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WHO'S SARI NOW?

This guy, possibly.

UPDATE. Mr. Sari faces additional charges.

Posted by Tim B. on 11/20/2006 at 08:59 AM
  1. So what is the total number of arrests so far?

    “Student of no fixed address” is at least upmarket of the old cliche “labourer of no fixed address”.

    Posted by Rafe on 2006 11 20 at 09:11 AM • permalink

  2. Nah, this guy’s story really seems to be too much! He’s GOTTA be another Young Liberal who’s come along and done their very best to help scare away the silent majority from the Left side of politics for the next few years at least. Certainly would make being a politician a hell of a lot easier if your opponents are acting like a bunch of shit-chucking monkeys.

    Am I not the only one out there who hasn’t seriously considered this as a possibility?!?!  :-P

    Posted by richard20_bris on 2006 11 20 at 09:22 AM • permalink

  3. The student, who has worked as taxi driver in Melbourne after arriving from Turkey in 2001 . . .

    Please tell me that deportation is an option.

    Posted by paco on 2006 11 20 at 09:40 AM • permalink

  4. How can someone choose to come to a capitalist country (as it seems he did when he left Turkey as an adult) and then protest against the capitalism he chose?

    Get a clue, mate: the reason Australia looked so good to you is in large part because of the benefits capitalism and globalisation have brought.

    Posted by Villeurbanne on 2006 11 20 at 09:41 AM • permalink

  5. Well if Sari or any other protester looks like the effete person in a tutu with slim hairless arms and shoulders, he will be very popular in jail.  He will not have to want for companionship.  Indeed I can see a riot occuring between large hairy men who desire the chance to meet these “indivudals of conscience”.

    Posted by wronwright on 2006 11 20 at 09:44 AM • permalink

  6. More info on this tool from Andrew Bolts blog - he presented a workshop titled Disobediance - Crime or Political Stand

    FTW - "I want to discuss and present history, origins and relevance of civil disobediant act.  I also want to encourage participants to form an organisation practising civil dibobediant activism against morally unjust acts..."

    Think he’s figured out the answer yet?

    Posted by bondo on 2006 11 20 at 09:59 AM • permalink

  7. An anti-capitalist taxi driver?  I’m with #2, this guy’s a plant for sure.  Either that, or he was chasing hippy tail.

    Strangely, Bolta seems to think it’s a problem that the mad Turk is “still a student at 28”.

    Posted by slammer on 2006 11 20 at 10:04 AM • permalink

  8. Magistrate Sarah Dawes adjourned the bail application to continue at 2pm tomorrow to co hear of any potential addresses for Sari could reside at if released from custody.

    Any Melburnians willing to help our little mate out?

    Posted by slammer on 2006 11 20 at 10:09 AM • permalink

  9. Really, this is beginning to sound like one of those episodes from Wodehouse where Bertie Wooster, charged with some piddling crime like stealing a policeman’s helmet on Boat-Race night, gives his name as “Aristotle”, and fobs off the address of the Royal Albert Hall as his own. Just send the guy back to Turkey, I say.

    Posted by paco on 2006 11 20 at 10:18 AM • permalink

  10. At least he didn’t inflate his scrotum. Now there’s an act of protest.

    Posted by ErnieG on 2006 11 20 at 10:20 AM • permalink

  11. #7 - it is a little odd. I would say 99% of students in humanities/law/commerce faculties at Newcastle are younger than 24 or older than 60.

    Most people tend to get their degrees fairly soon after school and get a job to repay their student loans, after all.

    Posted by Ian Deans on 2006 11 20 at 10:24 AM • permalink

  12. I’d hate to see how he made his one phone call if he used a cell phone.

    Posted by andycanuck on 2006 11 20 at 10:49 AM • permalink

  13. Sari.

    A name waiting for a headline. Now that he’s made that headline, though, what’s his purpose in life?

    Posted by TimT on 2006 11 20 at 11:32 AM • permalink

  14. I’m bored with him already. Sari who?.

    Posted by Daniel San on 2006 11 20 at 12:10 PM • permalink

  15. #9, I believe a common nom de guerre for these situations in Wodehouse is “Orlando Maltravers.” That’s always the name I give when, er… uh, never mind.  I also recall Bertie claiming to be Leon Trotsky.

    Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2006 11 20 at 12:24 PM • permalink

  16. #15: I think Wodehouse also got back at Duff Cooper once by using his name as an alias in one of the courtroom scenes.

