We are not the only ones that think the lockout laws put in place by old mate Baz O’Farewell O’Farrell are reducing Sydney to a so called ‘nanny state’ that one senator is currently looking to fight.

Cue Russell Brand. Comedian, celebrity, author, reformed drug addict and civil rights activist who has voiced his opinions on the crippling lockout laws.

Brand is to tour Australia wide this October with his stand up show, ‘Trew World Order’ but not before taking aim at the current State Governments agenda according to the ‘Get Him To The Greek’ and ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshal’ movie star.

“They (the Christie and Kelly deaths) … have enabled them (the State Government) to fulfil an agenda that they probably had in the first place,” Brand said.

“I would like to know the real reason they are doing it — to stop people assembling, to stop people communicating? Normally, the answer is, in some ways, the interests of the powerful have at some point been inhibited or ­impacted.

“Anything that impairs people’s personal freedom, generally speaking, or collective freedoms or public freedoms I am broadly against.”

Even going further to say he’ll disregard the laws during his shows in going past “curfew” and serving “whatever drinks people want into the night”

Read: Sydney, could you please chill out with the nanny state vibes

“We will be keeping our venues open way beyond the time of any curfew, we will be serving whatever drinks people want way into the night and we will consider it our duty as citizens of a free planet to stay up way past everybody’s bedtime till we are so tired we all start crying just to defy this preposterous law,”

At the barebones of it, he’s right, how does an out of touch Government control what the people can and once did successfully and safely before? It’s not like violence doesn’t exist in other cultures around the world and when it does an educational approach has worked, not a stance in punishing the majority which has affected businesses and Sydney’s nightlife at large.

He’s also taken some admiration of Lord Clover Moore and her position as part of an independent council with Moore responding “I’m glad to hear Russell is a supporter of independent politicians and progressive policies,” adding “He obviously has a lot in common with Sydneysiders.”

He lastly added a bit of a call to action for those unhappy with the current government as many are “Get involved, whatever it is you are experiencing and whatever it you are feeling there are thousands of people just like you that feel the same thing and if you communicate and organise you will be astonished by how much power you have.”

Guess we’ll see if Russell has a showdown with authorities come October!

source: The Daily Telegraph