AUSTRALIA - Bikies banned from group sex in public....

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Bikies who engage in group sex anywhere other than private homes can now be charged in Queensland as part of the state's tough new anti-bikie laws.
The revelation came after the state government answered a question posted on Premier Campbell Newman's Facebook page about outlaw motorcycle gang members and group sex.
The constituent, asking about the VLAD (Vicious Lawless Association Disestablishment) laws wrote:
"Do they make a ménage a trois illegal and if so where this leaves orgies and swingers clubs?"
A staffer for Premier Newman then responded:
"The offence is for three or more participants in a criminal organisation to meet in public. So yes, it would be illegal for three criminal gang members to have sex in public."
Lawyers, however, have questioned the validity of the laws and why they were reaching into people's bedrooms.
Criminal lawyer Bill Potts told News Limited: "There's no room under the bed for Mr Newman or the Government and they should think about why they are reaching into people's private lives."
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/2014/01/07/07/06/queensland-bans-bikies-from-public-group-sex

(AUS) Victorian 'bikies' arrested for shopping for ice cream together

A lawyer for Victorian men charged under Queensland's controversial new anti-association laws says his clients were targeted simply because they were "young, male and had tattoos". The five Victorian men were arrested on the Gold Coast while shopping for ice cream. Under new Queensland laws, it's an offence for three or more people from criminal organisations to be knowingly in a public place at the same time. Police claim at least four of the five are outlaw motorcycle club members. But lawyer Bill Potts, representing two of the men, says only two have clear links. "They are being charged, effectively, with being friends in a public place, buying an ice cream," Mr Potts told 3AW Breakfast. "They were not wearing colours, they were not armed, they had no money, they had no drugs. "Despite extensive searches, no evidence of criminality or criminal offence that we would know was found to exist." The men, charged two days after they were arrested, will today be taken to a Queensland prison where they will be in lock down for 23 hours per day, with "no human contact, no television, and very little reading matter", Mr Potts said. "We now face in Australia offences of merely being associated - that is, talking to someone. Being in their presence. "I just really wonder if that's the society we really want to live in." "Australians should be against oppression." http://www.3aw.com.au/blogs/3aw-breakfast-blog/victorian-bikies-arrested-for-shopping-for-ice-cream-together/20140107-30e7z.html Queensland's war against bikies Independent MP Peter Wellington yesterday protested outside the Maroochydore Court House against the State Government's anti-bikie laws. The Member for Nicklin rode a sidecar motorbike to the courthouse with a coffin displaying the sign, "Democracy killed by Newman's VLAD laws." Mr Wellington implored the State Government to amend the anti-bikie legislation which has seen Sunshine Coast bikie gang members and associates arrested without bail and held in solitary confinement until their court hearing. Peter Wellington, and Acting Attorney-General David Crisafulli spoke to Annie Gaffney about the controversial new laws. http://blogs.abc.net.au/queensland/2014/01/queenslands-war-against-bikies.html