There was a stir when those navel gazer cult 'Orange People' tried it on here too, can remember the gasp horror Current Affairs programs about them but they faded from the scene. Some ended up in jail, but no idea what happened to the rest of them. They were really pushy for a while though.
A nearby town has enough Indians to be running the joint if they wanted to but other than one kerfuffle there's never been any problem. The only time I heard from them was when some officious bumptious old fool on the board of the local RSL club demanded that the Sikhs remove their turbans as the rules stated no headwear in the club.
How ridiculous to equate a turban with a hat. The Sikhs won the argument and fair enough too. I'd rather see a well dressed and dignified man in a turban than one sitting on his 4' ponytail because they're not allowed cut their hair. There's rules and then there's exceptions.
It does point up though that power, however trivial, seems to be a heady dug to some.
As to the hypothetical, 'what would you change'. That presupposes that I would have to do what the people who took over that town did to get the opportunity to change anything.
I don't operate that way, don't want to run the joint. I'm perfectly content to sit back and snipe at those who do want to run things.
So really, the first thing I'd have to do would be to put in place the legislation that prevented people 'like me' getting to the position where they had the authority to pass the legislation. Now there's a dilemma for you.
How many popular revolutions have been initiated by people who "only want the power to stop other people getting into power"?? How many of them turned out well? Ask an Egyptian.
What happened in that town is the dark side of Democracy in action. It's how it works. Once there's more of 'them' than 'us' then they get to set the rules. The only way around that is to dismantle Democracy and then who ya gonna call??
... anyway, that said, I'd make young hoons pull their dacks up higher than their bumcracks, shoot a few drug dealers and rap artists, ban blue rinses, hoodies, doofdoof music, riding noisy trail bikes within 2 miles of town, and appoint TG sheriff to round up the jerks.
The above wouldn't happen here though, our town councils are amalgamated and very rarely cover only one town, more usually many small towns or suburbs are under the same area Council so not so easy for one group to take over.
We don't have sheriffs, and the police force is a Government authority, not elected local officials.
Sorry about that job TG.
