruption. The guy who approached us to build system disappeared, hiding from the Ghanaian authorities. It's a shame, really. Consistent application of law is part of a stable society, and this would have been a big step forward in the accessibility of caselaw, for a country which had never had them available in a searchable archive before.
Just another reason why some people can't pull themselves up.
In Iceland, the claim of elves has an actual legal investigation system.
I laugh, but then I realized my hometown in Germany probably has ways to deal with various demons and monsters in a legal way. Also, evidence based systems came from witch trials in Spain. It spread throughout the countries. King James actually tried to explain it while King of Scotland.
Whether demons exist doesn't matter, it's a matter of dealing with the public and it's response to such an accusation. If you can prove it's not elves, then you can legally move forward with things and the people are satisfied.
I'm not impressed by some primitive knock-off Dritini when have Baxcalibur on my Pokemon team.
If we're using imaginary dragons, I already got 'em.
Would that it were so
Because they despise you and they get off on enacting "revenge" against white people. Wake the fuck up.
The time of innocence has long been dead. Naivety is becoming more harmful by the day. May God wake up all White people sooner rather than later.
Jail? Why would that even be written as one of the possible punishments?
And even if he wins, they'll do it again to somebody else.
Make Consequences Great Again.
Lol graham linehams popped up in the archives picture.
We deserve these laws btw.