"Hoping that your (paul1405) Eastern Bloc Greens or hangers-on are not involved in vandalising those Hyde Park monuments,"

Trying to sow the seeds, ah! Leoj. Nah, could be the work of decedents of ex-cons not happy with Cookie and Mac, and the treatment of their ancestors . Could be those "Bolt Attackers", could be the work of pigeons, could be anyone.
Ideal assignment for that privately armed citizens militia you boasted about, guarding old monuments.

p/s; I don't have any Eastern Bloc Greens, or Reds, or persons of indeterminate colour, for that matter.

The statue graffiti is gone, and modern folk history destroyed.
Andy Warhol's Small Torn Campbell Soup Can (Pepper Pot), 1962, sold for $11,776,000 . The statues of Vickie , Jim and Mac should be in the art gallery with historical notes .

Lets hope none of those vigilante citizen militia types, that some find acceptable in society, were responsible for the homophobic attack on peoples cars during the Lane Cove Theatre Company's production of 'Holding the Man', a gay play. After last night's performance, 12 cast and audience members returned to their vehicles outside The Performance Space at Longeuville, to find their tyres had been slashed.
The attack comes at a time of significant debate about LGBTI rights in Australia, and less than three days after the Australian Electoral Commission closed enrolments ahead of a national survey on same-sex marriage.
There are those on the extreme right who advocate vigilante violence as the means to correct what they perceive as societies social ills.
Where do you and those politicians you say you rub shoulders with, stand on this kind of behavour leoj?

Yeah Paul lets hope that the police are more diligent and honest than when the 'gay' activist rran his car into and bombed the Australian Christian lobby office in Canberra. Also hope they are more diligent than allowing bigots abuse Margaret Court and try to shut down public meetings especially when they allow the sort of trash the homosexuals put on in Sydney.

Trumpet is diligent and honest and balanced , too, both sides were horrible. Philippine police are balanced , 50% of dead guys deserved it.