Police use pepper spray against anti-mandate protesters at Australia's 'Convoy to Canberra'

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Wed, 02 Feb 2022 13:40 UTC

Three people arrested during 'Convoy to Canberra' rally.

Australian police clashed with anti-vaccination protesters on Wednesday afternoon, using pepper spray and arresting three people while trying to move participants illegally camped in front of the National Library in Canberra.

According to ACT Policing, one woman was charged with trying to assault a police officer, and two men who allegedly interfered with the woman's arrest were charged with obstructing police.

The clashes began as the police officers moved through the protesters' camp, located on the Patrick White Lawns outside the National Library of Australia in Canberra's parliamentary zone, distributing written notices informing the people they were camping illegally and would be fined if they chose to remain.

The conflict between the police and the protesters lasted about an hour before the officers left. In footage posted on social media, some protesters can be heard yelling "You serve us" at law enforcement.

ACT Ambulance Service was called to the scene and treated two people for minor injuries. No one was taken to hospital.

The police spokesman acknowledged "the rights of people to peacefully protest" but said officers had to deal with legal issues, such as illegal parking and camping.

Comment: So dealing with 'illegal parking and camping' justifies violent confrontation?

The National Capital Authority said it had turned to the Australian Federal Police and ACT Policing to "take necessary action to enforce the laws and remove tents, camping infrastructure and vehicles from the site," as cited by the Canberra Times.

Unauthorized camping is illegal in the parliamentary zone and in NCA-managed territory. For this reason, organizers of upcoming events are seeking official permits to set up temporary facilities in the Australian capital.

Wednesday was the third day of the anti-vaccination campaign called 'Convoy to Canberra', inspired by the Canadian truck driver protests, with participants speaking out against mandatory Covid-19 vaccination. The campaign included a march in front of Parliament House on Monday and a demonstration outside the National Press Club during Prime Minister Scott Morrison's speech on Tuesday.

Hundreds of people across Australia are reported to have arrived at the capital to protest. The official 'Convoy to Canberra' Facebook page has gathered almost 170,000 followers since its creation on January 25.

Comment: This just seems like par for the course in the prison state of Australia, where police thugs have only one response to citizens who fall out of line with mandated behavior.

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alexal60 · 2022-02-04T11:57:28Z

The New "Democratic" Nazism

alexal60 · 2022-02-04T16:59:12Z

Sorry, but the Concentration Camps are so full, they now use the Pepper Spray on the streets ???

What about the " Austroholocaust " ???

alexal60 · 2022-02-04T17:06:25Z

A handful of the largest investment firms on the planet own pretty much everything, as intertwined with the western financial/monetary structure at the top; but that's just one major element of control.Understanding Neocorporatism since 1945 where the Bormann International not only survived the war but prospered from it (sometimes also called Mr Global's Fourth Reich ) is a big piece of the deep political puzzle, but not the only piece.

Understanding Pax Americana aggression whether by “color revolutions” or the creation of failed states, requires more than an understanding of its overall funding (monopoly corporate ownership). Militarist finance fascism—ie state-controlled capitalism for imperial-colonial conquest —requires a Neo-Corporate shill connection to the warfare State. From the monetary realist/political realist's anti-colonial point of view, little has been written about Australia, the so called " PARADISE OF THE PLANET EARTH " .

Western aggression has achieved historic militarist dominance in the world since 1950. But that dominance is not monolithic. Even if tempting to think so. The distributed nature of US corruption via $US for example been about much more than global trade ; its importance is to entangle all nations in the militarist $web. And deep in that deep political state lurk dangerous animals .

Call it the Nazi International, the Bormann International, Third Way, or Globalist Fourth Reich… what defines this Pax Americana is fascism and war, as the means for its survival.

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