The S11 "protest" in 2000 resulted in such things as this:

<In the 2000 riot at Crown casino, Sgt Leigh Wisbey led a charge to rescue the Western Australia premier, who'd been trapped in his car for an hour by a mob that flattened his tyres, climbed on his roof, bashed in his panels and menaced him with a blowtorch.

Wisbey saved the Premier but was scrutinised by the Ombudsman, cautioned for "inappropriate" use of his baton by his boss, and investigated by community legal centre lawyers. He still faces possible legal action from someone he hit in his charge.>

See this video, and note what happens to the female police officer when the white maggots charge the police lines.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKiRBWZ-Lj8

A serving police officer makes the following comment:
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/column_our_cops_go_girly/desc/

<Station commanders are now having to deal with a plethora of police women who flood certain positions and specialist positions but arent on the roster because they are off pregnant, off to the womens policing lunch or now can be paid to march in the pride march>
See the full comment by "Proud Member 24 of Melbourne"

.....and they wonder when people take the law into their own hands ?
Or should I say "Take to the Streets in defense of the rule of Law"

Ok.. I'd love to hear some discussion on possible responses.

1/ Citizen Defense groups formed to have a presense at such events and slow down surging protesters.

2/ Allow things to continue as they are, with the best and most experienced police leaving in disgust, disillusioment and desperation

3/ Your choice

David,welcome to the NSW way of policing instigated by one, Peter Ryan.

I met Christine Nixon's father quite by accident last year,and what amazed me with just a brief conversation,was this left wing soft option approach,that didn't want to upset the criminals for fear of confrontation.

Now I disagree with this globalisation of our planet since it is one sided and gives too much power to the multi-nationals,however there is a way to more effectively get your message across that attacking decent,ordinary folk who are just trying to do their job.

A lot of these anti-globalisation troglodytes are just social anachists who want communism.I just want to see a fairer world ,whereby global businesses play by a set of international rules, thus paying their employees enough to save and pay taxes for infrastructure and education.Presently we just have the new Feudal Lords of business dictating the agenda to both Govts and local businesses.

The Global Capitalists are destroying the image of the free enterprise system,and empowering the social anachists you witnessed in Melbourne.When the Global Capitalists have total power,they will be no different from the communists whom they despise.

The Global economic system does not have a balance of power that is small business friendly.It is all about big fish comsuming small fish,thus eliminating competition.When we destroy competition,ordinary people become slaves.

The free enterprise system is the best,however we should be creating a fair system of international rules that make the game of economics fair,just like football [ie soccer].

Hi mate...
yep.. well said in all.

Capitalism with a Conscience (environmental and social) is better than Socialism/Communism.

Globalization is going to wreck the standard of living of so many in this country, as each week we hear of this or that 'car parts supplier' factory shutting down etc...jobs outsourced in IT, back office and customer interface.

That just about leaves Police, Lawyers,Tradies and Tourism operators.
Plus any job like truck driving which can't be outsourced. Not to mention lawn mowing :)

So, you have to wonder 'what' will happen to the individuals and familes of those who are made redundant, and then, the social consequences as increasingly large numbers of unemployed people become restless.

I can't work out how come we still seem to have so many employed... I must be missing something.

BD, you ask...
"So, you have to wonder 'what' will happen to the individuals and familes of those who are made redundant, and then, the social consequences as increasingly large numbers of unemployed people become restless."
My answer to that is simple! Look back at history, for history will tell that boom times, such as we are currently experiencing, will certainly come to an end and markets will crash. The bigger the financial bubble, the bigger will be the "bust." You only have to look at Henry Lawson's elegiac poem "The faces in the street" to get an idea of how history might repeat when the inevitable crash comes. In the mid part of last century, Australia literally owed it's wealth to farming exports, then towards the end of the 1900, manufacturing. Over the last decade, we've seen the destruction of our manufacturing industry due to outsourcing and yes, globalisation has played a part. Now, we're riding not on the "sheep's back" as we were 50 to 60 years ago, but on the mining and minerals boom which is having a flow on effect to other sectors such as housing and the service industries. Meanwhile, the Howard Government panders to the multinational giants of the mining industry to the detriment of any small manufacturers who are left struggling to make ends meet. My prediction is that Howard will be re-elected next year, but knowing full well what's coming when the mining boom comes to an abrupt end, he'll bail out and resign thereby avoiding the fallout from his passion of all things big business.
Whilst a junior in politics, John Howard greatly admired Bob Menzies and used to take great pleasure in reading from a few word hung on the wall in Menzie's chamber. The words read..."Workers? Give the bastards nothing!" Despite the rhetoric, John Howard is doing nothing and will do nothing to prop up the workers either now, or when the crash comes. That's the answer to your question.

Yes Wildcat...I tend to think we are in a bubble myself.
I just cannot see how a society can keep on going without a manufacturing sector and the associated skills and jobs.

Without it, we are left with stuff dug up and shorn. Its not a lot to base a nations prosperity or even survival on.

I had a sneaking feeling some years back about this, so I bought a decent block of land, but the funny thing is, I bought it when business was gangbusters, and have never got past the 'land' bit, have been living in our shed for the past 6 yrs. I don't mind though (except when I can't find my clothes or the junk seems to stifle me)
at least we can usually afford our repayments.

But what of the 180 workers at Ajax Fasteners ? Just on the edge of a cliff. They will probably be made redundant in the next day or 2.

The annoying thing is, when GMH and FORD get the parts from China, at a much lower cost, aah.. will they give us cars any cheaper or keep prices the same and just make more money ? We know the answer to that eh.
Well..I take comfort in the fact that Volvo have just recalled 360,000 cars over some speed control aspect fault. Probably made in China :)

What do you think of the tiny police girls on front line crowd control ?

Thanx for your contribution.

BD. You asked..."What do I think of the tiny police girls on front line crowd control?" I'm afraid I don't know enough about how they ended up there to make an informed comment. Perhaps they feel they're as good at crowd control as their larger male counterparts and asked for the assignment, although I suspect that they were simply following orders and shoved into the firing line because of limited "man" power. Personally, I don't believe in Globalisation, but I detest the violence that follows meeting like G8 everywhere. I guess in many ways I too am like the petite female officers since I'm a psych nurse and confront violence every other day. We're taught to deal with it and have ready access to a burly male nurse or even a security guard if the person is really out of control, but I'd sooner face someone having a major psychotic episode than one of those mongrel demonstrators in Melbourne the other week.
BD, I had that same sneeking feeling over 10 years ago, so like yourself, I grabbed a 5 acre block of land in a rural area and with the help of friends who had handymen for husbands, we built my home from scratch. My goal was to make it as sustainable as I could and everything was going well until the tragic death of my partner back in March 04. It took me awhile to get back on track, but it's slowly coming along again, although, being in my early 50's, I'm finding the going getting tougher every day. I'll hang in here as long as I can, but it's inevitable that the day will come when I can't struggle on any longer. Do hope you eventually build a decent home for yourself, although there's something very appealing to me to live the simple life in a shed. I'm just an old bushie at heart.