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Title:	You know people are seriously against something when...
Author:	Toam	Posted: 06-05-2008
...there are Facebook groups protesting it. There are many, many Facebook groups protesting this new “2am lockout” which is being imposed on bars in certain Melbourne councils from the 3rd of June. If you are unaware of it, a quick google search should clear it up but basically it means that you can’t enter a bar after 2am (and before 7am, I believe). My favourite one is probably the one called “I will party on Parliament House steps in protest against the 2am curfew”. In this group, they detail who they are and what they are about. “We are the SayNo2am Coalition, we are the voice of the public in the battle against the 2am curfew.” From this, I was able to determine that they are the ‘SayNo2am coalition’. Firstly, I wondered about the name. Should it not be “SayNoTo2am”? I guess that this whole ‘numbers mean the words they sound like!’ thing has finally shown its weakness. Apparently, they are my voice in the battle against ‘the 2am curfew’. I must say it is good that someone else is speaking up for me because I know that I sure as hell wasn’t going to bother. “We will show rational debate and reasons against having the bans, from the people that work and live in the industry.” I find it very interesting that they use future tense there. “We will show” not “We have shown” or even “We can show”. We will show. This implies that, while they currently have no supporting argument to their complaints, they do hope to have a point some time in the future. “We are working tirelessly to research this topic and come up with facts that can dispute the current flawed ideas.” So basically they are organising a protest before they even know anything about the topic? Great. Hopefully they can get some facts together soon. I think maybe I should help. Fact: It isn’t a curfew. My dictionary (and I suspect yours, too) defines curfew as ‘a regulation requiring people to remain indoors between specified hours of the night’ or alternatively ‘the time at which such a restriction begins’. However, the lockout says that if you are in a bar, you are more than welcome to leave – however, you may not enter a bar. So this is, in fact, closer to the opposite of a curfew than it is to a curfew. And that is one more fact than these guys seem to have.
437 of Toam's friends have joined these groups, much to his emabarrassment