{"id":839,"date":"2007-09-09T03:34:58","date_gmt":"2007-09-08T17:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=839"},"modified":"2007-09-12T10:06:22","modified_gmt":"2007-09-12T00:06:22","slug":"apec-wheelie-bin-terrorist-plot-foiled-nazis-in-anarchist-drag-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=839","title":{"rendered":"APEC : Wheelie bin terrorist plot foiled \/\/ Nazis in anarchist drag \/\/ Sex!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bins. Wheelie Bins.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Following on from the earlier decision<\/a> by three Justices of the NSW Supreme Court not to allow three (suspected) terrorists to walk along certain streets in Sydney comes this further blow for Truth, Justice and the American President’s Right-of-Way:<\/p>\n

Police swoop on ‘wheelie bin boom box’
\nSean Cusick
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\nSeptember 8, 2007<\/p>\n

As the APEC<\/a> protest in the heart of Sydney wound down without major incident<\/a>, one activist was receiving what he regarded to be more than his fair share of police attention. Chris Ward took a wheelie bin converted into a stereo to the march \u2014 and the contraption caught the attention of the gathered security forces. “I\u2019ve been searched three times today for having a wheelie bin sound system,” Mr Ward said. “As you can see, there\u2019s [nothing] in it but speakers, an amplifier and a battery.” Mr Ward says he was searched for half an hour on each occasion, and once extra police had to be called in after a crowd of activists surrounded the search team.<\/p>\n

Police within the Sydney CBD have special APEC powers<\/a> which allow them to detain and search anyone without cause. Dale Mills, a “Human Rights Monitor” present at the march, described the search as an overreaction. “In my opinion, that was just an illegal search,” Mr Mills said. “That\u2019s the sort of aggressive attitude \u2026 that provokes problems at protests.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Still, while the protest as a whole was characterised by the absence of any physical confrontations with police, converting Tinsel Town into Pig City has had the inevitable consequences: for others. At this stage, perhaps 17 or 18 individuals have been arrested by police, and charged with the usual assortment of infractions, none of which have, to this point — and despite the mountains of propaganda spewed forth by the police \/ state and ideological state apparatus — involved the rape and\/or murder of large numbers of innocent civilians. (Unlike, say, the War on Terror<\/em>\u2122. In Iraq. Or Chechnya. Or by way of the Chinese occupation of Tibet. Or…) Or as riot squad commander Steven Cullen told Sydney’s Supreme Court: “Police lines will come under attack”. As it happens, the closest this came to being true was the apparent use of a dart and an iron bar, by one protester, against one member of the rent-a-mob.<\/p>\n