    Posted by paco on 2006 11 20 at 12:32 PM • permalink

  17. Mopery and Dopery in the High Seas?
    Conspiracy to Lurk with Intent to Gawk?
    Being dumb as a boot with No Excuse (sir!)?

    Posted by mojo on 2006 11 20 at 01:28 PM • permalink

  18. civil dibobediant activism

    ?

    Posted by Achillea on 2006 11 20 at 02:35 PM • permalink

  19. I think he should be sentenced to work in the latest Nobel Prize winners Micro Lending scheme after being smuggled into Castros Cuba.

    Posted by Rob Read on 2006 11 20 at 02:46 PM • permalink

  20. Aren’t you Aussies glad to be getting mental patients from the Islamic world?  Yeah, we Americans are too.

    [/sigh]

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 11 20 at 03:12 PM • permalink

  21. Rob Read #19

    I think the “green maraca” guy just returned from that assignment.  That would explain a great deal!

    Posted by yojimbo on 2006 11 20 at 04:25 PM • permalink

  22. "The student, who has worked as taxi driver in Melbourne after arriving from Turkey in 2001, is accused of smashing the windows of the police van and stealing the police logbook"

    Another sterling result in that long line of consequences from Australia’s immigration policies.  Circumspect and pre-emptive they’re not.

    Can DIMIA finally begin screening intending immigrants for character and psychological suitability yet?

    Posted by romeo on 2006 11 20 at 04:42 PM • permalink

  23. #22 “Can DIMIA finally begin screening intending immigrants for character and psychological suitability yet?”

    He arrived here in 2001 and has already hit the jackpot. He’s on a disability pension due to psychological issue, i.e. he’s a nut-case.
    Isn’t Australia a “wunnerful country” as my Greek mate would say.

    Posted by burrah on 2006 11 20 at 06:00 PM • permalink

  24. This might need confirmation, but Channel 9 news last night described Sari as being in receipt of a disability pension: judging by his van-smashing ability, the disability is not physical.  They also quoted him as saying to the cop driving the car in which he was taken away: “Can you turn the air conditioning off? It’s causing global warming.”

    Posted by cuckoo on 2006 11 20 at 07:04 PM • permalink

  25. I think the police did pretty well - they protected the G20, they did not in any way trigger or provoke any violence, and largely kept the peace. The only violence seems to have been from people who went there planning to be violent, and I haven’t seen any reports of muggings, looting, or other major loss of civil order.

    My understanding of the police’s normal mission is
    1. Prevent violence against people
    2. Protect property when compatible with 1
    These constitute keeping the police
    3. Enforce laws in ways compatible with 1 and 2

    Arresting people who are in groups tends to trigger more severe violence. Identifying them and arresting them afterwards defuses things. Now they’ll work to track down offenders.

    My personal inclination is to have them grab every person in a mask and disguise and jail them immediately, but I accept that what they did achieves their mission better.

    Posted by davidp on 2006 11 20 at 07:07 PM • permalink

  26. Sari seems to be the hardest word..

    Posted by Nic on 2006 11 20 at 07:44 PM • permalink

  27. Love means never having to say you’re Sari?

    Posted by cuckoo on 2006 11 20 at 08:37 PM • permalink

  28. Affray brings an interesting turn to this- if convicted, it’s an indictment and his residence can be cancelled. We have enough home-grown hippy fruitcups without sponsoring ones from the Levant- I’d say it’s bye bye for ol’ Sari, no matter if he’s sorry- he should be akin’ to get back to Istanbul anyway.

    Posted by Habib on 2006 11 20 at 08:38 PM • permalink

  29. How does one fix an address, and how did it get broken in the first place?

    Posted by triticale on 2006 11 20 at 09:07 PM • permalink

  30. Still not Sari by Andrew Bolt.

    Posted by Skeptic on 2006 11 20 at 09:15 PM • permalink

  31. His lawyer describes Sari as a ‘Rastafarian’, which is presumably legal-aid-speak for ‘serious dope smoker’.

    Posted by cuckoo on 2006 11 20 at 09:48 PM • permalink

  32. Hey, here’s an idea:

    Lets just send him to Gitmo.  I’m sure a nice cage is far better than ‘no fixed address’.  Also he gets a pair of them snazzy orange coveralls…

    Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 11 20 at 09:59 PM • permalink

  33. I pray he’s about to get a valuable practical commerce lesson. He is one prisoner with one arse. The are a 1000 other prisoners who have many dicks. What does this supply and demand curve look like?

