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Occupy Melbourne Protesters Forcibly Removed by Police
- Posted on October 22, 2011 at 5:10pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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It was not a G’Day for some Occupy Melbourne prosters as riot police forcibly removed the demonstrators against corporate greed from their campsites Friday. ITN News on the clash:
The Herald Sun writes that police have clashed with protestors twice at City Square in Melbourne. Four hundred Occupy Melbourne protesters were met at the fenced-off square by dog squad officers, where “about 20 police forced themselves between the fence and the crowd, scuffling with demonstrators.” On Friday, 100 protesters were arrested from the square where Occupy Melbourne demonstrators have camped out for over a week.
The first peaceful rallies of Occupy Sydney will begin this week.
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Comments (104)
drago
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 8:08pmWay to go my Aussie friends!
Report Post »demint.disciple
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 8:57pmI think he mean they are there to stand up for socialism, no ?
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 9:50pmYea! They know how to ‘take care of business’ down under! By the way, anybody seen Chris Dodd or Barney Frank at any of these ‘picnics’? If I were from Iceland, I‘d be mad as hell about all the ’toxic waste‘ financial instruments sold to my country as ’safe, mortgage-backed securities’ from the United States of America!
Report Post »americansfightingforcommonsense
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 9:02amexactly. This is what our police need to be doing. Shut it down and send them home or arrest them if they refuse to leave.
Report Post »Compare this to the Border States! The “Federal” (Corrupt) Government does nothing to stop illegal immigrants from coming into our country and refuses to let the “States” and the “Land Owners” to do anything to stop them. VS. The Local (Corrupt) City Governments are following the same playbook and allowing these illegal trespassers to take over our parks and streets, and are telling the Police and Property Owners to stand down. We the People need to let it known that we will NOT stand for this.
Andrew from Down Under
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 9:25amCheck out some of the pictures from Occupy Melbourne, with some humorous captions to boot:
Report Post »http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/all_we_are_saying_is_give_police_a_chance/
I’m so proud of Victoria Police, and and fiercely proud that my beloved city is leading the charge in fighting back against these disruptive radicals! The support for the police here is overwhelming!
diggyorange
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 7:39pmThank Obama !
Report Post »World instability , just what he wanted!
stinkybisquit
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 7:30pmI wonder if Australia has a version of Anthony Weiner? If they do, that lady in dark green at :32 is in deep trouble, digging for gold.
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 9:58pmI don’t think a Weiner would stand a chance in Australia–they just wouldn’t have put up with him as long as we did!
Report Post »Free2speakRN
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 1:48amJust another shimp ‘on thi barbi’.
Report Post »DaveOregon
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 7:25pmLove those
Report Post »Aussies – kick those degenerate, lazy liberal/socialist bums in the ass and dump in the Outback!
RossPoldark
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 11:21pmIn every country they protest, they all still look like sewer rats! They need to be pressure washed. What’s that song Elton John sang:’ scrub them down wash their backs, turn them inside out, because I bet you, they haven’t had a bath in years!!!’
Report Post »TheRugger
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 10:25pmHey mate, we don’t want those idiots out here trashing our beautiful outback, you can keep them in your cities.
Report Post »nobull14
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 7:20pmThat’s what should be done here????? I think police should do there job clean the useful idiots out.
Report Post »Jim in Houston
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 10:27amDid you mean useless instead of useful? The only thing they are useful for is to make their cause look as stupid as it is.
Report Post »DSTSS2010
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 1:12pm“Useful” to Obama and his ilk, “usless” to society.
Report Post »Unix
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 7:20pmNow we just have to get Bloombutt to stand up like a man with a pair, instead of being a timid lackey! It is high time these OWS bowel movements to stop!
Report Post »Unix
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 7:16pmYou go Melbourne, kick the bums out! However, I have a beef with your country, you taken all the guns from your citizens to make them sheeple – cowards!
Report Post »texanpatriot
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 6:33pmA mayor with b***s and a city with rules. How refreshing!!
