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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.”
- #1. Do you really think these people were protesting about anything at all? They were simply looking for headlines and they got them. However, those headlines would have been much more dramatic if she had been punched to the ground. What’s more, the courts would have tied up for months with even more time-wasting charges. Don’t give the rent-a-mob ammunition – it’s what they want!
- And she’s wearing a Rambo t-shirt. Can’t read the caption, but that’s Sylvester Stallone packing an M60 Rambo style.
What an ignorant buffoon!! Red frills and Rambo are a terrible match; she should wear camouflage pants.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 11 18 at 05:04 PM • permalink
- Re #1, mojo, I was thinking about a good head butt, the officer wearing a helmet and all.
But yeah, it’s simple. Must be a result of that sensitivity training.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 11 18 at 05:05 PM • permalink
- She drew “First Blood”, not them.
She drew “First Blood”.
What happens after that, society cannot be held responsible for.
I suppose the cop showed admirable restraint, in not decking the ‘woman’.
I’d have given him a pass in this case though. You cant lose your baton to anyone.
That said, do you suppose her hair dye was originally tested on animals? And how much do you suppose the Indonesian laborer made fabricating her oh so ironic T-shirt?
To paraphrase Mark Steyne on John Kerry, “she’s completely unaware of how ridiculous she looks”.
Let them protest, but don’t let them interfere with those who don’t want them in their lives.
But what good is a protest if no one pays attention to me?!?!?!?
/leftie idiot
Bunch of wankers.
Spot on, spyder.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 11 18 at 05:07 PM • permalink
- You sure it’s a girl? I can’t see bristols.Posted by walterplinge on 2006 11 18 at 05:10 PM • permalink
- to repeat my completely brilliant suggestion: enuf of these G meetings in lovely places like that Victoria (gosh, it looks nice, I say, whilst up here at minus 20 celsius) plus that bright blue sky, and all those people running around in shirt sleeves.
Hold the meetings in January, in Edmonton, Whitehorse, Saskatoon, or Winnipeg. There will be no more of these anarcho celebrations, because you can’t move very fast or gracefully in full winter gear.
- One certainly hopes they will pursue an anarchist caught clearly on camera with as much vigor as they pursued the Cronulla rioters.
— Nick
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2006 11 18 at 05:57 PM • permalink
- #10, exactly what I was wondering. I tried to find evidence of an Adam’s apple (the absence of breasts on certain starving artists being no evidence), but the pictures aren’t clear enough.
The policeman could have let her have the stick right in the sternum and knocked her on her bony ass: oops, musta slipped. Then stepped on her legs trying to help her up. That’s the way I’d do it anyway.
- I’m confused. Why aren’t the cops shooting the protesters? Is there a shortage of bullets in Australia or something?Posted by Shaky Barnes on 2006 11 18 at 06:30 PM • permalink
- That’ll go down well with the Sergeant down at the cop shop. “You lost your baton. . . . .HOW?. . Hahahahahaha.”
No charges will be laid, the copper involved couldn’t stand the embarrassment of admitting that some skinny pasty faced hippy in a frilly red tutu took his baton away from him.
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2006 11 18 at 06:32 PM • permalink
- Well here’s what a bunch of other Melbournians were doing yesterday, enjoying the fruits of this capitalist society we live in – the Johnston Street Festa –
http://www.spydermr2.blogspot.com/2006/11/johnston-street-festa-great-day-was-had.htmlFor those in Melbourne or thereabouts, it’s on today as well.
- trainer-I followed Tim’s link and hit the “view larger image” link provided, but I couldn’t tell either. There were at least half a dozen other cops close by whilst the one struggled with “it”. He probably shouldn’t have lost his baton in any event, but his partners should have been delivering a few well directed blows to the skirted troublemaker.
