I am absolutely seething about the actions of the authorities using such violent tactics on peaceful protesters. We should all be condemning this in the strongest terms. The 'Occupy' movements in the US have certainly turned ugly on occasion and I know their police forces can be brutal but the reaction on what happened in Melbourne from some of the US sites was one of shock. These weren't petrol bomb throwing anarchists in Rome. My God they are fellow Australians who were brutally assaulted by those we give a licence to power.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGqcpPTS2q4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

While I was a little ambivilent about the 'Occupy Melbourne' protest I am certainly not about the violence inflicted on them.

It is not acceptable.

I have a busy work week but I will see if I can get a day free to head over to show some support.

Thinker 2.

Actually a good point. Do you think the 150,000 people would clean up the mess they make from destroying their own city?

clean up the mess
StG,
don't like your chances after all we can't even get this Govt do that.

Dear Individual,

Certainly the Opposition's destruction of
everything doesn't help either.

Lexi,
can you put your money where your blind prejudice is ? What have they destroyed ? What hasn't Labor destroyed ? I'd like to see some answers here please.

Can anyone further enlighten me on the relationship between Dr John Casey, Mark Goudkamp, The Refugee Action Ccoalition and Occupy Sydney?
Casey is an advocate of globalisation and open borders, he's lectured on immigration policy for free trade and international movement of labour.
What's more he advises Police forces on "Multicultural Policing" and was involved in the drafting of the 1996 Rotterdam Charter on diversity and Policing.
Mr Goudkamp and Dr Casey have presented numerous talks and seminars together under the auspices of the RAC and Mr Goudkamp has been the public face of Occupy Sydney.
Time constraints don't permit me to quote Dr Casey at length but even his CV is well worth a look, download it and you'll see why my interest has been piqued.

Why would a counter Capitalist coalition/movement be involved with an advisor to Governments, Police and Free Trade advocates?
Dr Casey is the very definition of a Globalist public servant, there's simply no other way to characterise him and his "Humanitarian" activities, work on NGO's and Refugee advocacy seem at odds with his support for Globalist Capitalism.
To put it in a more understandable way Dr Casey seems to be on the public policy end of the globalist capitalism, smoothing the way and re calibrating NGO's, activist groups and other notionally Liberal concerns into either controlled opposition to or controlled advocacy for Globalist Capitalism.