{"id":944,"date":"2007-11-16T19:04:36","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T09:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=944"},"modified":"2007-11-18T17:45:43","modified_gmt":"2007-11-18T07:45:43","slug":"g20-not-corrupt-police-give-editor-opportunity-to-use-word-nab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=944","title":{"rendered":"G20 : Not-corrupt police give sub-editor opportunity to use word &#8216;nab&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>Note that the G20 is meeting again this weekend (November 17\/18) in <a href=\"http:\/\/abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2007\/11\/17\/2093894.htm?section=world\">Kleinmond<\/a>, South Africa. &#8220;During this meeting &#8212; which will be hosted by the current Chair of the G20, our own Trevor Manual &#8212; the most powerful economic ministers and politicians will be surrounded by symbols of opulence &#8212; a golf course, five star accommodation, a beautiful conference centre, body guards, limousines, cavalcades, and sea views.  They will swop smiles and handshakes for the press &#8212; who like the court jesters of old will sing these global capitalist elites&#8217; praises.  They will also tell us that these politicians have come to Kleinmond to create a better world for us.  The biggest joke of all is that they will expect us to believe this lie.  Of course, if you look past the superficial pomp, glitz and sheer propaganda that will be part of the Kleinmond gathering, you will find that a better world is not being created for us; a better world is being created for the global elite and their transnational companies to our detriment&#8230;&#8221; ~ <a href=\"http:\/\/mrzine.monthlyreview.org\/hattingh151107.html\">The G20: The New Ruling Aristocracy of the World?<\/a>, Shawn Hattingh, <em>Monthly Review<\/em>, November 15, 2007<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/news\/national\/police-nab-g20-protestor-in-sydney\/2007\/11\/16\/1194766903995.html\">Police nab G20 protester in Sydney<\/a><br \/>\nMario Xuereb<br \/>\n<em>The Age<\/em><br \/>\nNovember 17, 2007<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A New Zealand man wanted for rioting in Melbourne at last year&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?s=G20\">G20<\/a><\/strong> economic summit has been arrested in Sydney on a holiday stopover to Europe. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/articles\/2004\/05\/26\/1085461830675.html\">Victorian<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/newsitems\/200701\/s1825091.htm\">police<\/a> heading the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.news.com.au\/story\/0,25197,22746910-5006785,00.html\">taskforce<\/a> into last November&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/am\/content\/2005\/s1323536.htm\">violent<\/a> rioting said Gabriel Shanks was arrested in Sydney yesterday <em>en route<\/em> to Spain and Britain. He was wanted for riot and affray offences committed during the summit on November 18. The 22-year-old was arrested by airport police and remanded to appear at Waverly Court for an extradition hearing on Monday. Victoria Police officers will fly to Sydney for the hearing and expect Mr Shanks to appear in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>It comes nearly one year on from the violent confrontation between protesters and police in Melbourne&#8217;s CBD. &#8220;He was arrested as he was travelling through Sydney airport from New Zealand en route to Europe,&#8221; said Detective Sergeant Adrian Richards. &#8220;Police at the airport arrested him on our behalf, we believe he was going to Spain or England. It&#8217;s unclear if he was going for political purposes and have no idea of his travel intentions &#8211; it&#8217;s a coincidence that he has happened to return to Australia the same week as the first anniversary (of the riot),&#8221; Detective Sergeant Richards said. Mr Shanks was one of 28 &#8220;persons of interest&#8221; featured in police photographs from the summit protest released to the media.<\/p>\n<p>Officers heading Operation Salver, the taskforce investigating the riots, have arrested 12 of the people featured. The G20 demonstrations on November 18 injured 10 police officers, with one constable bitten during a confrontation between 100 protesters and 60 police near Parliament House. <\/p>\n<p>In March, police charged another five people in Sydney over the violent  protests. Four men aged 20 to 25 and a 17-year-old youth were arrested in raids in five suburbs. A total of 26 people have been charged in relation to the G20 economic forum riot with a total of 246 offences. Most who have appeared in Melbourne Magistrates Court since have had their bail extended until February when they will appear for committal hearings. Last month, Melbourne protester Akin Sari &#8211; who was also arrested in Sydney &#8211; pleaded guilty to rioting during the summit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note that Fairfax Media is being quite coy about its role in &#8220;assisting police with their enquiries&#8221;; that &#8220;Mr Shanks was [allegedly] one of 28 &#8220;persons of interest&#8221; featured in police photographs from the summit protest released to the media&#8221; fails to acknowledge the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=560\">Fairfax published all 28 on its site<\/a>. Such active collaboration with police may have been read as an unusual editorial decision sparked by the inordinate amount of interest dramatic images recorded at the G20 protest generated. However, given the decision by Fairfax in Aotearoa\/New Zealand to publish <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=942\">similar, potentially prejudicial material<\/a> regarding the alleged &#8220;terrorists&#8221; involved in the Urewera 16 show trial &#8212; &#8220;leaked&#8221; to them by police &#8212; may perhaps be more justifiably read as a particularly intense form of corporate\/police state action. Note also that, over twelve months later, <em>The Age<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/news\/national\/police-release-g20-people-of-interest-photos\/2007\/01\/18\/1169095914467.html\">continues to publish online all 28 photos<\/a> provided to them by police, and notwithstanding the fact that at least some of those featured are currently awaiting trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note that the G20 is meeting again this weekend (November 17\/18) in Kleinmond, South Africa. &#8220;During this meeting &#8212; which will be hosted by the current Chair of the G20, our own Trevor Manual &#8212; the most powerful economic ministers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=944\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state","category-student-movement","category-war-on-terror"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-fe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}