- Meaning no offense, but does Oz import cops from France?Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2006 11 18 at 07:09 PM • permalink
- This is slightly O/T to G20 but is definitely related … http://www.mineyourownbusiness.org/
What an ignorant buffoon!! Red frills and Rambo are a terrible match; she should wear camouflage pants.
You haven’t seen the new USMC summerweight “Undress” uniform for the enlisted men…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 11 18 at 07:17 PM • permalink
- #27 You stole my thuunder there, I was working along the same lines. two o9bservatiosn:
1. The cop shoukld be sent back to cop school.
2. What is the point of these “demonstrators”?OK 3. Arrest this “womyn”.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 11 18 at 07:18 PM • permalink
- I’m confused,We have a protest at Cronulla over years of violent ethnic gang behavior, some protesters get violent and the left blame everyone.”no exscuses you right wing racsist scum”…yeah but can’t you see that these people are angry about these people coming here trying to change the way we live…..”Blah.. shut up Racsisttttt..” So thrown bottles at Cronulla BAD. Thrown bottles in Melbourne Good.Smashed Cars Cronulla BAD.Smashed cars Melbourne GOOD. Police attacked Cronulla BAD.Police attacked Melbourne GOOD……..Mabye we should go on some revenge attacks…Hmmmm
- Another reason to make my itinery Sydney and Melbourne DarwinPosted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 11 18 at 07:35 PM • permalink
- To me I say, good on the cops – the stupid protesters get to play their games, no-one dead, no facial reconstruction surgery needed.
And all those protest video-bloggers didn’t get any police muscle used out of place to whip up violence with. I thought the cops did damn well.
And as for whining about the size of the boobs on the protest chick, we just loved them in the Cedar Revolution shots and no way would we have complained!
If this had got ugly, the police would have just taasered them and all would be just peaches 😉
- More hazards for Victorian cops.
POLICE have arrested four G20 protesters for assault after they chained themselves to a car near the Victorian parliament in central Melbourne late on Saturday night.
… A police spokeswoman later said a number of police officers were bitten during the incident and had to be taken to hospital for a check-up.
Posted by Evil Pundit on 2006 11 18 at 07:56 PM • permalink
- The bigger the event, the more ineffectual the police response. First Macquarie Fields and then the Cronulla. The poor coppers, you know what they would really like to do. Try grabbing a copper’s baton around my home town(away from any cameras) and see how you go. You’d get both lungs and every orifice filled with pepper spray. A fair outcome. Australian coppers at these major events are instructed not to overreact. They end up looking weak and that only emboldens the dweebs(to borrow a word) and the ever-present psychopaths. I say bring back the biff!
- The police need some citizens embedded within their ranks. If this person of adrogynous nature tried taking my Zulu spear* , she’d get shish kabobed along with a few of her veggie friends and BBQ’d.
* looks in the direction of Andrea
Posted by wronwright on 2006 11 18 at 08:29 PM • permalink
- I still don’t understand what these idiots are protesting about. Trade? Economic growth?
Meetings?
Posted by Crispytoast on 2006 11 18 at 08:41 PM • permalink
- O/T Ohio State Buckeyes beat Michigan Wolverines, but just barely. 42 to 39.
(why wasn’t think live blogged like the Ashes?)
Personally, I’m not very happy with the Bucks. 39 points? Why kind of defense is that?
The question becomes who should play against OSU for the championship game in January? Considering the Wolverines’ performance, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was Michigan again. They certainly deserve it.
I also like Lloyd Carr, the Michigan coach. Great coach, class act.q
Posted by wronwright on 2006 11 18 at 08:49 PM • permalink
- Hmmm. It appears RebeccaH, another Ohioan, beat me to the punch. I wonder when Crawford and RyanOH will be announcing the news.
(sorry yojimbo. Please take solace in knowing the game was only decided by 3 points and playing in Columbus was worth at least 7 to the Bucks. Arguably the Wolverines were the better team today).
