Saturday, November 18, 2006
GRRL POWER
Here we see a li’l anarcho-gal wrestling yesterday with a Victorian policeman:
The AP caption reads: “A protestor struggles to take away a police officer’s baton during a demonstration at the G-20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting in Melbourne.” And here we see the same chick apparently wielding that baton against other police:
That’s one mighty police force we’ve got down there; can’t fight off someone in a frilly skirt. Here’s another shot, courtesy of Korgmeister:
UPDATE. Is she actually a he? Debate rages in comments. Meanwhile, Andrew Bolt supplies video.
UPDATE II. More pictures here, featuring hefty Binwoman:
UPDATE III. All quiet today.
UPDATE IV. Four arrested last night.
UPDATE V. Ambulance officers are disgusted:
Paul Holman, operations manager for the Metropolitan Ambulance Service, said today the protests were by far the worst he had seen in 30 years.
"It was abhorrent. Just disgusting. It is not behaviour our society is used to,” Mr Holman said.
"I have no problems with people demonstrating. I have problems with people taking over the streets,” he said.
There was also biting.
UPDATE VI. Protest organiser Mick Armstrong blames New Zealanders and other foreign types:
I was one of the organisers of the G20 demo from the Stop the War coalition and I am also in Socialist Alternative.
The anarchist crazies involved in the ultra violence were in no serious sense part of the demo. Just like their Black bloc mates in Europe they simply exploited the demo for their own purposes ...
What gave them a certain critical mass at the G20 was the presence of considerable numbers of anarchists from overseas. One of our members from New Zealand said he recognised at least 40 NZ anarchists. He knew at least 20 of them by name. There were also a considerable number of black block anarchists from Europe. We know of people from Sweden, Germany and England. These people are like football hooligans who travel the world looking for violence.
On top of that there were also a considerable number of anarchists from interstate.
UPDATE VII. Two more shots of Tutu Rambo Girl (or boy), and another AAP image with the caption: “A protester taunts police with a stolen baton as masked anti-globalisation protestors hurled bottles and dustbins at police.”
