... it would have been quite fair to exclude the arrested protestors from Parliament House and its immediate surrounds, that is the Parliamentary carpark and maybe even the park itself. But to exclude them from the entire waterfront, including residential areas, pubs and festival sites that are hundreds of metres away from the protest site does seem more than a bit excessive to me. In fact, it looks a lot like Tasmania Police (or is that their masters?) are punishing people for their political beliefs, and I don’t like the implications that this raises one little bit.
Jason Lovell
That’s just ridiculous. Potentially they can’t even get off a bus. And I say this as someone not in principle opposed to pulp mills. The bail conditions simply are not reasonable in a supposedly democratic society. If we’re going to exclude people from that area, how about focusing on those who cause trouble every Friday and Saturday night rather than simply giving them the old “slap on the wrist, come back tomorrow” that does nothing to deter genuine criminal behaviour (ie violence).
Shaun
Your carrying on about “illegal” protests falls down right there, because none of them was breaking any law until the police told them to move on, for no reason other than to create a situation where they *were* breaking a law. So they were not protesting “illegally” until the police made it so, OK? Of course the police, one would hope, didn’t do this off their own bat, but in response to a request from inside the building from someone who had the power to do so. So that would be someone in the actual Assembly chamber, I’d imagine. “Potentially” breaking a law isn’t actually doing so. In fact it does not even indicate intent to do so. All it can possibly be is someone else’s baseless opinion of what another might do based entirely on that opinion and no hard evidence to the contrary.
amyb
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Mercury: He was also annoyed about “harsh” police bail conditions which ban him from visiting Hobart until the case goes to court in February. Mr Cundall said he had fought in three wars to defend democracy and the right to free speech.
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