Posted by wronwright on 2006 11 18 at 08:55 PM • permalink
I wonder when Crawford and RyanOH will be announcing the news.
There was a football game today?
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 11 18 at 09:16 PM • permalink
- I can’t blame the cops for being so restrained. They’re much more likely to end up getting in trouble for using violence (even in self-defence) than the anarcho-nihilists. Their orders were to defend a position, not to lock away as many protesters as possible.
What alot of you don’t know is that just a few metres behind all this, there was a bunch of regular folks hanging around wondering WTF was going on. There were even couples with kids and pregnant women. I told them that this was not a safe area and advised them on their best evacuation options but some of them wouldn’t listen.
If the police had done full-on baton charges, women and children would have been trampled and badly hurt and it would have reflected badly on the police. That’s why they behaved the way they did.
Posted by Korgmeister on 2006 11 18 at 09:33 PM • permalink
- Hmmm.
Personally I think the correct thing to use in crowd control are a few of these:
6mm air-driven electric 6-barrel pellet gun
Shoots either metal or plastic 6mm pellets at a huge rate of fire.
Protesters? Protesters?!
Remember kids; if you can hear the barrels spin, then you really need to run your ass away!
Posted by memomachine on 2006 11 18 at 09:52 PM • permalink
- Hey guys, that is a different baton to the one shown in the first photo. The riot policeman has a “T” baton (you can see his right hand gripping the “T”). The later pictures show the Bomber’s supporter with a standard police baton, so she is obviously a recidivist who should have been dissuaded from stealing police property the first time (by a decent crack to the bonce!) instead of being allowed to commit further crimes.
- If it’s a bloke I’ll bet he’s got one o’ them inflatable scrotums.
That’d be a handy target for your pellets.
More importantly: I want to know what Habib has to say about all these shenanigans.
Posted by Sensible Swim on 2006 11 18 at 09:55 PM • permalink
- Hm. Have we found the lovely Miranda Divide at last?Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 11 18 at 10:26 PM • permalink
- At the risk of being tasered, can I ask if we know for sure that the baton Miss Firstblood is holding has in fact been taken from the cop she’s grappling with? As far as I can see, in the small photo, she’s got it by the handle end. If the cop had been holding it in the first place, how did she manage that? Just askin’. And anyway, if that cop was de-batoned by a girl in a tutu, he’ll probably get a commendation from Commissioner Nixon, who only this week has been expressing reservations about issuing her force with glocks. She’s probably sourcing these instead.
- #64: Well you’ll notice there’s a whole bunch of photos involving ‘Firstblood’ wrestling with cops over the baton. All I know is she snatched it very early in the piece and the cops made multiple (unsucessful) attempts to snatch it back off her, which were of course photographed because they look really dramatic.
I imagine the initial snatch probably happened too quickly and unexpectedly for anyone to actually photograph it.
Posted by Korgmeister on 2006 11 18 at 11:30 PM • permalink
- They should have sent the fashion police in first.Posted by curious george on 2006 11 18 at 11:48 PM • permalink
- The following item has been posted at Melbourne Indymedia. The editors there are busily crushing dissent.
A GROUP of self-appointed human rights observers have monitored protests at the G20 summit in Melbourne at the weekend … Team co-ordinator Anthony Kelly, who is also a policy guru for the Federation of Community Legal Centres, has said that the observers would scrutinise the actions of all parties involved in any protest action during the summit…
Well, Anthony, what’s your take on the events of the past 24 hours? From an independent perspective, who has caused the violence and damage in and around Melbourne’s city streets?
I, too, would like to know how the “human rights observers” view the violent acts of the protesters.
Is there a journalist in Melbourne who could interview them now, I wonder?
Posted by Evil Pundit on 2006 11 19 at 12:00 AM • permalink
- paco, the scoreboards were manufactured and operated by Diebold, an Ohio company. Hence Ohio State victory.
