Melbourne Protests:Land Forces 2024 International Land Defence Exposition

[bzparkes]

Does Australia have a right to protest?

Is it ok for Victoria Police to go straight to rubber bullets?

Why you think they used rubber bullets?

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

Of course you'd support people who throw vomit and faeces at law enforcement purely there to ensure the crowd doesn't get out of control.

I don't.
Of course you would support corporations drumming up buyers for weapons of destruction.
You're a bit gullible and easily convinced.

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

Why you think they used rubber bullets?

They didn't use rubber bullets on the covid clowns punching horses.

 

[Gralin]

A Tom Elliot 3AW exclusive.

I found channel 9 footage where they said protesters assaulted a busker
And the footage showed the busker assaulting protesters and then the cops jumping on protesters

 

[Gralin]

They didn't use rubber bullets on the covid clowns punching horses.

They used rubber bullets at the shrine when they wouldn't leave

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

I found channel 9 footage where they said protesters assaulted a busker
And the footage showed the busker assaulting protesters and then the cops jumping on protesters

Sounds about right.

 

[bzparkes]

I don't.
Of course you would support corporations drumming up buyers for weapons of destruction.
You're a bit gullible and easily convinced.

I'm gullible?

Hilarious.

People have the right to protest, they don't have the right to throw faeces and vomit over police.

It doesn't take any particular high level of IQ to realise this.

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

I'm gullible?

Hilarious.

People have the right to protest, they don't have the right to throw faeces and vomit over police.

It doesn't take any particular high level of IQ to realise this.

Here you go picking one incident to justify the ridiculous expo.
Forget about the vomit for a minute and think of the children getting their heads blown off by weapons this expo provides.

 

[Gralin]

Cops are anti protest as **** in this country as are our governments

They were blockading the event and the cops decided to clear a path

This of course involves violence

Resisting being cleared is portrayed by the media as violence

Cops and media will always say the protesters started rhe violence and talk about how many cops were injured

Won't mention what really happened or how many protesters the cops injured

This is standard in Australia US UK etc with how protest are covered

 

[bzparkes]

Here you go picking one incident to justify the ridiculous expo.

I'm not justifying the expo.

And it was hardly 'one' incident.

People on this board simply must take every comment out of context to support their strawman.

Always good for a laugh, I guess.

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

The expo is like a sexpo for right wing nationalist nuts.

 

[bzparkes]

Cops are anti protest as **** in this country as are our governments

They were blockading the event and the cops decided to clear a path

This of course involves violence

Resisting being cleared is portrayed by the media as violence

Cops and media will always say the protesters started rhe violence and talk about how many cops were injured

Won't mention what really happened or how many protesters the cops injured

This is standard in Australia US UK etc with how protest are covered

Ok, when there's an expo for something you support and a crowd blocks it, who is then forcefully cleared by the police, will you still condemn the cops?

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

I'm not justifying the expo.

And it was hardly 'one' incident.

People on this board simply must take every comment out of context to support their strawman.

Always good for a laugh, I guess.

So you're against the expo?

 

[Gralin]

Ok, when there's an expo for something you support and a crowd blocks it, who is then forcefully cleared by the police, will you still condemn the cops?

Yes
I condemned them in 2020 for their actions against the anti lockdown protests
I think those people were absolute idiots but go look and you won't see me cheering the cops on

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

Ok, when there's an expo for something you support and a crowd blocks it, who is then forcefully cleared by the police, will you still condemn the cops?

Protestors don't protest furniture or kitchen appliance expos.

 

[bzparkes]

So you're against the expo?

I don't even know what the expo is, just saw vision of people throwing vomit and faeces at not jus the police but journalists covering the event.

That is completely unacceptable behaviour in this country.

 

[bzparkes]

Yes
I condemned them in 2020 for their actions against the anti lockdown protests
I think those people were absolute idiots but go look and you won't see me cheering the cops on

Fair enough but while people have a right to protest in this country, they don't have a right to block others from accessing a space they are legally allowed to enter, which these people were doing.

We have laws for a reason, otherwise any nuffy could just block anybody else from something they don't like and call it a 'protest'.

 

[Gralin]

Fair enough but while people have a right to protest in this country, they don't have a right to block others from accessing a space they are legally allowed to enter, which these people were doing.

We have laws for a reason, otherwise any nuffy could just block anybody else from something they don't like and call it a 'protest'.

Firstly
No we don't have an actual right to protest

Secondly
There's no actual protest if there's no impact

Sitting in a park not stopping people get into the weapons expo achieves nothing

**** those people they profit off the murder of children

Make their lives uncomfortable

You can tell by the cops response where the state is most worried

Getting in the way of profiting off war and fossil fuels gets the biggest response generally

 

[bzparkes]

Firstly
No we don't have an actual right to protest

Secondly
There's no actual protest if there's no impact

Sitting in a park not stopping people get into the weapons expo achieves nothing

**** those people they profit off the murder of children

Make their lives uncomfortable

You can tell by the cops response where the state is most worried

Getting in the way of profiting off war and fossil fuels gets the biggest response generally

Whilst I can agree that the protest cause is noble, coming with bags full of vomit and faeces means you came prepared for a fight.

Protesting against violence by being violent yourself isn't going to garner much sympathy.

 

[Rob R]

Ridiculous response. There shouldn't be an bells and whistles expo complete with light show, music and unveilings for weapons designed to kill.
It shouldn't be open to the public to jack off over either.
Letting private companies spruik their weapons like that is sick.
Why tf is there an expo anyway.
The army can inspect weapons to buy anytime.
The arms companies want more wars so they can make more profit.

This is a very good argument, it doesn't need to be a show. I bet there are some nice.parties as well. Government should just work out what they want and call for tenders.

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[SnakeMan86]

It's disgusting to think, that any officer that woke up this morning to do there job, in any way was deserving of having shit and vomit thrown on them. Or hit with rocks, or any other projectile.

Any cause, that was trying to have light shed on it was completely overshadowed, and will be secondary now by there own behaviour

 

[Gralin]

Whilst I can agree that the protest cause is noble, coming with bags full of vomit and faeces means you came prepared for a fight.

Protesting against violence by being violent yourself isn't going to garner much sympathy.

Cops used flash bangs tear gas rubber bullets batons etc

Cops always come prepared for and looking for a fight

The government spent 15m making sure they were ready to sink the boot in

Those people weren't there looking for sympathy though

They were there to disrupt the expo and the cops were there to crack skulls

 

[bzparkes]

Cops used flash bangs tear gas rubber bullets batons etc

Cops always come prepared for and looking for a fight

The government spent 15m making sure they were ready to sink the boot in

Those people weren't there looking for sympathy though

They were there to disrupt the expo and the cops were there to crack skulls

Gee, cops were armed with anti-riot gear.

Do you ever stop to ask yourself why that may be the case?

Should they have brought bouquets of flowers instead?

Maybe the 'protesters' should've done that themselves, they may have seen a big swell of public support.

 

[SnakeMan86]

Cops used flash bangs tear gas rubber bullets batons etc

Cops always come prepared for and looking for a fight

The government spent 15m making sure they were ready to sink the boot in

Those people weren't there looking for sympathy though

They were there to disrupt the expo and the cops were there to crack skulls

Protesters rocking up in balaclavas with projectiles weren't looking for a fight? How should the police be armed? With hugs and kind words to defend themselves?

 

[bzparkes]

Protesters rocking up in balaclavas with projectiles weren't looking for a fight? How should the police be armed? With hugs and kind words?

Probably should've just let them in to smash up the expo instead, I'm sure.