Ok,
Not so imaginary as my other ideas. I need to do anything I can, we need to do anything we can about this. I may have moved away from Melbourne City a couple of months ago, but over the last year have noticed just how bad it has become. Living on Brunswick Street and frequenting the city I saw that Melbourne was developing a problem once the sun went down. I was awoken with increasing frequency at least once a fortnight from my sleep when living on Brunswick St, to look out the window and see people having major psychotic episodes out the front of my house, I am talking 28 days later infected with rage episodes which are not easily translated into text. And riding through the city and going out in the city I have noticed more and more people mainly blokes having major episodes and trying to kill bouncers twice their size. I hate to jump to conclusions but I would be fairly safe in assuming that this has probably got something to do with the consumption of ice as in all my years, not saying there is a lot of them under my belt, but this behaviour is new to me. Junkies have always seemed relatively harmless, but ice addicts are like animals, and I am not sure what I would have to do if I was targeted by a person in one of these episodes.
So I hate to make major assumptions, and maybe people will be very frustrated with what I might be saying. But I have noticed a lot more psycho twenty somethings around in the last year. Even during the day in Fitzroy people smoked it in my back lane and I could hear them swearing insanely. I don't think I am making a major jump in assumption in saying that I think that this increase in ice usage has had a direct effect upon the introduction of this curfew. For the first time I wasn't so sure about treading the streets of Melbourne these days. Recent festivals I had attended were full of cocky young clowns kicking the shit out of each other, I am by no means old but remember a time when a dance party was a very friendly environment.
Obviously the Government as usual has no idea what to do so they have turned to a trusted method of easily controlling this violence. But this is only because our youth culture has been incapable to keep its shit together. If we can't look after ourselves the Government has to make decisions for us. Which is why this shitness seems to be descending. The best nights of my life have been spent club hopping, minding my own business with my friends, and I would love to be able to keep doing that.
So the question is what we can do to reclaim our freedom and stop these fucks from causing soo much trouble with out such things as this curfew becoming common practice? I hate what the Government is doing too, but the thing is unless the problem disappears they aren't going to let this shit slide.
If this curfew is introduced, it will work. And if it works, what reason would they have not to make it a full time law. And once it is a full time law, what government in their right mind would ever try and remove it.
I'm not sure if it's too late for action, but the culture needs to look after itself, otherwise (as is becoming the case) the decision and responsibility get taken out of our hands.
Don't be a fuck, don't let your friends be a fuck. Otherwise we all have to live like fucks.
Godspeed Melbourne.