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Melbourne Protests:Land Forces 2024 International Land Defence Exposition
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I don't.
Of course you would support corporations drumming up buyers for weapons of destruction.
You're a bit gullible and easily convinced.
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They didn't use rubber bullets on the covid clowns punching horses.
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Sounds about right.
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.
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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.
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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
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
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.
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The expo is like a sexpo for right wing nationalist nuts.
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?
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So you're against the expo?
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Protestors don't protest furniture or kitchen appliance expos.
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.
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'.
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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.
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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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
Any cause, that was trying to have light shed on it was completely overshadowed, and will be secondary now by there own behaviour
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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.
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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?
Probably should've just let them in to smash up the expo instead, I'm sure.
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