Police Brutality at #OccupyMelbourne, Australia |
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“The authorities should have negotiated with the protestors before resorting to heavy handed pressure. By their actions, the Premier and Lord Mayor have moved the situation from negotiation to conflict and have hardened peoples’ positions.” Lachlan Gifford, an Occupy Melbourne spokesman, said the protest would spring up in other public places in Melbourne if they were forcibly removed. “What Robert Doyle hasn’t figured out yet is that, regardless of what happens here today, and even if the police and Robert Doyle are successful (in removing them), this won’t be the end of it,” he said.
“Eviction is a very short term thing. We will move next door to the church. This is going to get bigger in one way or another. There’s this underlying dissatisfaction. People are not happy about the gap between haves and the have nots.”
Several protesters were injured with one taken to hospital. While they were being cheered on by the crowd, protesters – still linking arms – retreated, with some crying and others clearly terrified.
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Previous Comments:
Nerijus said:
Democracy in Action
October 21st, 2011 at 10:56 pm
Charlie_webb said:
you guys have the same problems with the police we have here in the u.s.
police are part of the 99% they just do’nt know it yet. as for the 1%, they do’nt know it yet, but we are going to win this battle. Cheers to all of you down under. Let’s go forward and never give up!!
October 24th, 2011 at 10:55 pm
Miss Lindi said:
Mmm…don’t agree with police brutality..but wtf are these people protesting about really? Just another day on tax payers funds in the sun! These police services should have been directed to ‘domestic violence’, ‘break and enters’ and that sort of thing. A protest of this nature, hardly worth their time let alone arrests! The ‘gap between the have and have nots’, mmmm….maybe the ‘have nots’ should go and get a job, instead of protesting!
November 7th, 2011 at 10:09 am
Peter Panapoulous said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf_rt5XJbek&feature=related
If this arrogant pig, Ian leaver is actually saying, that the Police has got their hands tight behind their backs because they are not allowed to “ tell someone to move on any time the Sturm Abteilung is wandering the streets and ordering people around as they please. Just like Hitler’s body guard. And if some poor bastard is not following those orders of the Police, for what ever reason, then they have the right to bash them like criminal thugs and prosecute them, on top of that. WTF is the matter with Australia that this man is still employed by the state? He is a parasite on this country’s taxpayers.
In this context, the radical ideas of policing this Country, simply can not be based on democratic principles.
The Police is, without doubt the radical rightwing fraction of the Australian political landscape. These rightwing fanatics, have got no mandate for what they impose on the rest of us, they are just simply there, as a third political power, without being voted in to office or asked to bludgeon citizens in to submission. Well, if they were asked to beat up protesters for no reason then just some pity Council Bylaws, then I ask you; Who are those mighty councilors who have the power and the right to act, with the police as their bully boys of this Nation, outside our supposedly democratic Political System.
These arrogant brainwashed people of the Police forces are weaned into paramilitary troops, believing that everyone of us are convicts on the run in the first place and we have to justify anything and everything we do, (even if it is only harmlessly dancing in the street) if they take offence to it! And because we are all criminals to be pushed, bashed and talked to like dogs, if we can’t proof to them otherwise in an instant.
The only reason, that these ultra right-wingers are as powerful as they are is that both political parties, Labor as well as the liberals use them as the Sturmabteilung of this Nation.
Policing matters simply don’t matter when every step is taken, by all parties to distract the average punter before every election with more important economic questions in just about every political debate in the media. And yeah, we are not citizens to these twisted politicians in this Country, we are PUNTERS and Voters, who are only there to be Lied to, blindfolded by deceit, impressed by false promises, (did I leave anything out?) and convinced by all the above to vote for them in order to support their hidden agendas regardless What is in the real interest of ALL Australians.
So, the Neo-Nazi is slipping thru, unelected, without any mandate, without any scrutiny for their Oppression – Program which they have in mind for the unsuspecting citizen (Punter).
It would be interesting to see, If these radicals stood for a truly democratic election, with a political Program for each Legislature, how much support they would get from the Australian electorate. Keep in mind that Pauline Hanson and all other rightwing parties have failed in establishing a decent political base in Australia to date!
I admit!; there is a very hard road ahead for any kind of change, maybe even impossible to say the least because of the fiscal integration of your FREEDOM in to balancing the budget.
Take notice at the first thing Paul Newman did when he was elected in Queensland. He started negotiating with the UNELECTED Right Wing force for protection (just like a wise guy in the well known movie The Godfather) and to see how much the right Wingers could squeeze out of the general public in form of infringement notices. How much they can cut your salami that you call FREEDOM, and how they can turn every little mistake of yours in to hard Cash for the Budget.
People! This is a fight that can NOT be lost. If you like it or not People; Georg Orwell’s
1984 is already happening if you fkn like it or not. And it is mainly happening to balance the god damn Budget, the sacred cow. But yeah, you can laaaarf at this till every minute, and every act of yours that YOU call Freedom is eroded and sliced up like a salami, your freedom is turned in to someone else’s money. Any act which you call Freedom doesn’t comply with the Australian police standards, set by the intellectual avant-gardes in Power will feed someone else other then You. If you can’t claim to have freedom, you may as well live in the Zoo and wait for getting fed Bananas day in day out.
Policing Law and order YES!
Holding the entire population of a Country to ransom with false promises of security, entrapment and radical enforcement tactics is NOT a legitimate process in any democracy!
April 3rd, 2012 at 3:09 pm