Saffer said...kitelooper1 said...
It is people that think these thoughts that are stuffing up this country. You busy bodies that want to erode our freedom should get the f... out and go live in some totalitarian big brother society. You freaks are multiplying daily. Every where you turn there is you folk interfering and telling us what we can and cant do, eat, drink, say, watch, listen to, blah blah blah. It is 24/7 at work, home and now at play. It makes me so mad, if some f.. wit bureacrat was walking down some dark alley I would be tempted to (censored in case some Judas reports me as a risk for politically motivated violence)
I for one have no problem with any form of self destructive or darwin like behaviour until it impedes on others. For example, Cyclings without helmets? Go for it, if you don't think your head is important enough, don't wear it.
Where I do draw the line is when it impacts on the safety of others. Unlike surfing, a runaway board isn't likely to kill people or cut powerlines. A runaway kite on the other hand will. 5 incidents in 5 days at Altona, mostly from newbies means it impacts on whether i have the ability to continue kiting there, and that means this is not about some do gooders impacting on the freedom of others, its about some douche bags who don't give a **** about the rights of others to continue using a particular location.
If kiters want to teach themselves, then by all means, they should be legally allowed to go to some remote beach nowhere near any other kiters or people where they are welcome to engage in any form of darwin like behaviour, but if they want to learn in a location where there are other people and kiters who are at risk through their irresponsible behaviour, then they should do so with instruction.
The only thing that bugs me more than do gooders who want to make the speed limits rediculously low is people who think that freedom gives them the right to endanger other people "because its their right". Next you'll be arguing that drink driving should be legalised because it impedes on your right to go out drinking and drive your car home. Its this exact behaviour that gives the do-gooders ammunition to impose these rediculous controls because you prove that some people are incapable of self control and therefore require laws to keep them in line with the rest of the population.
