You know that thing called democracy? Where the people’s wants are budgeted and worked out by some elected people who get paid handsomly on a skyrocketing scale to do the leg work that us working schmoes don’t have time to do? As usual, some bozo has decided to use the system as their personal loin cloth.

Well, it seems that Tony Abbot’s ‘coalition’ has thrown a spanner in the works of the R18+ classification for video games mere hours after the legislation was presented to Parliament. You see, the party believes that 20 years worth of debates, “expert opinions”, news articles, protests, letters, public surveys and several governmental meetings on the subject are not enough and have referred the bill to another enquiry.

This pretty much puts the R18+ issue back to square one meaning it could still be some time before the enquiry even starts, let alone comes to a conclusion – and we have no idea what the conclusion will end up being. Yep, it looks like gamers, again, are being encouraged to either illegally import games they feel like playing, or better yet, illegally downloading them off the internet for free.

And why the hell not? After all, the government’s commitment to making banks lots of money through things like insurance policies that protect companies from going under in the event they cannot pay the outlandish import taxes imposed by the very same government that makes video games twice as expensive in this country than anywhere else; that is, of course, the games deemed “worthy” for release.

And it’s not like the Labour party is any less to blame in all this. A better idea would be to pass an amendment to the consitution or whatever it is that says that the Governors-General have the final say in deciding on what to do with the classification in the first place. Of course, Gillard’s party are claiming to be the heroes in all this, taking the opportunity to quickly Tweet about it in a lame attempt to save face.

Sure, this post is slightly opinionated, but you see – most gamers in this country aren’t 12 years old. We should have the right to play whatever game we damn well want to. If that means playing a hardcore pornographic version of One Piece complete with vibrating accessories, than who the hell is the government – whom we elect to represent us to abuse the power we as the voting and tax paying public employ them to wield?