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Let's hope they do better with our
Assaults by NT Police 
NAP beat Police nuisance charges
By Mick
Lambe 14 August, 2002
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
“anti-government 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 “anti-government slogans” and/or “pro-drug
propaganda?”
napnt.tripod.com
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Keep em' comin' mick,your the best journo here!
I
was especially interested in the beaks comments as I'm
reading a book about Lionel Murphy at the moment.
LM.A Political biography,by jenny Hocking.
Murphy must be spinning in his grave about whats
happening to common law rights at the moment.
P18
describes how murphy was at a demo for free speech
during the war and came to the attention of the au
gestapo.
The deputy director of security for NSW
described the participants as,"to a degree irresponsible
who claim that at all times there must be a free press
and freedom of speech."
As for Oscar...
Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read
history, is man's original virtue. It is through
disobedience that progress has been made, through
disobedience & through rebellion.
—
Oscar Wilde,
The Soul of Man Under Socialism
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what does NAP stand for?
what are the new NT
'drug house' laws? is it just about kava use?
why
did the police accuse NAP of 'Loitering, Substantial
Annoyance and Disorderly Conduct'?
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comment#31701
mick lambe is another Raymond Hoser
pseudonym
comment#31740
Raymond Hoser gives
blowjobs to horses
Sprinkler
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