Obviously we couldn’t win this one based on the Buckeye’s defense. Henceforth known as The Matadors.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 11 19 at 01:24 AM • permalink
- The lanky guy in the third picture in the Greens t-shirt goes to Maquarie University, heads the Greens, Aetheist and Socialist Alliance clubs from memory, and works as a staffer of some kind for the Greens in NSW. His name is Tim Hendry. What the hell is he doing in Melbourne, and do the Greens endorse staff, paid or not, to be part of frequently violenct protests?Posted by Stuart Lord on 2006 11 19 at 01:27 AM • permalink
- O/T – MOMEA gang rapes in Melbourne —
Four youths of Middle Eastern background have pleaded guilty on charges including the rape and sexual assault of two 14-year-old Caucasian girls near a Melbourne train station.
It is alleged that one of the gang members later threatened to kill the victims for reporting the attack to police.
Four boys in the gang of six are facing 21 charges including rape, indecent assault, procuring sex by threats and intimidation, making threats to kill and sexual penetration of a child under 16.
All four have entered guilty pleas in a Children’s Court.
It is believed the gang of six, aged 16 and 17, staged an elaborate stunt to lure their victims to an isolated industrial area where they took it in turns to violate the girls, who tried to resist.
The mob allegedly jeered and laughed as they forced themselves on their terrified victims, demanding sex and sexual favours in exchange for a mobile phone they had stolen from the girls.
One of the gang later vowed to find and kill the victims for reporting the attack to police.
The Sunday Herald Sun believes one of the boys also raped another girl two months before the gang rape, which happened in April last year in Brunswick.
Posted by walterplinge on 2006 11 19 at 02:17 AM • permalink
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.
If he recognised them, why in hell didn’t our border protection agencies?
The far-left who always cry the loudest against border controls seem to be providing a wonderful excuse to increase it significantly.
- And one in the eye for the pesky civil libertarians who, if they had their way, would have seen the lebs get off —
Police used train surveillance camera footage to identify the culprits.
This leads to some hope the G20 pricks will be picked up soonish –
Melbournians are being subjected to unprecedented surveillance with pedestrians in the CBD snapped by at least two security cameras every minute.
As new research names Australia among the most watched societies in the Western world, a Sunday Herald Sun tally found Melbourne’s eight most central city blocks contain no fewer than 95 cameras—with almost 350 more spread across the city centre.
Popular restaurant and shopping strips in Carlton, Prahran, South Melbourne and Richmond also have dozens of cameras watching public footpaths.
An average of two cameras per minute were spotted during a walk through the inner city this week. In 20 minutes 44 cameras were visible on Bourke St Mall, Spring St and Flinders St…
Melbourne City Council spends more than $1.5 million on security and surveillance and is scouting for more camera sites…
Good.
Posted by walterplinge on 2006 11 19 at 02:21 AM • permalink
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 …
Quelle surprise!
It’s funny how these anarchists never seem to hang out at Young Liberal fund raisers. What dreadful luck to always have them at lefty protests. Why, someone should do something about it – perhaps the protest organisers could get involved. An action committee perhaps.
- For those who are saying that the violent protesters were from other countries, I recognised one of them as Naomi *someone* – an arts student/professional protester from Newcastle University. Earlier this year, she interrupted Condoleezza Rice’s speech at Sydney Conservatorium (chanting “blood is on your hands”) and last year chained herself inside an ALP office – pics at risingtide.org.au (I would link them myself, but the site seems to be down).
In a class earlier this year, she said that she shouldn’t have to obey any laws she disagreed with – when asked why people should obey any environmental laws they disagreed with, she replied “because it’s the right thing to do.”
(I believe I also recognised one of the violent protesters close to her, but I’m not sure of his name.)
- #82 – I concur. I’m only 19, I come from the beating heart of the hard left (Newcastle) and I’m a rock-solid conservative. I like to think I’m one of the good ones (young people, that is).
