Is nothing sacred

There were more antics in the Northern Territory Parliament not of the pants variety, thankfully, in this post-Baise Moi environment when the Network Against Prohibition stormed the chamber last week.

The group's leader, Gary Meyerhoff, sat in the Speaker's chair and made the highly significant gesture of spilling water over the desk before security guards dragged him away. Other members stood on the Assembly's main table carrying banners claiming the Territory is a police state.

All this, apparently, was designed to show opposition to new drug laws the Territory's Labor Government plans to introduce.

Meyerhoff is a veteran trot who ran as a Socialist Alliance party candidate at the 2001 Territory election and, yes, ever since they lost the right to lock up black kids for stealing packets of biscuits the Territory Police have no doubt been twiddling their thumbs but have they really set up a police state? On the
basis of their Falconio performance, could they even begin to put one together?

Newshawk: http://www.napnt.org
Pubdate: 19th May 2002
Source: Crikey.com
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