    Is this product elastic or inelastic?

    Anyone who’s a student at 28 better be contributing a hell of lot more than body odour to society.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 11 20 at 10:25 PM • permalink

  34. Student=commerce=funding=ozstudy=visa=335,000hex-fees=realjob=taxes=protest

    Posted by 1.618 on 2006 11 20 at 10:48 PM • permalink

  35. #8. Let me think about that...F*CK NO!

    Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 11 20 at 11:22 PM • permalink

  36. Is he Sari?  After all he is famous and has his “insanity” defence already underway.  These ratbags live in a self-sustaining world.  He will already be a hero to the rest of the ratbags and the Magistrate will probably let him off with a bond plus he will have an excuse for a deferral on his exams in fact now that I think about it the university will probably give him a pass mark in appreciation.

    Posted by allan on 2006 11 20 at 11:41 PM • permalink

  37. Send the @rsehole packing… The judge/magistrate, as is their self appointed mission these days, won’t uphold the law, won’t punish this swine and will let him off with a slap on the wrist....

    We need someone with some balls from DIMA or whoever is looking after immigration these days to be waiting outside the court, nab him and ship poste haste to the nearest point of departure and give him a royal kick up the behind…

    Seize any meagre goods or possessiosn this @ss ever managed to accumulate and use them to pay for said plane ticket and accumulated hecs debt, and if he wants to lodge an appeal, mail it from Turkey… Needless to say they should be cancelling his pension as we speak....  Don’t need that when your in remand do u!!!!

    What an excellent lesson this would post to any thugs, foreign or home grown, contemplating this sort of thing in the future that the kid gloves are going to be off and retribution will be exacted…

    Posted by casanova on 2006 11 21 at 01:50 AM • permalink

  38. #34 1.618. Hex fees? Is he studying at Hogwarts?

    Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2006 11 21 at 02:31 AM • permalink

  39. Won’t Piers be jealous?

    Cheers
    RodC

    Posted by Rod C on 2006 11 21 at 02:33 AM • permalink

  40. #6

    Followed your link with interest. Came across this little gem:

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    niques - Murray Allen

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    less common, arguing that my method is by
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    electricity and resource consumption, and
    also in terms of the style of technology that is
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    and locally produced. I can also talk on the
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    with regard to this technology. If appropriate, I
    could also do a demonstration (wearing a pair
    of shorts of course!)

    Yewwwwwww!

    Posted by BIWOZ on 2006 11 21 at 02:50 AM • permalink

  41. Sari allegedly knows how to work the system. He’s an alleged expert at it. He’s allegedly playing us for fools.

    Posted by Observer on 2006 11 21 at 05:31 AM • permalink

  42. He called the police “peasant pigs”?  Peasants?  I’m confused, are we dealing with a socialist idiot or Loius XIV here?

    Posted by MikeTheLibrarian on 2006 11 21 at 08:17 AM • permalink

  43. He called the police “peasant pigs”?  Peasants?  I’m confused, are we dealing with a socialist idiot or Loius XIV here?

    There’s a difference?

    I’m serious—the frequency with which socialists spout elitist crap is simply stunning.

    Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 11 21 at 08:30 AM • permalink

  44. he’s an anti-globalwarmenization guy too

    Sari, who holds dual Australian and Turkish citizenship, denied his involvement in the protest to police, who he allegedly referred to as “peasant pigs” and “robots”.

    He also allegedly asked police to turn the airconditioner off in their car because it was “causing global warming”.

    Posted by KK on 2006 11 21 at 10:32 AM • permalink

  45. Kramer hates low-flow showers, too, BIWOZ. (Oh no, another Seinfeld‘s Kramer tie-in. No wonder he went nuts on stage; there was obviously a Kramer karma bubble forming worldwide that needed release!)

    Posted by andycanuck on 2006 11 21 at 12:39 PM • permalink

  46. #43, Rob,

    The frequency with which socialists spout elitist crap is simply stunning.
    - Thats because they actually believe they are “better” than “the rest” of us…

    I personally believe that I’m better than them, because I cant shoot further…

    P.S.  Do Y’all aim for the head, or the heart?

    Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 11 22 at 02:37 PM • permalink

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