Kae, I don’t think you’ve got much to worry about – the hard left is pretty vocal, which makes it seem like they speak for more young people than they do.
- Yes Prez, you and a few others. I suppose it’s the lame-brains who make the loudest noise and get noticed, or in this case, make utter idiots of themselves. I can see a great future with twits like this in charge!
The police should have the power to do something, especially when there is damage to property and danger to others, as happened at this “peaceful protest”.
As for the likes of Bono, speaking of peace, love and more money to the third world, I wonder what percentage of his income he donates to making poverty history? I doubt it’s as much as our government donates.
He’s an old bastard and should know better.Has anyone here read that newly released Australian book about Airheads? I’ve binned the review that was in the paper so I can’t remember the author or the name of the book.
- It could be worse … at least they aren’t New Zealand cops.
An Auckland policeman attending a domestic dispute in Auckland accidentally blasted himself and a teenager with a Taser, before pepper-spraying an innocent woman.
The constable was attending the incident at a central Auckland home when he shocked himself, the 16-year-old and then later pepper-sprayed the 21-year-old woman, The New Zealand Herald reported today.
Posted by Evil Pundit on 2006 11 19 at 03:32 AM • permalink
- #87 – heh! Never thought of it like that.
To me the soft left are the respectable ones who are happy to discuss different ideas and who generally argue for greater equality and fairness within the capitalist system. The hard left, on the other hand, refuse to listen to other views and reject capitalism completely (some advocate socialism/anarchism, but very few seem to have really thought it out).
- Here’s the pic I referred to at #84; I saw her and her bearded friend (now a Quiggin-style beard) with others, throwing a wizbin at police on Sky News footage – none of the Youtube videos seem to feature it.
Quick search of the RisingTide website reveals her name is Naomi Hodgson. Leigh at Wheels128 has earlier coverage and, shockingly, it turns out she works for a Student Union (fifth down on the left, environment).
- # 91
Sheesh, their welfare officer, Jarra Hicks (Student Union Uni of Newcastle), looks strangley familiar…
Bludgers. I have just seen the UQ Student Union Rag.
90% of the articles in the rag are all about gays and lesbians. Gay pride. Gays having babies.
I’m glad I’m not a student and payig for that shit. It’s a shocker.
- Isn’t tutu boy the Anonymouse Lefty? I see remarkable similarities. Note the lack of a chin and the feminine stance……
On second thought, scratch that. Jeremy wouldn’t have the guts to face down the cops in an APC, much less a tutu. I heard he once wet himself after being threatened by a 6-year old armed with a cheese puff.
- The problem is it is fun, take that away and the protest goes nowhere.
Stingball grenades, pratt gas dispensers and a declaration that anyone masked will be declared a rioter and dealt with appropiately.
its not a free speech issue if the “pacafists” let the nasty people use them as cover.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 11 19 at 06:21 AM • permalink
- #93 – the welfare officer is only part time and normally works in Canberra as the Minister for Immigration.
It’s good to see they have both Women and Queer Committee Convenors although the blokes seemed to have dipped out for some reasonPosted by Whale Spinor on 2006 11 19 at 09:15 AM • permalink
- Or are all the blokes at The University of Newcastle queer?Posted by Whale Spinor on 2006 11 19 at 09:17 AM • permalink
- Re. Hefty Binwoman, don’t you mean Gorilla Power, Tim?Posted by andycanuck on 2006 11 19 at 12:34 PM • permalink
#59 Hmmm.
Personally I think the correct thing to use in crowd control are a few of these:
6mm air-driven electric 6-barrel pellet gun
Shoots either metal or plastic 6mm pellets at a huge rate of fire.
Protesters? Protesters?!
Remember kids; if you can hear the barrels spin, then you really need to run your ass away!
It will take me three years to save enough to buy one of those….but I WILL have one. Yes, yes I will.
I had to get a new keyboard to post this. I fried the last one from too much drool.
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