Report Post »CorePatriot
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 6:48pmI couldn’t agree more my friend!
Report Post »CARAGIA
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 7:11pmRight! There’s no violation of “Rights” when you‘re occupying park space and it’s against the park’s rules and you get yourself removed for trashing it. Ad anyone who says Zuccoti Park isn’t trashed and full of garbage is full of it themselves. It’s become a garbage dump.
Report Post »Leader1776
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 7:22pm@CARAGIA
Report Post »Add to that the fact that Zuccoti Park is privately owned and have the right to remove who they wish and the story is even more bazaar. Although I believe the owners are left of center. That’s why I want this all to continue. We nee this group to be exposed for what they are. They may increase in numbers, but it will remain a small, finite number with all eyes on them. Whomever sides with them will also be exposed as societies losers. This is great theater.
The-Monk
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 7:52pm@Leader1776
Report Post »Yes, Zuccoti Park is privately owned, by Brookfield Properties and they received $135M from the Obama Administration for a windmill farm in NH just days after the Sept 17 OWS take-over. That’s why they are allowing these people to stay in Zuccoti Park. $135M from Obama and the DOE. They are being paid to allow these people to stay there. This is also why the NYPD and the Mayor can’t do anything to remove them… it’s private property. Look it up.
FNTM
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 8:12pmWinter will thin their ranks. Spring will tell if Obama is going to attempt to foment a revolution. Hopefully our miltary will remember what they swore allegiance to and take the clown out.
Report Post »Andrew from Down Under
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 9:18amI have to hand it to our Lord Mayor Robert Doyle, I’m not a huge fan of his, but his stance with the protesters has won him my praise! Just check out this exchange between Doyle and the organizer of the Occupy Melbourne Rally:
Report Post »http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/protesters_admit_we_have_no_point
The boys and girls of Victoria Police handled themselves with honour and pride. One of the officers at the rally was quoted as saying- “No more Christine Nixon stuff”- Nixon had been one of the previous Chief Commisioners of Victoria Police who was really PC- hopefully her legacy is beginning to disappear!
The protesters have garnered themselves no sympathy here, they’ve just blocked major roads!
Jim in Houston
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 10:32amAndrew from Down Under: I loved the moron’s statement: “Carson: We’re not trying to state what our point is. Because we don’t have a point.” That line is classic and should be repeated all over the world!
Report Post »TxMadMac
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 6:30pmTurn loose a few crocs on ‘em bobby that’el scatter ‘em !
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 8:51pmi was thinking fire hoses with a soap attachment would clear the hippies out
Report Post »Patriot12
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 6:29pmWe should stage fake protests here in the USA just to screw with all these other countries who only look for a reason to protest.. I think it would be funny when you informed them, it was not real…….
Report Post »mzee26
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 6:21pmBloomie should have enforced the laws when they were broken and not when the occupiers have been there for weeks. It endangers the police officers even more now, as well as other citizens having nothing to do with the fleabaggers.
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 9:57pmBloomie reminds me of Bush’s comment “If you’re helping a terrorist, you ARE a terrorist!” Well, if Bloomie is helping the OWS protesters, then he IS an OWS protester! And, perhaps New York’s WORST MAYOR since (pick your favorite)!
Report Post »Chappy123
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 6:20pmGood!
Report Post »SmarterThanTheAverageBear
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 6:17pmWe should have stopped these protests on the first day. Instead all we do is play games. My vote is to incarcerate the law breakers. In the US we have become the laughing stock of the world. We let the criminals rule instead of the honest civilians. It’s the same with all these illegals crossing the border. Forget building a fence, just arrest them and incarcerate them. Don’t worry about prison over crowding as I have a plan for that. We will sub-contract that business to Venezuela where they can incarcerate for less than $1 per day. Watch how quickly the crime rate drops as the word spreads about life in a Venezuela prison. It’s all about risk versus reward, make the punishment severe and they will go somewhere else to perpetrate their crimes. I haven’t heard of any OWS protesters in North Korea, have you?
