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 Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 11:18 pm Post subject: War On Freedom--Malawi To Debate Public Farting Ban |
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Think we sometimes need a little light relief amidst the journey of our life. Given all the ills in the world one struggles to see why this should be a matter of debate--but then again I am not Malawian. April 1st? Is this an attempt to reduce open air global warming? Not sure i can believe its not a spoof
| Quote: | Malawian lawmakers will next week debate a law change to criminalise public farting, which a cabinet minister said had been encouraged by democracy.
Nobody in Malawi has been arrested nor convicted for farting under the old law
"The government has a right to ensure public decency. We are entitled to introduce order in the country," justice and constitutional affairs minister George Chaponda told independent radio station Capital Radio.
"Would you like to see people farting in public anywhere?"
Since the country embraced multi-party politics 16 years ago people had felt free to fart anywhere, said Chaponda.
"It was not there during the time of dictatorship because people were afraid of the consequences. Now because of multipartism or freedom, people would like to fart anywhere, he said.
Chaponda, a key figure in President Bingu wa *'s government, said that if Malawians cannot control their farting "they should go to the toilet instead of farting in public."
"Nature can be controlled... it becomes a nuisance if people fart anywhere."
A lawyer himself, Chaponda said that under the amended law farting will be considered a minor offence.
Chaponda's Democratic Progressive Party will bank on its majority to pass the amendment to a law which was first introduced in 1929.
The amendment, which will make farting in public an offence, is not yet public and it will be presented to parliament for debate as part of a review by the state-sponsored Law Commission of the country's penal code.
Nobody in Malawi has been arrested nor convicted for farting under the old law, as police did not enforce it.
The old law states: "Any person who voluntarily vitiates the atmosphere in any place so as to make it noxious to the health of persons in general dwelling or carrying on business in the neighbourhood or passing along a public way, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour."
The southern African state is a conservative society with punishable previous bans on long hair for men and trouser-wearing for women. |
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20110204/tod-malawi-to-debate-public-farti ng-ban-07ff78c.html
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fish5133
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Well it seems to have been outlawed in malawi. you can now get a criminal record for farting in public. Still cant believe this is a genuine report. Anyone speak Malawi to check out if the presenters are translating correctly.
"We will just keep on farting"---thats Revolution
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20110210/video/vhd-residents-in-malawi-angr y-over-anti-686f718.html
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"for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities, against powers, against rulers of the darkness of this world, against wicked spirits in high places " Eph.6 v 12 |
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