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| Subject: OZschwitz gulag: poLICE powers, not violence, cast a cloud over Mardi Gras Sat Feb 08, 2014 5:10 pm | |
| Bryn Hutchinsonwon't be attending Mardi Gras this year. He doesn't think it is safe.
Alcohol-fuelled violence isn't the problem. Rather, it is police and their newly enhanced street powers.
Last year, Hutchinson was charged with assaulting a police officer on Mardi Gras night after an argument about whether he could cross Oxford Street after the parade. There was no traffic in sight. Onlookers saw Hutchinson thrown to the ground by police and kicked. He wrapped his leg around an officer as he was dragged away. Police assault? The charges against him were dismissed by a judge in November.
The same charge - assaulting police - was laid against teenager Jamie Jackson Reed that night, but was dropped a week ago. On Thursday, the judge awarded costs against police and described the incident - captured on video and since seen by millions around the world via the internet and the BBC - as the teenager being brutalised.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/comment/police-powers-not-violence-cast-a-cloud-over-mardi-gras-20140208-328fb.html#ixzz2slry3wq8 _________________ Anarcho Capitalists Retail , OZschwitz Downunder BoutiqueAnarcho-Capitalists,AnCaps Forum,Anti-State,Anti-Statist,Inalienable Rights Defenders,Non-Aggression Principle,Non-Initiation of Force Principle,Rothbardians,Anarchist,Capitalist,objectivism,Ayn Rand,Anarcho-Capitalism,Anarcho-Capitalist,politics,libertarianism,Ancap Forum,Anarchist Forum,Vulgar Libertarians,Hippies of The Right,Forum for Anarcho-Capitalist,Forum for Anarcho-Capitalists,Forum for AnCap,Forum for AnCaps,Libertarian,Anarcho-Objectivist,Freedom, Laissez Faire, Free Trade, Black Market, Randroid, Randroids, Rothbardian, AynArchist, Anarcho-Capitalist Forum, Anarchism, Anarchy, Free Market Anarchism, Free Market Anarchy, Market Anarchy
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