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Laws Against Printed T-shirts For Protesters
Monday 07th of July 2008 05:14:21 AM
New laws to prevent people "annoying" Catholic pilgrims during Pope Benedict XVI's upcoming visit to Australia are likely to backfire and provoke both protesters and jesters, activists said Wednesday.
Under the headline "World Youth Day gets annoying," a Sydney Morning Herald online blog about the restrictions for the Catholic celebration from July 15-20 notes that "annoying people has been a great Australian tradition.”
Under the new laws, police will be able to stop conduct that "causes annoyance or inconvenience to participants" in World Youth Day events, which are expected to draw hundreds of thousands of young people to Sydney.
Lawyers say this means that anyone simply wearing a printed T-shirt with a slogan deemed provocative could be liable to arrest and a fine. of up to 5,500 Australian dollars. An online retailer is already advertising T-shirts with the slogan: "5,500 dollars -- a small price to pay for annoying Catholics".
The Sydney Morning Herald online carried a picture of a more loaded T-shirt reading: "The Pope touched me Down Under" -- a pun on Australia's informal name and the Catholic sex abuse scandal which now dogs the pontiff on his travels. During a visit to the United States in April, Benedict apologised for the actions of child-abusing clergy and Australian victims of predator priests are urging him to do the same in Australia.
"The laws are likely to encourage a wave of civil disobedience, with lots of people wearing dissenting T-shirts, conducting marches and carrying banners and placards," the victim support group Broken Rites said on its website.
The team behind the popular satirical television show "The Chaser's War on Everything" has also suggested the laws would provoke rather than pacify protesters. The programme won international headlines last year when its stars breached security at a global summit in Sydney by posing as part of a Canadian motorcade carrying an Osama bin Laden lookalike.
"I don't think people should accept silly and bad laws like this lying down," team member Julian Morrow told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. "I reckon everyone in New South Wales who's concerned about civil liberties should be printing up T-shirts and walking around World Youth Day to make their statement," Morrow said.
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