Stupid “personal accounts” like this again make the the Left look paranoid, primitive and like it sports a tinge of foreign-organisation. This tinge is evident in the rather weird, doesnt-quite-ring-true description of a security guard or a policeman.

If it was neither of those people wandering down the street why didnt your silly little wife call the police? Was she threatened? She should call the police. Maybe she felt “displaced” or “disrupted” by APEC??? Go home and get over yourself numbskull, and stop wasting police time.

Most people in Australia I bet would rather hang out with a copper any day than with some unhinged and paranoid leftie with truther conspiracies on their lips and deeply violent but utterly vague notions of “resistance” in their so-called minds. The only resistance that idiots like this can understand is when a sensible idea tries and fails to penetrate the block of wood that is their head.

The ugly left is anti-war? what a joke. A mere ONE MILLION people died in the Soviet war in Afghanisitan - hey but that’s old news. OK, China today vetoes any UN action on genocide in Darfur bcause of OIL trade - but hey 200K DEAD and no STOP JINTAO PROTEST…not one. In Russia, Putin is possibly behind the assassination of dissenters and journos with NUCLEAR materials (again, where are the protests?). China has 100,000 cases of rioting against the government last year, plus it sports mobile execution vans .. shall we go on?

BUT YOU PEOPLE ARE DEAF….You are purely anti-American full-stop and you want us to be paranoid just like you. But we’re not. We’re just really getting tired of you and your conspiracy rubbish.

Get over it and remember who you are, who we all are here - Australian - we dont fear police, because they are us. We dont fear our army because they are us. We dont need your imported “fear of police” crap that other countries have.

We dont have to be politicised here like you to have a political view. We like each other in this country remember?, we trust each other, remember? Your sort of agitprop propogates the hate that tears other countries apart.

But it is admittedly super hard for me to trust a “wife” who gets worried by a uniformed Australian. She is obviously having “issues” with her tin-foil hat and needs to get a grip on perspective. She definitely needs a cup of tea and a long lie down.

There is no reason to import narrow (anti-global) hatreds or (Im a victim of the system) fear that your wife promotes or spread weird personal accounts of the new Newtown disease- APEC Hardship Syndrome. It’s doesnt wash here in Australia so go and get vaccinated you morons.

Read carefully, all it is this week, you poor dear people, is APEC, THATS ALL. You, on the other hand, look like being hysterical twits for your whole lives.

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Maybe the kid with the paper bag was the anarchist, who, Greg, wouldn’t be making his inconvenient protest if APEC weren’t here.

Paul that is just pure self-indulgence on your part. The “kid”, and you have no evidence it is a kid, is an arseh*le, not an anarchist. Thousands of people will be protesting during the APEC meeting, Most of them will do so peacefully, and that is not only their right but an affirmation of our democracy , no matter how much Howard may have (or may not have) degraded it. However what you applaud and what you defend is the “right” of some peurile cretin to go beyond dissent to disrupt the lives of thousands of people whose lives have already been disrupted. You condemn Howard for treating them with contempt but then you applaud the cretins who treat them with contempt. There is word for that, hypocrisy, and you are a hypocrite. No doubt a smug self-satisfied one, but that is the nature of the hypocrite.

Mark, before you write to warn/criticise me about this post read Paul’s post on the earlier thread with its pious claims of good intentions and its categorical assurances about absolutely peaceful protests being planned and tell me what word other than hypocrite describes a person who makes those claims on that post and then posts here approving, as he has, an act that clearly is designed to cause disruption and distress to large numbers of people who do not need or deserve that imposition upon them.

Unfortunately, the dynamics of protest are often as ritualistic and predictable as the machinations of “leaders”.

What I wouldn’t give for some imaginative anarchist action instead of a few warped souls thinking they’re subcommandante Marcos with a balaclava and a dose of violent nihilism.

You seem to come at this from the point of view that since Howard has unjustifiably disrupted the lives of the people of Sydney it is OK for other people to further disrupt their lives, which is simply a inconsiderate way of thinking of them as pawns in some little game from which you get pleasure. They deserve more respect than you are prepared to give them.

Saw on another blog some weeks ago where some wit suggested the youth of Australia leave brown paper bags all over Sydney during APEC and run the coppers off their feet.
Lo and behold, last night somebody left a brown paper bag with a bottle of glue outside some building somewhere and two blocks of the city were shut down while brown paper bag containing bottle of glue was removed

And no doubt causing inconvenience and irritation to a few thousand Sydneysiders who don’t deserved to be inconvenienced just because some young smart*rse decides that he wants to be a nuisance to the cops.

Of course we can all have a chortle at the inconvenience caused to those people. Their feelings don’t count, do they?

Went to the Rocks for dinner last night.
The barriers are up but we moved about freely .
I guess the crunch will be when they start or if they impose control over pedestrian access to the area around Circular Quay.
Last night the area was quiet , the only vehicles allowed through were taxis, there were very few drunks along George Street , the public toliets are still open and the homeless are sitting outside the Ship Inn and usual.
This is a big improvement on the normal conditions in this part of the city and hopefully they will leave the area permanently pedestrianised in future.Once the trains are letting people off at the Quat station the area would be a triumph for public transport access only.

(I believe he will be spending quite a lot of time there in the nearish future.)

He has flexed further.
According to ‘that’ Crikey report, he is now firmly established as ….
“Man of Steal”…. as well.

http://www.crikey.com.au/Politics/20070829-Stuart-Highway-robbery-.html

Sure, but it can’t be popular in Sydney generally?

No, of course not, it’s massively unpopular and the newspapers have been delighting with announcing some new fresh outrage to citizens’ convenience each day!