Dear Critic,

Please don't dilute and divert this conversation into a discussion about the environment and energy.

The point is that these people ("Blockade Australia") are violent, they block the path of ordinary people going about their life, their specific views are not relevant.

Same for the violent police who breaks into their castle. By doing so, the intruding police and their noisy helicopter also disturbed the sleep of thousands of neighbours and their children, disturbed the peace of those who rose early to pray and meditate, disturbed the couples who were making love at the time, intruded on the privacy of people in their own backyards, disturbed their animals too.

Both sides are to be condemned.

Hi Yuyutsu,

"Please don't dilute and divert this conversation into a discussion about the environment and energy."

I'm sorry if I did but I feel the points I made were relevant.
Maybe the police were also out of line
(I don't know their specific reasons that private property)
- but I hear these people are planning to grind Sydney to a halt next Monday.

Hi Yuyutsu,

"The point is that these people ("Blockade Australia") are violent, they block the path of ordinary people going about their life, their specific views are not relevant."

I don't agree with all the actions of BA, and I don't support any kind of violence, even if I agree with what motivates the protesters.

Regardless, the coppers must stick within the law. This is a clear case of copper overreach.

You could apply the same logic to the French Resistance in WWII. France had capitulated and surrendered, the legitimate government was that of the Nazi's. The actions of the FR in blowing up trains etc, was in contravention of French law at the time. Agree?

What Yuyustu & others have ignored is at the start of the incident
the Police got into a car to depart, as requested, ready to leave.
The activists it seems realised if they obstructed the police from
leaving it would cause a real incident and reinforcements to arrive.

In other words the incident was generated by the activists.

Not so Bazz, the coppers were trespassing and failed to identity themselves, and the folks on the property had every right to take reasonable steps to detain them and make a citizen arrest for unlawful trespass. Its the coppers who should be fronting the magistrate.

Pauliar,

From what I understand the property that these fwits were occupying was not their property and so the police were not trespassing and the louts had no right to try and detain (kidnap) or assault the police. Do you support the 2 of them that had guns?

Secondly, comparing these thugs to the French resistance is ludicrous. You are simply saying that if you don't like the law you don't need to obey it.

These turds should be locked up.