Month: February 2004

Police aim for 40 arrests.

From News.com

That’s a start now let’s not forget the leaders. They need their day in court as well.

Lyle Munro again

Mr Munro said suggestions the youths were goaded by older people demeaned their intelligence.

Yeah, right. I didn’t see much intelligence to demean in the scenes I saw. Least of all from Munro.

But he said he was not concerned about police targeting those they believe had incited the riot

If they arrest me, they’re going to have to arrest a lot of other elders.”

If they were involved in the riot or didn’t do anything to stop it then they should be arrested

He said he believed he was being wrongly targeted because of previous run-ins with police and his “history in black affairs”.

Yep. Thats how it works. Develop a reputation as a dangerous idiot and the police check you each time you incite a riot.

Drunken riot, more likely.

Picture this; Two nights ago Kev Gillett and his mates get drunk and start throwing molotov cocktails at police in response to one of our number getting himself killed in an accident. Would I be writing this now or would I be suffering a dearth of amenities such as a computer because I was in goal. Your damn right, I’d be in goal – so why aren’t those little shits from Redfern in goal now. Plenty of videos, plenty of stills, plenty of ID.

Double standards.

NSW police in Redfern War Zone.

Chief Bastard at BastardInc suggests a rifle company from 3RAR would have changed the scoreline and I agree. However Aid to the Civil Power is a cumbersome tool and rightly so, but some military tactics would have helped the poor police.

Try this- 100 police come up behind the ‘poor drunken fellow me’ darlings. 30 go either aside to block withdrawal routes into the houses and 30 stay back to secure the ammo (molotov cocktail and paver supplies) and act as a cut-off party. No retreat. (For the nitpickers and mathmeticians, the other ten are Command and Control)

Arrest the leaders first and then the thugs, one by one.

Next morning send a car to collect Senator Wridgeway and take him to Long Bay where he can try and talk some sense into the lads. He has nothing of merit to say to the country about the incident so he may as well try and make them see how negative their actions are.

Laurie Quartermaine, Aboriginal leader and Ostrich blames the politicians.

Lyle Munro (same link – scroll down) blames the politicians, the police and ATSIC.

At an impromptu public meeting in Redfern’s notorious Eveleigh Street yesterday, community leaders accused police of regularly harassing and beating Aboriginal youths in the area.

“The stand had to be taken once and for all,” Lyall Munro said. “We’re sick of the intimidation by police. You should be proud of the efforts of young people to defend Aboriginal people.”

Mr Munro lashed out at ATSIC and other indigenous organisations, which he said had failed to represent local Aborigines adequately.

You should be proud of the efforts of young people to defend Aboriginal people.”

Excuse me. Are we talking about the same incident?

I don’t know what position this Lyall idiot holds but he should be relieved of it – NOW

Newsflash guys. The country blames the thugs. Black, white or brindle; not a race riot, a riot of thugs trying to kill police.

Readers, wait for the first aborigine leader to blame the thugs. Write down the name and remember it – a true leader.

Fifty hurt in inner-Sydney riot. Riots smack of spontaneity, this event sounds very organized.

Pictured: Police Officers tend to an injured
colleague as violence erupts in Redfern overnight.

Eight police officers remain in hospital after a total of 50 were injured trying to subdue a riot near Redfern railway station into the early hours of this morning.

The bridge at the station resembled a military zone as at least 60 officers defended one side of Lawson St, facing about 50 angry local residents.

Armed with bricks, rocks, broken bottles and molotov cocktails, the group threw missiles at police, passing trains, vehicles and businesses.

Molotov Cocktails!!!! That suggests someone had a supply line running. Fuel containers, rags cut to length and bottles. The bottles would have been easy – just empty the one you?re drinking from and use that, but fuel and rags for ignition smacks of a system.

“They had a number of wheelie bins lined up with paving stones in them – in fact there were eight of those. There were a number of large tubs with beer bottles in them,” he said.

There is a structure there, a hierarchy that needs pinning down and relocating to Long Bay or wherever bad guys go nowadays.

Police held a press conference yesterday to deny officers were pursuing Thomas at the time of the accident but posters began to appear around the suburb, calling them “murderers”.

Hmmm, posters as well. Artists or compilers on hand with computers, printers and photo-copiers.

At 2am when rioters threw fireworks and firebombs into police lines.

If the NSW Police don’t arrest the entire 50 aborigines and put them away then the public have a right to know why not.

Note the location – Redfern in Sydney. Yes, this has happened in a suburb near you. I have no recollection of anything of this nature happening before in Australia.

Riot – rubbish. It’s a campaign of civil disobedience and all the perpetrators need to be charged and put away.

Update: Brogden, NSW Opposition leader says ‘bulldoze the suburb.’

“He said police should have been better equipped to deal with the rioters and bulldozing the area, notorious for drug dealing and crime, could help.

The fact that 40 or 50 police were injured whilst they stood there and copped it from young Aboriginal thugs and others is an unacceptable position going forward,” Mr Brogden said.

“I’d bring the bulldozers in because I think allowing this to happen every couple of years, which is what’s going to happen, will never fix the problem.”

Drastic, but hey – drastic times.