800 Chav.

Get a digital photo taken from an office building and start counting.

You’ll have to count them alright Chav because SATP’s blinker has slipped over his good eye.

And what is this “temporary” excrement? In Boskone, “temporary” does not last for long. Permanent barriers is the only way to protect the juicy heart of metroplises for supreme leaders, flunkies, press attaches, floozies, flappers and spearcarriers to savor gilty pleasures without base lower orders smudging views, tracking earth on crimson carpets and requesting wheat-based products, secret ballots and dental services.

Permanent barriers should be 10,000 metres out as well to keep bantustans, club meds and gated gulags out of sightlines. Access by lower orders for service purposes only by tunnel.

It is all so much baby shoes for you Tellurians at this moment. But soon, so soon, Boskone will show you there is more than one way to skin a infant.

Until the next time you hear from me the next time, ten four vulcanised sap water fowl!

(Paris Hilton accent) Are you , like, serious?! Like, whatever!

Hehehe..even the piggies said there were around 3000…

Get a digital photo taken from an office building and start counting.

If it was staged, you have to ask, what message was it supposed to send?

Staged or not I think it was supposed to send the same message that the government, police and media had been sending for the past few weeks… ‘Don’t demonstrate at APEC, or we will f%$k you up!’. Thankfully eight thousand or so people defied that threat and demonstrated anyway.

Australia’s tourism industry has slammed the image that Sydney’s APEC summit has sent to the world.

Tourism and Transport Forum (TTF) managing director Christopher Brown says authorities failed to strike the right balance when given a promotional opportunity akin to Sydney’s hosting of the Olympic Games.

“Empty streets with concrete barriers, high fences and riot squad officers, snipers in buildings and helicopters.

“We just got out of control … we just didn’t get the balance right between the imagery and security,” Mr Brown told ABC Radio today.

“It was not the image we should send to the world and I can understand completely why those from the tourism industry, who had thousands of rooms given back and who had no customers for the period in the city … that there would be a concern today.”

Mr Brown said Sydney residents also felt “totally disenfranchised by their city and largely ashamed of the way their city looked” during the summit, during which a five-kilometre, 2.8-metre high security fence cordoned off the northern part of the CBD, the Opera House and the Domain.

And then there is the brutal police behaviour.

Hmm. Seems like another giant miscalculation on Howard’s part. His ego and delusions of self-importance are what is really bringing him undone after all these years.

However I shall reserve my view of the incident until I see footage of the 60 seconds immediately prior to that.

I can’t wait to hear your objective pronouncement, satp. No doubt you will take into account the fact that the photographer was carrying her camera with both hands and was not in a position to physically assault the male officer, so there goes your provocation argument from the start.

However, you are right that the preceding seconds of the incident are important. This footage will be crucial to identify the officer involved as none of them were wearing their badges. This is against the law, and Scipione should be sacked for this.

Feminists should also be interested in the pushing incident as the offending officer was male and the victim was a female. This raises the question of why there were only male officers in the security lines. Was this another directive from Scipione?

Before anyone says that they had to do that because the badge pins could be used as weapons by protestors, these badges are velcroed to the uniforms (or not, as the case may be). Page 7 of today’s SMH has photos of 16 police who taken off their velcro badges, and one by the name of Carroll who had left his on.

There especially needs to be an enquiry into the assault on a female photographer by a male constable shown several times on TV tonight.

The footage certainly shows her ending up on her back. However I shall reserve my view of the incident until I see footage of the 60 seconds immediately prior to that.

it is my comment that you should reproduce

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Oh dear!!!!!!!!!!

APEC is over, looks like the SCO won.

OK, I see what you mean. I thought that Mr Denmore probably was not “resort[ing] to cheap slogans” since the comment on fascism seems fair to me, on reflection.

But I wasn’t trying to misrepresent your comment and I agree that I should have quoted the whole thing; sorry.

It does change the context a little but the context wasn’t really necessary for my point, which was only to express my surprise at how closely some of the recent APEC events (and some other recent government actions) could be considered fascistic.

I could probably have left out the quotes altogether except they’re the comments which lead me to poke around the intertubes in the first place.

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Mark (T’other)

The NSW police have really become politicized under the right-wing Italian Catholic Morris Iemma. The new commissioner, Scipione, has to go. He is a joke. There are several people under him that have to be given the boot too, but Scipione is protecting them. When Kevin comes to power in a few weeks time, he would do well to conduct an enquiry into the conduct of APEC security.

Here is another call for something similar.

If the NSW police under Scipione and Cullen act like they did at Hyde Park North Friday afternoon last with preferential support and prominence to a right-wing group obviously seeking to provoke a reaction in the same place and location, then the NSW Police will be culpable of provoking violence for their own political purposes, just like we saw with rock carrying Quebec police in Canada reported there in late August 2007 by … CBC network.

That’s properly a matter for the PIC.

http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/story/senior-police-scipione-cullen-risk-police-integrity-commission-over-apec-protest-permits

There especially needs to be an enquiry into the assault on a female photographer by a male constable shown several times on TV tonight.

PS – Andrew Scipione attends and is a member of Hillsong.