Report Post »UrbanCombatSurvivor
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 6:54pmYour example winds up in a terrible place: A Communist Dictatorship as a positive comparison? You sound like one of the mindless protesters here. THEY’RE the ones pushing for communism, are you agreeing?
Report Post »SmarterThanTheAverageBear
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 7:18pmThe analogy was only used to point out that other countries don’t tolerate law breakers like we do in the US. Perhaps Korea was an extreme example but at some point we have to draw the line and say enough. This isn’t about free speech. This is about the organized destruction of America.
Report Post »Unix
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 7:22pmExactly, who opened the insane asylum, the lunatics are running the show! Book em Danno!
Report Post »Unix
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 7:26pmSmarter, you have a good point, these people are no longer protesting, they are breaking the law, just like the illegals, yet we stand by and do nothing.
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 7:56pmVenezuela, North Korea? Yeah let’s do like them. Turd brain. And yes I read your lame excuse.
Report Post »Unix
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 8:25pm@UlyssesP – get a real life before you expose your ignorance.
Report Post »Unix
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 8:41pmLookit, these are not protestors, they are subversives, orchestrated by unions and communists – get off smarters back. They want to take down capitalism, they are the enemy!
Report Post »Coyotedkm2
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 6:16pmBeat those hippies! Don’t hit them too hard though, or their fleas will jump onto you.
Report Post »CottonMPG
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 9:03pmToo funny!!!
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 6:08pmThat’s what “law and order” and “courage” look like in case we’ve forgotten!
Report Post »LICENSEDTOCARRY
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 6:00pmBloomberg said he is going to start enforcing the laws in NYC. It’s about time but I bet Bloomy will back down again.
Report Post »Restored One
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 6:12pmHere in No Cali, the Oakland Occupy losers were told last evening that they could not camp out and had to be out by 10pm. The local news is just waiting and watching. It is 3pm and we are still looking at tents. We will see. I say put up a big fumigation termite tent over these groups and let their own bodily stink and rats at them.
Report Post »bullcrapbuster
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 5:57pmNow there’s a place where they let the cops have some fun. So these ignorant boobs want democracy. Do people not get a vote in Aussi land.
Report Post »qpwillie
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 5:57pmMonkey see, monkey do.
Report Post »quiltgal
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 5:55pmGood for the Australian police. A few hundred crazy Marxist campers should not be allowed to occupy public spaces for weeks.
Report Post »hi
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 5:45pmYea! I am tired of those looser dreggies
Report Post »barber2
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 5:27pmWell, the International Left “ Occupy Virus” is spreading “spontaneously” ( he said sarcastically ) all over the globe… Guess they really plan to end capitalism by slowly bleeding us economically to death in police overtime and cleanup expenses. Where are the adults ??
Report Post »CatB
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 5:34pmThe “adults” are in the TEA Party … organizing for the next election.
TEA!
Report Post »Trowerpower
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 5:37pmThanks,can’t stop laughing!!!
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 5:44pmCall me stupid,but I’m still getting on the next train to Australia
Report Post »godhatesacoward
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 9:35pmWorking.
Report Post »TheRugger
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 10:34pm@Shylow, would that be Obamas’ Intercontinental Train? I suggest you take a plane, Australia is an Island Continent.
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 5:26pmThey don’t stand for silly stuff there. I admire them. Once America goes down, that may be the only place to find sanctuary.
Report Post »CottonMPG
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 5:21pmGotta hand it to those Aussies. They are at least trying to nip them in the bud.
Report Post »Thevoice
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 5:20pmMajor must see BREAKING NEWS oval office meeting with Soros representative and Obama caught on camera http://goanimate.com/movie/09w00gc9mQME/1
Report Post »Jim in Houston
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 10:49amIt’s on its way around the world. Thanks!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 5:15pmWhat do the Ausies call Protestors: “Shark Bait”!
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 5:20pmNow if only law enforcement would do the same here….
Report Post »CatB
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 5:33pmAgree .. they should have nipped this in the bud … if you want to “protest” get the proper permits and don’t break the law!
TEA!
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