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Meeting of Police Heads

in Darwin

The school of 'obvious symbolism'

NAP members used pigs heads impaled on sticks and served up on a platter, as educational aids for the Police and the ALP-CLP 'coalition' government members attending this exciting talkfest.

NAP members were protesting the ongoing Police harassment of drug users, young people, Aboriginal people and political activists. Practices endemic to the NT, a state built on violence, land theft and Police militarism.

The Labor Party have proven to be as corrupt and hypocritical as the unlamented Country Liberal Party. The same government apparatus remains, as do the same complaint mechanisms.

State investigating the State

The NT Ombudsman's exoneration of Police brutality at Raintree Park (while expected) was made more insulting than usual, by it's release, prior to the Court cases arising from that incident.

Anyone who has been unfortunate enough to have dealings with these contemptible State lackeys, knows that their perennial excuse for doing nothing...

... is pending Court cases.

This unprecedented speed in legally disadvantaging victims of NT Police brutality, is swinish behaviour in the extreme.

In fact NT Ombudsman Peter Boyce is so protective of State employees, he has warned complainants* that allegations of government corruption will be reported to the "authorities".

Peter Boyce - - "Please do not continue to make such comments in your correspondence to me again, or I will refer them to the authorities."

This was Boyce's defense of serial parasite Tom Stodulka, who 'worked' for the NT Ombudsman's Dept. and the Attorney General's Dept. (under Denis Burke) prior to being appointed ADC Commissioner.

Tom is infamous for abetting the exemption of NT Police from the ADC Act.

This corrupt (and incestuous) government culture has no democratic checks and balances.

*Boyce has still to explain why an ADC complaint laid by PARIAH in 1999 has yet to be acted upon.

Police State

The Northern Territory is over-policed, even by the standards of an over-policed Australia...

http://www.aic.gov.au/policing/stats/pol99.html

... meaning NT Police are well able to mount campaigns to suppress political dissent and to continue the traditional NT Police function of harassing and imprisoning Aboriginal people.

"Aboriginal people have lived in the Territory for at least 40,000 years."

"As late as 1933 police still faced a hostile native population."

NT Police History site (sans genocide)

Hotel staff and Security Guards are treated to the sight of bobbing pigs heads on sticks

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Marginalizing drug users

The elusive Parliament Invasion tapes

A sixth attempt by NAP to copy the original 'Parliament Invasion' video tapes was defeated by Magistrate Luppino, reversing the previous Magistrate's decision to allow NAP members to copy the tape.

Channel 8 have now put in a submission for the tape (with NAP as Respondent) and we will be appearing in Court tomorrow on the
29 August, to watch events unfold.

Protest at 'Drug House' raid -- 27 August, 2002

NAP responded to an NT Police raid at a home targeted by the Labor government's new 'Drug House' laws. NAP banners were unfurled as people arrived to act as witnesses to the State's latest 'drug war' folly.

A NAP member who wandered into the raided home, was forced to strip by Police. When asked to turn around by the inquisitive Police present, the naked suspect pirouetted.

No NAP members were charged.

About ten Police officers were in attendence...

...all this expense and invasion of privacy, in order to seize a miniscule amount of marijuana and a few hundred dollars that Police will attempt to keep as 'ill-gotten gains'.*

*The new laws allow for seizure of property. So surburban dealers live in fear of losing their stretch limousines and Lear jets.

"Whilst your letter raised important health policy issues..."

HREOC are unable to conceive of a connection between the heavily politicized 'tuf on drugs' campaign by the NT ALP...

... and the Labor government's interference in the Doctor-Patient relationship

NAP beat Police nuisance charges

By Mick Lambe 14 August, 2002

Posted on Melbourne.indymedia

Let's hope they do better with our Assaults by NT Police

 

A strong show of Police solidarity in the NT Magistrate’s Court today with about ten Police seated inside, while another fifteen loitered outside. Police spirits were high, as evidenced by their playful ‘barking’ when a NAP member appeared in a studded dog collar.

A NAP supporter in drag attracted only furtive glances from the Police.

NAP members were facing charges arising from a protest outside the ironically named Department of Justice. The protest held on 22 March 2002, was in opposition to the ‘drug house’ laws introduced by the NT Labor Party.

These unpopular laws were pushed through here with the minimum of informed debate and the maximum of 1950’s rhetoric, as Kava a formally prohibited drug, was ‘legalized’ for exclusive use on remote Aboriginal communities.

Public discussion about this ‘revolutionary’ political and social experiment has yet to occur.

NAP members were charged with Loitering, Substantial Annoyance and Disorderly Conduct. Police dropped a number of other charges. A protester supportive crowd watched as NAP members were arrested, then led or dragged away from the Department of Justice building and locked into Police vans.

State versus NAP.

Eight of the ten witness statements were from Police Officers, two from Department of Justice employees.

The “antigovernment slogans” and “pro-drug propaganda” appraisals by Police of NAP’s oratory were a source of amusement to the NAP legal team.

The charges were dropped after Magistrate Cavenagh, using quotes from Wilde and Lionell Murphy, explained to Police, that protesting against the State is not ipso facto, criminal activity.

NAP members and supporters cheered and clapped the decision, commiserating afterwards with the Police Prosecutor and the visibly upset (and easily angered) Police present.

The NAP legal team have offered to assist Police, in expediting the Assault charges made against NT Police, by NAP members.

NAP members are in Court on Friday 16 August, for a sixth hearing concerning the elusive ‘Parliamentary invasion’ videotapes.

http://napnt.tripod.com/pages/Articles_10.htm
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NT Police ‘visited’ NAP’s Coordinator Gary Meyerhoff the morning after their defeat in Court. They threatened to charge him with Criminal Damage for allegedly putting up a poster.

A poster containing “antigovernment slogans” and/or “pro-drug propaganda?”

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NT Chief Health Officer's Darwin office